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3 Spiritual Powers, 16 exercises of Mindful Breathing & Introduction to Walking Meditation
July 22, 2011, Lower Hamlet, Plum Village, France, during the annual Summer Opening Retreat, Thich Nhat Hanh offers an 86-minute dharma talk on the art of happiness and the art of power.
He presents three kinds of power: the power to cut off, the power to love, and the power to understand. We can cultivate the courage to cut off craving, anger, despair and other afflictions so we can be free. The power to love is the capacity to accept, forgive and embrace; when our heart is large we don’t suffer, illustrated by the story of salt and water. The power to understanding is the foundation of love; we first have to understand our own suffering before we can understand the other, and the Three Doors of Liberation support this practice.
Thay shares his wish to write a book called “The Power of Suffering.” In the Buddha’s teaching, happiness and suffering go together like the above and the below, the left and the right. When we realize that happiness is made of non-happiness elements, we can make good use of the mud of our suffering to grow a lotus flower. The Sutra of Mindful Breathing offers sixteen exercises that can help us understand our suffering.
Talk given in English.
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