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Are You Happy While Brushing Your Teeth?
The details of this discussion focus on the summer retreat in Hamburg, where meditation and mindfulness are practiced to cultivate peace, freshness, freedom, and inner solidity. Meditation helps to awaken these qualities present within us and to transform anger and negative emotions. The practice of pebble meditation, where each pebble represents a virtue such as freshness, helps to offer these qualities to others. Inviting the bell to sound gently harmonizes body, speech, and mind. Mindfulness allows us to recognize the conditions of happiness present in the moment, bringing inner peace and joy. Walking mindfully reconnects us to the present moment, celebrating life and its wonders. Cultivating new habits of happiness helps to live fully in the present moment, discovering the kingdom of God and the pure land of the Buddha here and now.