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Buddha Evolve, 5 Mindfulness Trainings for the Planet & Elephant Queen
In this 53-minute Dharma talk from the Upper Hamlet of Plum Village on Sunday, November 12, 2006, Thay teaches a message of love. After two chants from the monastics, he explains that you are a continuation of your father: intellectually we know this, yet we feel different because we haven’t looked deeply enough. Who is the father inside of you? Can you practice for your father? Transformation of the father inside also helps transform the father on the outside.
Thay shares how to get in better touch with your father, offering his own practice as an example, and shows that conversation with your father can occur anytime, whether he is alive or not. The same applies to your mother: begin a conversation with the mother inside of you and, if she is still alive, speak with her too.
You also have a spiritual teacher inside and outside of you. How are you carrying your teacher into the future? We should not be exactly like our teacher; we should learn and transform for our own time so we can see the suffering of our time.
Thay speaks of “The Buddha of our Time” and the need for a global ethic to respond to globalization, the environment, and other present needs. When you contemplate an orange, you see everything about it—the universal aspect, harmony—and likewise we need a global ethic embodied in the Five Mindfulness Trainings. These trainings are presented in a non-sectarian, universal way: you don’t have to be a Buddhist. You can remain yourself while creating harmony, sisterhood, and brotherhood. The Five Mindfulness Trainings are the way out of difficult situations, and their essence may be found in other traditions as well.
Thay concludes with a short story of the Buddha, inviting us to see with the eyes of the Buddha and contemplate the beauty of the world.
1:45 Bell and chanting
10:30 Continuation of your father
29:15 Continuation of your teacher
36:15 The Buddha of our Time
39:20 Global Ethic: Five Mindfulness Trainings
51:30 Returning to our ancestors
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