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Children - How to Be Fresh
August 14, 2012. 100-minute dharma talk given in English with Thich Nhat Hanh at the European Institute of Applied Buddhism in Waldbröl, Germany. This is the third Dharma talk offered by Thay in the Dutch Retreat on the theme Body and Mind Are One.
Freshness and beauty are in you. If you know how to breathe and how to walk, then freshness and beauty can come out. We can also help others do the same because we all have it, but we don’t always know how to help it manifest. We all have a Buddha inside. Thay teaches what it means to bow to someone in a greeting. It’s not just a ritual; it is a practice.
How to use a mantra in your practice? The first is “Darling, I am here for you.” This one is to offer the other person your presence. The second mantra is to recognize the other person is something important to you. “Darling, I know you are there and I am very happy.”
Reconciliation. Mindfulness of compassion. Listening. Thay uses the story of Palestinians and Israelis coming to Plum Village on how to practice deep listening and loving speech.
Teaching on no birth and no death, being and non-being, coming and going, sameness and otherness. These are all notions. They are the ground of our suffering and our fear. These pairs of opposites can be the objects of our meditation.
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