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Deep Listening and Mindfulness for Compassionate Living: Evolving Homo Conscious

Thich Nhat Hanh · July 12, 2002 · Plum Village, France
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Thầy delves into the Plum Village practice of Deep Listening by describing how to work through your own anger when preparing to listen to someone who is suffering and needs to be heard. Thầy shares how mindful breathing can support you during the session of deep listening and what to do when anger comes up again. Thầy offers commentary on how the practice of deep listening can help bring much needed understanding in times of war and conflict. Thầy also explores the history of human understanding and describes how to be spiritually reborn.

This is the second of thirty talks given during the Summer Opening retreats in the year 2002. Thay offered this talk at the Upper Hamlet, Plum Village, France.

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