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The Four Fruits of Practice of Plum Village
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Everyone has Buddha nature, we have the seeds of understanding and compassion in us. As practitioners, we can change the habit of reacting with anger or irritation in unpleasant situations, using mindful breathing to pause and respond more skillfully, with understanding and compassion. Thay speaks of generating energies of peace and happiness in daily life and in a sangha.
Thay describes the Four Attainments, the fruits of our practice, and draws connections between them: to be content and to dwell peacefully where we are, to be aware that we have the conditions of happiness (“I have arrived, I am home”), to touch the nature of interbeing, and to recognize no birth, no death.
Thay shares the forty-fourth verse of the Gathas on the Absolute Truth, emphasizing that every living thing is a continuous stream, like a river flowing. When we practice, we look deeper than superficial phenomena. Thay invites practitioners, including scientists, to transcend fixed notions.
This is the twelfth talk in a series of thirteen given during The Science of The Buddha, twenty-one-day retreat in the year 2012. Thay offered this talk at the New Hamlet, Plum Village, France.
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Practicing No Fear With The Five Remembrances