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The human person is composed of five elements: body, feelings, perceptions, mental formations, and consciousness. This is a garden containing both flowers and garbage. Because love, hate, suffering, and happiness are of an organic nature, garbage can be transformed into compost to nourish the flowers of understanding and compassion. Our consciousness consists of two levels: Store Consciousness, which preserves wholesome and unwholesome seeds (les semences), and Mind Consciousness, where these seeds manifest as mental formations.
Mindfulness is the energy that helps us go home to the present moment to touch the wonders of life and recognize what is happening. It has two functions:
- Helping us go home to the present moment to touch life deeply.
- Helping us be aware of what is going on in the present moment.
When the seed of anger manifests, we use mindfulness to recognize and embrace it tenderly, like a mother holding a baby. To transform anger, we must look deeply into its roots, which are often wrong perceptions. The practice of Mindful Consumption is crucial to prevent watering seeds of anger through violent films, books, or conversations.
To restore communication, we may use a peace note containing three sentences:
- Darling, I suffer, I am angry at you, and I want you to know it.
- I am doing my best.
- Please help me.
Through Compassionate Listening and Loving Speech, we help others empty their hearts and dissolve internal formations or knots. Practicing Beginning Anew weekly helps couples and friends undo these formations before they crystallize. By looking deeply, we realize our ancestors are alive in every cell of our body and touch the nature of No Birth, No Death. Just as a cloud never dies but transforms into rain, we transcend fear by realizing that nothing ever becomes nothing. The three kinds of energy—Mindfulness, Concentration, and Insight—are capable of transforming the whole situation.