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Heal the Mind, Heal the World
Nirvana is the cooling down, the peace, the joy, when you have been able to remove your wrong views, when you have been able to extinguish the fire of anger, fear, and so on. If we follow the path recommended by the Buddha, we can very well extinguish the fire in our daily life. Thay is offering a Dharma Talk in Plum Village on New Year’s Eve, during the winter retreat of 2012-2013, on how to experience Nirvana in our daily lives, right here and right now. He is teaching about the island within, the true home within ourselves, the Noble Eightfold Path, and how we can truly understand the teachings of Buddhism and Christianity by letting go of our dualist thinking.
December 31, 2012, 120-minute dharma talk given by Thich Nhat Hanh from Lower Hamlet at Plum Village in English. The sangha is in the 90-day Rains Retreat (Winter Retreat) and this is the special New Year’s Eve dharma talk (and the sixteenth dharma talk of the retreat with the theme “Are You The Soulmate of the Buddha?”). Dear friends, please smile. You are online. How do we go home? Home is in the here and the now. It is the practice of healing. Every step is healing. Every breath is healing. Nirvana is available in the here and now. Nirvana is cooling down. Cooling the fire of fear, afflictions, and wrong views. This is the Third Noble Truth. We do not need to die in order to touch nirvana. Nirvana is a state of no heat. We use the noble eightfold path. How do we see the path? We need our six sense organs and our mind to experience nirvana. The Five Mindfulness Trainings help us experience the path. Right View. Notions of being and non-being. Notions of birth and death. Right Mindfulness. This allows you to be fully alive. It is an art of living.
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