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Interbeing
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Our practice of transformation and healing is to go back to the present moment in order to get in touch with both the positive elements and also the suffering that is present in us and around us. Thay talks about the three causes of ill-being in our current time: loneliness and individualism, violence and intolerance, fear and uncertainty. He tells us that we should get together and address these issues together as a sangha.
Thay presents Buddhist teachings on dependent co-arising, interbeing, emptiness, the middle path, pairs of opposites like birth and death, being and non-being, and the three doors of liberation. When we hear these teachings we should ask what they have to do with our suffering, both individual and collective. The Dharma should address the real issues, the real suffering, of our times for healing and transformation of ourselves and society.
This is the eighth talk in a series of thirteen given during The Eyes of the Buddha, twenty-one-day retreat in the year 2000. Thay offered this talk at the Lower Hamlet, Plum Village, France.