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Liberating the Mind
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Exercises in Mindful Breathing - Twelfth to Sixteenth Exercises
Thay recaps the ninth to the eleventh exercises of mindful breathing covered in the preceding talks. He then talks about the twelfth to the sixteenth exercises.
In the twelfth exercise: Liberating the Mind, Thay describes the ten fetters (saṃyojana) or ten kinds of bonds that deprive us of our freedom, the untying of which helps us to liberate our mind.
In the thirteenth exercise: Contemplating impermanence - Thay reminds us of the need to go beyond just the intellectual ideas of impermanence and then to even transcend the notion of impermanence itself.
In the fourteenth Exercise: Contemplating No Craving, Thay speaks about how with the insight of impermanence, we are no longer caught in the object of our craving. He discusses the importance of not running away from our suffering and recognizing that if you are not capable of holding your suffering and looking into the nature of that suffering, you can never see the path leading to transformation and healing.
In the fifteenth exercise: Contemplating No Birth, No Death, Thay notes that everything is already in nirvana, and that you are in nirvana. Your reality is the reality of no birth and no death. Your reality is the reality of no coming, no going. You are perfectly in nirvana. You have been nirvanized a long time ago, from the non-beginning. So it’s no longer the object of our searching anymore.
In the sixteenth and exercise: Letting Go of Notions, Thay draws upon the Diamond Sutra with letting go of the four basic kinds of notions, that of self, human being, living being and lifespan. The four notions mentioned by the Diamond Sutra are enough to encompass, to embrace all other kinds of notion
This is the penultimate talk in a series of thirteen given during The Path of the Buddha, twenty-one-day retreat in the year 2009. Thay offered this talk at the Upper Hamlet in Plum Village, France.
Gatha from the Dharma talk:
All formations are impermanent.
They are subject to birth and death.
But remove the notions of birth and death,
and this silence is called great joy.
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