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Love and Liberation
This is the final Dharma talk offered by Thay for the Art of Suffering Retreat at Blue Cliff Monastery, Pine Bush, NY.
August 30, 2013. 91-minute dharma talk given by Thich Nhat Hanh from Blue Cliff Monastery in Pine Bush, New York during the 2013 Nourishing Great Togetherness teaching tour. This is the final dharma talk for the 6-day retreat with the theme Transformation and Healing – The Art of Suffering.
Topics include how to love through the Four Elements of True Love (also known as Unlimited Mind or the Four Brahma Viharas): Maitri (loving kindness) - capacity to offer well being and happiness; Karuna (compassion) - capable of removing the pain; Mudita (joy); and Upeksha (equanimity or inclusiveness).
Continued instruction on the exercises of mindful breathing (#9-#16) covers recognizing every mental formation, making the landscape of the mind beautiful by gladdening the mind and watering good seeds, true diligence (four aspects), concentrating our mind on the mental formation, liberating the mind, contemplating impermanence, contemplating non-craving, nirvana, and letting go.
The talk also explores the Three Doors of Liberation (emptiness, signlessness, aimlessness).
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