We speak a lot about mindfulness and looking deeply here, and we see how that benefits society. But my question is, in a society that depends on productivity, how do lay people, for example, begin to integrate mindfulness practices into the workplace in the face of numerous consequences, such as being fired for not working fast enough? Or if you're overloaded at work, what can you say to your supervisor so that you can work more mindfully?

You are mindful that there is a lot of stress in the workplace. You are mindful that the other person, including the head, suffers. That mindfulness is the beginning. If you are not aware of it, you will never try to solve the problem. So the beginning is to become aware of the problem, the difficulties. Awareness, mindfulness is very important.

But that kind of awareness, mindfulness will lead to some kind of concentration. You focus your attention on the problem. That is reality. That is what is happening, involving a lot of suffering. So looking deeply like that is to find a solution. To find a solution for yourself and for other people, because you are not the only one who suffers in the workplace.

Your boss is also suffering, and your colleagues are also suffering. And something may be possible that everyone in the workplace is aware that there is suffering, stress for everyone. And if everyone is aware of that, everyone is motivated by the desire to do something or to stop, in order for the suffering not to continue.

So you have awareness, you have mindfulness, and you may like to help all the other people in the workplace to be aware of the same thing. And everything comes from that kind of awareness and mindfulness. And if the desire to change is there, then there is a possibility of changing.

Because with your effort to please the director and with the effort of the director to have you work harder, that will lead only to more suffering. And then you decide to change, and that is insight. If there is some kind of relaxation, if we can produce a moment of relaxation, if we know how to use deep listening and loving speech, we can begin a kind of communication.

And to help people become aware of the situation where everyone suffers. And only with that kind of communication and mutual understanding this change can be possible. There is no other way. The way of mindfulness, concentration, and insight.

But if you are not capable of producing that kind of compassion, relaxation in you, it's very difficult to start the kind of communication that will bring about mutual understanding. So it's very important that we learn how to breathe mindfully and relaxingly, how to recognize the emotion, the painful feeling in us.

And before we can do that, we cannot do anything. We have to bring in some peace, some compassion into us before we can start a kind of dialogue with other people in the workplace so that they can see that everyone is suffering, that it's not good to continue like this.

And mindfulness, concentration will bring about that kind of relaxation, compassion, relaxation that can help you to start a kind of communication. And if the communication is successful, there will be a mutual, collective insight. And if that insight is solid, there will be a change.

And if we continue to blame, there will be no end to the suffering. So mindfulness, concentration, and insight should be started by us. And then we will help the other people in the workplace to do the same. I think this can be applied to every situation.

It's like in Plum Village. Plum Village is a practice center, and we want to improve the way of life in Plum Village. There is a residential community living permanently in Plum Village. And we know that if that community is happy, harmonious, we can serve our friends much better.

And we always seek to improve the quality of brotherhood, sisterhood, the way of taking care of the center. And in order to do that, we eat together, we walk together, we sit together, and we share with each other in an atmosphere of peace, of brotherhood and sisterhood.

If we only fight during the meeting, we arrive nowhere. So everyone has to practice mindful breathing, total relaxation, bringing about some more compassion and understanding, and then communication will be possible. And only with one meeting, half an hour, we can solve a lot of problems. So we should not only talk about mindfulness and concentration. We have to do it. Thank you.

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