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Tưởng Niệm Nagasaki
Commemorating the anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bomb, the promise “Please be still. We shall not do it again” serves as a foundation for practicing reconciliation. Through walking meditation and mindfulness, land once marked by the horrors of war is transformed into a land of peace. Hugging meditation is a tool to touch and heal deep wounds within ourselves and our ancestors, allowing representatives of nations such as Japan, America, Vietnam, France, and Germany to forgive and prevent the transmission of suffering to future generations.
The Six Pāramitās are practices used to cross from the shore of anxiety to the shore of well-being:
- Dāna Pāramitā (giving)
- Prajñā Pāramitā (understanding)
- Śīla Pāramitā (mindfulness training)
- Dhyāna Pāramitā (meditation)
- Patience
- Diligence
The practice of Plum Village is the practice of arriving in the present moment to stop the restless monkey mind. By responding to the bell of mindfulness, one stops thinking and talking to return to the true home or the island of self (attadīpa).
Meditation consists of two essential elements: śamatha (stopping, calming, and embracing) and vipaśyanā (looking deeply for insight). Mindfulness is the energy that allows one to be truly present, transforming daily activities like dishwashing or drinking water into opportunities to touch the Kingdom of God. By cultivating solidity and freedom, one moves beyond the historical dimension of the wave—characterized by birth, death, high, and low—to touch the ultimate dimension of water, where one dwells in a state of no fear and no birth.