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Walking Meditation: A Discourse on the Twelve Links
The details of this talk took place at Cam Lo Temple, Lower Hamlet, focusing on the non-receiving retreat of the Svasti Vada sect, renowned in Kashmir and Gandhara. The main topic includes the analysis that past, present, and future dharmas all truly exist. There are two types of evidence: scriptural proof and logical proof. Thich Nhat Hanh explains that form dharmas existing in the past affect the present, and the mind non-corresponding formation dharmas are influenced by superior reasoning. He emphasizes that past, present, and future are interconnected and that everything exists in each moment. He uses the example of dominoes to illustrate the principle of momentary extinction, meaning everything exists continuously but not fixedly. He explains that the teaching of non-self is difficult to understand but important, that we are not independent individuals but the continuation of our ancestors. He introduces the Sotrantika school, which focuses on the sutras instead of the Abhidharma. He delves deeply into impermanence and non-self and the history of Buddhist thought, dividing history into three stages: original, Hinayana, and Mahayana, helping to clearly understand the nature of Buddhist practice.
