This is the 13th talk of the June 2012 Science of the Buddha retreat held in Plum Village.
02:03 Three Bells
03:10 Introduction
03:34 Buddha nature in every one of us
06:15 Understanding and compassion bring peace
08:01 Right thinking produces compassion
11:45 Recovering our sovereignty with our breath
14:45 Sitting together and doing nothing
17:40 Reduce thinking, increase feeling
19:09 The four attainments of Plum Village
19:51 1. Dwelling happily in the present moment
20:50 Formlessness
25:50 Be beautiful, be yourself
31:32 2. I have arrived, I am home
38:14 3. Interbeing
40:51 4. No birth, and the wrong understanding of no birth
43:39 Matter and energy: their nature is no-birth
44:21The conditioned and the unconditioned
46:35 Beliefs about body and soul violate the laws of thermodynamics
52:17 44th verse of the Gathas on the Absolute Truth
1:09:31 Samsara and Nirvana
1:11:30 Homework for retreatants, a grain of corn becomes a plant of corn
1:15:47 You are a stream, not a self
Conditioned Genesis
June 20, 2012. 79-minute dharma talk by Thich Nhat Hanh from Upper Hamlet in Plum Village during the 21-Day Retreat with the theme The Science of the Buddha. The talk is given in English and this is the fifteenth dharma talk (of 15). No chanting. This is the final dharma talk...