Dharma Talks / Nutriments for Healing

Thich Nhat Hanh

September 25, 2013. 130-minute dharma talk given by Thich Nhat Hanh from Magnolia Grove Monastery in Batesville, Mississippi during the 2013 Nourishing Great Togetherness teaching tour. This is the first dharma talk for the 6-day retreat with the theme Healing Ourselves, Healing the World. We begin with two chants from the monastics.

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We bring our mind and body together and come back to ourselves in order to be truly there and be able to stop our thinking. We can get lost in our thinking. When we are mindful and concentrated of our in breath them our mind only has one object. Just breathing in mindfully we can get freedom from the past l, the future, and our projects. Freedom is possible and the healing can start.

Topics:

Conditions of happiness
Habit of running after fame, power, wealth, sensual pleasures
Deep looking – insight can release the tension and bring healing
Mindfulness is a method to insight using our in breath and out breath
Inviting our ancestors to listen to the bell and practice walking meditation with you.
Our presence is the most precious gift for those we love – to be there is a practice.
Freshness, beauty
Mountain, solid
Space, free
Sutra on Full Awareness of Breathing
Four domains – body, feelings, mind, objects of mind
First 8 exercise
Sangha – collective energy
You are not one emotion
The art of happiness and the art of suffering
Happiness and suffering interare
Happiness is made of non-happiness elements
The Four Noble Truths
The Four Kinds of Nutriments

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June 21, 2014

The Way Out is In

August 12, 2013. 76-minute dharma talk given by Thich Nhat Hanh from Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario during the 2013 Nourishing Great Togetherness teaching tour. This is the first dharma talk for the 6-day retreat with the theme Happy Teachers will Change the World. Topics Listening to the...

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August 12, 2013

How to Promote World Peace

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How to deal with anger and despair as an activist?

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June 21, 2014

How to transform despair into compassion and peace?

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June 21, 2014

Our Ultimate Concern

October 12, 2013. 100-minute dharma talk given by Thich Nhat Hanh from Deer Park Monastery in Escondido, California during the 2013 Nourishing Great Togetherness teaching tour. This is the first dharma talk for the 6-day retreat with the theme Finding Our True Home. We begin with two chants from...

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True Love and the Four Noble Truths

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Feed and Nourish our Happiness

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Exploring the Joy of Practice

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September 27, 2013

The Noblest Aspiration is to Help People Suffer Less

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October 13, 2013

Will Thay Sing us a Song?

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August 13, 2013

True Love and the Three Doors of Liberation

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August 16, 2013

Finding Our True Home Questions and Answers

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October 15, 2013

The Tea Inside the Calligraphy

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August 14, 2013

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Can There be Peace without War?

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Mindfulness in Our Everyday Lives

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