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Join us in reflecting and applying Thay’s 2008-09 teachings on a Buddhist contribution toward a Global Ethic – made available for the first time with English subtitles.
This is the seventh talk of the series, which the community in Plum Village France watched on the 8th December 2023. Original date of the talk: 08 January 2009.
0:00:00 Start of the talk
0:02:17 Being in touch with life, receiving life and giving life, life is wonderful
0:09:27 Life and death look like opposites but in light of Buddhist insight, life and death inter-are
0:19:55 If you are not mindful you cannot receive the wonders of life, you lock yourself in a shell of grief and anger
0:26:53 Normative Ethics: what is the right thing to do?
0:28:13 The Buddhist criteria of ‘pleasure and pain’
0:35:41 The Buddhist criteria of ‘beneficial and un-beneficial’ and the relative nature of all criteria
0:40:34 The Buddhist criteria of ‘delusion and awakening’ can help inform the first two criteria
0:52:33 Applied ethics are needed to address real challenges in our world
1:01:25 ‘To open or to bar the way’ Buddhist criteria to prevent future harm
1:12:00 ’To uphold or to break’’ Buddhist criteria relating to the precepts
1:24:20 Meta Ethics: when you say right, what is right? When you say wrong, what is wrong?
Ethics, Mindfulness and the Four Noble Truths
What are the roots of our personal sufferings and the pains of the world? We bring our mind home to re-examine our sufferings, to find a path. How to act. What we ought to do. What we ought to be. Join us in reflecting and applying Thay’s 2008-09 teachings...
