there's a French philosopher
whose name is Jean Paul Sartre
who has a nice definition of the word man
what is man?
if you try to give a little depiction of man
and finally we clear with the kind of formula
he said l'homme est la som de ses actes
man is the sum, the totality of his acts, actions
it's really close to Buddhist thinking
because in the Buddhist tradition we define people as their karma
karma means action
in the silence this agnya and the valuable remain lie in his action he is
there to act and this value depends on the action, his doing, but in the Buddhist
tradition flaxian has three aspects
first of all
when you produce a pot that's already action your pot may be full of and when
you produce such a total you suffer so that is your thought might be full of
discrimination my little killing to society so thinking it is only already
but when to produce as recommended by the Buddha that thought that you produce
is characterized by non-discrimination
understanding compassion and when you are able to produce a
thought like that it begins to heal you and they begin to hear over a pot of
compassion of non-discrimination a thought of understanding helps us so
thinking is already active and every thought that you produce bear your
signature you cannot say that that's not my my property
it's not my friend because you have produce by yourself
so kama is an action that may ask your name you are responsible for their
action and you're at your action your continuation
you produce it hard you think that after that the top is ugly but now the thought
is a an action a the thought is the third reproduce is an energy but
according to the law of the conservation of energy no energy is lost and that
continues you if you produce a total anger and fear and despair let your
continuation that is another beautiful continuation that is why in your
practice you have to be sure that you produce only good thoughts thoughts of
knowledge cumulation thoughts of understanding and compassion and you are
sure a beautiful continuation you know that a cloud that is acid will produce
acid rain so if I've got a full of anger and fear and despair we'll continue in
another form another form full of these characteristic so we practice in such a
way that every day we only produce good thoughts thoughts of compassion
forgiveness and understanding and that is a thing
and how the value of us as a person depends on the value of our talk
so the second form of action is speaking
when you when again you say something that is full of anger and hate and
violence what you say harm looks first and harm the other person and you can
say something that little person to go and commit suicide
so no words can cure the words can destroy and that's not right
try speech
and they would I recommend my speech you say things you try to do write down
things that is full of non-discrimination full of compassion
full of understanding full of forgiveness and when you have when you
are able to to say anything like that and to write a letter like that you get
the healing and they'll help you the other person you give them hope so as a
petitioner we should be sure that we only produce the kind of speech that can
heal that can be concise and not the kind of speech that can divide and and
also with our body we can perform we can do things with our body we can protect
we can say we can help
with a body you can't kill we can destroy and that
is why you should be careful about our efforts the way we consume and destroy
us and destroy the world and our planet so eating, drinking, having a job belong to the realm of acting
and every act of yours should be right action it actually
is characterized by non-discrimination compassion and understanding and where
we are the totality of our top speech and act you every day you produce Paul's
species and act and that is your continuation when this body
disintegrates you continue always with
and that is beautiful or not afore depends on the value of the top on the
speech and our production let you produce today
so mindfulness is a kind of energy that shed light allowed our interaction so as
to know whether the top we produce a positive also or not how what we say
again we act right or not so mindfulness help us to the care of our when you
practice walking meditation whether you walk alone or whether you walk with the
whole Sangha you are using these three aspects you bring your mind home to your
body and what you what you what you say even silently is a speech and in
privilege while you walk you are advised walk mindfully when you breathe him
you make one step your mind is focused on your breathing and I'm just
and great you can say something suddenly you say I have arrived so the three
forms of action come together and you are fully concentrated you are fully
concentrated under step to make you invest your body your mind and your
words into making a step and you make a step in such a way that you can arrive
fully in the here and now you are challenged to do that you have to
succeed in just a please mindfulness concentration and insight then one step
like that helped you to stop completely random because you have been running all
your life even running during our sleep there are always looking for something
always longing for something we are not comfortable in the here and now we don't
believe that happiness and peace and joy and love is possible in the here in
denial you have to run into the future in a net loop follow me we believe that
we need more conditions of happiness
and that is a kind of belief that most of us we are not comfortable with the he
and the man we think that he and now we don't have enough conditions to be happy
and that kind of thinking is not writing that is that kind of belief is not right
belief if you go home to yourself in the here and the now and if you look deeply
you can recognize that there are so many conditions of happiness that are already
available more than enough for you to be happy then you take a piece of paper and
write down the conditions of happiness that you already have I am sure that one
page is nothing that you have so many conditions of happiness much more than
about 40
you are much luckier than many of us in the world those of us in the morning do
not have a water here I need only to open the water pen and water from the
mountain come to my house but in other places where you have to roll five
kilometers in order to get some water I care you know where exactly know what no
medicine no bus and even no food and there are broken family there are those
who have lost their mother their father is a Lancer and we have to home to
ourselves in the hand and now and realized that you are very lucky
so many people they have so many conditions of happiness that are only
available so that kind of insight help us to generate a feeling of joy a
feeling of happiness right away that is the mechanism of happiness go home to
the here and allow our economist recognizing the wonders of life that are
available the cunning recognizing this conditions
of happiness are only available in here than now and naturally a feeling of joy
is born is poor and to make a step
with mindfulness is to go home to the here and the now in order to be to get
in touch with the wonders of life that are available in the hand of man and
also to touch and recognize the many conditions of happiness that are already
available so one step like that is full of enlightenment a full look inside that
serve as the ground to happiness when you work together as a loop we do not
want to slowly but when you are alone you can afford to walk very slowly at
the train yourself to arrive with every step when you believe just make one step
on it and you say I have arrived body speech and mind together because I am
concentrated my thinking my spiritual my actually go together
I invest 100% of myself into that that stuff I have a chance to arrive
maybe you have enough desire to arrive wilderness to arrive but you cannot
arrive 1% of Enda mouth because the habit of running is too strong we have
been running all our life it's now difficult to stop and that is why we
need to unite body speech and mind into making master with the energy of
mindfulness concentration and insight and then you may arrive only 40 percent
always that is not good enough you have to arrive 100 percent in the here and the now that is essential
and you can do that if you have five minutes
practicing you know written in you make one step and you say I arrived is not a
statement it is a realization your grief and work in such a way that you can
write 100 percent in the dental map and if you can arrive 100 percent in here
now you know it if you have not arrived 1 percent and then don't reckon
understand just stand in that position and with her and try to breath in again
and try to arrive in the here and now and stop completely the course
this is a challenge because it had been pull away
always we cannot be ourselves if you have a depression because it have
allowed us to be pull away all the time we cannot be ourselves you cannot stop
the course we have not been able to stop the running now you are recuperating
restoring reclaiming your freedom you do not want to be a victim anymore you
don't want to be carried away anymore you want to be yourself if you make less
that it's you who make a step it's not that you have been pulled away you walk
like a free person and with the energy of mindfulness and concentration and
insight you can very well arrive in the heel until now and that step bring you a
lot of freedom. Freedom from what? Freedom from the regret and the sorrow
concerning the past because many of us are caught in that prison
you always go back to that prison of the past in order to suffer again and again
the suffering of the past we are not free and that those of us were so afraid
of the future so uncertain of the future, fear for our future and you are caught
by the prison in a prison of the future
you are not free in order to enjoy life in the present moment
but the fact is that life is available only in the present moment. The past is
gone, the future is not yet there. Only the present woman has life, and you have
an appointment with life and that appointment with life takes place in the
here and the now so the practice is to bring us home to be here in the now for
not to miss our appointment with life. We should not lose our life and that's why I have to go home again and again
to the present moment where life is available in order, that is why we have to go home again and again to the present moment where life is available in order
to live each moment of our daily life that is given to us to live deeply
I have arrived, that means I do not run anymore, it means I can be in touch with the
wonders of life in my body mechanics there I do not anymore I have freedom to
live my life I'm not a victim and when you have a few that you have arrived one
percent you can smile a smile of victory and you reckon understand I because your
to whom is in here where life is available
it is in the here the mouth that you can find out to whom that you can meet your
money that you can encounter the beauty of life that is available in the here
and the now and you will find out the kingdom of God
is also available in the Pure Land of the Buddha because the future is just an
ocean it comes and those of us who can make solid steps like that arriving at
every moment we can touch the kingdom of God in the kingdom of God is available
the question is whether you are available today in order to be available
to the kingdom of God we have to stop go home to live here now the very address
line and I'll try some the kingdom of God is and so here I have
I'm home I feel comfortable my home is so
mindfulness is a kind of energy that allows you to live deeply the present
moment where to life is possible you are not caught by past all by the future
is that make meat like that bring you peace. Peace is possible only when you are able
to stop the running, the searching, and make sure that by walking you you print this because you
are able to stop it and this piece and if you know that by going home to the
here and the now you'll get in touch with the wonders of
life that are available in that moment joy and happiness are more so that that
footprint carries also joy and peace and
that is what you need in order to nourish yourself and he
I have arrived I am home it's very simple but that is that purpose and walk
in such a way that you arrive you know you do not walk like a sleepwalker
anymore you are walking to be a new God and walking on earth is possible every
day is a month is a week we can be in the here and now you can enjoy it's very
important that you feel like only when you feel without peace there is no
happiness this is the absence of correct
when you lead my lady and allows you when you are not satisfied with yourself
what is there when you are searching for something else
you are not at peace with yourself when you breathe in and bring your mind home
to your body you make peace between mind and body very often in the middle life
you left the ball in your lung when you spend two hours with your computer you
forget completely that you have a body and in that moment body and mind are not
together we are not to you life when body and mind away from each other so
breathe in mindfully you write on your invent and go home to yourself you bring
your mind home to your body and suddenly you are fully present in the real demand
it did some only two seconds three seconds so breathing to bring mind home
to your body and their mind and body together we are established in the here
and now and you get in touch with the wonders of life the kingdom of God
that's simple enough
so that make the value of y in just a breath mate like that is that milk like
that can bring you a lot of freedom I have arrived I am home yeah you feel
comfortable in your home yahoo-hoo the true home is not in Germany
in Holland in Singapore the program is here and now where you can touch the
wonders of life your ancestors are available in the here and now I have
arrived I am home in the here and now the here and now is where I arrived this
microphone I am solid I am free this is not wishful thinking solidity is what
you cultivate by walking every step help you to complete more solidity to be
solid means to be established truly in the hand and now the past cannot pull
you away the future cannot pull you away you are well established solidly
established in hidden and with one step Britany you can contribute that solidity
and you are free I am solid I am free you're free because the past and the
future and your projects yes or I cannot pull you away anymore so while walking
you can deviate more solidity and freedom that has the power to heal you
and
to bring you happiness so that song everyone may like to know more eyes and
a little to practice walking breathing I have arrived here in the man I'm solid
I'm free in the Earthman
in doubt but means that you see that
this physical body of yours is not only body you have a cosmic cosmic body and
you have to recognize your cosmic belt
if you looked into your physical body you see your cosmic bubble the air, the
water, the heat, the soil and you are made of stars
you know very well that without the sunshine it would be no so you have made
sunshine and the Sun is a star is one of the biggest stars in the whole galaxy
and that style is very close and because the Sun is there life on Earth is
possible so you are a son of the the Sun you are in doubt under self you can call
that star for a son and you are you are a daughter of mother you are made of
stars
and you have if you look deeply you know that this physical body is not the only
body just you have a cosmic body
suppose you contemplate a wave that is born on the ocean that wave has come
from the ocean and she will go home to the ocean in order to be reborn again so
the wave has a wave body a wave party and also her ocean body and the moment
when the way realize that she has her body she rules the earth and
look at the look at the clouds in the sky
they also come from the ocean and if they meditate well enough they see that
although they have a cloud body but they have also an ocean body and it's very
important for the cloud to realize that he has a ocean body so when he is no
longer a cloud he still has his own money
so ultimately the outlook is is that you know God is the outlet Nirvana is the
outlet Nirvana is the true nature of reality the nature no birth no death no
coming God is the ultimate so you have different our body you have a god but
you have a cosmic body and if you want deeply in mindfulness you can touch the
cosmic body you can touch that ultimate and our nature of no birth and no death
so walking meditation can bring very deep insight dissipate all kind of fear
is a simple practice and practice in working not only you can get in touch
with the wonders of life that can be nourishing and healing but you can touch
on soul altman's in order will be liberated from all fear
anxiety when you walk like that you generate the energy of mindfulness
you're mindful of your in breast our breads you're mindful of your steps you
generate the energy of freedom of joy the joy to be there to get life and
everyone walking with you will generate the same kind of energy
mindfulness peace and joy and together we generate a collective
energy of Martin peace and love joy and now whole everyone will profit from that
creative energy of peace mouth left and joy generated mind working so what you
should not be alone walking with the Sangha we should not be alone, we should
feel the collective energy generated by the whole group and allowed us to have to
be embraced and transported by the energy and every step of ours will be
supported and can create peace, the energy of peace, joy, healing
of us who heal ourselves just by walking
and I recommend that during the time we'll stay in Plum Village they should
apply mindful walking whenever we need to go from one place to another even if
the distant system few a few steps from your tent kitchen
to the dining hall to the meditation hall always what like they walk like a
Luger look like a free person alright at every step and enjoy mister
that those of us who can do that monastics and lay practitioners they can
enjoy every step they can make every step healing and nourishing so we should
you should know how to profit from that quality of energy you know just like
other people and if you walk like that for one week there could be a change you
learn happily deeply the hill and you have more freedom
ready to walk like that
full of mindfulness enjoy and we are motivated by the desire what like you
from time to time we forget that is why when you see someone walking like that
that person is a belt mindfulness remaining no path reminding us to watch
and enjoy every step like like so we can support each other
lower Hamlet our new Hamlet you're working something where they can inspire
other people to walk walk in such a way that can generate the energy of
mindfulness and peace and joy with every step you should learn the power of stop
unless you can stop you can cookies and without peace there is no little joy and
happiness sensual pleasures it's not it's not try
so after this dhamma talk Rochelle what together everyone will do his or her
best to stop the course stop the running we will be tasting the peace and the joy
of arriving at every step and we prophet rely on quality energy in order to do so
and children can do it on so we will continue to and I'm not optimal reading
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