Awakening the Heart ♡ The Practice of Inner Transformation ♡ With Thich Nhat Hanh

you you you Oh Oh difference in Buddhism we spoke of a kind of body called Dharma body everyone was as humans we need the spiritual dimension without a spiritual dimension it's difficult for us to to confront to solve the difficulties that present themselves in our daily life you have your physical body but you should have your Dharma body the Dharma body is your spiritual practice in the Buddhist tradition if we have a good practice we are no longer afraid because we know how to deal with the difficulties representing themselves every day a good Buddhist practitioner should be able to to handle a feeling of pain a feeling of despair good practitioner should be able to handle a strong emotion like fear anger hate a good professional should be able to generate a feeling of joy and happiness whenever she wants a good practitioner should be able to use a practice of deep listening compassionate listening and gentle speech in order to restore communication and reconcile all these things that are recommended by the Buddha now my body is our practice our body practice and if we have a solid nama body a solid practice and then whenever you we are no longer afraid we can mid situation with calm and peace and confidence when we come to attend a retreat five days or seven days that's what we want to learn we want to to have a practice so that you can handle the difficulties in our life and during that time we practice together with the Sangha and we exchange our understanding and experiences with the members of the community of practice the expression dharmakaya nama body later on has a different meaning in Mahayana Buddhism it means the windows of life in Buddhism we do not speak about God and the kingdom of God but we do speak about the Dharmakaya and the blue sky the bit food river the mountains the flowers or expression of dharmakaya and many Zen masters have written poetry about beauty about wonders of life as expression of the body of the Dharmakaya when you contemplate a flower like one in front of us if we have enough mindfulness and concentration we can get in touch deeply with the flower and we can recognize that the flower belong to the realm of the Dharmakaya in the christian tradition we can say that the flower belong to the kingdom of God it is a wonder with the Buddhist practice we get the energy of mindfulness and concentration that allowed us to get in touch deeply with the flower that wonder of life that is there and as you know that it belongs to the kingdom of God and you know that you are capable of touching the kingdom of God in the end now you are able to touch the Pure Land of the Buddha in the end and now with the practice of mindfulness and concentration the kingdom of God or the Pure Land of the Buddha is available in the year and now there's a French writer whose name is unleash it he said that God is a happiness many of us used to describe God in terms of love what is love but others you'd like to to describe God as happiness this is a very original beautiful way of talking about God if we are and he also said God is available 24 hours a day it means happiness is possible at any time if you know how get in touch with it if you know how we have to get in touch with the God and the kingdom of God the same thing is true with the Dharmakaya with mindfulness and concentration you can be in touch with the wonders of life is expressed in the wire bamboo trees on a yellow chrysanthemums if God is available 24 hours a day and then his kingdom should be available 24 hours a day also and how to get in touch with the kingdom in the light of Buddhist practice that's not difficult if you breathe in mindfully and be aware of your in-breath you bring your mind home for your body and when your mind is with your body you are cooling there in the here and now and being established in the here and now you can get in touch with that flower that chrysanthemum let me go full moon which belong to the Pure Land of the Buddha which belong to the kingdom of God in our daily life very often our body is there but our mind is elsewhere we are caught in the sorrow in the regret concerning the past or we are caught in the fear in the suit uncertainty concerning the future we are caught in our projects our fear our anger our mind is not there with our body we are not truly there the practice of mindful breathing recommended by the Buddha helped us to bring our mind home to our body and when our mind is with our body we are back in the year and now fully present fully alive and he can get in touch with the wonders of life that are available in the here and now the Buddha said that the pass is Oregon and the future is not yet there there is only one woman when you can be to your life that is the present moment and the present woman has all the wonders of life in it so the basic purpose recommended by the Buddha is to go home to the present moment and that can be done just by one in-breath or one step made in mindfulness the practice of mindful breathing the practice of mindful walking are not too difficult and they allowed us to go home to the here and now in order to live deeply every moment given to us to live when we breathe in mindfully without mindfully or when we walk mindfully every step we generate the energy of mindfulness mindfulness is the kind of energy that allowed us to know what is happening in the present moment and mindfulness is always my fulness of something when you breathe in mindfully and that is my friends of breathing when you drink your tea mindfully that is mindfulness of drinking when you walk mindfully and that is mindfulness of work and when we do things mindfully you're always in the here and now and we are living deeply every moment our daily life and that is the basic purpose recommended by the Buddha in the Sutra of mindful breathing the Buddha proposed or 16 exercises and the first fall help us to take care of our body the first exercise is very simple written in I know this is my in-breath without I know this is fire breath you are aware that an in-breath is going on to aware that your out-breath and now breath is going on the exercise is very simple you focus your attention on your in-breath and your out-breath and because of that you release the past you release the future and you come home to the present moment it's like a miracle it takes only a few seconds for us to get free from the sorrow and regret consider the past and and fear and uncertainty concerning the future our freedom is what we get when we get in mindfully I'll make a mindful step and the second exercise of mindful breathing is to follow your in-breath all the way through written in I am aware of my in-breath from the beginning to the end present out I follow my own breath from beginning to the end it means that you have fully concentrated on your in-breath and your breath and you read release everything else and by practicing the second exercise like that you can't wait more concentration and mindfulness and concentrations always bring inside and inside has the power to liberate to set you free and inside enlightenment is not something very far away you can got it in a few seconds also suppose you breathe in mindfully and why breathing mindfully you notice that you are there alive because a person who is already dead there's no breathe in anymore and because you are breathing in and you are aware that you are bitten in you know that you are life and to be alive is a miracle and just breathe in and you touch the miracle of being alive and when you breathe out you have the time to celebrate the fact that you are alive and to know that you are alive is only an insight and that is brought to you by mindfulness of breathing and you can enjoy your in-breath and out-breath but really you don't have to make any effort you don't have to struggle to find your in-breath you just allow yourself to breathe normally you just pay attention to your in-breath and those who are so practice mindful breathing we feel wonderful breathing in we enjoy reading in middle now whether we are in a sitting position or in a lying position or in walking meditation breathing in and out mindfully can bring a lot of joy it's a pleasant and if while breathing in you suffer Britta now you suffer well you know that your practice is not correct life is already full of suffering why do you have to suffer more by practicing Buddhism so sipping should be pleasant walking should be pleasant breathing should be present and that is why the Buddha said the Dharma is lovely in the beginning in the middle and at the end the Dharma can bring joy and peace and happiness right away you don't have to wait the third exercise of mindful breathing is to become aware of our body Britain in I'm aware of my whole body that is to bring the mind home to the body for the mine to reconcile with the body and when you are back to your body you may notice that there is a lot both over there is a lot of tension and pain in your body we have allowed a lot of tension to be accumulated into our body we have worked our body too hard we have not treated our body with tenderness and compassion and the tension in our body is the foundation for all kind of sickness that is why with the fourth size of mindful breathing the Buddha recommended that we release the tension in the body written in I release the tension in my body in a sitting position like this or in a lying position you can always allow the tension to be released by Britain I've really written out my Foley and a good petitioner should be able to to do that to make use of these exercise in order to take care of his body sitting on a bus and you might like to practice mindful breathing and release the tension and then enjoy what is happening in the present moment with the fifth exercise of mindful breathing a petitioner can recognize a feeling of joy a feeling of oh she can if she can generate a feeling of joy and with the six exercise he can generate a feeling of happiness according to the Buddhist teaching a practitioner should be able to generate a feeling of joy or a feeling of happiness whenever she wants and how the teaching of Buddha is very clear you use the techniques of mindfulness and concentration and release in order to bring joy and happiness when you breathe in mindfully you bring your mind home to your body and you established yourself in a here and now and because of that you recognize that there are so many conditions of happiness that are already available in the end and now suppose we try the exercise of breathing in and become aware of how eyes written in I'm aware of my eyes we use the energy of mindfulness to recognize the existence of our eyes written in I'm aware of my eyes within out I smile to my eyes and when you breathe in mindfully and become a way of your eyes you may get insight that your eyes are still in good condition it's wonderful to have so still have eyes in good condition a paradise of forms and colors is available to you just because you still have eyes in good condition you only need to open your eyes in order to enjoy that paradise of forms and colors and having good eyes is one condition one condition of happiness that you do have and you may like to to continue written in I'm aware of my heart but now I smiled and this is recommended by the Buddha in the Sutra on the contemplation of the body in the body the Buddha say suppose there is a farmer who grows up to the sila and bring down a pack of seeds and he opened one end of the back and allowed all the seeds to flow in a bag - flour on the floor and with eyes still in good condition he recognized every kind of seat that claw on the floor this is the Seeta kidney bean this is a seat of God this is a seat of mung beans etc so the practitioner does the same thing using mindful breathing he recognized his eyes smiled his eyes and goes down recognized nose tongue lungs heart kidney liver is like a scanning the body with the energy of mindfulness you know hospitals we have a scanner using x-ray but in the Buddhist practice we use the ray of mindfulness in order to scan my body to visit all parts of our body and to smile with that help to release the tension that helped to heal so breathing in I'm aware of my heart you use the energy of compare of mindfulness generated by the practice of mindful breathing in order to recognize the present of your heart and you might get the insight right away that your heart still functions normally and that is a good news because that those of us who do not have a normal heart like that they can be subjected to a heart attack at any time and the deepest desire is to have a normal heart like ours so when you pay attention to your your your heart with - you might discover that your yeah your heart is one of the conditions of happiness that you do have your heart functions day and night do not have the time to go to sleep and yet many of us I have not treated our heart nicely you may have we might smoke we might drink alcohol may stay up late in the night we have not been very kind of hard so when we go back to our heart and embrace our heart with the energy of mindfulness oh yeah selling love dwell hard and we may like to make there the commitment to take good care better care of our heart so that is a meditation on love directed to our heart and soul so the Buddha recommend that you visit all part of your body and pay attention to every part of the body and send the energy of compassion and love to every part of body this is the practice of deep total relaxation that each petitioner should know how how to do and when you come to a place that is Eldin you might like to stop longer you may like to hold that organ in your body longer with the energy of mindfulness and that will help the healing to take place more quickly of course you might like to continue with your medicines but you can do better you can use the practice of mindful breathing embracing the Eldin part of your body and that will make the healing happening more quickly so when we practice visiting all parts of our body we can recognize the so many conditions of happiness that are there within us and when we are the environment we recognize other conditions of happiness and mindfulness allowed us to recognize the fact that here we do have more conditions more than enough conditions to be happy right here and right now we do not have to run into the future and look for more conditions of happiness one of the basic teaching of the Buddha is you can be happy and joyful or right in the ear and then now he am Fablab to the Sanskrit expression is mr. Dhamma sukha vihara the only living happily right in the present moment that they are not the businessmen and a top Anika today together with 500 businessmen came to visit the Buddha and Buddha knew that the businessmen think a little bit too much about the future so on that day he gave a discourse on how and how to be happy right here and right now many of us sacrifice the present for the sake of the future many of us do not have the capacity to live deeply the moment present and we believe that happiness is possible only in the future but the teaching in the Buddha is that you don't have to go to the future and seek for happiness happiness is available it is possible in here now just breathe in mindfully and go home to the here and now and you recognize that you see that you have more than enough conditions to be happy already the French have a song kikuna Tom Poquette aru why do you have to wait you can be happy right right now so the petitioner coming home to the here and now recognize all the wonders of life available in the e under now and she realized that there are so many conditions of happiness already available and she can generate a feeling of joy she can generate a feeling of happiness right away because she need nourishment and healing and according to the teaching and the practice of Buddhism you should know how to generate a feeling of joy a feeling of happiness for your nourishment and healing because later on you might have to handle a painful feeling I bring for emotion so the fifth exercise and the sixth exercise is to generate a pleasant feeling a joyful feeling a happy feeling and we can do that for ourselves and we can help our partner the other person to do that then the seventh exercise of mindful breathing is to recognize a painful feeling a painful emotion many of us do not know how to handle a painful feeling a painful emotion and many young people believe that in order to end suffering caused by a strong emotion the only way is to go and kill themselves there's so many young people commit in society in our society the Buddha told us how to handle a painful feeling a painful emotion he said suppose someone is hit by an arrow there is pain in a body and suppose a few minutes later a second arrow come and strike exactly at the same spot and in a pain not only double it can be one at time more intense so you should try to avoid the second arrow to come and struck us try us and what is the second arrow when there is some physical pain with mindfulness or breathing we recognize it is a physical pain and do not exaggerate do not allow fear anger to come and magnify the pain if we allow fear anger we want to come we suffer much more and that is the second arrow this is what the Buddha meant it may be a minor pain that you can handle and with mindfulness and concentration your recognize things as they are and you do not exaggerate and we should clean in order to to follow on this practice when his strong emotion comes we should not allow us to continue the thinking about it because it may make it my feet my emotion the method recommended by our teachers is to to bring your attention down through the abdomen and pay attention to the rise and fall of the occupant when you breathe in and out but in in I noticed that my abdomen is rising getting out I noticed that my abdomen is falling and you focused your attention only on your in-breath your own breath and the fall and the rising and falling of your equipment it is like the emotion is like a storm and if you know how to handle use of Agra storm easily why breathing in and out we can remember that one emotion is just one emotion emotions are impermanent they come they stay for some time and they have to rule after a while and we are much more than one emotion why we should die just because of one emotion it is a very simple truth you are much more than an emotion an emotion can last maybe half an hour or whatever and we have to go why do you have to die because of one emotion and nobody has told a young person that is why when she is overwhelmed by an emotion she try to kill herself so a good practitioner should know how to practice mindful deep breathing with our up lament when there is a strong emotion it's like holding in the trunk of a tree during the time of a storm if you look at the tree in a backyard you see that if you focus the attention on the top of the tree you have impression that the tree is very vulnerable it can be blown away by the wind anytime but when you focus your attention under trunk of the tree you see that tree is deeply rooted in the earth and you see that the tree moves then so we are like a tree the brain is only the top of a tree and giving the storm of the of the emotion we should not stay here and continue to think and to imagine you should bring our attention down to the level of the navel the London spot and we should follow the practice of mindful breathing deep breathing and pay attention to only the rise and fall above the abdomen and we feel safe and the emotion cannot do anything to us there only one thing to remember and emotion is just an emotion I know to handle how to handle an emotion but we do not wait until we have an emotion strong emotion in order to begin learning we go forget that is why we had to begin but the practice right now and if we practice two weeks three weeks every time five seven minutes and then we used to the practice of my full deep breathing and next time when a strong emotion come it will suddenly remember to practice and after we have survived in emotion we have confidence in the practice we tell ourselves that next time when the strong emotion come we will do just that and you can help our children to do it too you can hold hand of your little boy or little girl and you say darling let us be together Britain in I noticed that my abdomen is falling Iza is rising a bit amount is falling and you shall know just your mindfulness to the child and you you teach him to get to breathe deeply and stop the thinking and pay attention only to the rise and fall abrupt and and your triangle learn and when him he has a strong emotion he would know how to do in order to survive the emotion I think the parents should know how to practice that and transmit the practice to their children I also believe that the school teachers should know to practice and transmit the practice to students in the class because the young people now time they suffer a lot of fear anger despair and the young people when they suffer too much making of society and that is why we should be able to help them by first of all mastering the techniques of practice so the seventh seventh exercise of mindful breathing is to recognize a painful feeling a painful emotion and the eighth one is to embrace and to release the tension the energy of mindfulness is the kind of energy that we generate with the practice of mindful walking mindful breathing when the energy of anger or fear arise I practice a a practitioner knows how to handle that fear that anger she begins right away to practice mindful breathing from my work and generate the energy of mindfulness the second source of energy the first energy is the energy of fear or anger the second source of energy generated through practice is the energy of mindfulness and mindfulness is recognizing fear and anger and embrace tenderly energy of fear my anger there is not tend to fight how to suppress that is violent Buddhist meditation is characterized by non-violence you are my fulness but you are also that fear that anger you should not do violence to yourself a mother working in the kitchen hear the baby crying she put down whatever she's holding and goes to the room her baby and the first thing she does is to pick up her baby and hold baby tenderly into her arms she does not know what is wrong when the baby and yet holding the baby tenderly like that can already make the baby suffer less because the energy of then the nest of the mother has already began to penetrate into the body of the baby remember when we were young and we had a fever our mother came and she put her hand on our forehead she has not done anything much but just but feeling that her hand is on our forehead is of a lesson already so this is exactly what a petitioner should do when fear or anger arises we should not allow fear anger to overwhelm us you should do something and that something is to practice mindful breathing mindful walking in order to generate the energy of mindfulness and that is the mother holding the child the energy of mindfulness and concentration is the mother recognize the suffering of the baby and hold the baby in her arms although we don't know what is the root of our anger of here but just recognizing and hold internally our fear our anger that can already bring some relief you are in a sitting position or working position you continue your practice of generating the energy of mindfulness and concentration and you can handle you can take care of your My dear little anger my dear little fear I know you are there I will take good care of you there is no attempt to through to fight out of supplies please a willingness to recognize to embrace and to relieve the suffering and the touching of the Buddha

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Length: 47min 4sec (2824 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 11 2013