Thich Nhat Hanh A Simple Way To Heal Yourself

so John Villa and that is something that shocked people quite a lot because most people are used to the idea that the kingdom of God is a place where there is no suffering and according to the insight of interbeing if there is no suffering there is no happiness either have both into our so intervene is the ground of ethical Metta ethics and then they use a easy example to show that when you look at at one person if you have the time to look and if you have some mindfulness and concentration you can see the suffering in him right now and if you continue to look you see that person continues to suffer because he is not capable he does not know how to handle the suffering he does not know how to suffer and to handle the suffering in him that is why he continues to be the victim of his own something so far no one has helped him to handle the suffering in him and transform it that is why he continued to suffer and as he suffers he make the people around him suffer including you maybe he does not want to make yourself suffer but because he does not know know how to handle the suffering in him that is why his have been spilling all over and you become the second victim of his suffering and when you see that and you understand that suddenly ran no longer angry at him you don't want punish him anymore instead you want to say something how to do something to help him suffer less it means that you have compassion in your heart born from understanding suffering so compassion is something that is born from suffering from understanding suffering and it is easy enough to understand compassion it is born from is born from understanding and understanding of what understanding of suffering when you know how to look into suffering then you have the time everyone if specially when you are so busy making money you do not have the time in order to look at the suffering and listen to the suffering and embrace the suffering and energy that can help you look and suffering listen to suffering and Umrah suffering is mindfulness mindfulness of suffering mindfulness of listening to suffering mindfulness of embracing suffering so listening to suffering embracing suffering bring about understanding of suffering and when understanding of suffering is there compassion is motion that is the mechanism of compassion and the whole audience understood because it's easy enough and that is why between compassion and suffering there is a connection and that is why in a place where there is no suffering there is no compassion either and as we know that the kingdom of God has love and compassion we know also that suffering is there like in a place where there is there are lotus flowers you know that but is there ones it was so clear that without but no lotus it's possible that is that is the key point so to spend a few minutes talking about intervene between suffering love and compassion and they said that if you know how to suffer there's of a much less and you know how to make good ears or suffering in our to create understanding and compassion and these are two elements the foundation to happiness because even if they have money cannot make the happiness so happiness is built of compassion love and understanding so they took time to explain like that and that is the first thing that is looking for for audience the second thing that is choking is that they set a compassion should be directed to yourself first but if you don't know how to be compassionate yourself it's very difficult to be compassionate to another person and that's why you have to listen to your own suffering first your suffering carries within yourself the suffering with your father your mother your ancestors and if you understand your own suffering you understand the suffering of your father and you are not angry at your father anymore so understanding the suffering of oneself is very important to have the time to be with your suffering to have the time to listen to your own suffering to have the time to embrace your suffering tenderly this what we should do in a beginning but people in our society they don't like to do that they don't think that it is I play something to go they don't want to go home to themselves and get in touch with the suffering inside because they are afraid that they will overwhelm not by the suffering inside that is why most people try to run away from ourselves from themselves and use internet music alien electronic games conversations magazine books food in a not yet for why the suffering in them and that is one of the characteristics of our civilization running away from oneself but according to the teaching of the Buddha if you know how to practice my mindfulness of breathing manners of sitting likeness of working life unas of your speech and then you are equipped with that kind of energy and then you can go home to yourself without fear in order to listen to your own suffering embrace your suffering and finally to understand it when you understand suffering compassion is born in you and you suffer less now you can help the other person your partner your father your son you're not if you have understood your own suffering it's much easier to understand the suffering of the other person and when you understand he is who suffering you are no longer angry at him compassion is born in you and you want to do something to help the other person suffer less that is compassion in action and you can do that for other people also after you have been able to do it for him for her the nearest person to you and that is second thing that shocked the audience compassion has to be directed to yourself there's a lot of people in the audience that compassion is for another person and the third thing I told the audience that as a community you can generate a collective energy of compassion that can be very healing as one individual of course you can generate compassion but if you are 300 people 700 people 1,000 people sitting together and breathing together generating the energy of understanding of suffering and compassion and understanding and and compassion and then the collective energy of compassion can be very healing for everyone who happens to be there in that zone of energy so show them that is not individual kind of energy but it can be collective and when the energy of compassion is quality it is much more powerful and you can help report to heal so I propose very concrete things like in a hospital if all the doctors and nurses and employees know how to practice my greeting and getting in touch with the suffering inside of them and around them that will create a very powerful energy of compassion they can have patients who come to the hospital to him much much more quickly they seems to be something very little random and I'm so tired so proposed that the people in that organization teachers students and researchers employees all practice mindful breathing - of compare of something to generate compassion together and you should teach by by yourself by by the way of life and not just by living living at all in the castle doing research and talking about suffering to the students you have to embody compassion and that people will believe believe in the power of compassion we had you have answered quite a number of questions but there are many questions that are left unanswered this is one the question that is written research has also shown that compassion has Extra Ordinary health benefits not only does it reduce information at the cellular level but it's also appears to be associated with a longer healthier and happier life that is what what the researchers found if you have compassion you live a longer life and compassion can hear you I can hear things like information in yourself from your practice perspective as a teacher have you noticed this impact on compassion on health and biology and why do you think that happened and he can say liked it when compassion is there in your heart you are not angry because compassion is an anti-node anger and without anger we are more alert you are more pleasant you are more peaceful and that will facilitate the healing and when you do not have anger you can communicate to yourself much more easily you can understand yourself much more easily and you can communicate with the other person more easily and you can restore communication and you can click on side with him anger blocks communication and that's why when you are able to generate compassion they transform anger and then you restore complication and if communication is a stall everything is possible again and compassion is the kind of energy that motivate you to do something to help people who suffer that gives you an idea that give you a meaning to your life and that is why I don't live long and so on and partially not only help you but if you have compassion in yourself in your heart and then that energy of compassion will protect you from many kinds of lenses even violent people there it is and so on when you are compassionate and you don't react in fear in anger and that is why you draw much less attention to yourself if you are angry you make the people so fearful of your obvious of you if they are fearful they attack you been afraid that you will kill them at first that is why compassion protect you and also protect the other person and in the Buddhist teaching they would have thought that if you can produce compassion and and prevent a kind of fight to happen you win you win for most people you win for him and for you at the same time that is a real victory the governor but yeah before before he became a monk under the guidance of the Buddha he was very afraid because he did not sleep well because the people are ready to go into his palace in a little steel as well and kill him so even he was protected by many soldiers he was always very afraid during the night he's afraid that someone go including to the castle and kill him and get all his 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Length: 21min 31sec (1291 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 25 2019