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 ninth talk of the series, which the community in Plum Village France watched on the 20th December 2023. Original date of the talk: 18 June 2009.
0:00:00 Start of the talk
0:02:50 Look deeply to discover the nature of emptiness, signlessness, aimlessness
0:07:16 The 12th awareness of breathing: to liberate the mind from the 10 fetters
0:15:32 The second fetter is violence and anger, born from ignorance and wrong views
0:23:00 The middle way is the way transcending all pairs of opposites
0:29:48 Liberation is not found by performing rituals but by engaging in rituals to become fully present in the here and the now, where there is mindfulness, joy and freedom
0:36:30 The 13th awareness of breathing: contemplating on impermanence
0:47:54 All formations are impermanent, all phenomena have to go through birth and death
00:55:27 The 14th awareness of breathing: concentration on no craving
01:02:27 The 16th awareness of breathing: break through all notions
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