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 on a Buddhist contribution toward a Global Ethic - made available for the first time with English subtitles.
This is the sixth talk of the series, which the community in Plum Village France watched on the 29th of November 2023.
Original Date: 21st December 2008.
0:00:00 Three sounds of the bell
0:01:09 Start of the talk
0:02:23 The 5 Mindfulness Trainings: a path of understanding and love
0:14:16 Mindfulness is concentration and enlightenment
0:29:09 Touching insights beyond philosophies and notions
0:37:08 Right thinking is in the direction of non-fear, non-discrimination, of compassion, of hope
0:53:19 Responding to the sufferings of our time - global warming, terrorism, war, discrimination ...
1:07:13 Cultivating non-dualistic thinking, discrimination is no longer there
1:17:21 Object of perception and subject of perception inter-are
1:21:49 Normative Ethics and Meta Ethics
1:37:18 Right view is the removal of all views