Looking Deeper into our Minds

August 27, 2013. 101-minute dharma talk given by Thich Nhat Hanh from Blue Cliff Monastery in Pine Bush, New York during the 2013 Nourishing Great Togetherness teaching tour. This is the second dharma talk for the 6-day retreat with the theme Transformation and Healing – The Art of Suffering.

Topics

• Tea meditation – a cloud in my tea
• A cloud in the calligraphy
• Working with strong emotions
• Smile to our anger
• Mindfulness is to embrace and calm
• Happiness and suffering
• Four Noble Truths
• Ill being and well being
• Second and Fourth as Path and Nutriments
• Interbeing of pairs of opposites
• Right View
• Right Thinking
• The notion of self (Diamond Sutra)
• Right Mindfulness
• Right Concentration
• Right Speech
• Right Action

http://youtu.be/bAbTMS-WEgM