August 26, 2013. 87-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 first dharma talk for the 6-day retreat with the theme Transformation and Healing – The Art of Suffering. We begin with two chants from the monastics.

Topics

Why do we want to practice breathing-in and breathing-out? We don't have to suffer and we can produce the energy of joy.

First exercise of mindful breathing

Walking in the kingdom is an end in itself

Three Energies: Mindfulness, Concentration, Insight

Second exercise of mindful breathing

Third exercise of mindfulbreathing - aware of body

Fourth exercise of mindful breathing - relax body

Fifth exercise of mindful breathing - producing joy

Sixth exercise of mindful breathing - producing happiness

Seventh exercise of mindful breathing - aware of painful feeling

Eighth exercise of mindful breathing - embrace painful feeling

Store and mind consciousness with mental formations

Teaching of The Second Arrow

Five Universal Mental Formatioms (Contact, Attention , Feeling , Perception, Volition)

Five Particular Mental Formations (intention, resolution, mindfulness, concentration, and insight)

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