September 25, 2013. 130-minute dharma talk given by Thich Nhat Hanh from Magnolia Grove Monastery in Batesville, Mississippi during the 2013 Nourishing Great Togetherness teaching tour. This is the first dharma talk for the 6-day retreat with the theme Healing Ourselves, Healing the World. We begin with two chants from the monastics.

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We bring our mind and body together and come back to ourselves in order to be truly there and be able to stop our thinking. We can get lost in our thinking. When we are mindful and concentrated of our in breath them our mind only has one object. Just breathing in mindfully we can get freedom from the past l, the future, and our projects. Freedom is possible and the healing can start.

Topics:

Conditions of happiness

Habit of running after fame, power, wealth, sensual pleasures

Deep looking - insight can release the tension and bring healing

Mindfulness is a method to insight using our in breath and out breath

Inviting our ancestors to listen to the bell and practice walking meditation with you.

Our presence is the most precious gift for those we love - to be there is a practice.

Freshness, beauty

Mountain, solid

Space, free

Sutra on Full Awareness of Breathing

Four domains - body, feelings, mind, objects of mind

First 8 exercise

Sangha - collective energy

You are not one emotion

The art of happiness and the art of suffering

Happiness and suffering interare

Happiness is made of non-happiness elements

The Four Noble Truths

The Four Kinds of Nutriments