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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.

Short excerpt of the talk (English)
https://plumvillage.org/articles/seeing-the-roots-of-suffering-and-a-path-of-transformation

This is the first talk of the series, which the community in Plum Village France watched on the 25th of October 2023.

Original Date: 2008.11.20

0:01:02 Start of the talk
0:02:03 Spirit of a Rains Retreat - Buddha's time and today
0:04:11 Practice each moment to transform the pain and difficulties in your heart
0:07:38 A place of refuge
0:08:45 Gratitude and mindfulness of water 💦 (gāthā) can bring happiness
0:12:17 Vietnamese Poem ‘home is the kite flying in the blue sky
0:14:21 To be happy is one thing but to be aware that we are happy is another
0:18:09 The sangha is everywhere, the sangha is our joy
0:22:21 New world order needs a new Global Ethics
0:26:00 What does buddhism have to offer
0:30:58 Our emphasis is on looking deeply
0:32:45 Parliament of World Religions - "Declaration Toward a Global Ethic"
0:43:59 The qualities that bring happiness and do not bring suffering to others
0:46:27 Becoming enlightened - what does it mean?
0:49:29 A tradition of teachings - not a religion
0:53:29 “Discourse on Turning the Wheel of the Dharma” - foundational material for Buddhist ethics
0:58:21 The essence of the Four Noble Truths or Four Holy Truths (Catvari Arya Satyani)
1:02:00 Taking refuge in the Truth - an encounter with the President of the Indian Council for International Cultural Relations
1:07:03 Recognising the real sufferings in our hearts and in society and finding a path
1:15:19 The intelligent way to understand the Buddha’s teachings on suffering
1:17:00 Insight and wisdom from growing old, illness, and dying
1:21:40 The sufferings of our time - collective (climate change, violence, division…) and personal (mental illness, despair, hatred…)
1:25:49 To find a path, we must see the roots of our suffering: the Second Noble Truth - the making of ill-being
1:29:41 The Four Noble Truths as a Buddhist contribution to a global ethic
1:34:12 Working together across spiritual traditions - insight and experience