This is a short teaching excerpted from the Dharma talk given on September 19, 2011 during Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh's 2011 teaching tour in the USA (00:23:01 - 00:28:46).
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🔔 Video transcript
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"Dear Grandpa Teacher, here’s the question. It dawns on me that the days I was still in Vietnam, or when I studied abroad, or when I participated in activities held for monastic practitioners, or for lay practitioners — be they spiritual or worldly occasions, I wonder why the phenomenon of jealousy is so ubiquitous and pervasive.
"And I believe for this world to be safe and peaceful, this phenomenon of jealousy must come to an end. Because if this phenomenon of jealousy is so ubiquitous and pervasive, I think the world can never be safe and peaceful.
"Now, I want to consult Grandpa Teacher. What practices, in Grandpa Teacher’s experience teaching both monastic audience and lay audience, do we have that help transform this heart and mind of jealousy and selfishness into the heart and mind of sympathetic joy, loving-kindness, and compassion Buddhism always speaks of?"
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✩ Full talk's original title: "Câu Hỏi và Trả Lời - Ngày 19 tháng 09 năm 2011" / "2011-09-19-TNH-VNM-DP-Câu Hỏi Và Trả Lời"
✩ Full talk originally posted by Thich Nhat Hanh Library Archive Team (unfortunately only available in Vietnamese) date posted unknown
✩ Excerpt's original title: "Tâm ganh tỵ - Trích Pháp thoại Sư Ông Làng Mai 19/09/2011"
✩ Excerpt originally posted by TCT Phượng Trần (Sakura-Lotus Sangha) on May 20, 2023
✩ Full talk given: September 19, 2011, Deer Park Monastery, California, USA.
✩ Excerpt length: 05 minutes 44 seconds
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RELEVANT TEACHINGS
1. Thich Nhat Hanh, 1995, "Accepting the Other Person as They Are"
2. Thich Nhat Hanh, 2009, "Recognizing Non-Afflictive States as Happiness instead of Nothing"
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