This is a short teaching excerpted from a Dharma talk given on February 23, 1995, during the Winter Retreat 1994 -1995 in Upper Hamlet.

🔔 Video transcript

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"There's a novice nun who writes this to Thay. 'Dear respected Thay, I usually practice accepting all members of the sangha. I just accept them exactly as they are, I don't ask them to be this way or that way to get along with them, to see them as a member of the sangha. And when I can do this, I feel happiness brims over in me.'

"You know, that novice nun, though still very young, has already given us such a remarkable insight that perhaps even some senior brothers and sisters cannot even realize and practice — an insight that they have yet to realize and practice."

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✩ Full talk's Vietnamese title: "Bài Khảo Nghiệm - Bẻ Gãy Thế Tam Giác - Pháp Thoại ngày 23 tháng 02 năm 1995".

✩ Excerpt's Vietnamese title: "Chấp nhận người kia - Trích Pháp thoại Sư Ông Làng Mai 23/02/1995"

✩ Full talk originally posted by Thich Nhat Hanh Archive Team (part of Plum Village Editorial Team) on Thich Nhat Hanh Library website (unfortunately only available in Vietnamese) (posting date unnoted).

✩ Excerpt originally posted by TCT Phượng Trần on March 12, 2023

✩ Talk given: February 23, 1995, Upper Hamlet, Plum Village France, during the Winter Retreat 1994 -1995

✩ Length: 05 minutes 02 seconds

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RELEVANT DHARMA TALKS

1. Is our heart too small? – Excerpted from a Dharma talk given by Thich Nhat Hanh on July 26, 2010

2. Accepting yourself as you are – Practicing the Sixth Mantra [The basics of Plum Village practice] – Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh

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REFERENCES (Resources used to translate this Dharma talk)

1. Thich Nhat Hanh's Talks, 2022, "Accepting yourself as you are: Practicing the Sixth Mantra [The basics of Plum Village practice] (January 15, 2012) — Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh"

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