(Class #28) Liberation from Samsāra

This is a weekly class from Deer Park Monastery on the topic "The 40 Tenets of Plum Village" and it is based on a book called Plum Village Looks at Vulture's Peak written by Thich Nhat Hanh. The book describes the essential characteristics of Plum Village practice and teachings.

For an English translation of the tenets themselves, follow this link.

In this class, Brother Phap Luu discusses the 29th tenet: "Birth and death are only manifestation or non-manifestation. Both manifestor and manifested occur at the same time, the manifestation of one thing is the non-manifestation of something else."28th tenet: "Liberation from samsāra does not mean putting an end to the personal self (pudgala), because that person is not a real entity anyway, nor does it mean putting an end to the precepts’ body and the spiritual life."