This is a short teaching video excerpted from the full Dharma talk "Soul and Body Must Go Together in Love" given by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh on July 19, 1998 in Lower Hamlet, Plum Village France.

🔔 Video transcript

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"When they were young, our father and mother could probably marry one another in an impulsive moment of passion, not realizing the other person wasn't born to live with them. Although the two shapes — the two bodies, live with one another, the two souls do not have harmony with one another.

"If we're not wise and skillful, we will make exactly the same mistakes as they did. It means, in a moment of grand passion, in a moment of being caught in an amorous entanglement, we share our life with someone we hardly understand and are unable to love truly."

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✩ Original Vietnamese Dharma talk title: "Tâm Hồn Phải Song Hành Với Thể Xác Trong Tình Yêu | TS Thích Nhất Hạnh(19-07-1998, Xóm Hạ, Làng Mai)"

✩ Full talk originally posted by Lang Mai (Plum Village's Vietnamese YouTube channel) on December 8, 2022

✩ Talk given: July 19, 1998, Lower Hamlet, Plum Village France

✩ Length: 8 minutes 45 seconds

✩ Watch the full Dharma talk with English subtitles and transcript.

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RECOMMENDED READING

📌 You may like to read "The Fourth Mindfulness Training: Deep listening and loving speech" by Thich Nhat Hanh (2022) published on Plum Village App website: https://plumvillage.app/the-fourth-mindfulness-training-deep-listening-and-loving-speech/

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REFERENCES (Resources used to translate this Dharma talk): Please go to the Video Transcript link to see the full list.

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Republished on the Plum Village App with kind permission of Thich Nhat Hanh's Talks channel 🙏