This is an excerpt from the third talk of "The Net Of Sensual Love Sutra," given by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh in Assembly of Stars Meditation Hall, Dharma Nectar (Cam Lộ) Temple, Lower Hamlet, Plum Village on May 09, 2010 in the Spring Retreat.
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🔔 Video transcript
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"Out in the world, sometimes we have difficulties and suffering living with one person. We always believe it’s because this person is not compatible with us or because they have many shortcomings. We think they’re someone who makes us suffer. So we have the intention of leaving this person and getting a divorce from them.
"We think if we can be separated from them or get a divorce from them, we’ll be better off. Once separated or divorced, it does feel better. However, we quickly get entangled with someone else. We quickly look for someone else.
"When entangled with this second person, although it’s a new person, although it’s someone else, we still behave exactly the way we did with the previous person. It means, our habit energy is still exactly the same.
"The way we perceive things, relate to others, speak, and treat others are still exactly the same. Whatever we did that caused the previous person to suffer, now we’ve caused this new person to suffer in just the same way. With that, we’ve created the second hell."
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✩ Full talk’s original titles: “Chiếc Lưới Ái Ân – Bài 3—Ngày 09 tháng 05 năm 2010” / “2010-05-09-TNH-VNM-Chiếc Lưới Ái Ân-03.mp4”
✩ Full talk originally posted: Vietnamese transcripts by Làng Mai, date posted unknown; Vietnamese videos by Thich Nhat Hanh Archive Library Team, date posted unknown Full talk given: on May 09, 2010, Dharma Nectar (Cam Lộ) Temple, Lower Hamlet, in the Assembly of Stars Meditation Hall, in the Spring Retreat
✩ Excerpt’s length: 02 minutes 12 seconds
✩ Watch the full Dharma talk with English subtitles and transcript here
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REFERENCES (Resources used to translate this Dharma talk): Please kindly refer to the video transcript link to see the full list.
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