This is an excerpt from the Dharma talk given by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh on April 07, 2005 in Quy Nhơn City, Bình Định Province, Central Vietnam.

🔔 Video transcript

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"Young people nowadays over-consume movies, magazines, and media products that have graphic scenes displaying violence and hostility, acts of revenge, and sensual images. That's why our children have easily picked up the substance of desires and violence and aggression from the contents and images in these media products. That's why these social evils happen to us in real life.

"In Buddhism, we learn that we have to protect our body, heart and mind. When we eat and drink, we have to be careful and mindful of what we eat and drink so that we don't bring toxins into our body. When we consume media products such as books, magazines, movies, videos, photos,…, we have to consume them mindfully."

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✩ Full talk's original title: "Quy Nhơn - Sống Chăm Sóc Gia Đình và Xã Hội - Ngày 07 tháng 04 năm 2005"

✩ Full talk originally posted by Thich Nhat Hanh Library Archive Team, thuvien-thichnhathanh.org, date posted unknown

✩ Talk given: April 07, 2005, in Quy Nhơn City, Bình Định Province, Central Vietnam

✩ Excerpt's length: 06 minutes 04 seconds

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

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RELEVANT READINGS

📌 The Five Mindfulness Trainings

📌 Thich Nhat Hanh, 2012, Good Citizens: Creating Enlightened Society, California, USA: Parallax Press.

📌 Thich Nhat Hanh, The Dalai Lama, bell hooks, Joanna Macy, Bill McKibben et al., 2019, True Peace Work: Essential Writings on Engaged Buddhism (second edition, edited by Parallax Press), California, USA: Parallax Press. [First edition titled "Engaged Buddhist Reader", edited by Arnold Kotler].

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REFERENCES (Resources used to translate this Dharma talk): Please visit the video transcript link for the full list. Thank you!

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