This teaching is an excerpt from Part #32 of “The Living Tradition of Meditation Practice” (“Truyền Thống Sinh Động Thiền Tập”), given by Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh on November 26, 1995, in the Lower Hamlet, in the Winter Rains Retreat 1995-1996.
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🔔 Video transcript
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In this short teaching, Thầy teaches us how to do the Third Earth-Touching (of the Three). In the Plum Village tradition, Earth Touching is a transformative daily practice, allowing us to get deeply in touch, heal, and reconcile with the elements long-neglected in ourselves. In the third Earth Touching, the element we're going to reconcile with is our true nature that transcends time and space and is bigger than this body. Thầy shared that he practiced touching the earth every day, and encouraged us to do the same, in order to touch what's beautiful, good, and true in ourselves.
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Please kindly note that, out of respect for Thầy and his teachings in this Dharma talk, the translator provided the exact translations from the Vietnamese audio delivered at the time, and at the same time also provided the translations in the books Thầy authored, which were edited and published at a later time, either in the grey boxes or Annotations section in the transcript, or at the beginning of the video.
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✩ Full talk's original title: "Hoàn Thiện Bản Thân và Hoàn Cảnh[TTSĐCTTĐB 32] | TS Thích Nhất Hạnh(26-03-1995, XH, Làng Mai"
✩ Full talk originally posted by Làng Mai Editorial Team on Plum Village’s Vietnamese YouTube Channel on Jul 26, 2023 (video); and on the Plum Village’s Vietnamese website, date unknown (transcript), date unknown
✩ Full talk given: on November 26, 1995, Lower Hamlet, Plum Village France, in the Winter Rains Retreat 1995-1996
✩ Excerpt's length: 04 minutes 31 seconds (07 minutes 31 seconds with intro text)
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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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