This is part of a Dharma talk given by Thay on July 26, 2003 in Lower Hamlet, Plum Village France.

🔔 Video transcript

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"If all day every day, we only bury ourselves in TV programs, if all day every day, we only bury ourselves in electronic games, how do we get to come in touch with wonders of life, with the Pure Land? We lose the Pure Land.

"The adults, on the one hand, are so preoccupied with work or business, working themselves too hard, aiming for riches. So they lose the Pure Land. On the other hand, the children are so deep in TV programs and electronic games. So they, too, lose the Pure Land.

"In Plum Village, we practice in such a way that every day we can touch the miracles in the Pure Land of the present moment. Doing that, we help each other and we help generate siblinghood, brotherhood and sisterhood. And siblinghood is something very ambrosial. Siblinghood is something very nourishing.

"And if young children leave Plum Village crying, it's because they've tasted the flavor of siblinghood in Plum Village, and tasted the flavor of wholesome joys in the Pure Land of Plum Village."

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Original Vietnamese title: "Tiếp Xúc Những Mầu Nhiệm Trong Tịnh Độ Hiện Tiền | TS Nhất Hạnh (Xóm Hạ, Làng Mai)"

Originally posted by: Làng Mai (Plum Village's Vietnamese YouTube channel) 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WXVTb-Lfhc&t=0s

Talk given: July 26, 2003, Lower Hamlet, Plum Village France

Length: 20 minutes 25 seconds

REFERENCES (Resources used to translate this Dharma talk)

1. CUIMC/Edward S. Harkness Eye Institute, n.d.

2. Plum Village, Discourse on the Four Establishments of Mindfulness

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