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Thich Nhat Hanh: April 8th 2012 Nottingham Retreat Day 3

"Repairing the Past" ~ This is the third talk from the Nottingham Retreat, offered by Thay on the 8th of April, 2012, at the University of Nottingham. 00:00:37 Singing with Brother Phap Trien and the children 00:09:10 Sister Chan Khong on the Thich Nhat Hanh Continuation Fund (the form for this is at mindfulnessretreats.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/GivingForm9.pdf) 00:17:07 Monks and Nuns Chanting "From the Depths of Understanding" 00:26:02 Children's Talk: "Pebble Meditation" 00:55:01 Main Talk: "Repairing the Past" "What if yesterday I have produced a thought of hate, and I had the intention to punish? Is it too late, because I produced that thought yesterday, you may ask? It's not good to produce such a thought. Because it is going on now. It is your continuation. And that is not a beautiful continuation. You don't want to be continued like that. So today, looking back, I regret that I have produced such a thought of anger, hate, and what should I do? So the practice is to sit down and breathe and produce a thought of the opposite nature, a thought of non-discrimination, a thought of compassion, understanding, and as soon as the new thought is produced, full of understanding and love, that thought will catch up very easily with the other thought, and neutralise it. Right away. Because the nature of our thought is nonlocal. It doesn't have to travel much, it can catch up the thought of yesterday very easily, and you can neutralise it. Everything comes from the mind. So it is possible to repair the past. The past is still available. And if you are established in the here and the now, you have the opportunity to repair the past. Even if our parents have done something regrettable, even if our ancestors had done something regrettable, the past is still there, and we continue to suffer, and our ancestors continue in us to suffer. So with the Dharma, with the practice, we sit down and we embrace that, and produce the kind of thought, of compassion, understanding, that can neutralise what was wrong, wrongly done in the past. It is possible. It liberates us, and liberates our parents and ancestors. This is possible. Our ancestors expect us to do that. It is nice to encounter the teaching and the practice, and with that practice, we can change the past. And of course, change the future." Check out Plum Village Online Monastery here on YouTube - they've been doing live stream: http://www.youtube.com/user/plumvilla... Thich Nhat Hanh's website is called "Plum Village", available at: www.plumvillage.org Donate to the Plum Village Online Monastery Team: pvom.org/donate/ Free Buddhist eBooks can be downloaded at: www.sourceoflightmonastery.com/