Deep message

Listen deeply the following Podcast from 0:00 to 2:05.
http://tnhaudio.org/2013/11/16/horse-technology/
The following is the excerpt from the Podcast.

Quote:
( A half sound + 3-full sound of the bell)

"The sangha is invited to come back to our breathing so that our collective energy of mindfulness will bring us together as an organism, going as a river, with no more separation, that the whole sangha breathe as one body, chant as one body, listen as one body, transcending the boundaries of a delusive self, liberating from the superiority complex, the inferiority complex and equality complex." 
:Unquote

(My commentary)
1. "The sangha is invited to come back to our breathing"

"come back to our breathing" means "focus our attention on our in-breath and our out-breath and stop the thinking" in order to go home to ourselves. So, our breathing is ourselves. In other words, ourselves means awareness (awakened consciousness), non-separate self, true self, the whole cosmos, the Buddha, or God.

2. "so that our collective energy of mindfulness will bring us together as an organism," 

Our collective energy of mindfulness can be generated only if we go home to ourselves. That collective energy of mindfulness has a very strong power to heal and nourish. That's why we can become one organism. Each of us is not a separate self anymore. We are a non-separate self as the whole cosmos.

3. "going as a river," 

A drop of water is very different from a river. That's because though a drop of water may evaporate, a river can reach the ocean without evaporating. That's why we need to go as a river. A river means a sangha (community for the practice).

4. "with no more separation," 

Separation means a drop of water, or a separate self. Non-separation means a river, or a non-separate self. Separation, discrimination, or the duality is the source of afflictions and sufferings.

5. "that the whole sangha breathe as one body, chant as one body, listen as one body," 

One body means the Dharma body, the cosmic body, or the whole cosmos. When each one of us returns to a non-separate self, we can become one body. There is no more separation as one body. Doing everything as one body can create the harmony and the power because everything is positive.

6. "transcending the boundaries of a delusive self," 

A delusive self means a separate self, or ego. Ego separates oneself from others for self-protection. That boundaries are not necessary anymore because each one of us is accepted unconditionally without separations. That's why we can transcend that boundaries.

7. "liberating from the superiority complex, the inferiority complex and equality complex." 

Ego has a wrong view that is "I am special and separate". It causes the superiority complex, the inferiority complex and equality complex. Once we transcend that boundaries, we will be liberated and attain freedom. At this stage, we can become a part-time Buddha.

(My message and request)
All kinds of violence such as a war, a terrorism and killing, are caused by separation, or discrimination of human ego. So, egoistic, arrogant and greedy politicians, terrorists and killers need to be transformed from ego to awareness for the world peace and happiness. Thay has been contributing to teach and help such people transform for more than 70 years like the Buddha. Now I want to continue Thay by doing the same thing for the same purpose without using any religions, without belonging to any religious institutions. To change the world for the better, we need to change ourselves because everything is our own creation. Nurturing more Buddhas (enlightened persons) will be the only solution. So, I want to start from nurturing one more Buddha through secular education based on my experience and practice. 
If you agree with my vision, your financial support will be highly appreciated. Please send me your e-mail (to: compassion5155@gmail.com) if you have some proposals or questions. Thank you for your cooperation in advance. 
Hitoshi Tsuchiyama

(Cf.) http://www.amazon.com/dp/B014NYEP04

Thay's calligraphy

The Five Mindfulness Trainings

Listen deeply to the following video of 5 mindfulness trainings recitation.

[from 30:00]
(Half sound bell + 3 Full sound bells to start)

(Half sound bell + Full sound bell)

< The Five Mindfulness Trainings >

The Five Mindfulness Trainings represent the Buddhist vision for a global spirituality and ethic. They are a concrete expression of the Buddha’s teachings on the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path, the path of right understanding and true love, leading to healing, transformation, and happiness for ourselves and for the world. To practice the Five Mindfulness Trainings is to cultivate the insight of interbeing, or Right View, which can remove all discrimination, intolerance, anger, fear, and despair. If we live according to the Five Mindfulness Trainings, we are already on the path of a bodhisattva. Knowing we are on that path, we are not lost in confusion about our life in the present or in fears about the future.

[from 25:00]
(Half sound bell + Full sound bell)

The First Mindfulness Training - Reverence For Life

Aware of the suffering caused by the destruction of life, I am committed to cultivating the insight of interbeing and compassion and learning ways to protect the lives of people, animals, plants, and minerals. I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to support any act of killing in the world, in my thinking, or in my way of life. Seeing that harmful actions arise from anger, fear, greed, and intolerance, which in turn come from dualistic and discriminative thinking, I will cultivate openness, non-discrimination, and non-attachment to views in order to transform violence, fanaticism, and dogmatism in myself and in the world.

[from 20:00]
(Half sound bell + Full sound bell)

The Second Mindfulness Training - True Happiness

Aware of the suffering caused by exploitation, social injustice, stealing, and oppression, I am committed to practicing generosity in my thinking, speaking, and acting. I am determined not to steal and not to possess anything that should belong to others; and I will share my time, energy, and material resources with those who are in need. I will practice looking deeply to see that the happiness and suffering of others are not separate from my own happiness and suffering; that true happiness is not possible without understanding and compassion; and that running after wealth, fame, power and sensual pleasures can bring much suffering and despair. I am aware that happiness depends on my mental attitude and not on external conditions, and that I can live happily in the present moment simply by remembering that I already have more than enough conditions to be happy. I am committed to practicing Right Livelihood so that I can help reduce the suffering of living beings on Earth and reverse the process of global warming.

[from 15:00]  
(Half sound bell + Full sound bell)

The Third Mindfulness Training - True Love

Aware of the suffering caused by sexual misconduct, I am committed to cultivating responsibility and learning ways to protect the safety and integrity of individuals, couples, families, and society. Knowing that sexual desire is not love, and that sexual activity motivated by craving always harms myself as well as others, I am determined not to engage in sexual relations without true love and a deep, long-term commitment made known to my family and friends. I will do everything in my power to protect children from sexual abuse and to prevent couples and families from being broken by sexual misconduct. Seeing that body and mind are one, I am committed to learning appropriate ways to take care of my sexual energy and cultivating loving kindness, compassion, joy and inclusiveness – which are the four basic elements of true love – for my greater happiness and the greater happiness of others. Practicing true love, we know that we will continue beautifully into the future.

[from 10:00]  
(Half sound bell + Full sound bell)

The Fourth Mindfulness Training - Loving Speech & Deep Listening

Aware of the suffering caused by unmindful speech and the inability to listen to others, I am committed to cultivating loving speech and compassionate listening in order to relieve suffering and to promote reconciliation and peace in myself and among other people, ethnic and religious groups, and nations. Knowing that words can create happiness or suffering, I am committed to speaking truthfully using words that inspire confidence, joy, and hope. When anger is manifesting in me, I am determined not to speak. I will practice mindful breathing and walking in order to recognize and to look deeply into my anger. I know that the roots of anger can be found in my wrong perceptions and lack of understanding of the suffering in myself and in the other person. I will speak and listen in a way that can help myself and the other person to transform suffering and see the way out of difficult situations. I am determined not to spread news that I do not know to be certain and not to utter words that can cause division or discord. I will practice Right Diligence to nourish my capacity for understanding, love, joy, and inclusiveness, and gradually transform anger, violence, and fear that lie deep in my consciousness.

[from 05:00]  
(Half sound bell + Full sound bell)

The Fifth Mindfulness Training - Nourishment & Healing

Aware of the suffering caused by unmindful consumption, I am committed to cultivating good health, both physical and mental, for myself, my family, and my society by practicing mindful eating, drinking, and consuming. I will practice looking deeply into how I consume the Four Kinds of Nutriments, namely edible foods, sense impressions, volition, and consciousness. I am determined not to gamble, or to use alcohol, drugs, or any other products which contain toxins, such as certain websites, electronic games, TV programs, films, magazines, books, and conversations. I will practice coming back to the present moment to be in touch with the refreshing, healing and nourishing elements in me and around me, not letting regrets and sorrow drag me back into the past nor letting anxieties, fear, or craving pull me out of the present moment. I am determined not to try to cover up loneliness, anxiety, or other suffering by losing myself in consumption. I will contemplate interbeing and consume in a way that preserves peace, joy, and well-being in my body and consciousness, and in the collective body and consciousness of my family, my society and the Earth.

[from 00:00]
(Half sound bell + 2 Full sound bells to end)

(My commentary)
Everything starts from mindfulness. If we become mindful, we will be able to practice the Five Mindfulness Trainings automatically. So, all we need is to revive awareness through mindfulness

(Cf.) http://www.coiuk.org/mindfulness-trainings/

Thay's calligraphy

How to take care of ourselves

Listen deeply to the following Thay's Dharma talk on "Selective Watering and Total Relaxation".
http://tnhaudio.org/2016/07/16/selective-watering-total-relaxation/

(My commentary)
Everything starts from stopping. And stopping brings about resting, calming and healing. So, the first mindful in-breath is very important because it helps us stop thinking and revive awareness. If we keep thinking during meditation, it is the waste of time and energy because nothing starts.

When we think, we live in forgetfulness. And when we stop thinking, we live in mindfulness. Mindful people can touch the wonders of life, recognize what is going on inside and around them and touch the true nature of reality. To the contrary, those who think can't do the same. In fact, they are just dreaming and seeing illusions, or projection of their mind without touching the reality as it is. That's why we need to stop first.

(Cf.) http://compassion5151.blogspot.jp/2016/04/16-exercises-on-mindful-breathing-whole.html

Thích Nhất Hạnh

Deluded Buddhism (Reincarnation and Rituals)

Read the following interview with Thich Nhat Hanh.
http://www.lionsroar.com/be-beautiful-be-yourself-january-2012/

The followings are excerpts regarding Reincarnation and Rituals.

Quote:
Q: Do you have to believe in reincarnation to be a Buddhist?

A: Reincarnation means there is a soul that goes out of your body and enters another body. That is a very popular, very wrong notion of continuation in Buddhism. If you think that there is a soul, a self, that inhabits a body, and that goes out when the body disintegrates and takes another form, that is not Buddhism.

When you look into a person, you see five skandhas, or elements: form, feelings, perceptions, mental formations, and consciousness. There is no soul, no self, outside of these five, so when the five elements go to dissolution, the karma, the actions, that you have performed in your lifetime is your continuation. What you have done and thought is still there as energy. You don’t need a soul, or a self, in order to continue.

It’s like a cloud. Even when the cloud is not there, it continues always as snow or rain. The cloud does not need to have a soul in order to continue. There’s no beginning and no end. You don’t need to wait until the total dissolution of this body to continue—you continue in every moment. Suppose I transmit my energy to hundreds of people; then they continue me. If you look at them and you see me, well, you have seen me. If you think that I am only this (body) [points to himself], then you have not seen me. But when you see me in my speech and my actions, you see that they continue me. When you look at my disciples, my students, my books, and my friends, you see my continuation. I will never die. There is a dissolution of this body, but that does not mean my death. I continue, always.

That is true of all of us. You are more than just this body because the five skandhas are always producing energy. That is called karma or action. But there is no actor—you don’t need an actor. Action is good enough. This can be understood in terms of quantum physics. Mass and energy, and force and matter—they are not two separate things. They are the same.

Q: Can a ceremony make someone a Buddhist?

A: No, it’s not by ceremony that you become a Buddhist. It is by committing to practice. Buddhists get caught in a lot of rituals and ceremonies, but the Buddha does not like that. In the sutras, specifically in the teaching given by the Buddha right after his enlightenment, he said that we should be free from rituals. You do not get enlightenment or liberation just because you perform rituals, but people have made Buddhism heavily ritualistic. We are not nice to the Buddha.

Q: What do you think makes someone a Buddhist?

A: A person may not be called a Buddhist, but he can be more Buddhist than a person who is. Buddhism is made of mindfulness, concentration, and insight. If you have these things, you are a Buddhist. If you don’t, you aren’t a Buddhist. When you look at a person and you see that she is mindful, she is compassionate, she is understanding, and she has insight, then you know that she is a Buddhist. But even if she’s a nun and she does not have these energies and qualities, she has only the appearance of a Buddhist, not the content of a Buddhist.
:Unquote

(My commentary)
I really feel that Thay's teachings are authentic Buddha's teachings. And I also agree with Thay that reincarnation and too much rituals are two examples of the deluded Buddhism. I know that Tibetan Buddhism teaches that the subtle consciousness leaves the body upon so-called death. And surprisingly, I also know that even Thay's one disciple (a Dharma teacher) stated, "the Buddha said that when we leave this body, we take with us the consequences of our actions." As Thay mentioned, that is the deluded Buddhism. The body and consciousness inter-are. Consciousness is always with the body, so can't leave the body. Consciousness can't exist alone apart from the body. That is the authentic Buddha's teaching. 

As for rituals, I entirely agree to the Buddha's words, "We should be free from rituals." And I entirely agree to Thay's words, "It’s not by ceremony that you become a Buddhist. It is by committing to practice. ... You do not get enlightenment or liberation just because you perform rituals." Thay's words of "Buddhism is made of mindfulness, concentration, and insight" is simple but very persuasive.

(Cf.): 
http://www.slideshare.net/compassion5151/spacetime-continuum-in-4-ways
http://www.slideshare.net/compassion5151/spiritual-ancestors

Fourteen Precepts of the Order of Interbeing

Fourteen Precepts of the Order of Interbeing

(Original Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings)

1.  Do not be idolatrous about or bound to any doctrine, theory, or ideology, even Buddhist ones. Buddhist systems of thought are guiding means; they are not absolute truth.       

2.  Do not think the knowledge you presently possess is changeless, absolute truth. Avoid being narrow-minded and bound to present views. Learn and practice nonattachment from views in order to be open to receive others’ viewpoints. Truth is found in life and not merely in conceptual knowledge. Be ready to learn throughout your entire life and to observe reality in yourself and in the world at all times.        

3.  Do not force others, including children, by any means whatsoever, to adopt your views, whether by authority, threat, money, propaganda, or even education. However, through compassionate dialogue, help others renounce fanaticism and narrowness.       

4.  Do not avoid contact with suffering or close your eyes before suffering. Do not lose awareness of the existence of suffering in the life of the world. Find ways to be with those who are suffering, including personal contact, images, and sound. By such means, awaken yourself and others to the reality of suffering in the world.

5.  Do not accumulate wealth while millions are hungry. Do not take as the aim of your life fame, profit, wealth, or sensual pleasure. Live simply and share time, energy, and material resources with those who are in need.        

6.  Do not maintain anger or hatred. Learn to penetrate and transform them when they are still seeds in your consciousness. As soon as they arise, turn your attention to your breath in order to see and understand the nature of your anger and hatred and the nature of the persons who have caused your anger and hatred.

7.  Do not lose yourself in dispersion and in your surroundings. Practice mindful breathing to come back to what is happening in the present moment. Be in touch with what is wondrous, refreshing, and healing both inside and around you. Plant seeds of joy, peace, and understanding in yourself in order to facilitate the work of transformation in the depths of your consciousness.

8.  Do not utter words that can create discord and cause the community to break. Make every effort to reconcile and resolve all conflicts, however small.        

9.  Do not say untruthful things for the sake of personal interest or to impress people. Do not utter words that cause division and hatred. Do not spread news that you do not know to be certain. Do not criticize or condemn things of which you are not sure. Always speak truthfully and constructively. Have the courage to speak out about situations of injustice, even when doing so may threaten your own safety.      

10.  Do not use the Buddhist community for personal gain or profit, or transform your community into a political party. A religious community, however, should take a clear stand against oppression and injustice and should strive to change the situation without engaging in partisan conflicts.      

11.  Do not live with a vocation that is harmful to humans and nature. Do not invest in companies that deprive others of their chance to live. Select a vocation that helps realize your ideal of compassion.     

12.  Do not kill. Do not let others kill. Find whatever means possible to protect life and prevent war.      

13.  Possess nothing that should belong to others. Respect the property of others, but prevent others from profiting from human suffering or the suffering of other species on Earth.      

14.  Do not mistreat your body. Learn to handle it with respect. Preserve vital energies (sexual, breath, spirit) for the realization of the Way. Be fully aware of the responsibility of bringing new lives into the world. Meditate on the world into which you are bringing new beings.

(My commentary)
In 1963, Thich Nhat Hanh renewed the precepts for Buddhist monks and nuns formulated 2,500 years ago, and wrote the above Fourteen Precepts that he felt carried the deepest teachings of the Buddha and would be fit for the times. And this Fourteen Precepts of the Order of Interbeing (Original Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings) was renewed and the latest version is as below. But I feel the original version is still alive and simple. And I also feel that the most important message to remember is mindfulness because everything starts from mindfulness. Therefore, our mindful actions such as mindful breathing, sitting and walking are vital in our daily life.

(Cf.) 
(Fourteen Precepts: original version)
http://appliedbuddhism.org/en/mindfulness-practices/mindfulness-trainings/229-early-days-of-the-order-of-interbeing
(Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings: latest version)
http://www.orderofinterbeing.org/for-the-aspirant/fourteen-mindfulness-trainings/
(Article)
http://www.lionsroar.com/the-fourteen-precepts-of-engaged-buddhism/

FIrst Six Members of the Order of Interbeing

Building a Community of Love (3)

Read deeply the following Thay's teaching on "Building a Community of Love". http://www.lionsroar.com/bell-hooks-and-thich-nhat-hanh-on-building-a-community-of-love/?blm_aid=24265
The followings are the excerpts.

Quote:
bell hooks: I have taken my vows as a bodhisattva, and so I always feel very depressed when I have anger.

Thich Nhat Hanh: You want to be human. Be angry, it’s okay. But not to practice is not okay. To be angry, that is very human. And to learn how to smile at your anger and make peace with your anger is very nice. That is the whole thing—the meaning of the practice, of the learning. By taking a look at your anger it can be transformed into the kind of energy that you need—understanding and compassion. It is with negative energy that you can make the positive energy. A flower, although beautiful, will become compost someday, but if you know how to transform the compost back into the flower, then you don’t have to worry. You don’t have to worry about your anger because you know how to handle it—to embrace, to recognize, and to transform it. So this is what is possible.

bell hooks: I think this is what people misunderstand about Martin Luther King saying to love your enemies. They think he was just using this silly little phrase.

Thich Nhat Hanh: When we have anger in us, we suffer. When we have discrimination in us, we suffer. When we have the complex of superiority, we suffer. When we have the complex of inferiority, we suffer also. So when we are capable of transforming these negative things in us, we are free and happiness is possible.

If the people who hurt us have that kind of energy within them, like anger or desperation, then they suffer. When you see that someone suffers, you might be motivated by a desire to help him not to suffer anymore. That is love also, and love doesn’t have any color. Other people may discriminate against us, but what is more important is whether we discriminate against them. If we don’t do that, we are a happier person, and as a happier person, we are in a position to help. And anger, this is not a help.

bell hooks: What can love do for that fear?

Thich Nhat Hanh: Fear is born from ignorance. We think that the other person is trying to take away something from us. But if we look deeply, we see that the desire of the other person is exactly our own desire—to have peace, to be able to have a chance to live. So if you realize that the other person is a human being too, and you have exactly the same kind of spiritual path, and then the two can become good practitioners. This appears to be practical for both.

The only answer to fear is more understanding. And there is no understanding if there is no effort to look more deeply to see what is there in our heart and in the heart of the other person. The Buddha always reminds us that our afflictions, including our fear and our desiring, are born from our ignorance. That is why in order to dissipate fear, we have to remove wrong perception.

bell hooks: And what if people perceive rightly and still act unjustly?

Thich Nhat Hanh: They are not able yet to apply their insight in their daily life. They need community to remind them. Sometimes you have a flash of insight, but it’s not strong enough to survive. Therefore in the practice of Buddhism, samadhi is the power to maintain insight alive in every moment, so that every speech, every word, every act will bear the nature of that insight. It is a question of cleaning. And you clean better if you are surrounded by sangha—those who are practicing exactly the same.

bell hooks: The intellectual tradition of the West is very individualistic. It’s not community-based. The intellectual is often thought of as a person who is alone and cut off from the world.

Thich Nhat Hanh: Right, and then we learn to operate as a community and not as individuals. In Plum Village, that is exactly what we try to do. We are brothers and sisters living together. We try to operate like cells in one body.

bell hooks: I think this is the love that we seek in the new millennium, which is the love experienced in community, beyond self.

Thich Nhat Hanh: So please, live that truth and disseminate that truth with your writing, with your speaking. It will be helpful to maintain that kind of view and action.
:Unquote

(My commentary)
The most important factor of true love is equanimity, inclusiveness, non-discrimination, non-separation, or non-duality. True love is equal to unconditional love. So, we can extend our true love even to our enemies. True love does not depend on other's attitudes. Therefore, Martin Luther King's "to love your enemies" is not a silly little phrase. The best way to generate true love for our enemies is to understand the root cause of their sufferings by deep looking. Once we attain insight of the root cause of their sufferings, we will understand that what they need is not punishment but healing. Then, true love will be automatically generated. And it will be impossible for us to get angry and hate our enemies. Nobody was born as an evil. Environment influences people. If we have true love, there will be no separation and no discrimination. And we will attain perfect freedom. The keys are mindfulness, concentration and insight. In other words, to revive awareness by stopping thinking, to understand the ultimate truth for the extinction of all notions, they are the keys.

(Cf.) http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LA87R7A
http://compassion5151.blogspot.jp/2015/10/notice-of-building-awakening-sangha.html
http://compassion5151.blogspot.jp/2016/01/notice-of-session-format-change-of.html

Thay's caligraphy

Building a Community of Love (2)

Read deeply the following Thay's teaching on "Building a Community of Love". http://www.lionsroar.com/bell-hooks-and-thich-nhat-hanh-on-building-a-community-of-love/?blm_aid=24265
The followings are the excerpts.

Quote:
bell hooks: Martin Luther King said that you must have courage to love, that you have to have a profound will to do what is right to love, that it does not come easy.

Thich Nhat Hanh: Martin Luther King was among us as a brother, as a friend, as a leader. He was able to maintain that love alive. When you touch him, you touch a bodhisattva, for his understanding and love was enough to hold everything to him. He tried to transmit his insight and his love to the community, but maybe we have not received it enough. He was trying to transmit the best things to us—his goodness, his love, his nonduality. But because we had clung so much to him as a person, we did not bring the essence of what he was teaching into our community. So now that he’s no longer here, we are at a loss. We have to be aware that crucial transmission he was making was not the transmission of power, of authority, of position, but the transmission of the dharma. It means love.

bell hooks: So people say, is it enough that you’ve learned from books by him, or must you meet him, must there be an encounter?

Thich Nhat Hanh: In fact, the true teacher is within us. A good teacher is someone who can help you to go back and touch the true teacher within, because you already have the insight within you. In Buddhism we call it buddhanature. You don’t need someone to transfer buddhanature to you, but maybe you need a friend who can help you touch that nature of awakening and understanding working in you.

So a good teacher is someone who can help you to get back to a teacher within. The teacher can do that in many different ways; she or he does not have to meet you physically. I feel that I have many real students whom I have not met. Many are in cloisters and they never get out. Others are in prison. But in many cases they practice the teachings much better than those who meet me every day. That is true. When they read a book by me or hear a tape and they touch the insight within them, then they have met me in a real way. That is the real meeting.

bell hooks: I want to know your thoughts on how we learn to love a world full of justice.

Thich Nhat Hanh: This is a very interesting topic. It was a very important issue for the Buddha. How we view justice depends on our practice of looking deeply. We may think that justice is everyone being equal, having the same rights, sharing the same kind of advantages, but maybe we have not had the chance to look at the nature of justice in terms of no-self. That kind of justice is based on the idea of self, but it may be very interesting to explore justice in terms of no-self.

bell hooks: Sometimes in life all things are not equal, so what does it mean to have justice when there is no equality?

Thich Nhat Hanh: Is justice possible without equality?

bell hooks: Justice is possible without equality, I believe, because of compassion and understanding. 

Thich Nhat Hanh: Right. And who has created inequality?

bell hooks: Well, I think inequality is in our minds.

Thich Nhat Hanh: Makes sense (laughs).
:Unquote

(My commentary)
The interviewer often uses the words such as "think" and "believe". Those who think or believe are ego. Awareness, or Buddha nature attains insight without thinking. So, she doesn't recognize that she is ego. She asked about 'justice' and said, "Justice is possible without equality". I understand that justice is the word of self (ego) who separates oneself from others. Self (ego) is mind, or thinking. If we are awareness who never separates ourselves from others, there is no separation, discrimination, or duality. I am you. You are me. Then, there is no need for separation. The word of 'justice' is for separation, for self-protection and self-justification. Therefore, awareness doesn't need the word of 'justice'. That's why we need to return to awareness (revival of awareness) in order to generate true love. And true love is based on our understanding (insight), not on courage or profound will.

(Cf.) http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LA87R7A
http://compassion5151.blogspot.jp/2015/10/notice-of-building-awakening-sangha.html
http://compassion5151.blogspot.jp/2016/01/notice-of-session-format-change-of.html

Martin Luther King Jr. and Thich Nhat Hanh