Looking Deeply into Your Five Skandhas | Teaching by Thich Nhat Hanh | #mindfulness

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✩ Teachings by Thich Nhat Hanh (excerpt from a talk originally recorded on 1998.11.26)
✩ Directed and edited by Miguel Sánchez
✩ Length: 4 minutes and 42 seconds

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Many of us suffer

a lot.

We have to learn the real way,

the true way,

the complete way
of dealing with our suffering.

You have to be a practitioner.

The Buddha said, you are made
with the five skandhas

five elements,

your body,

your feeling, your perception,
your mental formation, your consciousness.

Now, you have time to sit down,

and look into your five skandhas.

You have been running all the time.

You are seeking something
outside of your kingdom.

Because the five skandhas
are the territory of your kingdom.

You have created a lot of war,
a lot of conflict,

a lot of destruction in the territory
of your five elements.

And you continue to run.

The Buddha said, don't do that.

Arrange so that you have
the time to go home.

to your kingdom.

and to embrace your body,

your feeling,

your perception, your mental formation,
your consciousness.

My body, I am here for you.

My consciousness, I am here for you.

I have been running
away from you a long time.

Now it's time for me to go back to you.

I will take good care of you.

That is the first attitude.

Going home to your kingdom.

So everything you do in your daily life...

is to go home.

and to make acquaintance again
with the five skandhas.

Embrace them,
look after them, identify the pain,

like the Buddha.

The Buddha said,
"my dear, show me your pain."

You do like that, with your body,
with your feeling.

You go back to your body
and you look with your body.

You go back to your feeling
and you look with your feeling.

And you do like the Buddha, because
mindfulness is the energy of the Buddha.

The Buddha said, "dear friend,
because you suffer, you can be my friend.

Because I have suffered, also.

And I can be your friend.

I can help you to understand
your suffering, to identify your suffering."

And when we do not understand our suffering,
we can not do anything about it.

Show the Buddha your suffering.

Ask him to look with you and to help you
to identify how that suffering has come to be.

Together with the Buddha, you are searching
for the root of your suffering.

It's very important.

So,

we have to practice
and practice like Avalokiteshvara,

looking deeply
into the nature of your body,

the nature of your consciousness,
namely, the five skandhas.

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