This is the talk of Thay offered on the third full day of the Dutch Retreat, 27 May 2011, at the European Institute of Applied Buddhism in Waldbrol, Germany. Thay speaks about Right Mindfulness as part of the Noble Eightfold Path. "Mindfulness helps us to get in touch with the Kingdom of God, the Pure Land of the Buddha, which is present in the here and the now.""In the old times, nirvana was a word that was used by people in the countryside. When they made a fire to cook their rice or their chapati, then they would leave the fire overnight so that by morning it was completely extinguished. They could put their fingers up to the fire and they would not be burned. So nirvana is a word to describe a state of cooling down, no more suffering. We can safely describe nirvana as the extinction of all notions, and of all the suffering that arises due to these notions."
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