This is the second talk offered by Thay in the Winter Retreat 2011-12, given on November 27th, 2011 in the Lower Hamlet of Plum Village, France. Thay shares hows to practice when entering the meditation hall for sitting meditation: quietly, stopping our thinking, and at peace. "We want to express our love for the Earth, so we have to walk mindfully, with gratitude." He also continues sharing on the Paramartha Gathas from the Yogacarabhumi Sastra of Asanga. "Yoga means coming together appropriately." He teaches how subject and object cannot be separated. "Don't think there is a subject outside of the object. That is wrong thinking. They manifest together, like left and right. Without the left there is no right, and vice versa." "Self (?) has various meanings: 1) owner, 2) actor, 3) inheritor. We should understand correctly: There is rain, but there is nothing that rains. There is blowing, but nothing blowing. There is feeling, but there is no one feeling."
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