This is the third children's talk offered by Thay in the third week of the Summer Opening Retreat, given in the Upper Hamlet of Plum Village on Wednesday, July 27th, 2011. Before the talk, the Italian Sangha and Joe Reilly & Friends offer versions of Thay's poem on the Buddha breathing. In the talk, Thay offers the children another poem that they may recite in the morning: "Waking up this morning, I smile / Twenty-four brand new hours are before me / I vow to go through them in mindfulness / And look on all beings with eyes of compassion." He talks about his years as a young novice learning poems like these, and how happy he was to grow up in an environment of music and poetry.
Video and audio published by the Plum Village Online Monastery: monks, nuns, and layfriends making content from Thich Nhat Hanh and the monks and nuns of Plum Village available on the Internet.
