The Tea Inside the Calligraphy

August 14, 2013. 118-minute dharma talk given by Thich Nhat Hanh from Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario during the 2013 Nourishing Great Togetherness teaching tour. This is the third dharma talk for the 6-day retreat with the theme Happy Teachers will Change the World. We begin with two chants from the monastics. Topics * The cloud in the tea * Teaching on no birth, no death * The tea inside the calligraphy * The Four NobleTruths * Interbeing - ill being and well being * Nothing can survive without food * The noble (eightfold) path that leads to well-being * The Four Kinds of Nutriments * Sutra of the Sons Flesh * Right View * Mental Formations - the Five particulars * Being and non-being * No birth and no death * Right Thinking * Right Speech * Right Action http://youtu.be/CDGBJYenn34