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Starting a Fire: A Dharma Talk from The Venerable Phuoc Tinh
Starting a Fire: A Dharma Talk from The Venerable Phuoc Tinh
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Length:
46 minutes
Released:
Mar 23, 2010
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Podcast episode
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Dear Friends
Thich Phuoc Tinh, known to the Sangha as The Venerable, here offers a wonderfully direct talk to encourage us forward in our practice. He reminds us that if we stop practicing when we are feeling good, we are like a person rubbing sticks together to start a fire, and stopping just as the sticks grow warm, before the real fire begins. The Dharma, he tells us, is a dharma of action, not of intellect.
This dharma talk is offered for Tet, the Vietnamese lunar new year. May the renewal and rejoicing that is going on at the Monastery carry deeply into your life.
A collection of The Venerable’s dharma talks is available as a book. Be Like a Tree, Zen Talks by Thích Phước Tịnh is a collection of the Venerable’s uniquely practical and inspiring talks, helping us in our practice with non-fear, recognizing our thoughts and feelings, creating space in our lives, loving and being loved, cultivating our spirituality, and tasting the enjoyment of our own lives. The talks were compiled by OI Member Karen Hilsberg, and the book is available at lulu.com and amazon.com.
Please enjoy these offerings, and may there be renewal in your every mindful breath.
Released:
Mar 23, 2010
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
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