[gong]
J'inspire et ce que j'observe, je suis conscient de toutes l es émotions,
qui sont en moi ici et maintenant face à vous tous là,
j'expire, je souris à mes émotions
et je demande à ma famille de respirer avec moi.
Breathing in, I'm aware of all the emotions that are in me,
and breathing out, I smile to all these emotions,
I'd like to invite my Dharma family to breathe along with me to support me.
Je vais vous présenter très rapidement le contexte de ma question,
donc je suis très engagé, aussi bien dans les mouvements pour le climat,
ou les mouvements pour la sauvegarde de la planète, de l'écosystème
que dans le mouvement social des 'gilets jaunes'.
So I'm a person who is really engaged into movements to support healing our planet
and going against the things that hurt the environment,
as well as a movement in France that is called 'gilets jaunes'
which is reacting against...
just a movement in France.
C'est un mouvement pour plus de justice sociale en gros
It's a movement for social justice.
Je suis aussi un colibri
qui veut essayer de faire sa part comme citoyen dans la consommation responsable
And I'm also part of another association called Colibri,
which is really trying to see how we can do our part as consumers.
Mais là nous sommes nombreux, moi en particulier,
à penser que faire notre part en tant qu'individu n'est pas suffisant.
But in all of these groups we are many
who think that doing what we do as individuals is not enough.
Ce n'est pas suffisant si les grosses entreprises multinationales
comme du 4.40 par exemple en France ou du [incomprehensible] aux Etats-Unis
ne font pas leur part, eux qui ont beaucoup plus de responsabilités que nous.
We feel that it's not enough
if all the big enterprises that cover many countries don't do anything,
if they don't do anything, what we do cannot have an impact
Hier notre frère Phap Ung a présenté dans son enseignement sa calligraphie,
'les hommes d'affaires compassionnés peuvent sauver le monde'.
Yesterday in his Dharma talk Thay Phap Ung offered us the calligraphy
that compassionate businessman will heal the world.
Je sais que les graines de compassion sont présentes en n'importe qui d'entre nous,
et donc dans ces hommes d'affaires, les grands multinationals
so I'm aware that the seeds of compassion are present in every one of us,
including in all of these businessmen that run all these enterprises.
Donc j'ai réfléchi là-dessus et je pense que ces graines de compassion
sont bloquées par le système dans lequel ils sont
et donc ils ne peuvent pas s'en sortir
tellement ces graines sont enfuis par tout ce qu'ils ont à faire. C'est un bloquage.
I reflected a lot about businessmen and the seeds of compassion.
I came to the understanding they were in a system that is going in a direction
so strongly that all of the seeds of compassion within the businessman
are blocked by the system and cannot manifest.
La question que j'ai à poser est:
est-ce que ce que je viens de dire penser est une perception erronée,
ou est-ce qu'il y a quelque chose de la vue juste là-dedans?
My question is about this understanding,
about the seeds of compassion, the businessmen and the system:
Do you feel that there is some insight in it,
or do you feel that is a wrong perception or is there some right view?
J'ai une question annexe particulierement aux frères, aux sœurs et aux amis,
qui sont aller voir ces grandes entreprises aux Etats-Unis
comme Google, Facebook, Amazon, ce qu'on appelle ici 'les Gafa',
et savoir, avoir leur ressenti, leur vision profonde sur ma question.
I'd especially like to have the feedback of the brothers and sisters and friends
who actually have gone to offer the practice
to the big enterprises in the US like Google or Amazon etc
Thank you.
Who's been to Google?
Dear family
Sometimes we get people who come to Plum Village
and they ask, why are we not out there protesting?
and is it helpful to just come here and take care of our suffering?
The climate is changing, people are suffering all over the world, there's war
What does coming to Plum Village, enjoying eating mindfully, have to do with that?
These are things that people normally ask
because they come and touch some kind of beautiful manifestation for the world
our love is growing and we see the suffering in the world
and sometimes we as brothers and sisters also want to increase our activity.
More retreats, more going to participate with the 'yellow vests', right?
and the LGBT and the climate change
and then the young beautiful girl from Sweden, yeah?
I want to go there and sit next to her!
There's a lot of beautiful things happening.
It depends on what we pay attention to
and if you pay attention to all the bad things happening and that's all you see
if you also pay attention to what is happening here among 200, 300 people
you never know what is happening.
Somebody can actually be an inspiration.
This has happened a lot.
The woman Christiana Figueres, do you know her story?
She had a breakdown and was going to quit her work with climate change.
She was working with the UN and she had a mental breakdown
and she needed to take care of herself and so she went to the EIAB,
to just a random retreat because she wanted a peaceful place,
and when she came there
she shared the retreat help her take care of her suffering.
And then when she saw the display of the hearts for all the people
who somehow had some suffering in regards to the World War 2
and what that heart meant,
when she saw that display it gave her such inspiration and new power,
because she saw that anything can be transformed,
even in a building that was used by the Nazis,
and now the Buddhists are there
and they have these hearts made by people from both sides,
German, French, English,
they make the heart from the garment
of something that belonged to their relative during that time
and that's what the heart is made out of, it's a transformation of something.
So anyway, that one week moved her to have more inspiration,
and then she began her work with Cop21, the climate change in Paris
so you can see, we must not underestimate a person, a moment, a retreat,
even our own self.
When we take a walk and we make each step mindfully,
you cannot enjoy the walk if you don't begin to enjoy your first step.
So it has to start with yourself and has to start with one person,
one moment when they actually can heal their suffering with their parents.
Don't underestimate what that release, reconciliation, or kind of acceptance,
the love they have with their parents,
that can be an opening of new energy for them to see, ah!
There's so many other people suffering there with their parents.
For me, the way I look at it is, it's not a small thing and then the big thing,
but actually whatever you're given an opportunity in front of you,
whether it is just with your sister and reconcile,
that contributes to the peace, to the global change,
because when you have communication with her,
she will look at you and see your lifestyle and maybe she'll get inspiration
so don't underestimate even the little moments,
these things that actually are very crucial
We easily have big projects and big ideas
and actually we don't really take care of the moment-to-moment
and take care of ourselves.
So this is what we have seen in all the movements,
whether it's climate change or justice, for peace in the Middle East
is that when a person reconciles and finds peace in themselves
it is an access to new energy and new inspiration
for themselves or for another person.
So don't get caught in that 'it has to be me to do it'
or 'it has to be us to do it'
but actually we are all just vibrating and you never know what it touches
so we have to begin to see more interbeing
and don't underestimate that you sit there and you eat your lunch peacefully
because someone else might be watching and think 'Wow...
I wish I can eat like that!'
and they begin to eat like that and then they go home and eat like that
and then on, you never know
and this is our life here in Plum Village
we hear so many beautiful stories
that's why we do not underestimate who's at the retreat
and where you will go when you go back you know
when we were at the Dreamforce, a big IT business tech people conference,
it's one of the biggest on the West Coast of the US,
people ask us what are you doing here?
Because people go around and go to many, many information-heavy things,
and the monks and nuns, we just have a booth in the middle of the conference
and we smile, we have fun
we eat ice cream you know
and one time, one year they had hammocks I think we were the only ones using it.
They tried to make it look like a camp and have these hammocks
and many brothers use it a lot
and you might ask us, what are you doing here, you know
and so you can see the relationship.
It's not that we were being righteous but actually we're enjoying the conference
and actually we need to lay down because there's so much information
you know and so I think our presence
You can see also that many people came to the booths,
and you see one monk sitting there with five six people,
you see a nun sitting with ten people and you see one with another person,
and you see people crying and people walk by and go oh!
And they ask you, what are you guys doing here? What is this?
and so, more and more they're beginning to know
that Marc Benioff, the CEO, finds it very important for business people
to actually find healing along their business work
because sometimes the work is a kind of accommodating for a kind of lack,
a suffering that we have inside.
This is his insight and why he wants us,
because he had that experience himself.
When he listened to Thay he realized that he was forgetting
about his family, his wife, that he was overachieving,
and so when he transformed and reconciled with his family
he is happier.
He wanted to have that for all his friends,
so as you can see, from just a little transformation
it became like a compassion and wanting the same for other people
so he keeps insisting that we need to come with a lot of monks and nuns,
because there's a lot of business people.
I just share with you that for us, the monks and nuns,
sometimes we do very social things and very 'engaging things',
but sometimes we're just enjoying our tea, being lazy,
and I think that also contributes.
So don't think that you have to do important things,
because it's a shame you know.
Your life is to enjoy as well
so it's not just to, you know, fix the climate and stuff,
but actually to heal yourself, enjoy life is also part of the climate change.
Why the environment, why society, why is pollution happening?
Because the source is people who don't know how to enjoy life
so they consume, they run after things.
And so the monks and nuns, we do interesting things
but we also know how to be lazy, drink tea
and we waste our time doing nothing.
And so we hope whoever is doing engagement work,
don't let that overtake your life.
There are other things, enjoy your child,
enjoy your sister, enjoy the tree, enjoy a flower,
sometimes we get too caught up in the engagement work
and we forget why we're doing all that.
Actually it's to enjoy life you know,
you don't have so much left, for 30, 40 maybe years,
and it's a shame if you're just always engaging and trying to
But I do have to put a disclaimer
and say that we do need people to wake up and help us with all that
there is a
but don't let that overwhelm us.
So please continue your work, we see you often here,
so it's beautiful that you do come here to find nourishment to continue your work.
I never found your name but I know I see you in many retreats,
so please continue to be a happy person with whatever work you're doing.
Merci
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