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If you have just moved school
and you are finding it hard to make new friends,
how do you make new friends?
(Sighs)
(Sister Pine) Dear Thay our friend asked:
"If you have just moved into a new school"
"and you are finding it hard to make new friends"
"how can you make new friends?"
If you have just moved to a new school...
that is something very exciting.
(Laughter)
There are many things that will happen.
And you have to be ready
to encounter new events, new friends.
Do not worry!
Just allow things to happen.
New friends will come to you if you are ready.
So you can prepare yourself.
Do not worry!
Just practice pebble meditation,
breathing in and out to make yourself relax.
You know, it is like going to the mountains for vacation.
And on the mountain there will be many beautiful trees and flowers
and things that you have not seen before.
You will be happy to see them.
You cannot predict what you will see.
But you know that, if you are coming up to a mountain,
you will see many beautiful things:
animals, plants and minerals.
So going to a new school is like that.
There will be many new things, that can make us happy also.
So do not worry.
Prepare yourself!
Tell yourself: "I am going to have new friends."
And...
and certainly there will be good friends.
And I allow it to happen.
I do not have to choose.
And...
that girl that you will meet...
will be a good friend of yours, or not a good friend of yours.
That depends on you somehow.
That person might be very lovable.
And the way you look at her, the way you talk to her,
can make her even more lovable.
(Laughter)
If that person is not very lovable,
your way of looking and smiling can make her more lovable.
So it depends somehow on us and not only on them.
And we wish you a lot of luck and success.
And maybe next year you will come to Plum Village and report to us...
how things are with your new school, ok?
Remember!
Thank you.
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