Meditation Is a Way of Living | Thị Minh Đăng Nguyễn | TEDxTan Dinh

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For many years, Minh Dang thought of meditation as a special practice with a particular time, place, and posture. Her understanding began to change through her practice of Truc Lam Zen Buddhism under the guidance of Venerable Thich Nhat Quang and his teaching on the unity of knowing and doing. Instead of looking for an answer in books, she observed her own experience. Through moments of anger, learning, reading Buddhist scripture, and practicing meditation, she noticed that paying attention is already a form of action. She came to understand that learning and doing are not two separate processes: while learning, there is already doing, and while doing, there is always learning. This also changed the way she understood meditation. While reading Buddhist scripture, she noticed that the experience was different when her attention stayed with the reading rather than being carried away by her own thoughts, judgments, opinions, and reactions. Through her practice of Truc Lam Zen, she grad

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