This short teaching on the practice of non-expectation or aimlessness — one of the three doors of liberation, is an excerpt from the Dharma talk "Recognizing the conditions for happiness" which took place in 1997. Available on the FREE Plum Village App [ Ссылка ]

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"Aimlessness — in Sanskrit, “apranihita,” means we don’t put an object in front of us in order to run after that object. It’s called “aimlessness.” In our daily life, we usually put a wish, or a desire, in front of us to be an object. And we run after that object of desire. That’s going against the spirit of aimlessness. Aimlessness means we see that all the conditions for happiness, all that we wish for, are already here, in the present moment. And for that reason, we can really stop, we stop running after, or pursuing, an object — that’s aimlessness.
Aimlessness, or wishlessness, means the same. The person who aims for nothing, the person who realizes aimlessness, the person who realizes wishlessness, is someone who starts having happiness."

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Original Vietnamese title: "Chỉ cần làm hết khả năng, đừng trông chờ sự đáp ứng! - Trích Pháp thoại Sư Ông Làng Mai 09/01/1997"
Talk given: January 09, 1997
Length: 14 minutes 33 seconds
Originally posted by: TCT Phượng Trần, who creates and posts the excerpt at 👉[ Ссылка ]
You can listen to the full Dharma talk "Recognizing the conditions for happiness" here (only available in Vietnamese) 👉 [ Ссылка ]

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REFERENCES (Resources used to translate this Dharma talk)
1. Plum Village Community, 2009, "Từ Điển Làng Mai (Plum Village Dictionary)", Phương Đông Publishing House, p.343.
2. hhttps://www.facebook.com/plumvillage/posts/154150684672929
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