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Gratefulness - Brother David

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Channel: CJ Liu · 2015 · Howto & Style

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A deeply profound conversation with Brother David, a Benedictine monk, on God and Gratefulness.  Join CJ and Brother David as he shares his spiritual journey and his thoughts on why gratefulness is the key to life.  Learn how grateful living can lead to a life with more presence, joy, and love. 

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0:26 What was the life question Brother David was hoping to answer by becoming a monk?  
4:06 What Brother David learned from living a structured monastic about become more present and ALIVE in our day to day activities? 
6:29 How has Brother David integrate his life as a monk and as a world-wide speaker? 
10:19 How did Brother David meet Thich Nhat Hanh? 
11:40 How did their conversation serve as a basis for inter religious dialogue and the manifesto they created? 
13:01 What were Brother David's Aha's about God, Spirituality, and Love after these inter religious dialogues?  
15:58  Why listening to music is akin to experiencing God?  
18:30 Brother David shares the 3 steps to experiencing the mystery of God. Stop (Silence), Listen, and Go (action-doing something). 
19:07 What is Love? 
20:35 What is gratefulness according to Brother David?
22:11 A demonstration on gratefulness using a common day occurrence.  
23:28 What is inspired action?
24:29 Brother David shares one simple thing we could DO to conserve water. 
26:30 What is Love? 
28:33 How does Love develop over time? 
29:38 How does a Buddhist and Christian describe love?  
32:01 What keeps us from acting and being of service? 
32:35 How is the act of LOVE not about guilt and shame? 
35:05 How can you move to JOY  in the face of evil? Another way to think of evil?  
36:53  How do you deal with evil?   
38:45 How we love even during hard times?  
41:47 What is the great thing about gratefulness? Why is that people who have everything are still unhappy? 
42:50 How Brother David defines Joy?  How can we be joyful even when things we don't like are happening? 
43:43 What do you do when you come across something you cannot be joyful about (aggression, lies, violence)? 
45:07 What is  hope?  
46:36 Brother David shares his favorite name for God
47:08 Why Love, Hope, Faith are the most important values to cultivate to be happy? 
52:21 Why does Brother David focus on gratefulness versus love, forgiveness, etc? 
53:24  How do we remember to STOP and listen?  David Brother shares what he does to stop and listen.

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