Another Word For Love (So Beautiful)!

Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore

Susie Moore

Society & Culture, Philosophy, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Life Coach, Motivational, Personal Development, Mental Health, Life Coaching, Self-help, Education

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🗓️ 27 November 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

A polarizing fruit became our mirror for love. From Bali’s lush rice fields to a temple in Vietnam, we follow a trail that starts with durian’s notorious smell and ends with a simple truth: love without understanding can hurt the very people we want to cherish. Drawing on a poignant story from Thich Nhat Hanh—where a monk literally “imprisons” a durian under a bell just to keep chanting—we explore why forcing our preferences, gifts, or plans is control, not care, and how curiosity can restore...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.
0:09.7	Have you been to Indonesia?
0:12.4	A lot of Australians spend a lot of time in Bali.
0:14.8	It's a very popular, beautiful place to visit.
0:18.3	Heath and I spent a month, the month of February in Bali, I believe it was in, gosh,
0:24.1	2018. It feels like it was more recent than that, but my gosh, what an incredible place to
0:31.0	visit in the world. And interestingly, on this cruise, we had a stop there in Bali. If you're interested, you can see some pictures of the rice fields, which are stunning, and pictures of the Royal Palace on my Instagram.
0:44.7	I looked back in momentarily for this trip, and I've since deleted the app again.
0:50.2	But if you've been to Bali or Indonesia, you may have heard of this fruit called the durian.
0:56.5	Familiar? If not, I'll do my best to explain it. It is a fruit that absolutely stinks. It smells so
1:06.3	o puyotrid. Even taxi drivers refuse to let you into their car, a lot of them if you're
1:12.7	carrying durian. But some people like the smell. It's one of those curious things. And they say
1:18.6	that the smell's bad, but the taste is really good. The skin is very thick. And when you eat it,
1:23.2	it's meant to be delicious. I haven't tried it. I can't let myself get close enough. But you see durian
1:28.3	ice cream, you see durian tea, you see durian used in all sorts of different dishes. And it's
1:34.4	very much an acquired taste, let's say. And in Ticknut Hahn's book at Home in the World,
1:40.1	this might be my favorite story of all, the story he tells about durian.
1:47.2	In Southeast Asia, many people are extremely fond of a large thorny fruit called durian,
1:52.8	whose smell is extremely strong. You might even say that some are addicted to it.
1:58.3	There are those who, when they finish eating the fruit, put the skin under their bed so they can continue to enjoy the smell of it. There are those who, when they finish eating the fruit, put the skin under
2:01.9	their bed so they can continue to enjoy the smell of it. To me, the smell of durian is horrendous.
2:09.5	Same Tickna on. One day when I was practicing chanting alone in my temple in Vietnam,
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