Thich Nhat Hanh Teachings

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Comment by Eva Libre on April 24, 2018 at 11:57am

Art by Maja Lindberg

We talk about social service, service to the people, service to humanity, service to others who are far away, helping to bring peace to the world - but often we forget that it is the very people around us that we must live for first of all. If you cannot serve your wife or husband or child or parent - how are you going to serve society? If you cannot make your own child happy, how do you expect to be able to make anyone else happy?

 - Thich Nhat Hanh

Comment by Luna Arjuna on April 22, 2018 at 4:39pm

Dear friends from heart to heart LOVE with gratitude for all of you.
"When mindfulness embraces those we love
they will bloom like flowers.”

- Thich Nhat Hanh

Comment by Luna Arjuna on April 11, 2018 at 6:46am

When we can see that we and all living beings are of one and the same nature, how can there be division between us? How can there be lack of harmony?

- Thich Nhat Hanh
Image: © Catherine Nelson

Comment by Eva Libre on March 1, 2018 at 5:44pm

A smile makes you master of yourself.
- Thich Nhat Hanh

Comment by Luna Arjuna on March 18, 2017 at 4:07pm

Breathing in, there is peace while sitting.
Breathing out, there is joy while breathing.

Breathing in, peace is the sitting.
Breathing out, joy is the breathing.

- Thich Nhat Hanh
(part of an exercise in ”The Blooming of a Lotus”)
Image: Tatiana Gorilovsky

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Comment by Eva Libre on December 21, 2015 at 12:25am

"The roots of war are in the way we live our daily lives–the way we develop our industries, build up our society, and consume goods. We have to look deeply into the situation, and we will see the roots of war. We cannot just blame one side or the other. We have to transcend the tendency to take sides."

— Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace is Every Step

Comment by Rosmarie Heusser on December 20, 2015 at 5:28pm

The quality of our life depends on what seeds we water in our consciousness. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Comment by Luna Arjuna on July 17, 2015 at 7:16pm

The Buddha said that if you get caught in one idea and consider it to be "the truth," then you miss the chance to know the truth. Even if the truth comes in person and knocks at your door, you will refuse to open your mind. So if you are committed to an idea about truth or to an idea about the conditions necessary for your happiness, be careful. The first Mindfulness Training is about freedom from views:

"Aware of the suffering created by fanaticism and intolerance, we are determined not to be idolatrous about or bound to any doctrine, theory or ideology, even Buddhist ones. Buddhist teachings are guiding means to help us learn to look deeply and to develop our understanding and compassion. They are not doctrines to fight, kill or die for."

This is a practice to help free us from the tendency to be dogmatic. Our world suffers so much from dogmatic attitudes. The first mindfulness training is important to help us remain free people. Freedom is above all else freedom from our own notions and concepts. If we get caught in our notions and concepts, we can make ourselves suffer and we can also make those we love suffer.

- Thich Nhat Hanh, in " No Death, No Fear".
(Image: Head of a smiling Buddha, Greco-Buddhist style, from Afghanistan)

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