Nhat Hanh Quotes - Page 14

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• Before practicing meditation, we see that mountains are mountains. When we start to practice, we see that mountains are no longer mountains. After practicing a while, we see that mountains are again mountains. Now the mountains are very free. Our mind is still with the mountains, but it is no longer bound to anything.

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  Practice, Meditation, Mind

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2010). “The Diamond That Cuts Through Illusion”, p.67, Parallax Press

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• An emotion is only an emotion. It's just a small part of your whole being. You are much more than your emotion. An emotion comes, stays for a while, and goes away, just like a storm. If you're aware of that, you won't be afraid of your emotions.

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  Storm, Emotion, Small Parts

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• When we respect our blood ancestors and our spiritual ancestors, we feel rooted. If we find ways to cherish and develop our spiritual heritage, we will avoid the kind of alienation that is destroying society, and we will become whole again. ... Learning to touch deeply the jewels of our own tradition will allow us to understand and appreciate the values of other traditions, and this will benefit everyone.

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  Spiritual, Blood, Jewels

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• The practice of Zen is to eat, breathe, cook, carry water, and scrub the toilet — to infuse every act of body, speech, and mind — with mindfulness, to illuminate every leaf and pebble, every heap of garbage, every path that leads to our mind's return home.

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  Home, Practice, Water

  Thich Nhat Hanh (1999). “Fragrant Palm Leaves: Journals, 1962-1966”, p.69, Penguin

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• 'Emptiness' means empty of a separate self. It is full of everything, full of life. The word emptiness should not scare us. It is a wonderful word. To be empty does not mean non-existent. Emptiness is the ground of everything. Thanks to emptiness, everything is possible.

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  Mean, Self, Scare

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2012). “Awakening of the Heart: Essential Buddhist Sutras and Commentaries”, p.421, Parallax Press

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• When we hug, our hearts connect and we know that we are not separate beings. Hugging with mindfulness and concentration can bring reconciliation, healing, understanding, and much happiness.

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  Happiness, Healing, Heart

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2009). “Happiness (EasyRead Edition)”, p.95, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Feelings, whether of compassion or irritation, should be welcomed, recognized, and treated on an absolutely equal basis; because both are ourselves. The tangerine I am eating is me. The mustard greens I am planting are me. I plant with all my heart and mind. I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath. Nothing should be treated more carefully than anything else. In mindfulness, compassion, irritation, mustard green plant, and teapot are all sacred.

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  Baby, Jesus, Buddhist

  Thich Nhat Hanh (1996). “The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation”, p.61, Beacon Press

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• You are not an observer, you are a participant.

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  Participants, Observers

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.45, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Life is filled with suffering, but it is also filled with many wonders, like the blue sky, the sunshine, the eyes of a baby. To suffer is not enough. We must also be in touch with the wonders of life. They are within us and all around us, everywhere, any time.

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  Baby, Eye, Sunshine

  Thich Nhat Hanh “Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings”, Orbis Books

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• A bodhisattva doesn't have to be perfect. Anyone who is aware of what is happening and who tries to wake up other people is a bodhisattva. We are all bodhisattvas, doing our best.

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  People, Perfect, Trying

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Touching Peace: Practicing the Art of Mindful Living”, p.73, Parallax Press

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• Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.

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  Understanding, Listening, Suffering

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• Your true home is in the here and the now.

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  Home, True Home, Interbeing

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Breathe, You Are Alive: The Sutra on the Full Awareness of Breathing”, p.52, Parallax Press

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• You have two gardens: your own garden and that of your beloved. First, you have to take care of your own garden and master the art of gardening. In each one of us there are flowers and there is also garbage. The garbage is the anger, fear, discrimination, and jealousy within us. If you water the garbage, you will strengthen the negative seeds. If you water the flowers of compassion, understanding, and love, you will strengthen the positive seeds. What you grow is up to you.

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  Art, Buddhist, Flower

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• Meditation is not to escape from society, but to come back to ourselves and see what is going on. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. With mindfulness, we know what to do and what not to do to help.

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  Buddhist, Meditation, Vision

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• Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening. You listen with only one purpose: to help him or her to empty his heart.

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  Heart, Empathy, Listening

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. March, 2010.

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• Go back to the breathing and try to be in that moment deeply. Because there is a possibility to handle every kind of event and the essential is to keep the peace in yourself.

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  Breathing, Trying, Events

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• We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

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  Love, Buddhist, Thinking

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2010). “Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life”, p.80, Random House

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• The raft is used to cross the river. It isn't to be carried around on your shoulders. The finger which points at the moon isn't the moon itself.

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  Moon, Rivers, Used

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2016). “The Miracle of Mindfulness, Gift Edition”, p.56, Beacon Press

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• All violence is injustice. Responding to violence with violence is injustice, not only to the other person but also to oneself. Responding to violence with violence resolves nothing; it only escalates violence, anger and hatred. It is only with compassion that we can embrace and disintegrate violence. This is true in relationships between individuals as well as in relationships between nations.

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  Compassion, Hatred, Violence

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2009). “Calming the Fearful Mind: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.111, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Find joy and peace in this very moment.

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  Discovery, Joy, Moments

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2013). “Moments of Mindfulness: Daily Inspiration”, p.49, Parallax Press

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• The bad things, don't do them. The good things, try to do them. Try to purify, subdue your own mind. That is the teaching of all buddhas.

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  Teaching, Mind, Trying

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• Leaves are usually looked upon as the children of the tree. Yes, they are children of the tree, born from the tree, but they are also mothers of the tree. The leaves combine raw sap, water, and minerals, with sunshine and gas, and convert it into a variegated sap that can nourish the tree. In this way, the leaves become the mother of the tree. We are all children of society, but we are also mothers. We have to nourish society. If we are uprooted from society, we can not trasform it into a more liveable place for us and our children.

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  Mother, Children, Sunshine

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.67, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Aware of the suffering caused by the destruction of life, I am committed to cultivating compassion and learning ways to protect the lives of people, animals, plants, and minerals. I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to support any act of killing in the world, in my thinking, and in my way of life.

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  Buddhist, Animal, Thinking

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Touching Peace: Practicing the Art of Mindful Living”, p.82, Parallax Press

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• Every day we touch what is wrong, and, as a result, we are becoming less and less healthy. That is why we have to learn to practice touching what is not wrong—inside us and around us. When we get in touch with our eyes, our heart, our liver, our breathing, and our non-toothache and really enjoy them, we see that the conditions for peace and happiness are already present.

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  Heart, Health, Eye

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Touching Peace: Practicing the Art of Mindful Living”, p.7, Parallax Press

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• The joy of life is born of concentration. When you are having a cup of tea, the value of that experience depends on your concentration. You have to drink the tea with 100 percent of your concentration.

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  Joy, Tea, Cups

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2010). “You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment”, p.77, Shambhala Publications

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