Nhat Hanh Quotes - Page 21

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• The Buddha also counseled the monks and nuns to avoid wasting any precious time by engaging in idle conversation, oversleeping, pursuing fame and recognition, chasing after desires, spending time with people of poor character, and being satisfied with only a shallow understanding of the teaching.

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  Teaching, Character, People

  "Old Path White Clouds". Book by Thich Nhat Hanh, 1987.

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• Every step taken in mindfulness brings us one step closer to healing ourselves and the planet.

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  Taken, Healing, Mindfulness

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2013). “Love Letter to the Earth”, p.52, Parallax Press

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• At the moment of waking up, before getting out of bed, get in touch with your breath

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  Wake Up, Waking, Bed

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• Be mindful 24 hours a day, not just during the one hour you may allot for formal meditation or reading scripture and reciting prayers. Each act must be carried out in mindfulness.

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  Prayer, Reading, Meditation

  Thich Nhat Hanh (1996). “The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation”, p.24, Beacon Press

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• When the energy of compassion and love touches us, healing establishes itself.

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  Healing, Compassion, And Love

  Thich Nhat Hanh, Sherab Chodzin Kohn (2011). “True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart”, p.53, Shambhala Publications

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• If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.

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  Mother, Dying, Earth

  "How a sense of sacred can help sustainable business" by Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. January 8, 2013.

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• Real peace is not in power, money, or weapons, but in deep inner peace.

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  Money, Real, Inner Peace

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Wisdom from Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life”, p.80, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• If we practice mindfulness, we always have a place to be when we are afraid.

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  Practice, Mindfulness, Ifs

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• With a practice, we can always remain alive in the present moment. With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.

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  Order, Practice, Mindfulness

  "Oprah Talks to Master Thich Nhat Hanh, the beloved buddhist Vietnamese monk: The Oprah's Exclusive Interview". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, onmogul.com.

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• When you climb a ladder and arrive on the sixth step and you think that is the highest, then you cannot come to the seventh. So the technique is to abandon the sixth in order for the seventh step to be possible. And this is our practice, to release our views. The practice of nonattachment to views is at the heart of the Buddhist practice of meditation.

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  Buddhist, Heart, Thinking

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com.

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• To be free, first of all, is to be free from wrong views that are the foundation of all kinds of suffering and fear and violence.

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  Views, Suffering, Foundation

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com.

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• I am determined to practice deep listening. I am determined to practice loving speech.

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  Practice, Listening, Speech

  Thich Nhat Hanh, Sherab Chodzin Kohn (2011). “True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart”, p.88, Shambhala Publications

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• Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life.

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  Life, Tea Drinking, Live In The Moment

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2012). “The Pocket Thich Nhat Hanh”, p.50, Shambhala Publications

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• I know that we do not know enough. We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

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  Reality, Order, Understanding

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com.

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• While washing dishes one should be washing the dishes, which means that while washing the dishes one should be completely aware of the fact that one is washing dishes.

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  Mean, Facts, Should

  Various, Ledi Sayadaw, Bhikkhu Khantipalo, Nyanaponika Thera, Padmasiri de Silva (2012). “Collected Wheel Publications Volume XVI: Numbers 231–247”, p.66, Buddhist Publication Society

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• Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

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  Happiness, Yoga, Home

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

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• Breathing in, there is only the present moment. Breathing out, it is a wonderful moment.

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  Breathing, Wonderful, Moments

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Present Moment Wonderful Moment: Mindfulness Verses for Daily Living: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.31, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Meditation is offering your genuine presence to yourself in every moment.

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  Inspiration, Offering, Practice

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2011). “Peace Is Every Breath: A Practice for Our Busy Lives”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• If the people who hurt us have anger or desperation within them then they suffer. When you see that someone suffers, you might be motivated by a desire to help him not to suffer anymore.

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  Hurt, People, Suffering

  "Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". Interview with bell hooks, plumvillage.org. January 1, 2000.

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• The Buddha always reminds us that our afflictions, including our fear and our desiring, are born from our ignorance. That is why in order to dissipate fear, we have to remove wrong perception.

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  Ignorance, Order, Perception

  "Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". Interview with Bell Hooks, www.lionsroar.com. March 24, 2017.

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• From time to time, to remind ourselves to relax and be peaceful, we may wish to set aside some time for a retreat, a day of mindfulness, when we can walk slowly, smile, drink tea with a friend, enjoy being together as if we are the happiest people on Earth.

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  People, Peaceful, Tea

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.4, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• May we awaken from forgetfulness and realize our true home.

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  Home, May, Realizing

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Present Moment Wonderful Moment: Mindfulness Verses for Daily Living: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.38, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You who are journalists, writers, citizens, you have the right and duty to say to those you have elected that they must practice mindfulness, calm and deep listening, and loving speech. This is universal thing, taught by all religions.

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  Practice, Meditation, Listening

  Thich Nhat Hanh, Sherab Chodzin Kohn (2006). “True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart”, p.92, Shambhala Publications

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• Harm no person, animal, plant or mineral.

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  Animal, Plant, Minerals

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• I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath.

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  Baby, Jesus, Giving

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

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