Posts tagged "Thich Nhat Hanh"
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"The secret of Buddhism is to remove all ideas, all concepts, in order for the truth to have a chance to penetrate, to reveal itself."
- Thich Nhat Hanh
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"Many people think excitement is happiness…. But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace."
- Thich Nhat Hanh
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"Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet."
- Thich Nhat Hanh
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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."
- Thich Nhat Hanh
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"Enlightenment for Gautama [the Buddha] felt as though a prison which had confined him for thousands of lifetimes had broken open. Ignorance had been the jailkeeper. Because of ignorance, his mind had been obscured, just like the moon and stars hidden by the storm clouds. Clouded by endless waves of deluded thoughts, the mind had falsely divided reality into subject and object, self and others, existence and non-existence, birth and death, and from these discriminations arose wrong views—the prisons of feelings, craving, grasping, and becoming. The suffering of birth, old age, sickness, and death only made the prison walls thicker. The only thing to do was to seize the jailkeeper and see his true face. The jailkeeper was ignorance… . Once the jailkeeper was gone, the jail would disappear and never be rebuilt again."
- Thich Nhat Hanh
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"In the way that a gardener knows how to transform compost into flowers, we can learn the art of transforming anger, depression, and racial discrimination into love and understanding.This is the work of meditation."
- Thich Nhat Hanh
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Reblogged from MaLiS730
"Mindfulness is the capacity to be present with one hundred percent of ourselves. The energy of mindfulness enables us to recognize the presence of what is."
- Thich Nhat Hanh - The art of mindfulness 
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Reblogged from Livin It Well
"People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child — our own two eyes. All is a miracle."
- Thich Nhat Hanh
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"I vow to let go of all worries and anxiety in order to be light and free."
- Thich Nhat Hanh
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"Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves – slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. Live the actual moment."
- Thich Nhat Hanh
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"The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart"
- Thich Nhat Hanh
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"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy."
- Thich Nhat Hanh