"Many people cannot allow themselves the time to sit and do nothing but breathe. They consider it to be uneconomical or a luxury. People say 'time is money.' But time is much more than money. Time is life. The simple practice of sitting quietly on a regular basis can be profoundly healing. Stopping and sitting is a good way to focus on mindful breathing and nothing else." #ThichNhatHanh #Dharma#Mindfulnes #PlumVillage#Capitalism#EngagedBuddhism @engagedbuddhism @dharma @plumvillage
How to practice during the coming Authoritarianism. Thich Nhat Hanh getting real about the experience of war and how to survive and practice Dharma when the sh¡t goes down. What atrocities has he and the Vietnamese people experienced through all those years? What kind of karma have we created? How inexplicably intertwined are the US and Vietnam? When the bombs were dropping and the villages were being destroyed, could he have ever imagined the Beloved Community he would be so instrumental in building?
However innumerable beings are, I vow to meet them with kindness and interest.
However inexhaustible the states of suffering are, I vow to touch them with
patience and love.
However immeasurable the dharmas are, I vow to explore them deeply.
However incomparable the mystery of interbeing, I vow to surrender to it freely. #ThichNhatHanh
"Thich Nhat Hanh has established a tradition, on the eve of the Lunar New Year, of offering the sangha a simple poetic couplet in calligraphy that can inspire and nurture our mindfulness practice throughout the year."
"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." - #ThichNhatHanh
"Many of us are caught in the internet because it is a source of information. Glued to a screen, we hardly look up when our loved one calls to us. Yet right here is a source of information, flesh and blood." - Sr Diệu Nghiêm in Dharma Talks / Six Mantras of True Love
"A living being,
a breathing being,
earth, water,
fire, air,
space and consciousness.
Evolving, dissolving,
for the good of the world,
for the good of all." - Bhikshuni True Virtue in "The Bodhisattva Path" https://www.parallax.org/product/the-bodhisattva-path/