« The belief that we can manage the Earth and improve on Nature is probably the ultimate expression of human conceit, but it has deep roots in the past and is almost universal. »
« … We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire Universe. »
In the surrender to the reality of things, I find a pathway to effect change.
I like the idea of #interbeing. This holistic stance is a curious characteristic of quantum states in a different way than I mean here. In general, I like it as a dialectic concept. And simply: It's chilled :)
How to practice during the coming #Authoritarianism. Thay getting real about the experience of war & how to survive & practice Dharma when the sh¡t goes down. When the bombs were dropping & the villages were being destroyed, could he have ever imagined the Beloved Community he would be so instrumental in building?
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
"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/