"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. 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
"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
"I knew the library was about to close, and I saw a book that concerned the area of my research. I slid it off the shelf ... I read that it had been published in 1892 ... On the back cover was a slip of paper that recorded the names of borrowers ... The first time it had been borrowed was in 1915, the second time was in 1932. I would be the third. Can you imagine?"
"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
I invite the Buddha to breathe. I invite the Buddha to sit. I don’t have to breathe. I don’t have to sit.
Buddha is breathing. Buddha is sitting.
I enjoy the breathing. I enjoy the sitting.
Buddha is the breathing. Buddha is the sitting.
I am the breathing. I am the sitting.
There is only the breathing. There is only the sitting.
There is no-one breathing. There is no-one sitting.
"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/
Knowing I will get old, I breathe in. Knowing I can’t escape old age, I breathe out.
Knowing I will get sick, I breathe in. Knowing I can’t escape sickness, I breathe out.
Knowing I will die, I breathe in. Knowing I can’t escape death, I breathe out.
The true essence of a wave is water. Rising, strengthening, and rolling onto the beach, its unique form is momentary. Soon, it returns to the tranquil state, awaiting the right conditions to emerge anew.
2/ "When anger is manifesting in me, I am determined not to speak. I will practice mindful breathing and walking in order to recognize and look deeply into my anger...."
"I am determined not to spread news that I do not know to be certain and not to utter words that can cause division or discord."
These words from the 4th of the 5 #Mindfulness Trainings help us to think before we write, or boost, or favor a post.
"If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who among us is willing to destroy a piece of their own heart?" - Alexsander Solzhenitzyn