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June 17 - June 19, 2024
Breathing in, I know I am breathing in.
Breathing out, I know I am breathing out.
Thich Nhat Hanh exhibits the mind of realization, the heart of love, and the skillful means of a great Buddhist teacher. Yet he is much more: a courageous warrior for peace, a statesman, a poet, a healer of wounds, a builder of communities, a scholar, a political theorist, and a prolific author.
Every twenty-four-hour day is a tremendous gift to us.
Treat your in-breath and out-breath tenderly, nonviolently, as you would treat a flower.
Do not fight against pain; do not fight against irritation or jealousy.
It’s like looking at a flower: letting it be as it is, mindful of the fact that it is there, a kind of miracle.
With just a smile, and mindful breathing, you can start to transform them.
“Dear one, I am here for you.”
“Dear one, I know you are there, and I am going to take care of you,”
Mindful breathing is a kind of bridge that brings the body and the mind together.
Peace is contagious. Happiness is also contagious, because in the practice of meditation, the three elements of body, mind, and breath become one.
You respect your in-breath, your out-breath, your physical body, and your mental formations.
You are here for life; and if you are here for life, life will be here for you. It’s simple.
Where the Holy Spirit is, there is also understanding, life, healing, and compassion.
Where mindfulness is, true life, solidity, freedom, and healing also manifest.
Do walking meditation, breathe mindfully, drink your tea mindfully, and cultivate this energy that dwells in you, that illumi...
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The miracle of mindfulness is, first of all, th...
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Being truly here is very important—being here for yourself, and f...
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You are here, body and mind together. You are here, alive, completely alive. That is a miracle.
With an in-breath, you bring your mind back to your body. In this way you become alive in the here and now. Joy, peace, and happiness are possible. You have an appointment with life, an appointment that is in the here and now.
compassion is not possible without pain and suffering.
If you do not have compassion in your heart, you do not have any happiness.
The Kingdom of God is in your heart.
Don’t underestimate yourself: you have the ability to wake up. You have the ability to be compassionate.
Enlightenment, mindfulness, understanding, and compassion are in you.
Your heart is also there for you. Your heart works night and day in order to maintain your well-being.
Breathing in, I am mindful that my heart is working night and day for me. Breathing out, I smile to my heart.
Your heart is like a flower. Is it still refusing to open? Is it still refusing to love? You must ask, “My heart, are you ready to open as flowers do?”
“My heart,” you say, “I know that you are there for me, and I want to be there for you, too.”
What is love? Love is treating your heart with a great deal of tenderness, with understanding, love, and compassion.
My heart, I am here for you. My eyes, I am here for you.
The first miracle of mindfulness is our true presence—being here, present, and totally alive.
your declaration of love is always the same. It is: “Dear one, I am here for you.”
To be loved is to be recognized as existing.
Your presence is the most precious gift you can give him or her.
If there are negative things around you, you can always find something that is healthy, refreshing, and healing, and with your mindfulness you can recognize its presence in your life.
I am going to seek out things that are refreshing in nature, healing and helpful things.
Je me souviens, “I remember.”
‘I remember to come back to the here and now.’
We have to be here for ourselves; we have to be here for the people we love; we have to be here for life with all its wonders.
“I am here for you.”
There is only a single moment in which we can truly be alive, and that is the present moment. Being present in the here and now is our practice.
When we look deeply at the nature of things, we see that in fact everything is impermanent. Nothing exists as a permanent entity; everything changes.
we cannot step into the same river twice.
seeing the impermanence of feelings in this way we suffer a lot less.
Look at your perceptions and smile to them.
breath is like a bridge that links our body and mind.
Descartes said, “I think, therefore I am.”
