Nhat Hanh-isms
The following come from Thich Nhat Hanh’s books, The Miracle of Mindfulness, The Heart of Understanding, Peace Is Every Step, Being Peace, and Interbeing. Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile….
Tag: Interbeing
Chinese Communists, Vietnamese Buddhists
Liu Shao-Chi, How To be a Good CommunistForeign Language Press, Peking 1964 Thich Nhat Hanh, Interbeing: Commentaries on the Tiep Hien PreceptsParralax Press, Berkeley, 1987 An immature revolutionary has to go through a long process…
Roses and Garbage
Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of Understanding: Commentaries on the Prajnaparamita Heart SutraParallax Press, 1988 A beautiful rose we have just cut and placed in our vase is immaculate. It smells so good, so pure,…
Different Paths
In 1933 Martin Heidegger was Rector at the University of Freiburg and a new member of the Nazi Party He was the renowned philosopher of Being In 1933 The boy who became Thich Nhat Hanh…
We Inter-Are
“What is one’s personality, detached from that of the friends with whom fate happens to have linked one? I cannot think of myself apart from the influence of the two or three greatest friendships of…
The Miracle of a Sheet of Paper
This morning at our sangha gathering at Sophia House, we listened to part of a dharma talk that Thầy gave at Green Gulch Zen Center in spring 1987. The following is the gist of what…