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tord_dellsen@diasp.eu
Sunyata ☸ 👨🏻‍💻

Just finished reading True Virtue - The Journey of an English Buddhist Nun by Sister #AnnabelLaity who is a practitioner in #ThichNhatHanh's #PlumVillage tradition of #Buddhism. It's an auto-biographical account. Interesting to read about the early history of Plum Village and her life in general

https://www.parallax.org/product/true-virtue/

#reading #books

True Virtue – Parallax Press

The First Western Monastic Disciple of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh.

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tord_dellsen@diasp.eu
Sunyata ☸ 👨🏻‍💻

We think that when we are not doing anything we are wasting our time, that is not true. Our time is first of all for us to be. To be, to be what? To be alive, to be peace, to be joy, to be loving. And that is what the world needs the most. So we train ourself in order to be. And if you know the art of being peace, of being solid, then you have the ground for every action… because the ground for action is to be. And the quality of being determines the quality of doing. Action must be based on non-action.

--- Thich Nhat Hanh

#ThichNhatHanh #quote #buddhism #stress #action #activism #being

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tord_dellsen@diasp.eu
Sunyata ☸ 👨🏻‍💻

For Warmth

Poem by Thich Nhat Hanh

I hold my face in my two hands.
No, I am not crying.
I hold my face in my two hands
to keep the loneliness warm—
two hands protecting,
two hands nourishing,
two hands preventing
my soul from leaving me
in anger.

Written during the Vietnam war, after the bombing of the village Ben Tre, after an American officer made the comment "We had to destroy the town in order to save it"

#ThichNhatHanh #poetry #poem #anger #war #bombing

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tord_dellsen@diasp.eu
Sunyata ☸ 👨🏻‍💻

Just finished reading Peace Begins Here --- Palestinians and Israelis Listening to Each Other by Thich Nhat Hanh

https://www.parallax.org/product/peace-begins-here/

The author tells us that we need to practice being peace, cultivating peace within ourselves, before we can do effective peace work in the world

The book is based on talks given during retreats given to Palestinians and Israelis in Plum Village, a Buddhist meditation center in France

#Palestine #Israel #peace #ThichNhatHanh

Peace Begins Here – Parallax Press

In this highly anticipated Buddhist perspective on resolving conflict, Nobel Peace Prize nominee Thich Nhat Hanh demonstrates how a real peace process is

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tord_dellsen@diasp.eu
Sunyata ☸ 👨🏻‍💻

Meditation is to be aware of what is going on—in our bodies, in our feelings, in our minds, and in the world. Each day 40,000 children die of hunger. The superpowers now have more than 50,000 nuclear warheads, enough to destroy our planet many times. Yet the sunrise is beautiful, and the rose that bloomed this morning along the wall is a miracle. Life is both dreadful and wonderful. To practice meditation is to be in touch with both aspects.

--- Thich Nhat Hanh, in the book Being Peace

#ThichNhatHanh #meditation #mindfulness #peace #war

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"Many of us think that only once we have this or that, only once the situation changes, only "then" can we be happy. We do not recognize our happiness in the "now," and we seek it in the "then." We have the idea that happiness lies in some future moment... And while we busy ourselves trying to bring about that "then," we abandon our loved ones in the "now."

-Thich Nhat Hanh

A #quote I found that @Sunyata ☸ 👨🏻‍💻 ☮ would probably appreciate

#wisdom #philosophy #philosophical #ThichNhatHanh

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tord_dellsen@diasp.eu
Sunyata ☸ 👨🏻‍💻

In Old Path, White Clouds the Buddha tells this story to a group of children:

One day, when I was nine years old and strolling alone in the garden, a swan suddenly dropped from the sky and writhed on the ground in front of me in great pain. I ran to pick it up, and I discovered that an arrow had deeply penetrated one of its wings. I clasped my hand firmly around the arrow’s shaft and yanked it out, and the bird cried as blood oozed from its wound. I applied pressure to the wound with my finger to stop the bleeding, and took the bird inside the palace to find princess Sundari, the lady in waiting. She agreed to pick a handful of medicinal leaves and make a poultice for the bird’s wound. The swan shivered, so I took off my jacket and wrapped it around her. Then I placed her close to the royal fireplace.

[...] I was about to go find some rice for the swan when my eight-year-old cousin, Devadatta, burst into the room. He was clutching his bow and arrows, and he asked excitedly, ‘Siddhartha, did you see a white swan fall down near here?’
Before I could answer, Devadatta saw the swan resting by the fireplace. He ran towards it, but I stopped him.
‘You may not take the bird.’
My cousin protested, ‘That bird is mine. I shot it myself.’
I stood between Devadatta and the swan, determined not to let him have it. I told him, ‘This bird is wounded. I’m protecting it. It needs to stay here.’

Devadatta was quite stubborn and not about to give in. He argued, ‘Now listen, cousin, when this bird was flying in the sky, it didn’t belong to anyone. As I’m the one who shot it out of the sky, it rightfully belongs to me.’
His argument sounded logical, but his words made me angry. I knew there was something wrong with his reasoning, but I couldn’t quite put my finger on it. So I just stood there, speechless, becoming more upset. I felt like punching him. Why I didn’t, I don’t know. Then, I saw a way to answer him.
‘Listen, cousin,’ I told him, ‘Those who love each other live together, and those who are enemies live apart. You tried to kill the swan, so you and she are enemies. The bird cannot live with you. I saved her, bandaged her wound, warmed her, and was on my way to find food for her when you arrived. The bird and I love each other, and we can live together. The bird needs me, not you.’”

[...] “In this world, few people look with the eyes of compassion, and so we are cruel and merciless toward each other. The weak are always oppressed by the strong. I still see that my reasoning that day was correct, for it arose from love and understanding. Love and understanding can ease the suffering of all beings. The truth is the truth, whether or not it is accepted by the majority. Therefore, I tell you children, it takes great courage to stand up for and protect what is right.”

#buddhism #dhamma #dharma #ThichNhatHanh

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