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Sunyata ☸ 👨🏻‍💻

Poem: For Warmth 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 after the bombing of Ben Tre, Vietnam when an American military man made the comment, "We had to destroy the town in order to save it."

From the book Call Me By My True Names (Berkeley: Parallax Press, 1999)

#poem #ThichNhatHanh #violence #MassMurder #bombing

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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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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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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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steelnomad
"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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