#thich nhat hanh
“If the Buddha and the Christ were to meet today what do they have to tell each other? Not only do they meet today but they met yesterday, they met last night, they are always in me and they are very peaceful and united with each other. There is no conflict at all between the Buddha and the Christ in me. They are real brothers, they are real sisters within me. This is part of the answer.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
“The cosmos is filled with precious gems. I want to offer a handful of them to you this morning. Each moment you are alive is a gem, shining through and containing earth and sky, water and clouds. It needs you to breathe gently for the miracles to be displayed.
Suddenly you hear the birds singing, the pines chanting, see the flowers blooming, the blue sky, the white clouds, the smile and the marvelous look of your beloved.
You, the richest person on Earth, who have been going around begging for a living, stop being the destitute child. Come back and claim your heritage. We should enjoy our happiness and offer it to everyone. Cherish this very moment. Let go of the stream of distress and embrace life fully in your arms.”
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“I don’t see why we have to say ‘I will die’ because I can already see myself in you, in other people and in future generations.” Thich Nhat Hanh ♥️
So earlier today, I just felt the need to let go of everything I ever wished for and just start living and be OPEN to whatever comes. Life must be lived and you just have to go with the flow. I guess what makes our life so hard is our ability to grip on things too hard that it damages us.
I’ve already learned this from Life coaches such as Marie Forleo, such an inspiring woman helping each of us to create the business and life we love. To learn more about Marie Forleo click here to visit her website or better yet click hereto watch here video about the importance of being in the present moment.
Marie was named by Oprah as a thought leader for the next generation and one of Inc’s 500 fastest growing companies of 2014.
Read more: http://www.marieforleo.com/about/#ixzz3xcECxRs3
One of the living legends, Thich Nhat Hanh (Monk), has also promoted the importance of being in the here and the now ( Click Here to watch his interview with Oprah )–*must WATCH, such a LIFE CHANGING video*
Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh is a global spiritual leader, poet and peace activist, revered around the world for his powerful teachings and bestselling writings on mindfulness and peace. He is the man Martin Luther King called “An Apostle of peace and nonviolence.”
Here are the things I’ve learned for a short period of time while living in the present moment.
1. It takes out the WORRY for the FUTURE
Most of us have this fear of what the future holds and it makes you worry if you’re doing the right things to get to where you want to be. By living in the present moment, you tend to forget all of those worries and learn to appreciate things that you have now.
Instead of being scared of what is to come, you feel more open to it. You’re paradigm just shifted turning challenges into opportunities, fear into love, rejection into better choices, etc. This practice helps you to just do what you’re doing without any competition since this is a RACE against yourself after all.
2. Gratitude, Gratitude, Gratitude
Everything around you seems to brighten you up. You just feel so upbeat and blessed with whatever you have and by being grateful you send signals to the universe and IT responds by giving you more things to be grateful for. Isn’t that good news folks?!
3. You breathe more
Conscious breathing or just focusing on your breath flushes everything that’s in your mind. It releases muscle tension and it keeps you relaxed. The plus side to this is that it BOOSTS your metabolism since you put in more oxygen in your blood!! (source:http://www.womensperfectbody.com/fat-loss/lose-weight-by-proper-breathing/)
4. You’re more friendly
You suddenly have this instant connection with everyone and you just see the good in everyone as you walk by. This is just the same as seeing it through the eye of the SOURCE wherein you tend to love and accept yourself and doing likewise to others.
5. It opens doors for a BETTER YOU
With the mind being cleared up with those blocks, it then puts in new ideas in your head that will help you become the person you wish to be in the future. The universe know what you want, it’s that smart not to know it. So leave it all to whoever GOD you believe in and start living, be the best version of you at the very moment.
START LIVING NOW. Forget about those things that you’ve wished for and never worked out. You’re exactly in the right place at the right time, all you have to do is to let go. Be open to whatever happens and react to it in a POSITIVE way. There are things we can never control outside of us so better fix what’s controllable, which is within.
I’ll leave you with these quotes that has resonated within me.
“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” - Charles R.
“What you resist, persist. What you fight you get more off” - Carl Jung
Have a good day Dreamers! :)
The beloved teacher, civil rights activist, and pioneer of engaged Buddhism died on January 22 at midnight (ICT) at his root temple, Tu Hieu Temple, in Hue, Vietnam. He was 95. Hanh suffered from a severe brain hemorrhage in 2014, which left him unable to speak, and had been living at Tu Hieu Temple. After the Plum Village Community, Hanh’s sangha, announced his passing, followers, dharma teachers, and world leaders, including the Dalai Lama, immediately started sharing remembrances and condolences.
Nhat Hanh entered a Buddhist monastery at age 16, devoting his life to the faith. He became a teacher, first leaving Vietnam in 1961 to serve as a guest lecturer at Princeton University and Columbia University. Nhat Hanh returned to Vietnam in 1963 to work toward peace during the long and violent war that raged in his homeland, bringing aid to the people and urging North and South Vietnam to work together to end the war. When Nhat Hanh left Vietnam again in 1966 to tour the world calling for peace, his home country banned him from returning.
Exiled from Vietnam, Nhat Hanh became a powerful symbol of peace, nominated by Dr. Martin Luther King. Jr. for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1967. He established the Plum Village Monastery in southwest France and began spreading his teachings throughout the West. Nhat Hanh wrote dozens of books guiding readers toward peace and mindfulness, and he made Buddhism accessible by suggesting that inner peace can be achieved through living an ordinary life with awareness of things like breath and joy. It was the beginning of the mindfulness movement, and Nhat Hanh attracted Western followers who were less interested in traditional Western religion but loved the spirituality they found in his teachings. Mindfulness grew to become a popular 21st century practice. Nhat Hanh became known as Thay, Vietnamese for teacher.
Nhat Hanh first returned to Vietnam in 2005, almost 40 years since his exile began. He traveled the country and published several of his books in Vietnamese, though he received criticism for not speaking out against religious oppression in the country. Nhat Hanh returned for another tour in 2007. In 2018, after suffering a stroke in 2014 that left him unable to speak, Nhat Hanh went to Vietnam a final time, with the intention of living his final days at Tu Hieu Temple, where he first took his vows.
Photo by Duc Truong.
“Because you are alive, everything is possible.”— Thich Nhat Hanh
“Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you, your perceptions need you, your feeling needs you. The wounded child in you needs you. Your suffering needs you to acknowledge it.”— Thich Nhat Hanh, from: Reconciliation: Healing the Inner Child
Each one of us has to ask ourselves, what do I really want? Do I really want to be Number One? Or do I want to be happy? If you want success, you may sacrifice your happiness for it. You can become a victim of success, but you can never become a victim of happiness.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you
don’t blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not
doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or
less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have
problems with our friends or family, we blame the other
person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will
grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive
effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason
and argument. That is my experience. No blame, no
reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you
understand, and you show that you understand, you can
love, and the situation will change”
― Thich Nhat Hanh
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ON THE FUTURE
“The best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment.” Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ.
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[Image: Photo of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh with water and reeds behind him. Below the photo is a quote in white text on a black background: “We have a tendency to think in terms of doing and not in terms of being. We think that when we’re not doing anything, we’re wasting our time. But that’s not true. Our time is first of all for us to be. To be what? To be alive, to be peaceful, to be joyful, to be loving. And this is what the world needs the most. We all need to train ourselves in our way of being, and that is the ground for all action. Our quality of being determines our quality of doing.” - Thich Nhat Hanh]
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