k
e is not to walk either on water or in thin air but to walk on
Earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even
s ofrecognized, and treated on an absolutely equal basis because both areithnst Way to Get Started with Thich Nhat Hanh- People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I thin
the real miracl
recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eye
a child—our own two eyes. All is a miracle.- Feelings, whether of compassion or irritation, should be welcomed,
ourselves. The tangerine I am eating is me. The mustard greens I am
planting are me. I plant with all my heart and mind. I clean this teapot w
the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a
bath. Nothing should be treated more carefully than anything else. In
mindfulness, compassion, irritation, mustard green plant, and teapot are all
sacred.”- If we are too busy, if we are carried away every day by our projects, our
uncertainty, our craving, how can we have the time to stop and look deeply
into the situation—our own situation, the situation of our beloved one, the
situation of our family and of our community, and the situation of our natio
and of the other nations? - Do not be idolatrous about or bound to any doctrine, theory, or ideology,
even Buddhist ones. All systems of thought are guiding means; they are not
absolute truth.
The Be
hich writer with a wide variety of starting points.
The ideal starting point varies depending on your vantage point, but I would
recom Living Buddha, Living Christ.
Buddha and Christ are arguably two of the most important figures in the history of
hum n es that have
ha ed g Thây’s
ies to identify parallels between these two traditions
s can co-exist.
In â
religions, there can be no peace in the wo
bel v
T Nhat Hanh (Thây) is a prolific
mend beginning with his national best-seller,a kind. Each of them left behind a legacy of teachings and practic
s p the lives of billions of people in the East and in the West. Durin
life and now in this book, he tr
and see how these two religion
Th y’s book, he quotes Professor Hans Kung: “Until there is peace between
rld.” According to Thây, “When we
ie e that our faith is the only faith that contains the truth, then violence and