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Such a perfect description of the way to heal from the human condition, it is just astonishing. I feel they every word resounds with profound meaning and points directly to eternal freedom, peace and bliss: this teaching alone summarizes thousands of Buddhist texts and books. It shows what, why and how and is permeated with loving kindness through and through. That’s perfect teaching from a perfect Master. It strikes me how amazing and « lucky » it is that we have come to hear in this life such compassionate Knowledge, Wisdom and Advice from such great Masters, like Thich Nat Hahn here, and have felt moved by them. Not so many are drawn to such teachings or to ponder them deeply. In order to apply those principles, experience and trial and error has shown me that I must remember to believe and trust in my inner goodness. I believe this is true for all practitioners and the compassion Thich Nat Hahn shows in the softness of his tone and clarity of his words reflects his trust in the ability of human beings to wake up. As he evolved on the path, he too came to understand his potential and worth. Among our previous actions, in this life and many, many previous ones, some were so selfless and loving that today we simply and automatically reap their fruits : too often, we forget this completely. We focus instead on our obstacles and the negative aspects of our karma, our tendency to self-cherish, cling to what we like and reject what we dislike, putting labels on everything we meet and feel. We judge constantly and when judging interferes, we can find no rest, no long term solutions and so we run from ourselves, others and life because we wish it could be different. But it can’t, as long as duality rules and colors our world. We don’t trust enough our goodness and ability to tame our mental states and rest in the true nature of our mind. Of course, it goes without saying that it is very important to be aware of our negativities in order to understand them knowingly and courageously; but it is just as important if not more to humbly acknowledge and rejoice in the goodness in all of us too. Awareness must be complete and all-encompassing to be useful. If not, all it does is hurt us. That focus on the positive actions we are capable of allows us to legitimately relax and do what Masters encourage us to do : don’t judge, ever, they tell us. Look, that’s all. This advice applies to ourselves first and foremost because if we are not just and loving towards ourselves, how could we possibly be so with others ? Remembering our positive karma and feeling gratitude towards it is an attitude that can greatly de-dramatise our shortcomings and open our heart to becoming more confident in ourselves, and then in others and the process of life itself. It can motivate us in difficult times to remain steady, calm and aware and embrace again and again the challenge to create on the path more and more positive karma through body, speech and mind. We have done it before, we can do it again ! Practicing is not easy and that is why so many methods have been taught by the Buddha to all kinds of audiences. He has thought of every single trap that can disturb us and has demonstrated by his own life that it can be done : we can « stop running ». Being able to recognize Truth when we hear it is already the sure mark that we have been bent on reaching enlightenment for a very long time already, and wanting to remove our ignorance and delusions. It is in and of itself a blessing beyond measure because awareness is the sine qua non condition and cause for anyone to desire to practice and conquer the mind. Wishing us all to stop running !❤ Cheers from France !

I don't know where I'm going. I'm just going to keep trying.

Really special

This is very comforting to me.

Thank you dear friend ❤so wonderful

@@iforgiveyou3031 thank you. This is from his book present moment wonderful moment

Thank you for this wonderful reminder. To see with our "two good eyes"

Do Fights ever Break out There ? ... are there ever fights between male monks ? ... are there ever fights between Male and Female monks ? ... are there ever fights between Female monks ? ... and if so ... What Happens ?

This is both a gatha and a song. I love singing this while doing walking meditation

Perfectly said

We also know you haven't ceased to be and live on in all of us.

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Most interesting. Thank you. 🙏

@@raphaelfritzler8228 thanks for taking time to read what I wrote. Buddhists have a lot of homework to do.

Namoh to the greatest of gurus!

@@neerajamb yes true. Name to the greatest of gurus.

He gave

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I love this term