If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper. Without the cloud there can be no rain; without water, the trees cannot grow; and without trees, you cannot make paper. So the cloud is in here. The existence of this page is dependent upon […]
This post collects excerpts about loving speech and deep listening from The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching, in which Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh introduces the core teachings of Buddhism, and shows that the Buddha’s teachings are accessible and applicable to contemporary daily lives. For a better understanding of these teachings, we encourage you to read the […]
This is the practice of the Fourth Mindfulness Training: loving speech and deep listening. A bodhisattva is someone who can speak with a gentle, loving speech. A bodhisattva is someone who can listen with compassion. And if you train for three days, you might become a bodhisattva. And you might be able to talk to […]
Our mind is made of particles. Modern physics speaks about matter, reality as being made of subatomic particles. But in Buddhist psychology we speak about consciousness – mind – in terms of mental formations: very tiny particles that make up our mind. ‘Formation’ is translated from the word samskara. Anything that is formed, like a […]
This is an excerpt from a public Dharma Talk by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. The event took place during a New Year retreat in Plum Village, on December 29, 2013. We think that there are two more days and then the year 2013 will be gone. Is it true that the year is going […]
Dear Sangha, I have transmitted to you the ways, the practices, that will allow us to cross to the Other Shore. We don’t want to stay on the shore of anger and jealousy, we want to cross over to the Other Shore: the shore of well-being, non-anger, joy, equanimity, and love. Crossing over to the Other […]
