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“Our drama teachers have been trying to bring this kind of practice into schools and they have begun in many schools and they have been able to form to train school teachers in order to bring this kind of practice into the classroom. And the result has been very encouraging. Young people, they can learn and practice and then they don't need to be Buddhist and they learn how to, to bring their mind back to their body. You don't need to believe in the existence of the Buddha in order to do that. You bring your mind back to the body by the way of mindful breathing. They learn how to release the tension in the body in order to have ease and peace. They learn how to handle a painful feeling, a strong emotion. They learn how to produce a joyful feeling, a happy feeling. They learn how to listen to the other person with compassion. They learn how to express themselves in the language of non blame, no blaming the loving speech. They know how to restore communication with their parents and their friends. All that can be taught to young people and we need the school teachers capable of doing that for themselves in order to offer the practice in, in, in school.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
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“So the eyes arise without substance, without self, nature, nothing has a separate existence. And that that is when, when the contemplator, the meditator look at something, he or she should see that that something is made of conditions and it does not have a separate existence, any substance. It is empty of self being, it is empty of all being, It is result of some action. Action here means energy and there is no act at all. Action. There is action but there is no actor.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
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“We know that without the mud, Lotus flowers cannot grow. The same thing is true with suffering and happiness. Without the mud suffering you cannot create happiness.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
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“Living being is the name of a continuous stream. There is a stream, there is a continuum. When you talk of living being looking deeply, you don't see any permanent self of living being. You should train yourself to see living being as streams. There is a continue that is a continuum. Living being is the name of a continuous stream and all the phenomenon as object of perception are only sign.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
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“I was here and I think maybe 10 years ago I started to practice mindfulness and get to know a little bit the Plum Village tradition. I've actually tried like a few different traditions, but I tried a few different traditions, but I noticed that somehow I keep coming back to Plum Village. And especially in times when I was, for instance, in the beginning of my 20s, I had like panic attacks. And I noticed that the, the, the teachings of Thay and of Plum Village were very easy to apply in daily life. So even when I was in the line for the supermarket, I could use my breathing to calm myself down. And so it really helped me like in daily life.” – Frederick
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“Now when we say the wind blows, the wind blows. So that there is an act of blowing and the wind is the actor, the wind is the blower. But looking deeply you see only the wind. The wind and the act of blowing is the same. If the air does not blow, it's not the wind. If the the air stay at the same place, it's not the wind that is only the air. So it sounds a little bit funny to say that there is the wind as an after and the wind is blowing. A wind that does not is not blowing, is not the wind at all. So the fact is that there is wind, you don't have to say blow. The wind is enough. The wind is the blowing.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
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“Positive kind of energies that can help us transform ourselves and transform the world and we know that together we can do better because the collective energy of mindfulness, concentration and insight can help heal everyone and transform everyone. And we have our part, our contribution in making that happened. The collective energy of my fullness concentration inside peace and brotherhood. When we work together, everyone of us focus our attention on our in breath, our breath and steps. We are taking care of ourselves by observing our breath, observing our steps, and in the meanwhile we generate the energy of mindfulness and peace and concentration and joy. We are taking care of ourselves.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
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“When you practice mindfulness, there is an object of your mind. You You are mindful of something. You are only mindful of one thing at a time. And if you are truly mindful of that, you have concentration. And again, concentration has only one object and if you really concentrate on that, you don't allow other things to come and compare one pointed mind eka only only one one object.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
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“You are there as a source of energy. If you are peaceful, you are calm.If you are compassionate and then your presence grows to a person who is suffering can have an effect already. Just your presence, you, you have not done anything yet, but your presence there can already produce a kind of change. It's like a tree standing outside the tree does not seem to be doing anything at all. But the fact is that when we touch the tree, when we sit under at the foot of the tree, we feel that the energy of the tree is penetrating into us. There's a non action, but it has a power and energy.So the doctor, the nurse, the social worker, they have, they might have used the techniques they know how to help, but maybe they have not been able to offer the best their their compassion, their peace, their calm.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
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“There are those who of us who do not know how to handle a strong emotion and including many young people and many think that the only to end the suffering is to go and kill themselves. There are so many young people committing suicide in our in these days in South Korea every day, something like 4550 of them young, young people killing themselves just because they don't know how to handle a strong emotion.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
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