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On the first night of my two-week solitary retreat away from family, friends and the dog, my sister called to wish me well. "What are you planning to do on your first day?" she asked. "I'm thinking I'll take sunrise photos at 7," I said. "I'll cook a hot breakfast at 8, go for a beach walk at 9 and meditate at 10. At 11, I'll study Thich Nhat Hanh. At 12, I'll make a healthy lunch ... "This is rest," I said....
The Charlotte Observer 2015-03-10There is a reason why Toy Story resonates with every person who watches it. We all remember what it was like to fall in love with a toy and then eventually toss it aside in favor of a new, shinier version. At a deeper level, we recognize that this experience was not left behind in childhood. This "Toy Story Cycle" continues to play out in our adult lives ... As human beings, all we want is to be seen for who we truly are ... -- Thich Nhat Hanh....
Huffington Post 2015-03-10The following is an excerpt from Looking at Mindfulness, in which author Christophe Andre explores how viewing art or reading poetry can help achieve a sense of calm. Calm, attentive eyes in an attractive, quietly intelligent face, expressing neither benevolence nor hostility, just a desire to understand correctly and in detail ... An eternity ... He was an affectionate, attentive father, an unusual thing in his day ... -Thich Nhat Hanh ... ....
Huffington Post 2015-03-02We have an inherent desire to be compassionate. In the misery of another person, we see ourselves, if not in the present, than in the past or future. But compassion is not sufficient for helping people living with cancer ... In this first part I’ll explore compassionate intent ... Wise writers, such as the Vietnamese Buddhist priest, Thich Nhat Hanh, said if you envision a person in need as if she is your mother, compassion will develop ... ....
The Examiner 2015-02-23Shutterstock. “Breathe in, breathe out. Inhale, exhale.” The first time I heard this was back in Class 4 or 5 during our yoga class in school. Our yoga teacher, Mrs Warrier, would always ask us to focus on our breath. Given that I was all of 10-years-old, I never ever understood what she meant ... 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... 4 ... 5 ... I will leave you with a quote from Thich Nhat Hanh, “To master our breath is to be in control of our bodies and minds....
DNA India 2015-02-20Carla Goldstein talks about the complex relationships that shape our interdependent world, and calls upon us to do the right thing. For the lion's share of history, ideas about the unity of life have inhabited the realm of the religious, spiritual and philosophical ... R.R ... Palsgraf ... As Thich Nhat Hanh says, "compassion is a verb," and contains the motivation to engage with the suffering in the world and try and heal it however one can ... ....
Huffington Post 2015-02-19I had resisted for years, fearing that with 24/7 access to email, Twitter, and the like, I would become a miserable drone of a dad. Of a husband. Of a person ... And elevators ... It creates a space in my evening where my hands are busy but my mind free, to wander, to listen to something valuable (on my undeniably convenient iPod), or simply to practice focusing on every sensation in a simple but rich experience, like Thich Nhat Hanh suggests....
Huffington Post 2015-02-18(Source. Flipboard Inc). My name is Fabio Angeleri and my medium is personal growth. My love of meditation started when I was around 22 during very tough times. I was stressed, anxious and not being in the right place with myself. One day something released in me ... All my issues disappeared in a short time ... My biggest influence is Thich Nhat Hanh, a Vietnamese Zen monk and probably one of the most foremost Buddhist teachers in the word....
noodls 2015-02-14Communicating is more than just expressing yourself clearly; it's about listening clearly -- paying attention and blocking out all the mental clutter and distractions ... This is painfully true in the health care setting ... It was recently used by Dr ... Dr ... Perhaps we can find some help from Zen Master and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, Thich Nhat Hanh, who considers mindful listening life's most important skill ... ....
Huffington Post 2015-02-10We all need help maintaining our personal spiritual practice. We hope that these Daily Meditations, prayers and mindful awareness exercises can be part of bringing spirituality alive in your life. Today's meditation features a poem by Buddhist leader Thich Nhat Hanh. "Kiss the Earth" invites readers to experience the joy that comes from maintaining close connection with nature. Kiss The Earth by Thich Nhat Hanh ... The Earth will be safe ... ....
Huffington Post 2015-02-05Getting through divorce is never easy, no matter what the circumstances. If your energy is drained and you feel as though you're stuck, here are 25 sure-fire ways you can cheer yourself up and boost your energy while going through a divorce. 1.) Decide ( and Commit) to Recover From Your Divorce.. Period! ... 2.) Get Inspired.. Select the quotes that resonate the most with you ... Here are some of my favorites... - Byrd Baggett ... - Thich Nhat Hanh ... ....
Huffington Post 2015-02-04In the first Dirty Harry movie we are entertained with the sight of Harry educating a citizen on a fundamental problem in human relations ... And we don't see ... The wounds from 9/11 are still raw ... Thich Nhat Hahn was a young Buddhist monk during the Vietnam War ... Thich Nhat Hanh experienced the great depth of human suffering ... Everyone suffers ... Thich Nhat Hanh teaches his students to "look with eyes of compassion on all living beings." ... ....
Huffington Post 2015-02-02When we’re creating change there will be mud and all its discomfort and messiness. By Lois Kelly, co-author of Rebels at Work ... Rather than try to find a road, which could take hours, we opened the pasture gate and started across the field. Despite the cold rain ... Thich Nhat Hanh, the Vietnamese Zen Buddhist spiritual leader, has said, “No mud, no lotus.” Without suffering through the mud, you cannot find the happiness of the lotus ... Follow....
Medium 2015-01-30Thích Nhất Hạnh ( listen; born October 11, 1926) is a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, teacher, author, poet and peace activist who now lives in France where he was in exile for many years. Born Nguyễn Xuân Bảo, Thích Nhất Hạnh joined a Zen (Vietnamese: Thiền) monastery at the age of 16, and studied Buddhism as a novitiate. Upon his ordination as a monk in 1949, he assumed the Dharma name Thích Nhất Hạnh. Thích is an honorary family name used by all Vietnamese monks and nuns, meaning that they are part of the Shakya (Shakyamuni Buddha) clan. He is often considered the most influential living figure in the lineage of Lâm Tế (Vietnamese Rinzai) Thiền, and perhaps also in Zen Buddhism as a whole.
In the early 1960s, he founded the School of Youth for Social Services (SYSS) in Saigon. This grassroots relief organization rebuilt bombed villages, set up schools, established medical centers, and resettled families left homeless during the Vietnam War. He traveled to the U.S. to study at Princeton University, and later to lecture at Cornell University and Columbia University. His focus at the time was to urge the U.S. government to withdraw from Vietnam. He urged Martin Luther King, Jr. to publicly oppose the Vietnam War; King nominated Hanh for the Nobel Peace Prize in January 1967. He created the Order of Interbeing in 1966, establishing monastic and practice centers around the world. In 1973, the Vietnamese government denied Nhat Hanh permission to return to Vietnam and he went into exile in France. From 1976 to 1977 he led efforts to rescue Vietnamese boat people in the Gulf of Siam.
Oprah Winfrey (born Orpah Gail Winfrey; January 29, 1954) is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist. Winfrey is best known for her self-titled, multi-award-winning talk show, which has become the highest-rated program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011. She has been ranked the richest African-American of the 20th century, the greatest black philanthropist in American history, and was for a time the world's only black billionaire. She is also, according to some assessments, the most influential woman in the world.
Winfrey was born into poverty in rural Mississippi to a teenage single mother and later raised in an inner-city Milwaukee neighborhood. She experienced considerable hardship during her childhood, claiming to be raped at age nine and becoming pregnant at 14; her son died in infancy. Sent to live with the man she calls her father, a barber in Tennessee, Winfrey landed a job in radio while still in high school and began co-anchoring the local evening news at the age of 19. Her emotional ad-lib delivery eventually got her transferred to the daytime-talk-show arena, and after boosting a third-rated local Chicago talk show to first place, she launched her own production company and became internationally syndicated.
Movement
Subdued back then
So quiet now
Subsequent
Systematic violence
The great cold distance
The itch
The urge
Make way
Think of something
Thin out the fear
Past the tracks
Part the Ways
One stand here
Medicate
Kill the itch
Check the air
And push to get there
Monochrome
Symbol on the surface
Reduced Illumination
Chemical Inheritance
The lies