LIVING BUDDHA, LIVING CHRIST
Thich Nhat Hanh
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"There is the Buddha within ourselves, who transcends space and time. This is the living Buddha, the Buddha of the ultimate reality, the one who transcends all ideas and notions and is available to us at any time."
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"One flower is made of the whole cosmos."
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"The insight of interbeing…can be obtained when you contemplate phenomena – a magnolia, a squirrel, or a cloud."
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"We human beings can be nourished by the best values of many traditions."
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"There has never been a human being who is not alive with God's own life breath." Brother David Stendl-Rast, O.S.B., foreword
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"A human being is a mini-God, a micro-theos who has been created in order to participate in the divinity of God."
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"All of us have the seed of the Holy Spirit in us, the capacity of healing, transforming, and loving."
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"Because everything is made of everything else, nothing can be by itself alone."
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"The living Christ is the Christ of Love who is always generating love, moment after moment."
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"When we look into the heart of a flower, we see clouds, sunshine, minerals, time, the earth, and everything else in the cosmos in it….In fact, the flower is made entirely of non-flower elements; it has no independent, individual existence. It 'inter-is' with everything else in the universe."
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"When we are mindful, touching deeply the present moment, we can see and listen deeply, and the fruits are always understanding, acceptance, love, and the desire to relieve suffering and bring joy."
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"Real love never ends."
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"All of life is a reflection of God, the infinite source of holiness."
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"We are all, at the same time, the sons and daughters of God."
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"We must glean the best values of all [spiritual] traditions in order to give peace a chance."
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"The seed of the Kingdom of God is within us. If we know how to plant that seed in the moist soil of our daily lives, it will grow and become a large bush on which many birds can take refuge."
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"Really hearing a bird sing or really seeing a blue sky, we touch the seed of the Holy Spirit within us."
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"Loving God is loving the living beings we see and touch in our daily life."
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"When we look into and touch deeply the life and teaching of Jesus, we can penetrate the reality of God. Love, understanding, courage, and acceptance are expressions of the life of Jesus."
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"The most basic work for peace is to return to ourselves and create harmony among the elements within us – our feelings, our perceptions, and our mental states…When we have peace within, real dialogue with others is possible."
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"According to Mahayana Buddhism, the Buddha is still alive….If you are attentive enough, you will be able to hear his teachings from the voice of a pebble, a leaf, or a cloud in the sky."
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"You are not separate from other beings or the environment. This understanding cannot be merely intellectual. It must be experiential, the insight gained by deep touching and deep looking in a daily life of prayer, contemplation, and meditation."
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"When love and compassion are present, understanding deepens."
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"Each thing depends on all other things to be. That is interdependence. Nothing can be by itself alone. It has to inter-be with all other things."
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"In Christianity, faith means trust in God, the One who represents love, understanding, dignity, and truth."
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