LIVING BUDDHA, LIVING CHRIST
Thich Nhat Hanh
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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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"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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"All of life is a reflection of God, the infinite source of holiness."
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"The living Christ is the Christ of Love who is always generating love, moment after moment."
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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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"When people appreciate each other as brothers and sisters and smile, the Holy Spirit is there."
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"The birth of every child is important, not less than the birth of a Buddha. We, too, are a Buddha, a Buddha-to-be, and we continue to be born every minute."
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"I urge you to study and practice the best values of your religious tradition and to share them with young people in ways they can understand. If we meditate together as a family, a community, a city, and a nation, we will be able to identify the causes of our suffering and find ways out."
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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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"When love and compassion are present, understanding deepens."
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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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"Buddha nature as the seed of enlightenment is already in everyone's consciousness."
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"The teaching of Jesus is His living body, and this living body of Christ manifests itself whenever and wherever His teaching is practiced."
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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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"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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"In Buddhism, faith means confidence in our and others' abilities to wake up to our deepest capacity of loving and understanding."
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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 we are in touch with the highest spirit in ourselves, we too are a Buddha, filled with the Holy Spirit, and we become very tolerant, very open, very deep, and very understanding."
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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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"Because everything is made of everything else, nothing can be by itself alone."
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"Different religious traditions can engage in dialogue with one another in a true spirit of ecumenism. Dialogue can be fruitful and enriching if both sides are truly open. If they really believe that there are valuable elements in each other's tradition and that they can learn from one another, they will also rediscover many valuable aspects of their own tradition through such an encounter. Peace will be a beautiful flower blooming on this field of practice."
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"The bread we eat is the whole cosmos."
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"We have different roots, traditions, and ways of seeing, but we share the common qualities of love, understanding, and acceptance. For our dialogue to be open, we need to open our hearts, set aside our prejudices, listen deeply, and represent truthfully what we know and understand."
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"Loving God is loving the living beings we see and touch in our daily life."
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"We human beings can be nourished by the best values of many traditions."
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