LIVING BUDDHA, LIVING CHRIST
Thich Nhat Hanh
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"When love and compassion are present, understanding deepens."
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"When people appreciate each other as brothers and sisters and smile, the Holy Spirit is there."
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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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"Buddha nature as the seed of enlightenment is already in everyone's consciousness."
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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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"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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"One flower is made of the whole cosmos."
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"The practices of prayer and meditation help us touch the most valuable seeds that are within us, and they put us in contact with the ground of our being."
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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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"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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"The bread we eat is the whole cosmos."
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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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"Real love never ends."
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"We human beings can be nourished by the best values of many traditions."
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"When you pray with all your heart, the Holy Spirit is in you, and as you continue to pray, the Holy Spirit continues in you. You do not need to do anything else."
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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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"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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"Everything is linked to the presence of God in every moment."
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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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"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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"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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"We are all mothers of the Buddha because we are all pregnant with the potential for awakening. If we know how to take care of our baby Buddha by practicing mindfulness in our daily lives, one day the Enlightened One will reveal himself or herself to us."
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"Loving God is loving the living beings we see and touch in our daily life."
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"You are interrelated to everyone and everything…your every act is linked with the whole of humankind and the whole cosmos."
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