LIVING BUDDHA, LIVING CHRIST
Thich Nhat Hanh
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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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"One flower is made of the whole cosmos."
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"All of life is a reflection of God, the infinite source of holiness."
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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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"All of us have the seed of the Holy Spirit in us, the capacity of healing, transforming, and loving."
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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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"We human beings can be nourished by the best values of many traditions."
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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 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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"We must glean the best values of all [spiritual] traditions in order to give peace a chance."
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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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"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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"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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"When love and compassion are present, understanding deepens."
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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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"The living Christ is the Christ of Love who is always generating love, moment after moment."
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"Everything is linked to the presence of God in every moment."
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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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"Loving God is loving the living beings we see and touch in our daily life."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"We are all, at the same time, the sons and daughters of God."
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