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LIVING BUDDHA, LIVING CHRIST
Thich Nhat Hanh
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"In Christianity, faith means trust in God, the One who represents love, understanding, dignity, and truth."
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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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"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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"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 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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"All of life is a reflection of God, the infinite source of holiness."
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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 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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"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 insight of interbeing…can be obtained when you contemplate phenomena – a magnolia, a squirrel, or a cloud."
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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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"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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"We are all, at the same time, the sons and daughters of God."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"We must glean the best values of all [spiritual] traditions in order to give peace a chance."
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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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"We human beings can be nourished by the best values of many traditions."
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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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"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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"Loving God is loving the living beings we see and touch in our daily life."
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"The bread we eat is the whole cosmos."
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