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You have to do it by yourself. You can not do it alone.

Nhat Hanh

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Machine thinking is the opposite of mindfulness. If we're really engaged in mindfulness when walking along the path to the village, then we will consider the act of each step we take as an infinite wonder, and a joy will open our hearts like a flower, enabling us to enter the world of reality.
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I am determined to practice deep listening. I am determined to practice loving speech.
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Loving ourselves means loving our community. When we are capable of loving ourselves, nourishing ourselves properly, not intoxicating ourselves, we are already protecting and nourishing society.
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The only answer to fear is more understanding. And there is no understanding if there is no effort to look more deeply to see what is there in our heart and in the heart of the other person.
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Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof.
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In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.
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Meditation is not to get out of society, to escape from society, but to prepare for a reentery into society.
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We try to live every moment like that, dwelling peacefully in the present moment, and respond to events with compassion.
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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.
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To meditate does not mean to fight with a problem. To meditate means to observe. Your smile proves it. It proves that you are being gentle with yourself, that the sun of awareness is shining in you, that you have control of your situation. You are yourself, and you have acquired some peace.
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My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand.
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I am committed to cultivating loving speech and deep listening in order to bring joy and happiness to others and relieve others of their suffering.
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In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion it is a serene encounter with reality.
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Harm no person, animal, plant or mineral.
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Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.
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Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.
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When you produce peace and happiness in yourself, you begin to realize peace for the whole world. With the smile that you produce in yourself, with the conscious breathing you establish within yourself, you begin to work for peace in the world.
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The moment you understand the importance of loving yourself, you will stop hurting others.
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Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.
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Meditation is, first of all, a tool for surveying our territory so we can know what is going on. With the energy of mindfulness, we can calm things down, understand them, and bring harmony back to the conflicting elements inside us.
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