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

Nhat Hanh

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An oak tree is an oak tree. That is all it has to do. If an oak tree is less than an oak tree, then we are all in trouble.
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Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.
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You only need to walk in mindfulness, making peaceful, happy steps on our planet. Breathe deeply, and enjoy your breathing. Be aware that the sky is blue and the birds' songs are beautiful. Enjoy being alive and you will help the living Christ and the living Buddha continue for a long, long time.
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If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.
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The energy of compassion is very strong. We suffer. That is real. But we have learned not to get angry and not to allow ourselves to be carried by anger. We realize right away that that is fear. That is corruption.
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We all need a place that is safe and wholesome enough for us to return for refuge. In Buddhism, that refuge is mindfulness.
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The way must be in you the destination also must be in you and not somewhere else in space or time. If that kind of self-transformation is being realized in you, you will arrive.
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When we have anger in us, we suffer. When we have discrimination in us, we suffer. When we have the complex of superiority, we suffer. When we have the complex of inferiority, we suffer also. So when we are capable of transforming these negative things in us, we are free and happiness is possible.
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We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.
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Don't think you have to be solemn to meditate. To meditate, well, you have to smile a lot.
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To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.
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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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With understanding, those we love will certainly flower.
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Only your compassion and your loving kindness are invincible, and without limit.
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Our joy, peace and happiness depend very much on our practice of recognizing and transforming habit energies. There are positive habit energies that we have to cultivate, and negative habit energies that we have to recognize, embrace and transform. The energy with which we do these things is mindfulness.
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Shallow understanding accompanies poor compassion great understanding goes with great compassion.
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Birth is okay and death is okay, if we know that they are only concepts in our mind. Reality transcends both birth and death.
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I hold my face in my two hands. No, I am not crying. I hold my face in my two hands to keep the loneliness warm - two hands protecting, two hands nourishing, two hands preventing my soul from leaving me in anger.
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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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I know that we do not know enough. We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.
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