“I aspire to practice to love Mother Earth, Father Sun, and for human beings to love one another with the radiant insight of nonduality and interbeing in order to help us transcend all kinds of discrimination, fear, jealousy, resentment, hatred, and despair.”
Thich Nhat Hanh, Love Letter to the Earth
Interbeing and the Gift of Generosity
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a message from the Thích Nhất Hạnh Foundation
In the hallway of my heart
By Rose Lucas on
a lamp is swaying a smalland gentle glowing deep inside a filigreeof shadows –who lit the lamp?how long has it been burning? –perfumed night air eddies roundcicadas call relentless anda screen door creaks night air this pour of lightsoaking a…
Flowers, Clouds, and Rivers
By Shannon Zeimetz on
A story of gratitude for Thầy’s teachings on impermanence, interbeing, and continuation
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Poems: Presence, Hands, 4am
By Nadia Colburn
Hands (after a teaching by Thích Nhất Hạnh) You who open for me each day, who close upon a pen, a hairbrush, a plum, a rock that I lift from the shore and throw into the lake,
Two Poems
By Leslie J. Davis
Leslie J. Davis offers “After a Rain: For Thầy” (written while on retreat at Plum Village, France) and “Yield” (written while on retreat at Deer Park Monastery).
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