Thích Nhất Hạnh passes away

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...... Nhất Hạnh was active in the peace and deep ecology movements, promoting nonviolent solutions to conflict and raising awareness of the interconnectedness of all elements in nature.[9] He was the founder of the largest monastic order in the West. He also refrained from consuming animal products, as a means of nonviolence toward animals.[10][11] ............. Nhất Hạnh created the Order of Interbeing (Vietnamese: Tiếp Hiện) in 1966. He headed this monastic and lay group, teaching Five Mindfulness Trainings[37] and the Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings.[38] In 1969 he established the Unified Buddhist Church (Église Bouddhique Unifiée) in France (not a part of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam). In 1975 he formed the Sweet Potato Meditation Centre. The centre grew and in 1982 he and Chân Không founded Plum Village Monastery, a vihara[A] in the Dordogne in the south of France.[4] Plum Village is the largest Buddhist monastery in Europe and America, with over 200 monastics and over 10,000 visitors a year. ........... ...........................

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%ADc ... E1%BA%A1nh

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.............. “When we walk like (we are rushing), we print anxiety and sorrow on the earth.
We have to walk in a way that we only print peace and serenity on the earth.
Be aware of the contact between your feet and the earth.
Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet.” ...............

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About 10 days ago I walked in our forest .......... 'if you are kissing the earth with your feet' .........

I called it an in 'aboriginal way'
Try it. Move in the forests way, not yours.

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What a beautiful man

“When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well.
It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce.
Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce.
Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument. That is my experience.
No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding.
If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change”
― Thich Nhat Hanh