Nhat Hanh

Nhat Hanh

Zen Master, Author

Nhat Hanh was a Vietnamese Zen master known for his teachings on mindfulness, compassion, and peace, particularly through his influential book 'The Miracle of Mindfulness.'

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Born
October 11, 1926
Quotes
723
Rank
#578

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"Please don't wait until the doctors tell you that you are going to have a baby to begin to take care of it. It is already there. Whatever you are, whatever you do, your baby will get it. Anything you eat, any worries that are on your mind will be for him or her. Can you tell me that you cannot smile? Think of the baby, and smile for him, for her, for the future generations. Please don't tell me that a smile and your sorrow just don't go together. It's your sorrow, but what about your baby? It's not his sorrow, its not her sorrow."

Baby Thinking Doctors
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"When you understand the roots of anger in yourself and in the other, your mind will enjoy true peace, joy and lightness"

Roots Joy Mind
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"The miracle is not to walk on water, or in the air, or on burning charcoal. The miracle is to walk on earth. You breathe in, you become aware of the fact that you are alive. You are alive and you are walking on this beautiful planet. The greatest of of all miracles is to be alive."

Beautiful Yoga Air
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"A flower is not a flower. It is made only of non-flower elements - sunshine, clouds, time, space, earth, minerals, gardeners, and so on. A true flower contains the whole universe. If we return any one of these non-flower elements to its source, there will be no flower."

Flower Sunshine Clouds
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"Artists have to show us what is not going well within the person and within the society, not try to cover it up."

Artist Trying Revelations
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"Life is filled with suffering, but it is also filled with many wonders, like the blue sky, the sunshine, the eyes of a baby. To suffer is not enough. We must also be in touch with the wonders of life. They are within us and all around us, everywhere, any time."

Baby Eye Sunshine
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"Being rich is an obstacle to loving. When you are rich, you want to continue to be rich, and so you end up devoting all your time, all your energy, in your daily life to stay rich."

Energy Want Obstacles
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"The bad things, don't do them. The good things, try to do them. Try to purify, subdue your own mind. That is the teaching of all buddhas."

Teaching Mind Trying
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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."

Inspirational Life Change
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"The other person has wrong perceptions about himself and about us. And we have wrong perceptions about ourselves and the other person. And that is the foundation for violence and conflict and war."

War Perception Foundation
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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."

Happy Beautiful Song
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"True love always brings joy to ourself and the one we love. If our love does not bring joy to both of us, it is not true love."

Love Joy Doe
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"As you embrace your pain, you get relief and you find out how to handle that emotion. And if you know how to handle the fear, then you have enough insight in order to solve the problem. The problem is to not allow that anxiety to take over."

Pain Order Anxiety
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"If we take the time to look deeply, we see that understanding and compassion arise from suffering. Understanding is the understanding of suffering, and compassion is the kind of energy that can transform suffering. If suffering is not there, we have no means to cultivate our understanding and our compassion. This is something quite simple to see"

Mean Simple Compassion
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"Your anger is like a flower. In the beginning you may not understand the nature of your anger, or why it has come up. But if you know how to embrace it with the energy of mindfulness, it will begin to open. You may be sitting, following your breathing, or you may be practicing walking meditation to generate the energy of mindfulness and embrace your anger. After ten or twenty minutes your anger will have to open herself to you, and suddenly, you will see the true nature of your anger. It may have arisen just because of a wrong perception or the lack of skillfulness."

Flower Anger Walking Meditation
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"The reason we might lose love is because we are always looking outside of us, thinking that the object or action of love is out there. That is why we allow the love, the harmony, the mature understanding, to slip away from ourselves."

Love Is Thinking Understanding
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"The more compassionate you are, the more generous you can be. The more generous you are, the move loving friendliness you cultivate to help the world."

Moving Compassion World
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"If you come to Plum Village in the summertime, you see many lotus flowers. Without the mud the lotus flowers cannot grow. You cannot separate lotus flowers from the mud. It is the same with understanding and love. These are two kinds of flowers that grow on the ground of suffering"

Flower Two Summertime
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"In order to be loved, we have to love, which means we have to understand."

Love Mean Order
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