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Zen Buddhist monk, peace activist and author. This official account is supported by monastic & lay Dharma teachers in Thich Nhat Hanh’s Plum Village tradition.
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The International Plum Village Community of Engaged Buddhism announces that our beloved teacher Thich Nhat Hanh passed away peacefully at Từ Hiếu Temple in Huế, Vietnam, at 00:00hrs on 22nd January, 2022, at the age of 95.
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One of the deepest teachings given by the Buddha is that we should not be too sure of our own ideas. Don't be fooled by your perceptions. Even if you are sure you were seeing clearly, check again. Keep an open mind. Be ready to let go of your views.
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We invite our beloved global spiritual family to take a few moments to be still, to come back to our mindful breathing, as we together hold Thay in our hearts. More official news coming shortly. Please sign up for email updates:
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A Zen Master's tips for staying sane in challenging times: How do monks structure their day, balancing meditation, work & rest? Here are Thay’s key teachings on the art of living each day well: 1/11
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"From the first moment, I knew I was in the presence of a holy person. Not just his good work but his very being was a source of great inspiration for me."
Thich Nhat Hanh on Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.
Read more:
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Sometimes we can feel overwhelmed by our emotions, and we forget we are much more than our emotions. When a strong emotion comes up, we can say, “Hello, my emotion. I know you are there. I will take care of you.” Practice mindful, deep, abdominal breathing.
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Brushing our teeth, cooking our breakfast, walking to the meditation hall – everything we do, every step, every breath should bring joy and happiness to us. Life is already full of suffering; we don’t need to create more.
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Everyone we cherish will, someday, get sick and die. If we do not practice the meditation on emptiness, when those things happen, we will be overwhelmed. Concentration on emptiness is a way of staying in touch with life as it is, but it has to be practiced, not just talked about.
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Oneness by Thich Nhat Hanh
The moment I die,
I will try to come back to you
as quickly as possible.
I promise it will not take long.
Isn’t it true
I am already with you,
as I die each moment?
I come back to you
in every moment.
Just look,
Feel my presence.
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Never in human history have we had so many means of communication, yet we remain islands, with little real communication between us. When we cannot communicate, we suffer, and we spill our suffering on to other people. Mindfulness and insight can intervene.
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Breathing in, breathing out,
I am blooming as a flower, I am fresh as the dew.
I am solid as a mountain, I am firm as the earth,
I am free.
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Understanding and wisdom don’t come from thinking and reasoning, but from direct experience.
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Please, when you practice meditation, don't make any effort. Allow yourself to be like a pebble at rest. The pebble is resting at the bottom of a river, and the pebble does not have to do anything. While you are a walking, you are resting. While you were sitting, you are resting.
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It is very important that we do not try to run away from our painful feelings. We can recognize, accept, embrace, and look deeply.
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"I don’t see why we have to say 'I will die,' because I can already see myself in you, in other people, and in future generations."
From "I Am Not in Here" by Thich Nhat Hanh:
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Please join our community soon live to chant for the passing of our dear beloved teacher Thich Nhat Hanh
#thichnhathanh
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If you are suffering during meditation, your practice is not correct. Practice should be enjoyable and pleasant. It should be full of joy.
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Some highlights of Thay’s life and teaching from CNN
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Look at the moon. It travels in the sky completely free, and this freedom produces beauty and happiness.
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Freedom is the basis of all happiness. This means freedom from despair, freedom from resentment, freedom from jealousy and fear. Genuine practice is practice that helps you become more free and more solid. Every step you take, every breath you take, every minute of sitting.
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Nothing can survive without food. Everything we consume acts either to heal us or to poison us.
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To take hold of your mind, you must practice mindfulness of the mind. You must know how to observe and recognize the presence of every feeling and thought that arises in you.
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Yes, there is tremendous suffering all over the world, but knowing that need not paralyze us. If we practice mindful breathing, mindful walking, mindful sitting, and working in mindfulness, we try our best to help, and we can have peace in our heart.
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There are many ways to come back to the here and the now, and to touch life deeply. But they all involve mindful breathing. If we are anchored in our mindful breathing, we can practice anytime. Otherwise we risk missing our lives, our lives that are lived in the here and now.
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I listen, I listen,
this wonderful sound
brings me back
to my true home
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Concentrating 100% on our breathing or our steps liberates us. We become a free person in just a few seconds, free to transform the habit energies of our ancestors.
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We can only understand another person when are able to truly listen to them. When we can listen to others we can understand their pain and difficulties. Listening deeply to another is a form of meditation.
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When conditions are sufficient, a cloud transforms into rain, snow, or hail. The cloud has never been born and it will never die. This insight of signlessness and interbeing helps us recognize that all lives continue in different forms.
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To suffer is not a bad thing. Suffering is an ingredient in which we can make happiness. And the practice consists of learning how to make good use of the suffering in order to create happiness.
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The spot where you sit is your own spot. It is on this very spot and in this very moment that you can become enlightened. You don't have to sit beneath a special tree in a distant land. Practice like this for a few months, and you will begin to know a profound & renewing delight.
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If you would like to create your own memorial service for Thay at home or with your local sangha, please visit our memorial practice resources page:
It contains selected chants, meditations, teachings, readings, songs, calligraphies & photos.
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Breath is the bridge that connects life to consciousness, the bridge that unites your body to your thoughts. Whenever your mind becomes scattered, use your breath as the means to take hold of your mind again.
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The seeds of negativity are always there, but very positive seats also exist, such as the seeds of compassion, tolerance, and love. The seeds are all there in the soil, but without rain they cannot manifest. Our practice is to recognize and water the positive seeds.
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When you say "I love you" it means "I can offer you true peace and happiness". Can you already offer them to yourself first?
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Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you, your feelings need you, your perceptions need you.
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One person’s suffering represents the suffering of the world. If you can help one person, you help the whole world.
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Mindfulness is the kind of light that shows us the way. It is the living Buddha inside of each of us. Mindfulness gives birth to insight, awakening, compassion, and love.
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I think (too much), therefore I am (not there to live my life).
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"As members of the human family, we should learn to remove all discrimination, all separation and all anger" - The power of not-blaming, told in a story of a hammer, a nail, and two hands:
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If you have a breathing room, you have a sanctuary, a place where you can return to yourself and restore your sense of peace.
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As busy as we are, when we take the time to look a little bit more deeply, we can always find more understanding and compassion to offer.
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A photo journey along Thich Nhat Hanh's final funeral ceremony, procession and cremation on 29th Jan, 2022. We feel grateful to bear solemn witness to such a powerful and elemental open-air cremation, just like in the time of the Buddha.
#ThichNhatHanh
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When you practice sitting meditation, if you enjoy even one moment of your sitting, if you establish serenity and happiness inside yourself, you provide the world with a solid base of peace.
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Breathing in, repeat “In the here, in the here.” Breathing out, repeat “In the now, in the now.” Although these are different words, they mean exactly the same thing: I have arrived in the here. I have arrived in the now. I am home in the here. I am home in the now.
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The teachings of the Buddha tells you clearly and plainly to make this the most magnificent and wonderful moment of your life. You can train yourself to be free from worries and preoccupations about the past and the future.
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Our real enemy is not man; it's not another human being. Our real enemy is our ignorance, discrimination, fear, craving, and violence.
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The roots of discrimination, conflict, and war are not to be found outside ourselves. They are within our own way of thinking and looking at the world. The real enemy is our ignorance, our attachment to views, and our wrong perceptions.
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"Sit just to enjoy your sitting; you don't need to attain any goal. Each moment of sitting meditation brings you back to life." — Thích Nhất Hạnh
Illustration © Jason DeAntonis
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How do you use your time? You have to make a living, certainly, and you have to support your loved ones. But do you make the effort to arrange your life so you can do some deep looking? That will bring you joy, freedom from fear, and great well-being.
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When we eat and breathe properly, we nourish our blood, our body, and our spirit. We should select what we eat carefully and chew our food very well.
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Breathing and smiling is a deep practice to bring us back to the present moment.
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Today we honor and celebrate Thay's 90th. Help continue Thay by sharing how you are dwelling happily in the present moment.
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A compassionate person sees himself or herself in every being.
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Happy 91st Birthday to our teacher,
@thichnhathanh
! What kind of gift do you give a Zen master? Read here:
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You already are what you want to become. You are a marvel. You are a wonder.
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We need to strengthen our foundation of joy and happiness before focusing on our suffering.
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“When you love someone you want to take care of that person as you would take care of yourself. That is the relationship each of us can have with the Earth.”
#BeyondParis
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If you want to know your own mind, there is only one way: to observe and recognize everything about it. This must be done at all times, during your day-to-day life no less than during the hour of meditation.
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Anyone can succeed in the practice of a single conscious breath. If we continue to breathe consciously for ten breaths, without our mind going astray, then we have taken a valuable step on the path of practice.
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What is motivating you?
Thich Nhat Hanh on volition.
(Full talk: )
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Someone who is able to be happy even when confronted with difficulties, has the capacity to offer a sense of joy to herself and to others.
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Gentleness is powerful. When we use gentle and loving speech, we are able to transform anger, fear, resentment and suspicion in our communication. The whole intention of loving speech is to understand the other person and to be understood.
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With mindfulness we can see the poetry and beauty all around us. We can see the miracles of life.
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Thich Nhat Hanh responding to the question: "How can I fight the injustices of this world without being consumed with anger, bitterness, outrage, and resentment?"
Watch his full answer here:
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When we touch the Earth, we take refuge in it. We receive its solid and inclusive energy. We receive its stability and fearlessness.
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"If you don’t yet have an aspiration, you need to find it. We should sit down with our partner, with our friends, and inquire about each other’s deepest dreams... We are here, alive, and we all want to do something with our life. We want our life to be useful, meaningful."
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"Sitting meditation is not to become someone else, something else. It's not a struggle. You just enjoy your sitting."
(You can watch more here: )
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Breathing and knowing that we are breathing is a basic practice. No one can be truly successful in the art of meditating without going through the door of breathing.
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Every one of us has the capacity to love, to forgive, to understand, and to be compassionate.
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Don’t underestimate yourself. You have the ability to wake up. You have the ability to be compassionate.
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"If you can recognize and accept your pain without running away from it, you will discover that although pain is there, joy can also be there at the same time." Thich Nhat Hanh
Read more in this extract from 'No Mud, No Lotus':
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Our practice is to cultivate good seeds in the soil of our mind, knowing that they will mature and bloom in their own time.
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It’s the quality of our life that is important, not how long we live.
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The bell is calling.
Our feet kiss the Earth.
Our eyes embrace the Sky.
We walk in mindfulness.
10,000 lives can be seen in a single instant.
This is still Springtime,
when everything is manifesting itself so rapidly.
The snow is green.
And the sunshine is falling like the rain.
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“When you spend two hours with your computer, you forget completely you have a body.”
Listen to Thich Nhat Hanh explain what to do in order to reconnect body and mind.
(Watch more here: )
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Don't wait until a strong emotion arises to begin this practice of mindful breathing or you will forget what to do when you need it most.
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Take the time to eat an orange in mindfulness. If you eat an orange in forgetfulness, caught in your anxiety and sorrow, the orange is not really there.
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Every day we are engaged in a miracle that we don’t even recognize.
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There’s no place where deep listening and loving speech are inappropriate.
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Celebrating Thay's Continuation and 92nd Birthday
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Waking up this morning I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours before me. I vow to look at all beings with the eyes of compassion and love.
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Don’t neglect to reserve some time alone each day for communicating with yourself.
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Nourish Yourself: The Buddha advises us to create the feeling of joy and happiness in order to nourish ourselves before we deal with the painful feelings.
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Where Do We Go When We Die?
The longer video can be viewed here:
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Police officers should be peace officers
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The future is being made out of the present, so the best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment. This is logical and clear.
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Mindfulness practice is not an evasion or an escape. It means entering vigorously into life — with the strength generated by the energy of mindfulness. Without this freedom and concentration, there is no happiness.
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We have collected highlights of news and stories regarding Thich Nhat Hanh’s passing on our live blog.
#ThichNhatHanh
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When our work and life has a spiritual dimension, we’re able to sustain ourselves, take care of ourselves, and avoid burning out.
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Happy 91st Birthday to our teacher,
@thichnhathanh
! What kind of gift do you give a Zen master? Read here:
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If we want to become mindful, rather than just knowing about mindfulness, we need to establish our own regular practice.
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When you breathe in mindfully, there is a happy reunion between body and mind. This doesn’t take any fancy technique.
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