
Cultivating the Mind of Love

Getting angry in the historical dimension, we close our eyes and look deeply. Where will we be in three hundred years? We open our eyes and hug.
Thich Nhat Hanh • Cultivating the Mind of Love
Walking joyfully in the ultimate dimension, walk with your feet, not with your head. If you walk with your head, you’ll get lost.
Thich Nhat Hanh • Cultivating the Mind of Love
the tree in the ultimate dimension. When you touch the wave, you touch the water at the same time. That is our practice. If you’re with a group of friends practicing mindfulness while sitting, walking, or drinking tea, you’ll be able to touch the ultimate dimension while living in the historical dimension. Your fear, anxiety, and anger will be tran
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Look at the flowers, butterflies, trees, and children with the eyes of compassion. This is a deep practice, taught in the Lotus Sutra. The energy of compassion in you will transform life and make it more beautiful. Compassion is always born of understanding, and understanding is the result of looking deeply.
Thich Nhat Hanh • Cultivating the Mind of Love
In an emerald creek, water hides a dragon king. In a cold pond, it contains the bright full moon.
Thich Nhat Hanh • Cultivating the Mind of Love
To begin this practice, look into the nature of impermanence. Then continue and look into the nature of nonself and interbeing. Just by doing that, everything will be revealed to you in its entirety, the one in the many and the many in the one.
Thich Nhat Hanh • Cultivating the Mind of Love
You walk and you free yourself of all worries, anxieties, projects, and attachments.
Thich Nhat Hanh • Cultivating the Mind of Love
If after reading the Avatamsaka Sutra, you go out for walking meditation, the world will be a little brighter. There will be more light, more space, more flowers, and more oceans.
Thich Nhat Hanh • Cultivating the Mind of Love
You cannot achieve enlightenment by locking yourself in your room. Transformation is possible only when you are in touch. When you touch the ground, you can feel the stability of the earth and feel confident.