The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation
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The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation
Contemplate to see that awakened people, while not being enslaved by the work of serving living beings, never abandon their work of serving living beings.
Thich Nhat Hanh, Vo-Dihn Mai, • The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation
Every object of the mind is itself mind.
Thich Nhat Hanh, Vo-Dihn Mai, • The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation
A person who looks at the table and can see the universe is a person who can see the way.
Thich Nhat Hanh, Vo-Dihn Mai, • The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation
Resolve to help that person get out of his present situation through the most silent and unpretentious means possible.
Thich Nhat Hanh, Vo-Dihn Mai, • The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation
Recall a simple and ancient truth: the subject of knowledge cannot exist independently from the object of knowledge. To see is to see something. To hear is to hear something.
Thich Nhat Hanh, Vo-Dihn Mai, • The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation
Mind contemplating mind is like an object and its shadow—the object cannot shake the shadow off. The two are one. Wherever the mind goes, it still lies in the harness of the mind.
Thich Nhat Hanh, Vo-Dihn Mai, • The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation
We must learn to see that the person in front of us is ourself and that we are that person.
Thich Nhat Hanh, Vo-Dihn Mai, • The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation
“The Bodhisattva helps row living beings to the other shore but in fact no living beings are being helped to the other shore.”
Thich Nhat Hanh, Vo-Dihn Mai, • The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation
See that you are at the same time your life and your death; that the two are not enemies but two aspects of the same reality.