Your True Home by Thich Nhat Hanh

Author:Thich Nhat Hanh
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
ISBN: 9780834827684
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Published: 2015-06-24T11:09:02.601609+00:00

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The First Noble Truth

THE BUDDHA TOLD us to recognize the First Noble Truth, the truth of suffering, and to look deeply in order to discover the Second Noble Truth, the cause of suffering. That is the only way the Fourth Noble Truth, the path to transform suffering into happiness, can reveal itself. So we have to emphasize the role of suffering. If we are so afraid of suffering, we have no chance.

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Mindfulness Bell

WHEN I WAS A young monk in Vietnam, each village temple had a big bell, like those in Christian churches in Europe and the United States. Whenever the bell was invited to sound, all the villagers would stop what they were doing and pause for a few moments to breathe in and out in mindfulness. At Plum Village, the community where I live in France, we do the same. Every time we hear the bell, we go back to ourselves and enjoy our breathing. When we breathe in, we silently say, “Listen, listen,” and when we breathe out, we say, “This wonderful sound brings me back to my true home.”

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