ii. 2/3 Subtle - aligning with self and Self

My belief is that tears, although they look like a mere emotive reaction, are much more: a deeply free action that many do not enjoy. They proceed from deep inside, where we are most truly ourselves. Tears reveal the depths at which and from which we care.

—Richard Rohr

When was the last time you shed tears for the planet? For another human? For yourself?

How do you know what you truly care about if you have not cried for it.

We can’t shed tears for those or that outside of us unless we can shed tears for ourselves.

“Show me your original face

The one you had before your parents were born

Being born is like being invited to a grand masquerade. As babies, we begin the journey as pure presence, undefined and open. But soon, we are given a name, a role, a place in the world. A mask is placed upon us, crafted by our culture, family, and ex

“The Japanese American Zen master Shunryu Suzuki

said, “Life is like getting on a small boat that is about to sail

out to sea and sink.’”

Impermanence (and change as a function of impermanence) is the one truth .

You are impermanent even from moment to moment. Right now you are not the same person you were 5 minutes ago.

Each moment is not just a death, but a renewal, a rebirth.

Do you still choose to get on the boat and live a life?

Let us visualize the waves on the ocean, several waves appearing on the surface of the ocean. Some waves are big, there are those that are small, and each wave seems to have its own life. A wave may have ideas like, “I am a wave. I am only a wave among many waves. I am smaller than the other wave. I am less beautiful. I last less than the other wav... See more

Thich Nhat Hanh • Rest In the River

bridging 2-3: noticing our individuality and our unity, like the wave in water.

While living the life of a wave, a wave can live a life of the water.

Ask people to sit in those different perspectives - the silence that hears your thoughts is the water. Thoughts are the wave

Thich Nhat Hanh

Mindfulness is the capacity of being there body and mind united. When you drink your orange juice, drink mindfully and you will enjoy your juice because you are really there one hundred per cent.

Thich Nhat Hanh • Rest In the River

Thich Nhat Hanh

And it should be effortless. The habit energy is struggle. The natural state is effortless ease - to enjoy the miracle of that moment.

Our practice is based on the insight of nonduality—anger is not an enemy. Both mindfulness and anger are ourselves. Mindfulness is there not to suppress or fight against anger, but to recognize and take care of it—like a big brother helping a younger brother. So the energy of anger is recognized and embraced tenderly by the energy of mindfulness.

Thich Nhat Hanh • Thich Nhat Hanh on How to Heal Your Inner Child

Understanding emotions

Thich Nhat Hanh

9/17/20

Lion’s Roar

We have a lamp inside us, the lamp of mindfulness, which we can light anytime. The oil of that lamp is our breathing, our steps, and our peaceful smile. We have to light up that lamp of mindfulness so the light will shine out and the darkness will dissipate and cease. Our practice is to light up the lamp.

Thich Nhat Hanh on How to Heal Your Inner Child

Turn to the wounded child with your life.

Thich Nhat Hanh

7/10/24

Lion’s Roar

Ep. 267 – The Mystical Nature of Golf

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Sport as practice

If our doctors tell us that we have a terminal illness and can expect to live only another year, or five years, how would we respond? In fact, we confront exactly the same question if we are still healthy and have a life expectancy of fifteen or twenty more years.”

“The Virtues of Aging”

Jimmy Carter