Sublime

Although there are birth, sickness, old age, and death, now that I have a path of practice, I have nothing more to fear.

Suggested Practice Labeling As you move through your day, notice the many times that you label and categorize objects, experiences, and people: telephone, banana, morning, evening, happiness, brother, sister, pleasant, unpleasant, boring, and so forth. When you notice yourself labeling, take a few seconds to see if you are able to connect with anot

Teishin,

attainment. To call him a tathagata, or one who appears as he truly is, is to indicate his nature.

In all the practice centers in the tradition of Plum Village (Thich Nhat Hanh’s monastery in France), whenever the phone rings or the clock chimes in the dining hall, people stop everything they are doing and breathe

This haiku is a deep reflection on the truth of reality, which is by nature transient and fleeting. When we are unable to accept this truth we become distressed. However, recognition of this truth could at least bring a sense of poignancy to all of us human beings, who inevitably experience and witness it. There is even an aesthetic of this recogni

Thay shares this practice as “offering joy to one person in the morning and helping relieve the suffering of one person in the afternoon.”

Records of High Monks and The Gateless Gate

Fifth Letter