We have to look deeply to see how we grow our food, so we can eat in ways that preserve our collective well-being, minimize our suffering and the suffering of other species, and allow the earth to continue to be a source of life for all of us. If, while we eat, we destroy living beings or the environment, we are eating the flesh of our own sons and daughters. We need to look deeply together and discuss how to eat, what to eat, and what to resist.


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Many people are alive but don't touch the miracle of being alive.
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Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in...
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Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice... N...
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It is possible to live happily in the here and now. So many conditions of happiness are available—...
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To be loved means to be recognized as existing.
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We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge i...
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It is said that God has created man in his own image. But it may be that humankind has created God i...
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You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That ins...
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We often think of peace as the absence of war, that if powerful countries would reduce their weapon ...
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It is my conviction that there is no way to peace - peace is the way.
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Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.
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When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffer...
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Without suffering, there's no happiness. So we shouldn't discriminate against the mud. We have to le...
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Those who are without compassion cannot see what is seen with the eyes of compassion.
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It is possible to live twenty-four hours a day in a state of love. Every movement, every glance, eve...
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If we do not know how to take care of ourselves and to love ourselves, we cannot take care of the pe...
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Breathing in, there is only the present moment.
Breathing out, it is a wonderful moment.
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My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions a...
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To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see re...
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Impermanence and selflessness are not negative aspect of life, but the very foundation on which life...
THICH NHAT HANH
Maitri can be translated as "love" or "loving kindness". Some Buddhist teachers prefer "loving kindn...
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The leaves that remain are only a very small part of the tea. The tea that goes into me is a much bi...
THICH NHAT HANH
drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it as the axis on which the world revolves
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If you want to relax the worry-tightened muscles in your face, let the half smile come to your face....
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While washing the dishes, you might be thinking about the tea afterwards, and so try to get them out...
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Dear master, I think it would be better for each of us to watch ourself. To look after oneself means...
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Reality is reality. It transcends every concept. There is no concept which can adequately describe i...
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Work is only a part of life. But work is life only when done in mindfulness. Otherwise, one becomes ...
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Now I see that if one doesn’t know how to die, one can hardly know how to live—because death is ...
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Attachment to the false view of self means belief in the presence of unchanging entities which exist...
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failures are not your own self. See to it that you are free from them. Only when you can relinquish ...
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Live the actual moment. Only this actual moment is life. Don’t be attached to the future. Don’t ...
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As a Buddhist Sutra hears the voice of the Bodhisattva of compassion: The wondrous voice, the voice ...
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Of course, walking alone on a country path, it is easier to maintain mindfulness. If there’s a fri...
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Then Allen said, “I’ve discovered a way to have a lot more time. In the past, I used to look at ...
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Only this actual moment is life.
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The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. The most important person is always...
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Mindfulness is like that—it is the miracle which can call back in a flash our dispersed mind and r...
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Half-smile when you first wake up in the morning Hang a branch, any other sign, or even the word “...
THICH NHAT HANH
Don’t do any task in order to get it over with. Resolve to do each job in a relaxed way, with all ...
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Everyday we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green ...
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We talk about social service, service to the people, service to humanity, service to others who are ...
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The raft is used to cross the river. It isn't to be carried around on your shoulders. The finger whi...
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I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a...
THICH NHAT HANH
If while washing dishes, we think only of the cup of tea that awaits us, thus hurrying to get the di...
THICH NHAT HANH
Your breathing should flow gracefully,
like a river, like a watersnake crossing
the water,...
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In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it...
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Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts. ...
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To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept ...
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Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed...
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