LIVING BUDDHA, LIVING CHRIST
Thich Nhat Hanh
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"We have different roots, traditions, and ways of seeing, but we share the common qualities of love, understanding, and acceptance. For our dialogue to be open, we need to open our hearts, set aside our prejudices, listen deeply, and represent truthfully what we know and understand."
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"The living Christ is the Christ of Love who is always generating love, moment after moment."
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"In Christianity, faith means trust in God, the One who represents love, understanding, dignity, and truth."
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"The insight of interbeing…can be obtained when you contemplate phenomena – a magnolia, a squirrel, or a cloud."
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"We are all, at the same time, the sons and daughters of God."
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"There is the Buddha within ourselves, who transcends space and time. This is the living Buddha, the Buddha of the ultimate reality, the one who transcends all ideas and notions and is available to us at any time."
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"Loving God is loving the living beings we see and touch in our daily life."
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"Different religious traditions can engage in dialogue with one another in a true spirit of ecumenism. Dialogue can be fruitful and enriching if both sides are truly open. If they really believe that there are valuable elements in each other's tradition and that they can learn from one another, they will also rediscover many valuable aspects of their own tradition through such an encounter. Peace will be a beautiful flower blooming on this field of practice."
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"According to Mahayana Buddhism, the Buddha is still alive….If you are attentive enough, you will be able to hear his teachings from the voice of a pebble, a leaf, or a cloud in the sky."
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"When we are mindful, touching deeply the present moment, we can see and listen deeply, and the fruits are always understanding, acceptance, love, and the desire to relieve suffering and bring joy."
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"Everything is linked to the presence of God in every moment."
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"I urge you to study and practice the best values of your religious tradition and to share them with young people in ways they can understand. If we meditate together as a family, a community, a city, and a nation, we will be able to identify the causes of our suffering and find ways out."
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"Because everything is made of everything else, nothing can be by itself alone."
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"The seed of the Kingdom of God is within us. If we know how to plant that seed in the moist soil of our daily lives, it will grow and become a large bush on which many birds can take refuge."
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"When we look into the heart of a flower, we see clouds, sunshine, minerals, time, the earth, and everything else in the cosmos in it….In fact, the flower is made entirely of non-flower elements; it has no independent, individual existence. It 'inter-is' with everything else in the universe."
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"A human being is a mini-God, a micro-theos who has been created in order to participate in the divinity of God."
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"We must glean the best values of all [spiritual] traditions in order to give peace a chance."
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"You are interrelated to everyone and everything…your every act is linked with the whole of humankind and the whole cosmos."
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"Really hearing a bird sing or really seeing a blue sky, we touch the seed of the Holy Spirit within us."
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"We human beings can be nourished by the best values of many traditions."
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"Real love never ends."
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"When love and compassion are present, understanding deepens."
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"You are not separate from other beings or the environment. This understanding cannot be merely intellectual. It must be experiential, the insight gained by deep touching and deep looking in a daily life of prayer, contemplation, and meditation."
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"One flower is made of the whole cosmos."
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"When we are in touch with the highest spirit in ourselves, we too are a Buddha, filled with the Holy Spirit, and we become very tolerant, very open, very deep, and very understanding."
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