You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment

By Thich Nhat Hanh

During this ebook Thich Nhat Hanh, the well known Zen monk, writer, and meditation grasp, distills the essence of Buddhist inspiration and perform, emphasizing the facility of mindfulness to remodel our lives. “Mindfulness isn't really an evasion or an escape,” he explains. “It capability being right here, current, and absolutely alive. it truly is real freedom—and with out this freedom, there's no happiness.”

Based on a retreat that Thich Nhat Hanh led for Westerners, this e-book bargains various easy, potent practices for cultivating mindfulness, together with wisdom of respiring and jogging, deep listening, and skillful speech. You Are Here additionally deals tips on therapeutic emotional discomfort and manifesting true love and compassion in our relations with others.

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Not anything is misplaced. This perception has the facility to get us out of our felony. allow us to get back to the flower. The flower is filled with the entire parts of the cosmos. It has every little thing in it, and it's with out just one factor: separate lifestyles. really, separate life is whatever we should always now not want for. Isolation is affliction, like being the thing of discrimination. A separate life is whatever i'd by no means wish. “Interbeing” is a higher verb to take advantage of than “being,” simply because i'm in you and also you are in me. this is often the educating of the Christian Gospels in addition. the daddy is within the Son, the Son is in you, and also you are within the Son. you're within the Father, i'm in you, and also you are in me. that's interbeing. we will be able to reach this perception during the perform of deep having a look. utilizing the keys of impermanence and non-self, we open the door of fact. this can be the paintings of the meditator. commencing the door of truth and searching at it brings us an outstanding pleasure simply because our worry and affliction evaporate. that's well worth the attempt, isn’t it? How do you employ some time? you'll want to make a dwelling, definitely, and you've got to help your family. yet do you are making the hassle to rearrange your lifestyles so that you can do a little deep having a look? that would deliver you pleasure, freedom from worry, and nice health and wellbeing. you need to no longer permit your self drown in an ocean of worry and agony. There are between us those that have practiced deep having a look and shared their perception with us. reap the benefits of that. stroll at the non secular direction that allows you to contact the depths of your being so you might loose your self from worry, concerns, and melancholy. i've got my very own model of a recognized word of Shakespeare’s: “To be or to not be—that isn't the query. ” the true query is whether or not you could contact the character of no-birth and no-death. There exist many pairs of conceptual opposites, akin to being and nonbeing, beginning and demise, arriving and departing, all and sundry. we must always put off those pairs of opposites. Doing that's figuring out the center means, that's what Buddhism teaches. the center means ability going past a majority of these pairs of opposites. It’s vital to appreciate, although, that once utilizing the keys of impermanence and non-self to open the door of fact, we don’t desire the keys anymore. in case you have used the main of impermanence intelligently to open the door of truth, you don't want that key anymore. the secret's now not your objective, neither is it an idol to be worshiped. The Dharma promises instruments, yet please don't dangle to the Dharma. unencumber your self from it! You have been supplied with a raft to pass the river of discomfort, yet you mustn't worship it. it is important to exploit the raft with loads of intelligence to get to the opposite facet, yet as soon as you’ve arrived there, you don’t desire it anymore. You shouldn’t placed the raft in your again and hold it round with you on land. the lessons of impermanence and non-self are instruments you want to paintings with, yet you shouldn't get stuck in them. when you do, impermanence turns into simply one other proposal, and so does non-self.

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