Frases de Thich Nhat Hanh

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“Cuando otra persona te hace sufrir, es porque sufre profundamente dentro de sí mismo, y su sufrimiento se está extendiendo. Él no necesita castigo; él necesita ayuda. Ese es el mensaje que está enviando.”

“Por consiguiente nadie muere, por el simple hecho de que en realidad nadie ha nacido. El momento de la concepción en el útero de nuestra madre no es el momento en que empezamos a existir. Existimos antes, en nuestra madre, en nuestro padre, en nuestros antepasados. No hemos surgido de la nada. Somos una continuación. Somos como el río en la superficie de la tierra, que es una continuación de la nube en del cielo.”

“Dejar ir nos da libertad y, la libertad es la única condición para la felicidad. Si en nuestro corazón todavía nos aferramos a cualquier cosa --ira, ansiedad o posesiones-, no podemos ser libres.”

“[…] la práctica espiritual consiste más en reflexionar sobre las preguntas que en hallar respuestas.”

“Camina como si estuvieras besando la tierra con tus pies.”

“Dejar ir nos da libertad y la libertad es la única condición para la felicidad.”

“Otras personas pueden ocupar tu país, incluso pueden ponerte en prisión, pero no pueden quitarte tu verdadero hogar y tu libertad.”

“No podemos comenzar a describir todos los efectos del sol, ese gran corazón fuera de nuestro cuerpo.”

“Debido al apego, la ira y la insensatez, he cometido innumerables errores al hablar, escribir y pensar. Inclino la cabeza y me arrepiento. Prometo desde hoy comenzar de nuevo, vivir día y noche con atención plena, y no repetir mis errores anteriores.”

“Debes saber cómo desembarazarte de las cosas que te hacen sufrir. Puedes alcanzar la felicidad soltando…, soltando incluso tus ideas sobre la felicidad. Quizás creas que para ser feliz debes cumplir determinados requisitos, pero, si observas profundamente, descubrirás que son precisamente esas mismas nociones las que te impiden alcanzar la felicidad y acaban haciéndote sufrir.”

“Con el uso hábil del concepto de vacuidad, podemos obtener la visión profunda de ella. Cuando el fuego se manifieste, consumirá la cerilla; cuando la visión profunda se manifieste, destruirá el concepto de vacuidad.”

“[…] el hecho de reflexionar sobre una pregunta – explorar todas sus facetas a lo largo del tiempo – nos pone en contacto con el misterio de la vida. Reflexionar sobre las preguntas nos acostumbra a la naturaleza inabarcable de la vida y nos permite comprender las cosas desde diversos puntos de vista.”

“Si tocas una cosa con conciencia profunda, tocas todo.”

“Cuando comprendes las raíces de la ira en ti mismo y en el otro, tu mente disfrutará de verdadera paz, alegría y ligereza”

“Debemos recordar que nuestro cuerpo no se limita a lo que se encuentra dentro del límite de nuestra piel. Nuestro cuerpo es mucho más inmenso.”

“I am determined to practice deep listening. I am determined to practice loving speech.”

“Being vegetarian here also means that we do not consume dairy and egg products, because they are products of the meat industry. If we stop consuming, they will stop producing. Only collective awakening can create enough determination for action.”

“If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.”

“You are not an observer, you are a participant.”

“I would not look upon anger as something foreign to me that I have to fight… I have to deal with my anger with care, with love, with tenderness, with nonviolence.”

“Those who are without compassion cannot see what is seen with the eyes of compassion.”

“Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.”

“When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?”

“It is possible to live twenty-four hours a day in a state of love. Every movement, every glance, every thought, and every word can be infused with love.”

“The fact is that when you make the other suffer, he will try to find relief by making you suffer more. The result is an escalation of suffering on both sides.”

“Being rich is an obstacle to loving. When you are rich, you want to continue to be rich, and so you end up devoting all your time, all your energy, in your daily life to stay rich.”

“Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge.”

“Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.”

“I have lost my smile,
but don't worry.
The dandelion has it.”

“Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.”

“A human being is like a television set with millions of channels…. We cannot let just one channel dominate us. We have the seed of everything in us, and we have to recover our own sovereignty.”

“As long as you find something beautiful, good, and true to believe in and abide by, you have the equivalent of God in your life.”

“May our heart's garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers.”

“If you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything.”

“We will not just say, "I love him very much," but instead, "I will do something so that he will suffer less." The mind of compassion is truly present when it is effective in removing another person's suffering.”

“An oak tree is an oak tree. That is all it has to do. If an oak tree is less than an oak tree, then we are all in trouble.”

“Your true home is in the here and the now. It is not limited by time, space, nationality, or race.”

“When our beliefs are based on our own direct experience of reality and not on notions offered by others, no one can remove these beliefs from us.”

“Happiness does not come from consumption of things.”

“The Three Kinds of Pride are: (1) thinking I am better than the other(s); (2) thinking I am worse than the other(s); and (3) thinking I am just as good as the other(s).”

“Sometimes it is better not to talk about art by using the word "art". If we just act with awareness and integrity, our art will flower, and we don't have to talk about it at all.”

“People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore.”

“Each thought, each action in the sunlight of awareness becomes sacred.”

“Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice… No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.”