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Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace
We walk all the time, but usually it is more like running. When we walk like that, we print anxiety and sorrow on the Earth. We have to walk in a way that we only print peace and serenity on Earth. Every one of us can do that provided that we want it very much. Any child can do that. If we can take one step like that, we can take two, three, four, and five. When we are able to take one step peacefully, happily, we are for the cause of peace and happiness for the whole of humankind. Walking meditation is a wonderful practice.
Walking meditation is a wonderful practice
Thich Nhat Hanh, Friends on the Path
What is most important is to find peace and to share it with others.
What is most important is to find peace
Thich Nhat Hanh, Taming the Tiger Within
If you allow compassion to spring from your heart, the fire of anger will die right away.
The fire of anger will die
Thich Nhat Hanh, Creating True Peace
The war stops and starts with you and with me. Every morning when you open your eyes, the potential for violence and war begins. So every morning, when you open your eyes, please, water the seeds of compassion and nonviolence. Try selecting a mindfulness practice that helps you transform your own internal conflicts. Let peace begin with you.
War can be stopped
Thich Nhat Hanh, Creating True Peace
Many parents take care not to make noise when their child is sleeping; they know how to move about the house silently so they do not wake up their child. Protecting your child from violence is a similar practice. Every time violence is about to arise, you have to be careful and do something. Practice mindful breathing, and remember what you promised: "My child is here. I have to protect her by not allowing the violence in me to erupt."
Protect child from violence
Thich Nhat Hanh, Creating True Peace
Meditation for Embracing and Nourishing Positive Emotions
1. Breathing in, I experience calm in me. Breathing out, I smile to the calm in me.
2. Breathing in, I experience joy in me. Breathig out, I smile to the joy in me.
3. Breathing in, I experience equanimity in me. Breathing out, I smile to the equanimity in me.
4. Breathing in, I experience openness in me. Breathing out, I smile to the openness in me.
5. Breathing in, I experience happiness in me. Breathing out, I smile to the happiness in me.
Breathing meditation
Thich Nhat Hanh, Creating True Peace
An attitude of openness, the willingness to recognize and accept the diversity of human experience and the spiritual values of other traditions and cultures, is essential in the practice of nonviolence. We create true peace when we are inclusive of others. Yet inclusion and nonattachment to our opnions are sometimes difficult to practice. Exclusion, getting caught by our views, is a deep-seated habit that arises from fear and misunderstanding of others. To transform our habit of excluding others, we must practice and develop understanding and compassion in all parts of our life.
Peace via inclusion
Thich Nhat Hanh, Creating True Peace
The spiritual teachings of all traditions help us cultivate the seeds of compassion, nonviolence, inclusiveness, and reconciliation. They show us the way out of fear and conflict: Hatred cannot be stopped by hatred. Violence should not be responded to with violence. The only way out of violence and conflict is for us to embrace the practice of peace, to think and act with compassion, love, and understanding.
All traditions teach nonviolence
Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ
We often think of peace as the absence of war, that if the powerful countries would reduce their weapons' arsenals, we could have peace. But if we look deeply into the weapons, we see our own minds — our prejudices, fears, and ignorance. Even if we transport all the bombs to the moon, the roots of war and the roots of the bombs are still here, in our hearts and minds, and sooner or later we will make new bombs. To work for peace is to uproot war from ourselves and from the hearts of men and women.
To work for peace is to uproot war from ourselves
Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ
The Buddha described the seed of mindfulness that is in each of us as the "womb of the Buddha" (tathagatagarbha). We are all mothers of the Buddha, because we are all pregnant with the potential for awakening.
We are all pregnant with the potential for awakening.