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Thich Nhat Hanh\u2019s pioneering teachings on mindfulness<\/em>, \u201cinterbeing<\/em>\u201d and engaged ethics<\/em> have opened new ways forward for meditators, peace-makers, activists, educators, business people and politicians around the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mindfulness<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Thich Nhat Hanh began teaching mindfulness in the West in the early 1970s. His 1975 book The Miracle of Mindfulness <\/em>presented new practices he had developed to inspire his students and social workers back in Vietnam, to help prevent them burning out in the turmoil and challenges of war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mindfulness allows you to live deeply every moment that is given you to live.<\/p>Thich Nhat Hanh<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t think that I would have had the inner stamina, the depth of optimism, the depth of commitment, the depth of the inspiration if I had not been accompanied by the teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh.<\/p>Christiana Figueres, UNFCCC Chair of the Paris Climate Agreement<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Thich Nhat Hanh found new ways to teach the art of mindful breathing and mindful walking as the foundation of meditation. He created simple practices like mindful teeth-brushing, mindful dishwashing and “tangerine meditation”. He developed a new style of walking meditation, and ways to combine deep listening with mindfulness of compassion to open up communication. He initiated a gentle way of guiding groups in meditation, so that even beginners could use breathing meditation as a way to look deeply, face challenges and heal, rather than escape the present moment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breathing mindfully helps us handle strong emotions, like anger, fear, anxiety and despair, and it helps us generate moments of happiness in daily life. For Thich Nhat Hanh, mindfulness is an energy to be cultivated all day long<\/a>, to sustain compassionate action so we can help relieve suffering in ourselves and the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Path not a Tool<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Thich Nhat Hanh always teaches mindfulness within the context of ethics. With the energy of mindfulness comes mindful consumption, mindful relationships, and ethical livelihood. You cannot separate mindfulness from mindful speaking, acting, working, and engaging in the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mindfulness is not a tool or instrument to get something else<\/a>\u2060\u2014whether that something is healing, success, wealth or winning. True mindfulness is a path, an ethical way of living, and every step along that path can already bring happiness, freedom and wellbeing, to ourselves and others. Happiness and wellbeing are not an individual matter. We inter-are with all people and all species.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Miracle of Mindfulness<\/figcaption>\n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
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Peace Is Every Step<\/figcaption>\n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
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The Mindfulness Survival Kit<\/figcaption>\n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Ecology<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Thich Nhat Hanh’s teachings on “interbeing” (a term he coined in the 1980’s) have led the way in Buddhist deep ecology. Referencing ancient Buddhist texts, such as the Diamond <\/a>Sutra<\/a>, he explains Buddhist teaching of “no-self” in the light of ecology: “we cannot separate human beings from the environment. The environment is in human beings and human beings are part of the environment… [Even] the distinction between living beings and non-living beings disappears after meditation.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He advocates a human-based solution to solving climate crisis. \u201cWe need more than just new technology to protect the planet,\u201d says Thich Nhat Hanh. \u201cWe need real community and co-operation. We need to re-establish true communication\u2014true communion\u2014with ourselves, with the Earth, and with one another.\u201d Only when we can touch real love for the Earth, he says, will we have the immense energy we need to make the radical changes necessary to save our civilisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There’s a revolution that needs to happen and it starts from inside each one of us. We need to wake up and fall in love with Earth. Our personal and collective happiness and survival depends on it.<\/p>Thich Nhat Hanh<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

“This kind of enlightenment is crucial to a collective awakening. In Buddhism we talk of meditation as an act of awakening, to be awake to the fact that the earth is in danger and living species are in danger.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Collective Action<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In 2007 he led tens of thousands of his followers in shifting to a vegan diet. \u201cIn the past Buddhists were vegetarian with the intention to nourish our compassion towards animals. Now we know we should be vegan in order to protect the Earth.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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\n Taking Refuge in Mother Earth \n <\/h5>\n

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Allow yourself to be embraced by the Earth in this deep teaching from Thich Nhat Hanh.<\/p>\n

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\n Science, Mother Earth and Einstein\u2019s Cosmic Religion \n <\/h5>\n

Thich Nhat Hanh<\/p>\n

Thich Nhat Hanh\u2019s vision for a science-inspired cosmic religion.<\/p>\n

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“In Buddhism we speak of collective action,” he says. “Sometimes something wrong is going on in the world and we think it is the other people who are doing it and we are not doing it. But you are part of the wrongdoing by the way you live your life.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“That is why to learn to change our way of daily life, so that there is more mindfulness, more peace, more love is a very urgent thing. And we can do that beginning now, today.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Activists have to have a spiritual practice in order to help them to suffer less, to nourish happiness and to handle suffering, so they will be effective in helping the world. With anger and frustration you cannot do much.”<\/p>\n\n\n

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Love Letter to The Earth<\/figcaption>\n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
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The World We Have<\/figcaption>\n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
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The Diamond That Cuts Through Illusion<\/figcaption>\n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
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The Sun My Heart<\/figcaption>\n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n
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<\/span>Watch Thich Nhat Hanh’s Ecology Teachings<\/span><\/h5>\n
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