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“The root-word “buddha” means to wake up, to know, to understand; and he or she who wakes up and understands is call a Buddha. It is as simple as that. The capacity to wake up, to understand, and to love is called Buddha nature.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Buddha
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Awakening
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Understanding
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Wisdom
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Nature
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“To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Truth
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Reality
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Perception
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Awareness
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Wisdom
3.
“To educate people for peace, we can use words or we can speak with our lives.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Peace
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Education
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Wisdom
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Action
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Teaching
4.
“If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Insight
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Wisdom
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Impermanence
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Mindfulness
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Awareness
5.
“Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Understanding
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Knowledge
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Wisdom
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Learning
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Openness
6.
“There is no enlightenment outside of daily life.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Enlightenment
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Daily-life
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Presence
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Wisdom
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Mindfulness
7.
“It is my conviction that there is no way to peace – peace is the way.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Peace
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Conviction
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Path
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Wisdom
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Understanding
8.
“You have to do it by yourself. You can not do it alone.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Self-reliance
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Support
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Journey
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Effort
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Wisdom
9.
“We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Rest
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Healing
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Wisdom
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Relaxation
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Balance
10.
“You cannot transmit wisdom and insight to another person. The seed is already there. A good teacher touches the seed, allowing it to wake up, to sprout, and to grow.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Wisdom
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Teaching
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Growth
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Learning
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Enlightenment
11.
“At first glance, that might seem a little silly: why put so much stress on a simple thing? But that’s precisely the point.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Simplicity
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Awareness
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Perspective
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Wisdom
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Understanding
12.
“Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Doubt
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Curiosity
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Wisdom
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Learning
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Truth
13.
“When reality is perceived in its nature of ultimate perfection, the practitioner has reached a level of wisdom called non-discrimination mind – a wondrous communion in which there is no longer any distinction made between subject and object.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Wisdom
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Perception
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Nonduality
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Awareness
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Enlightenment
14.
“As a human being, you have the right to get angry; but as a practitioner, you do not have the right to stop practicing.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Anger
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Practice
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Self-Control
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Mindfulness
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Wisdom
15.
“Each thought, each action in the sunlight of awareness becomes sacred.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Awareness
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Mindfulness
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Spirituality
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Wisdom
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Consciousness
16.
“Contemplate to see that awakened people, while not being enslaved by the work of serving living beings, never abandon their work of serving living beings.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Awakening
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Service
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Wisdom
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Awareness
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Duty
17.
“For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Perception
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Openness
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Wisdom
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Reality
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Awareness
18.
“If you are truly present and know how to take care of the present moment as best you can, you are doing your best for the future already.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Present
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Mindfulness
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Future
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Awareness
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Wisdom
19.
“Maybe we have enough technology to save the planet but it is not enough because the people are not ready.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Technology
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Planet
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Awareness
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Responsibility
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Wisdom
20.
“If you're a politician, you might want to learn the Buddhist way of negotiation. Restoring communication and bringing back reconciliation is clear and concrete in Buddhism.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Negotiation
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Peace
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Communication
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Reconciliation
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Wisdom
21.
“To abandon the present in order to look for things in the future is to throw away the substance and hold onto the shadow.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Present
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Awareness
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Mindfulness
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Illusion
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Wisdom
22.
“We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Possibilities
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Awareness
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Present
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Mindfulness
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Wisdom
23.
“People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena. To see one in all and all in one is to break through the great barrier which narrows one’s perception of reality.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Interdependence
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Perception
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Reality
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Awareness
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Wisdom
24.
“The bad things, don’t do them. The good things, try to do them. Try to purify, subdue your own mind. That is the teaching of all buddhas.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Virtue
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Wisdom
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Purity
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Mindfulness
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Discipline
25.
“In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Healing
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Self-care
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Wisdom
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Awareness
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Reflection
26.
“Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Meditation
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Insight
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Action
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Awareness
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Wisdom
27.
“Wisdom and joy arise when you learn to exist now rather than in the nonexistent past or future.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Wisdom
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Joy
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Present
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Mindfulness
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Awareness
28.
“It is not a matter of faith, it is a matter of practice.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Faith
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Practice
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Action
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Wisdom
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Growth
29.
“If we take something to be the truth, we may cling to it so much that when the truth comes and knocks on our door, we won’t want to let it in.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Truth
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Attachment
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Awareness
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Perception
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Wisdom
30.
“The Buddha always reminds us that our afflictions, including our fear and our desiring, are born from our ignorance. That is why in order to dissipate fear, we have to remove wrong perception.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Fear
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Ignorance
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Awareness
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Wisdom
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Freedom
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