Sunday, October 9, 2022

Thích Nhất Hạnh: Cultivating Understanding

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Cultivating Understanding

The important mindfulness practice of cultivating understanding means first of all understanding suffering: the suffering inside us and the suffering of others. A human being without understanding is a human being without compassion, utterly alone, cut off, and isolated. To connect with others, however, we first have to be willing to look deeply into ourselves.
 
Thích Nhất Hạnh
Excerpted from No Mud, No Lotus:
The Art of Transforming Suffering 
 

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