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Nhat Hanh Quotes about Understanding

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Most of your suffering comes from the lack of understanding of yourself and others.

Most of your suffering comes from the lack of understanding of yourself and others.

Understanding, Suffering, Lack Of Understanding

No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.

Understanding, Blame, Argument

Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.131, ReadHowYouWant.com

It's like growing lotus flowers. You cannot grow lotus flowers on marble. You have to grow them on the mud. Without mud you cannot have lotus flowers. Without suffering, you have no way to learn how to be understanding and compassionate.

Attitude, Flower, Understanding

"Being Peace in a World of Trauma". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. January 4, 2007.

Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding that arises from concentration.

Meditation Practice, Silence, Understanding

Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Present Moment Wonderful Moment: Mindfulness Verses for Daily Living: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.41, ReadHowYouWant.com

In each of us is a seed of understanding. The seed is God.

Faith, Understanding, Faith In God

The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding.

Understanding, Mind, Helping

Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Wisdom from Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life”, p.13, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

Reality, Order, Understanding

Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. March, 2010.

Understanding means throwing away your knowledge.

Mean, Understanding, Throwing

Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.62, ReadHowYouWant.com

A look filled with understanding, an accepting smile, a loving word, a meal shared in warmth and awareness are the things which create happiness in the present moment. By nourishing awareness in the present moment, you can avoid causing suffering to yourself and those around you. The way you look at others, your smile, and your small acts of caring can create happiness. True happiness does not depend on wealth or fame.

Caring, Small Acts, Understanding

Thich Nhat Hanh (2010). “Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha”, p.299, ReadHowYouWant.com

If we face our unpleasant feelings with care, affection, and nonviolence, we can transform them into a kind of energy that is healthy and has the capacity to nourish us. By the work of mindful observation, our unpleasant feelings can illuminate so much for us, offering us insight and understanding into ourselves and society.

Offering, Understanding, Healthy

Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Wisdom from Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life”, p.41, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.

Compassion, Meditation, Understanding

"Burma's Monks: Already a Success". content.time.com. October 12, 2007.

The reason we might lose love is because we are always looking outside of us, thinking that the object or action of love is out there. That is why we allow the love, the harmony, the mature understanding, to slip away from ourselves.

Love Is, Thinking, Understanding

"Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". Interview with bell hooks, plumvillage.org. January 1, 2000.

By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person.

Leadership, Understanding, Listening

Thich Nhat Hanh, Sherab Chodzin Kohn (2011). “True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart”, p.37, Shambhala Publications

Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.

Understanding, Listening, Suffering

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

Wisdom, Mean, Understanding

Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.62, ReadHowYouWant.com

If we know how to create the energy of love, understanding, compassion, and beauty, then we can contribute a lot to the world.

Beauty, Compassion, Understanding

Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “The World We Have: A Buddhist Approach to Peace and Ecology: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.72, ReadHowYouWant.com

When we say, "I take refuge in the Buddha," we should also understand that "The Buddha takes refuge in me," because without the second part the first part is not complete. The Buddha needs us for awakening, understanding, and love to be real things and not just concepts. They must be real things that have real effects on life. Whenever I say, "I take refuge in the Buddha," I hear "the Buddha takes refuge in me."

Real, Understanding, And Love

Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.25, ReadHowYouWant.com

It is possible that the next Buddha will not take the form of an individual. The next Buddha may take the form of a community -a community practicing understanding and loving kindness, a community practicing mindful living. This may be the most important thing we can do for the survival of the earth.

Kindness, Community, Understanding

Words can travel thousands of miles. May my words create mutual understanding and love. May they be as beautiful as gems, as lovely as flowers.

Beautiful, Flower, Understanding

FaceBook post by Thich Nhat Hanh from Mar 30, 2016

I know that we do not know enough. We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

Reality, Order, Understanding

Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com.

Without full awareness of breathing, there can be no development of meditative stability and understanding.

Breathing, Understanding, Development

Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Breathe, You Are Alive!”, p.12, ReadHowYouWant.com

Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha.

Compassion, True Power, Understanding

"Thich Nhat Hanh on The Right Kind of Power". The Plum Village Interview, plumvillage.org. July 28, 2008.

With understanding, those we love will certainly flower.

Flower, Garden, Understanding

Shallow understanding accompanies poor compassion; great understanding goes with great compassion.

Compassion, Understanding, Poverty

Compassion is our most important practice. Understanding brings compassion. Understanding the suffering that living beings undergo helps liberate the energy of compassion. And with that energy you know what to do.

Compassion, Practice, Understanding

Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com.

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