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'Thich Nhat Hanh is a holy man, for he is humble and devout. He is a scholar of immense intellectual capacity. His ideas for peace, if applied, would build a monument to ecumenism, to world brotherhood, to humanity' Martin Luther King, Jr, in Nobel Peace Prize nomination
It was under the bodhi tree in India 2500 years ago that Buddha achieved the insight that three states of mind were the source of all our unhappiness: ignorance, obsessive desire and anger. All are equally difficult to control but, in one instant of anger, lives can be ruined, and our spiritual development can be destroyed. Twenty-five centuries after the Buddha's insight, medical science tells us that the Buddha was right: anger can also ruin our health. It is one of the most powerful emotions and one of the most difficult to change. Thich Nhat Hanh offers a fresh perspective on taking care of our anger as we would take care of a baby crying - picking it up, talking quietly to it, probing for what is making the baby cry. Laced with stories and techniques, Anger offers a wise and loving look at transforming this difficult emotion into peace and for bringing harmony and healing to all the areas and relationships in our lives that have been affected by anger.
258 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 1, 2001
People actually need only half of the food that they daily eat.
To eat properly, you should chew food at least 50 times before ingesting it.
Non-self is not an abstract philosophy. Non-self is a reality that you can touch by living mindfully.
When you cook potatoes, you need to keep the fire going for at least fifteen or twenty minutes. You cannot eat raw potatoes. While cooking your potatoes, you have to cover the pot in order to prevent heat from escaping. When you remove the lid of the pot, the potatoes will smell wonderful.
Nowadays, chickens are raised in large-scale modern farms where they cannot walk, run, or seek food in the soil. [...] There is a lot of anger, a lot of frustration, and much suffering in the chickens.
[...] So when you eat the flesh or egg of such a chicken, you are eating anger and frustration. So be aware. Be careful what you eat. If you eat anger, you will become and express anger. If you eat despair, you will express despair. If you eat frustration, you will express frustration. We have to eat happy eggs from happy chickens.
Khổ đau không phải là một vấn đề cá nhân. Hạnh phúc cũng không phải là một vấn đề cá nhân.