We tried our best to help, but the suffering was enormous, and sometimes we were discouraged. It was very painful to read them, but we had to be in contact. We received hundreds of letters each week from the refugee camps in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines, hundreds each week. So I can see that my joy and pain are one.Īfter the Vietnam War, many people wrote to us in Plum Village. So I can hear all my cries and my laughter at once, It makes flowers bloom all over the Earth. I am the child in Uganda, all skin and bones, The rhythm of my heart is the birth and death I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry, To be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower, To be a tiny bird, with still-fragile wings, We must recognize them as part of us and allow them into our consciousness, where they can be cared for by the loving mother of mindfulness.Please Call Me by My True Names – Thich Nhat Hanh
He explains that we must not regard these things as bad and repress them. In the concluding section of the book, Thich Nhat Hanh explains how we can bring love to bear on our own pain, fear, and negativity. He goes on to offer a mantra practice for cultivating real love that consists of expressing four key statements or intentions in our relationships.
Toward that end, he offers the technique of conscious breathing as a way of synchronizing the mind and the body and establishing the conditions for love. In True Love, Thich Nhat Hanh explains that in order to love in a real way, we need to learn how to be fully present in our lives. In his characteristically direct, simple, and sweet style, he explores the four key aspects of love as described in the Buddhist tradition-lovingkindness, compassion, joy, and freedom. In this little treasure, Thich Nhat Hanh offers us a Buddhist view of love along with techniques for manifesting it in our daily lives.
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