<div dir="ltr">Thank you David, this is very good, I have long been an admirer of Thich Nhat Hanh and recall his incredible compassion in the retreats he gave for American Vietnam Veterans suffering so many ill effects of that senseless war.<div><br></div><div>Peace</div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><font size="2">Greg</font></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 11:08 AM David Walsh via craic <<a href="mailto:craic@lists.integralshift.ca">craic@lists.integralshift.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Century Schoolbook",serif">You would appreciate these remembrances of Thich Nhat Han – see links below</span></b><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times,serif;color:rgb(65,64,66)">During his 1966 trip to the U.S., Nhất Hạnh also traveled to Kentucky, where he met Merton at the Abbey of Gethsemani, near Louisville. The monks found immediate mutual sympathy. After
the visit, Merton told his students, "Just the way he opens the door and enters a room demonstrates his understanding. He is a true monk."</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<u>interreligious dialogue</u> was a relatively new development, making Merton's remarks all the more notable.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times,serif;color:rgb(65,64,66)">Indeed, this monk-to-monk dialogue represented an early breakthrough in interreligious dialogue. The Second Vatican Council had recently issued one of its major documents, <a href="https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decl_19651028_nostra-aetate_en.html" target="_blank"><i><span style="color:rgb(4,109,177)">Nostra
Aetate</span></i></a>, calling for such dialogue. The Nhất Hạnh-Merton bonds were further cemented in <a href="https://justluckie.typepad.com/justluckie/2014/11/nhat-hanh-is-my-brother.html" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(4,109,177)">an essay</span></a> Merton wrote for
Jubilee magazine, published in August 1966 and titled "Nhất Hạnh Is My Brother."</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times,serif;color:rgb(65,64,66)">Wrote Merton, in words that shocked some Catholics at the time: "I have far more in common with Nhất Hạnh than I have with many Americans, and I do not hesitate to say it. It is vitally
important that such bonds be admitted. They are the bonds of a new solidarity ... which is beginning to be evident on all five continents and which cuts across all political, religious and cultural lines to unite young men and women in every country in something
that is more concrete than an ideal and more alive than a program."</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Times,serif;color:rgb(65,64,66)">Nhất Hạnh's mindfulness <a href="https://plumvillage.org/mindfulness-practice/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(4,109,177)">taught</span></a> that one generates energy when bringing
the mind back to the body, getting in touch with the present moment. It requires breath awareness and focusing on what is going on around you. Through this focusing and by slowing down one's state of mind, awareness is deepened and healing takes place.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Times,serif;color:rgb(65,64,66)">He invited practitioners to employ mindfulness throughout the day, while doing the simplest of tasks: brushing one's teeth, washing dishes, walking, eating, speaking
or listening. Mindful eating might require chewing each morsel of food for a minute or more, focusing on the source of the food and the meaning of the act.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(47,84,150)"><a href="https://www.ncronline.org/news/people/buddhist-monk-thich-nhat-hanh-teacher-mindfulness-and-nonviolence-dies-age-95" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">Buddhist
monk Thich Nhat Hanh, teacher of mindfulness and nonviolence, dies at age 95 | National Catholic Reporter (ncronline.org)</span></b></a></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(47,84,150)"><a href="https://NCRonline.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c29a3eb94b5f54c4f08ee01e&id=3b9493669a&e=3fec633006" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(4,97,157)">NCR
Publisher Emeritus Tom Fox remembers Thich Nhat Hanh</span></a><br>
</span><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">by Thomas C. Fox<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black">once told me that Buddhism is not the answer to what the American young are searching for. That answer, he said, must come from within Western traditions. At best, Buddhism can
only help point a way.<br>
Thich Nhat Hanh </span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(47,84,150)"><a href="https://NCRonline.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c29a3eb94b5f54c4f08ee01e&id=e6ddaca269&e=3fec633006" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(4,97,157)">Read
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