Meditation is not to get out ...

Meditation is not to get out of society, to escape from society, but to prepare for a reentery into society.
Meditation is not to get out of society, to escape from society, but to prepare for a reentery into society.
 Nhat Hanh

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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.
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We need to move beyond the idea of 'environment' and fall back in love with Mother Earth.
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Leaves are usually looked upon as the children of the tree. Yes, they are children of the tree, born from the tree, but they are also mothers of the tree. The leaves combine raw sap, water, and minerals, with sunshine and gas, and convert it into a variegated sap that can nourish the tree. In this way, the leaves become the mother of the tree. We are all children of society, but we are also mothers. We have to nourish society. If we are uprooted from society, we can not trasform it into a more liveable place for us and our children.
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Mother Earth is very talented. She has produced Buddhas, bodhisattvas, great beings.
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If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.
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