Nhat Hanh Quotes About Teaching

Quotes about: Teaching

• Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish. If you are not capable of generatng that kind of energy toward yourself - if you are not capable of taking care of yourself, of nourishing yourself, of protecting yourself - it is very difficult to take care of another person. In the Buddhist teaching, it's clear that to love oneself is the foundation of the love of other people. Love is a practice. Love is truly a practice.

  Nhat Hanh

  Buddhist, Teaching, Love Is

  "This Is The Buddha's Love". Interview with Melvin McLeod, www.pbs.org. June 3, 2010.

• A teacher cannot give you the truth The truth is already in you You only need to open yourself – body, mind and heart- so that his or her teachings will penetrate your own seeds of understanding and enlightenment If you let the words enter you, the soil and the seeds will do the rest of the work

  Nhat Hanh

  Teacher, Teaching, Heart

  Nhất Hạnh (Thích.), Thich Nhat Hanh (1998). “The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering Into Peace, Joy, & Liberation : the Four Noble Truths, the Noble Eightfold Path, & Other Basic Buddhist Teachings”

• The bad things, don't do them. The good things, try to do them. Try to purify, subdue your own mind. That is the teaching of all buddhas.

  Nhat Hanh

  Teaching, Mind, Trying

• There are always some people who are ready to embrace a doctrine, a notion, a dogma, and they miss the real teaching.

  Nhat Hanh

  Real, Teaching, People

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2000). “Going Home: Jesus and Buddha as Brothers”, p.21, Penguin

• The Buddha also counseled the monks and nuns to avoid wasting any precious time by engaging in idle conversation, oversleeping, pursuing fame and recognition, chasing after desires, spending time with people of poor character, and being satisfied with only a shallow understanding of the teaching.

  Nhat Hanh

  Teaching, Character, People

  "Old Path White Clouds". Book by Thich Nhat Hanh, 1987.

• The teachings on love given by the Buddha are clear, scientific, and applicable... Love, compassion, joy, and equanimity are the very nature of an enlightened person. They are the four aspects of true love within ourselves and within everyone and everything.

  Nhat Hanh

  Teaching, Compassion, Joy

• I realize that many elements of the Buddhist teaching can be found in Christianity, Judaism, Islam. I think if Buddhism can help, it is the concrete methods of practice.

  Nhat Hanh

  Buddhist, Teaching, Buddhism

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. September 19, 2003.

• I do many kinds of work, and if you forbid me from binding books, from gardening, from writing poetry, from practicing walking meditation, from teaching children, I will be very unhappy. To me, work is pleasant. Pleasant or unpleaseant depends on our way of looking.

  Nhat Hanh

  Children, Book, Teaching

  Thich Nhat Hanh “Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings”, Orbis Books

• The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion's roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

  Nhat Hanh

  Real, Teaching, Ignorance

  "The Right Kind of Power". "Beliefnet" Interview, www.beliefnet.com. July 2008.

• It is often said that the Buddha's teaching is only a raft to help you cross the river, a finger pointing to the moon. Don't maistake the finger for the moon. The raft is not the shore. If we cling to the raft, if we cling to the finger, we miss everything. We cannot, in the name of the finger or the raft kill each other. Human life is more precious than any ideology, any doctrine.

  Nhat Hanh

  Teaching, Moon, Names

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