The words of the Buddha offer this truth: ∼ Hatred never ceases by hatred but by love alone is healed.

We can bring a heart of understanding and compassion to a world that needs it so much.

Thich Nhat Hanh has the ability to express some of the most profound teachings of interdependence and emptiness I've ever heard. With the eloquence of a poet, he holds up a sheet of paper and teaches us that the rain cloud and the tree and the logger who cut the tree down are all there in the paper. He's been one of the most significant carriers of the lamp of the dharma to the West that we have had.

Tending to ourselves, we tend the world. Tending the world, we tend ourselves.

In sitting on the meditation cushion and assuming the meditation posture, we connect ourselves with the present moment in this body and on this earth.

When we feel anger toward someone, we can consider that they are a being just like us, who has faced much suffering in life.

Refraining from false speech: speech from the heart. Undertake for one week not to gossip (positively or negatively) or speak about anyone you know who is not present with you (any third party).