How to Be Happy

“...” – Thich Nhat Hanh

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“You have to take care of yourself in order to take care of other people. You have to to know your limit in order to avoid burning out. You have to get enough nourishment and healing for yourself in order to go far. So taking care of ourselves, bringing the practice now daily life and the life of a family is to to, to have the condition to help for a long time.And you show yourself as an example for those who come to you and get the help.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

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“Diligence is the continued practice of protecting oneself. And you should have a good environment, you should have a good sangha in order to maintain your practice. So building a sangha in order to be supported to maintain your practice is a very crucial for success.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

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“You have compassion in your heart and when you have compassion and love and kindness in your heart, they want to express themselves in action, love in action, compassion in action.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

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“If you look into yourself, you recognize the seeds of happiness, love, forgiveness, understanding, joy. And if you look into the other person, you also see many positive seeds. And if you know how to water these seeds, you will transform that person, make him or her happy. You know that in the past you have what the negatives sit in him or her. And that person was unhappy. And because she is unhappy, you cannot be a happy person.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

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“There's only manifestation. There's no birth, no death. Vishnati means manifesting, manifestating to manifest. Vishnati Matra means only manifestation. You are not a creation, you are only a manifestation. There are things that have not manifested, and we may believe that they are not there, but that is not true. They are there, but they have not manifested like the seed of anger in us. You are laughing, you are having a good time, you are not angry. When the seat of anger is always there, it has not manifested. So if someone come and say something, there's something, and then the seed of anger is touched and it manifests as a mental formation, as anger.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

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“In order to be really scientific, scientists have to learn how to release what they have found in order to come to a higher kind of proof. So this is the teaching of the Buddha. You have some view, some understanding, learn to release them in order to go higher. When you consider something to be the truth and you are attached to it, you have no chance to go further.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

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“Disciple of a Zen master whose name is Lindji, and he said that the miracle is not to walk on thin air, but to walk on earth. The miracle is walking on earth, dear. And we enjoy performing a miracle while walking. It's so wonderful to be alive and to be walking on this planet. Every step is a miracle.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

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“We know that when we begin to breathe in mindfully, we bring our mind home to our body and suddenly we are fully present in the here in the now and established in the here in the now. We are able to recognize the many conditions of happiness that are available in the here, in the now, more than enough for us to be happy. You know that the French has a very good song called Why do you wait in order to be happy? You can be happy right now, right here. Because when you are home to the here and now, you discover that so many conditions of happiness available already. You don't have to go to the future and look for some more conditions of happiness. And these conditions of happiness are more than enough. And that is why mindfulness that can help us go home to the here and now and recognize all these conditions of happiness are already there that that can already help us to generate a feeling of joy.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

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“In the Buddhist tradition, we learn that there is a big deep connection between suffering and happiness, and if we do not understand suffering, we don't. We don't understand happiness if we do not know how to handle suffering, and then we do not know how to handle happiness. It is like planting growing Lotus flowers. You need the mud in order to grow Lotus flowers. Without the mud, you cannot produce Lotus flowers. The same thing is true with suffering and happiness. You need suffering in order to grow happiness.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

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“With my family, yes, I have, I have with my wife and she's just very again, very supportive sent me a note of congratulations and I'll be able to I haven't talked to her yet. I just sent her a a text and a picture of the certificate.But later today I'll talk to her a little bit more about it. She sees the benefit that it brings to the family and she sees me transforming my suffering and healing. Over time she has seen this progress and my children have also been very supportive. And actually, my children are more curious at this age, but I think over time they will also begin to understand the importance and meaning a little bit more also. But yes, they were definitely very happy and supportive to see me continue with this next phase and this important step.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

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“My name is James Prentice and I come from Edmonton, AB, Canada… My wife noticed the change and she's been very supportive. Although she's not yet a practitioner herself, she's very supportive of me continuing in this practice because of the impact that she's seen in the way that I relate to her and my children and my sort of perspective on life.” – James Prentice

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“The fact is that happiness is available. Conditions of happiness are available if you know how to say bye bye to the past and to say bye bye to the future and go home to the present moment and then you'll find that you are you have more conditions to be happy that you have thought life is such a gift.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

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“Each step should be love, each step should be forgiveness, Each step should be healing and transformation. Each step should be the pure Land, the Kingdom of God.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

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“Buddhism makes actual, actual the actualization of Buddhism. So all these terms, all these documents have to do with what we call engaged Buddhism. So engaged Buddhism, as we have said, the first meaning of it is the kind of Buddhism that is present in every moment of our daily life. While you brush your teeth, rhythm should be there. While you drive your car, Buddhism should be there. While you are walking in the supermarket, wisdom should be there so that you know what to buy and not and what not to buy. And I think that is the first definition of engaged Buddhism, which is very important.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

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“A flower is a formation because many elements have come together in order to help the flower manifest. We see the cloud, the sunshine, the seed, the soil, the farmer, the gardener and many other elements that have come together in order to help a flower manifest. And that is why a flower is called a formation.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

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“If the Dharma talk is interesting, you don't need to make any effort and you are very concentrated. So one of the way is to make the object of your concentration attractive, and that could be obtained. That could be done in normal daily life. You do not need to look yourself into a retreat in order to do that. You don't need to sit down and sit in meditation not to do that. You can do that at any time and anything is interesting.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

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“The Lotus has no separate self. It is made only of non self, non Lotus element. So the nature of the Lotus is emptiness. The Lotus is, but she is empty of a separate self.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

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“There is no self to compare. Comparison between self will bring about suffering, will bring about the view of being inferior, the view of being superior, or the view of being equal. Without self, no comparison is needed.You don't suffer at all. And that is the wisdom of non discrimination, self and non self, self and others and non discrimination.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

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“But the flaw of the system is that they have not seen the connection between suffering and happiness, or how the mud and the lotus are intervened. They have not seen the value of suffering. In the teaching of the Buddha, we know that suffering is a kind of mud that can bring about lotus flowers, and that suffering can instruct us a lot.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

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“And for me, I know I have very strong seeds of attainment, a very strong tendency to go towards attainment rather than aimlessness and, and just being dwelling in the present moment. And I know that being here for a while now, dwelling in the present moment has been my practice and letting go of, of questions and entertainment. And that's been really wonderful. But on the other hand, I do want to develop concentration and, and especially being a layperson and being out in the world where I find it so difficult to practice mindfulness.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

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“Suppose you have a good cup of tea. Suppose you are contemplating a beautiful sunrise and suppose you are mindful and concentrated. When you are mindful, when you are concentrated, you are truly there and you concentrate on your tea. Your tea becomes something very real and the time of tea drinking make you so happy because you are not disturbed. Your mind is not in the past or in the future. Your mind is not in your projects. Your mind is focused entirely on the tea. That's concentration. Tea is the object of your concentration. That's why bringing tea in that moment can make you very happy. And the more you are concentrated, the happier you become. And that is why concentration is on, so a source of happiness.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

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“No self is a kind of teaching practice in order to help you to overcome the view of self. It's very self so that you can see you in the other person and the other person in you. But many of us take it as a view. So instead of being caught in the view of self, you are caught in the view of no self. And that's what the Buddha did not like. So you have to be free from the view of self, but you have to be free from the view of no self.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

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“The memories of the past are not real, not reality. They are only pictures and every time you watch the picture, you suffer. And that is why we are advised not to go back to the past and live in the past, get caught in the past. And that is part that's part of the practice of living in the present moment. Mindfulness is to learn to live in present moment, not to allow ourselves to sleep back to the past in order to relive the past one time, two, three times.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

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“It's like in Plum Village, the monks, the nuns and the lay people are advised that they, when they go to the Internet, they have to be occupanied by a second person. Not only when they go to the marketplace or to the pharmacy, to the post office, they have to go with another person. We call it the second body. That is the practice and publish.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

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“The fact is that happiness is available. Conditions of happiness are available if you know how to say bye bye to the past and to say bye bye to the future and go home to the present moment.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

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“If the Living Dharma Buddha is not there, if the Living Dharma is not there, it's not a living, it's not a true Sangha. There are many conditions, many things that show us that we are a true Sangha. We have the practice, we have been able to build a brotherhood, sisterhood, have been able to create the energy of mindfulness, concentration inside. We have been able to help many people.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

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“So we can say at least that the the teaching on the four noble truth is about suffering, but is also about happiness. Happiness is possible, transformation, healing is possible. But why is it possible to to teach about happiness alone without teaching about suffering? Why don't he speak about happiness and the path leading to happiness? Why did he have to speak about suffering and the path leading to suffering? Because underneath he has found that happiness and suffering into our they are linked to each other, they are linked to each other well-being and being. They are linked to each other.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

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“The thinking, the speaking and the acting is what we perform every day, every moment of our daily life and our life. The value of our life depends on the value of our thinking, of our speech and our action. And in Buddhism this is called a triple action.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

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“So the school is here, the children are here. And in order for this beautiful vision to sustain, we need more courageous families. Families who say yes, I want my child to have an extraordinary education, but I also want my child to be a free human being. So I invite any families that are here or who are listening to really look within and to have the courage to take a bold step to join us on this journey, this experiment with truth as godly would say.” – Mina Serini Vasan

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“You have already had enough conditions to be happy and that is thanks to mindfulness. You don't need more. It's possible to to have no more desire. It is possible to have no more desire… You don't need to run into the future and get a few more conditions. We have seen people without diplomas, but they are very happy. We have seen many people without a big house, a big car and they are perfectly happy.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

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“You can do the same if you are calm and still enough. You can reflect the mountain, the blue sky, and the moon exactly as they are. You reflect whatever you see, just as it is, without distorting anything. River of perceptions In each of us there is a river of perceptions. Perceptions arise, stay for a period of time, and cease to be. When our mind is not calm, we do not see clearly. Like the surface of a lake on a windy day, the image we see is distorted.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

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“The formula, 'I have arrived, I'm home,' expresses my understanding of the teaching of the Buddha.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

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“When you practice walking, mindful walking, you see that you are light, you are solid, you are free, and your confidence is born from that kind of experience. This is not relying on something outside of yourself and this can bring a lot of happiness. If you don't have that energy of confidence, you suffer. You have to use your Buddha's feet and walk. And when it becomes a habit, you walk like that everywhere.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

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“And the first exercise that you may like to learn is ‘I have arrived, I am home.’ You believe or not, but this is a very strong practice, very powerful practice.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

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“And the first exercise that you may like to learn is ‘I have arrived, I am home.’ You believe or not, but this is a very strong practice, very powerful practice.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

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“During the time you eat a tangerine, eating that tangerine is the most important thing in your life. The next time you have a tangerine, please put it in the palm of your hand and look at it in a way that makes the tangerine real. You don’t need a lot of time; just two or three seconds is enough.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

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“No one is a separate independent self. Father and son are not entirely separate entities. The father exists in the son and the son exists in the father. The son is the continuation of the father into the future and the father is the continuation of the son back to the source. If the son is not happy, the father cannot be happy. And if the father is not happy, there is no way the son can be happy. Their happiness is deeply connected. Happiness is not an individual matter.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

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“A few years ago, I asked some children, “What is the purpose of eatingbreakfast?” One boy replied, “To get energy for the day.” Another said, “Thepurpose of eating breakfast is to eat breakfast.” I think the second child ismore correct. The purpose of eating is to eat.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

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“In modern life, people tend to think their bodies belong to them, that they can do anything they want to themselves. But your body is not only yours. Your body belongs to your ancestors, your parents, and future generations. It also belongs to society and to all the other living beings. The trees, the clouds, the soil, and every living thing brought about the presence of your body. We can eat with care, knowing we are caretakers of our bodies, rather than their owners.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

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“The intention to enjoy your steps and your breath is not enough; you need mindfulness and insight. If every step you take brings you joy, it’s because while making a step you have mindfulness and insight. Without insight, it’s impossible for you to enjoy your in-breath and out-breath.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

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“The formula, 'I have arrived, I'm home,' is the embodiment, the expression of my practice. It expresses my understanding of the teaching of the Buddha. It is the cream of my practice.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

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“Every step is a revolution against busyness. Each mindful step says: 'I don’t want to run anymore. I want to stop. I want to live my life. I don’t want to miss the wonders of life.'” – Thich Nhat Hanh

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“Running has become a habit. Even in our dreams we continue to run and look for something. The practice of mindfulness helps us to stop running and see that everything we have been looking for is here.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

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“When we first learned to walk, we walked just to enjoy walking. We walked and discovered each moment as we encountered it. We can learn to walk that way again.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

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“Since we're human beings, we make mistakes. We cause others to suffer. We hurt our loved ones and we feel regret. But without making mistakes, there is no way to learn. If you can learn from your mistakes, then you have already transformed garbage into flowers.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

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“Often our pride stands in the way of our asking for help. In true love, there is no place for pride. To love each other means to trust each other. If you don't tell the person you love of your suffering, it means you don't love this person enough to trust her. You have to realize that this person is the best person to help you. We need to be able to get help from the person we love.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

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“If we haven't been able to be happy and joyful, it's because we're caught in our ideas. So we have to be able to let go of them. Our idea of happiness is the main obstacle to happiness.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

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“Instead of panicking or giving ourselves up to despair, we practice mindful breathing and put our trust in the healing power within us. We call this the island within ourselves in which we can take refuge. It is an island of peace, confidence, solidity, love and freedom. Be that island for yourself. You don't have to look elsewhere.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

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“When we first learned to walk, we walked just to enjoy walking. We walked and discovered each moment as we encountered it. We can learn to walk that way again.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

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“When we first learned to walk, we walked just to enjoy walking. We walked and discovered each moment as we encountered it. We can learn to walk that way again.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

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“When we first learned to walk, we walked just to enjoy walking. We walked and discovered each moment as we encountered it. We can learn to walk that way again.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

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