Please call me by my true names

Do not say that I’ll depart tomorrow
because even today I still arrive.

Look deeply: I arrive in every second
to be a bud on a spring branch,
to be a tiny bird, with wings still fragile,
learning to sing in my new nest,
to be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower,
to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.

I . . . → Read More: Please call me by my true names

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The Next Buddha

The next Buddha may be the Sangha itself.

Thich Nhat Hahn – from Jack Cornfield’s ‘After the Ecstasy, . . . → Read More: The Next Buddha

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