Today’s episode is called Earth Touching. I’ve shared before that Thich Nhat Hanh is
one of my favorite Mindfulness masters. Thich Nhat Hanh (1926–2022) was a Vietnamese Buddhist Zen Master, poet, and peace activist. He was born in 1926, a year after my father was born. He became a Zen Buddhist monk at the age of sixteen. His work for peace and reconciliation during the war in Vietnam moved Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1967.
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Thich Nhat Hanh founded Van Hanh Buddhist University and the School of Youth for Social Service, a corps of Buddhist peace workers. He was exiled due to his work for peace, yet he continued his humanitarian efforts.
Earth Touching are two words I often think of when Thich Nhat Hanh's name comes to mind. It is the name of one of his well-known poems. He has a deep passion for helping people. He rescued boat people and poured himself into the resettlement of refugees. In 1982, Thich Nhat Hanh established Plum Village France, the largest Buddhist monastery in Europe. He spent seven decades teaching and publishing a hundred books, which have been translated into more than forty languages and have sold millions of copies worldwide.
Earth Touching
Earth Touching is a poem by Thich Nhat Hanh. It was published in Thich Nhat Hanh, Call Me by My True Names (1993). The poem begins this way …
Here is the foot of a tree.
Here is an empty, quiet place.
Here is a cushion.
Brother, why don’t you sit down?
Sit upright. Sit with solidity. Sit in peace.
Don’t let your thoughts lift you up into the air.
Sit so that you can really touch the Earth and be one with her.
Interbeing
By Thich Nhat Hanh
Interbeing
The sun has entered me.
The sun has entered me together with the cloud and the river.
I myself have entered the river,
and I have entered the sun
with the cloud and the river.
There has not been a moment when we do not interpenetrate.
But before the sun entered me,
the sun was in me—
also the cloud and the river.
Before I entered the river,
I was already in it.
There has not been a moment
when we have not inter-been.
Therefore you know
that as long as you continue to breathe,
I continue to be in you.
Suggested Resources
- Book: Call Me By My True Names: by Thich Nhat Hanh
- Book: The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation by Thich Nhat Hanh
- App: Insight Timer
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