On Loss ~ My Mother Is Always Alive Within Me ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

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    ON LOSS:
    The day my mother died, I wrote in my journal,
    "A serious misfortune of my life has arrived."

    I suffered for more than one year after the passing away of my mother.

    But one night, in the highlands of Vietnam,
    I was sleeping in the hut in my hermitage.

    I dreamed of my mother.

    I saw myself sitting with her, and we were having a wonderful talk.

    She looked young and beautiful, her hair flowing down.

    It was so pleasant to sit there and talk to her as if she had never died.

    When I woke up it was about two in the morning, and I felt very strongly
    that I had never lost my mother.

    The impression that my mother was still with me was very clear.

    I understood then that the idea of having lost my mother was just an idea.

    It was obvious in that moment that my mother is always alive in me.

    l opened the door and went outside.

    The entire hillside was bathed in moonlight.

    It was a hill covered with tea plants. and my hut was set behind the temple halfway up.

    Walking slowly in the moonlight through the rows of tea plants,

    I noticed my mother was still with me.

    She was the moonlight caressing me as she had done so often, very tender, very sweet...
    wonderful!

    Each time my feet touched the earth I knew my mother was there with me.

    I knew this body was not mine alone but a living continuation of my mother
    and my father and my grandparents and great-grandparents.

    Of all my ancestors.

    These feet that I saw as "my" feet were actually "our" feet.

    Together my mother and I were leaving footprints in the damp soil.

    From that moment on, the idea that I had lost my mother no longer existed.

    All I had to do was look at the palm of my hand,
    feel the breeze on my face or the earth under my feet
    to remember that my mother is always with me,
    available at any time...

    ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

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    Thich Nhat Hanh
    Thich Nhat Hanh (1926–2022) was a Vietnamese Buddhist Zen Master, poet,
    and peace activist and one of the most revered and influential spiritual teachers in the world.
    Born in 1926, 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.
    In Vietnam, Thich Nhat Hanh founded Van Hanh Buddhist University
    and the School of Youth for Social Service, a corps of Buddhist peace workers.
    Exiled as a result of his work for peace, he continued his humanitarian efforts,
    rescuing boat people and helping to resettle refugees.
    In 1982 he established Plum Village France, the largest Buddhist monastery in Europe
    and the hub of the international Plum Village Community of Engaged Buddhism.
    Over seven decades of teaching, he published a hundred books,
    which have been translated into more than forty languages
    and have sold millions of copies worldwide.



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