Looking Deeply
“If you are locked into the idea of a separate self, you have great fear. But if you look deeply and are capable of seeing “you” everywhere, you lose that fear. As a monk, I practice looking deeply every day. I don’t just give continuation everywhere in this moment. Every day I make the effort to transmit to my students the best that I have received from my teachers and from my practice. I don’t believe that I will cease to be someday. I told my friends that the twenty-first century is a hill, a beautiful hill that we will climb together as a sangha; I will be with my sangha all the way. For me that is not a problem, because I see everyone in me, and me in everyone. That is the practice of looking deeply, the practice of concentration on emptiness [of a separate self], the practice of interbeing.”—Thich Nhat Hanh, “Fear”, p. 62-63
Looking Deeply
“If you are locked into the idea of a separate self, you have great fear. But if you look deeply and are capable of seeing “you” everywhere, you lose that fear. As a monk, I practice looking deeply every day. I don’t just give continuation everywhere in this moment. Every day I make the effort to transmit to my students the best that I have received from my teachers and from my practice. I don’t believe that I will cease to be someday. I told my friends that the twenty-first century is a hill, a beautiful hill that we will climb together as a sangha; I will be with my sangha all the way. For me that is not a problem, because I see everyone in me, and me in everyone. That is the practice of looking deeply, the practice of concentration on emptiness [of a separate self], the practice of interbeing.”—Thich Nhat Hanh, “Fear”, p. 62-63