“Zenfully Quool Quotes” Currently featuring “The Art of Living” By Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh You may like to take a moment to read these lines very slowly, with a pause to follow your breathing and relax between each remembrance. I am of the nature to grow old. There is no way to escape growing […]
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“Zenfully Quool Quotes” Currently featuring “The Art of Living” By Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh Often the joy of knowing that we are still alive contains within it the deep fear that we don’t want to face: our fear of dying. Although we don’t want to admit or think about it, deep down in our
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“Zenfully Quool Quotes” Currently featuring “The Art of Living” By Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh I treasure the days and hours I have left to live. They are so precious, I vow not to waste a single one. I have been practicing not wasting a single moment. Whether I’m walking or working, teaching or reading,
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“Zenfully Quool Quotes” Currently featuring “The Art of Living” By Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh “I don’t exercise to get fit or be healthier; I do it to enjoy being alive. The happiness and joy of practicing mindful movements nourishes my body and mind. With each movement I do, I feel how wonderful it is
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“Zenfully Quool Quotes” Currently featuring “The Art of Living” By Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh We may agree with the truth of impermanence, and yet we still behave as though everything is permanent, and that is the problem. This is what prevents us from taking the opportunities available to us right now to act to
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“Zenfully Quool Quotes” Currently featuring “The Art of Living” By Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible. There are turtles that live to be three or four hundred years old, and redwood trees that live more than a thousand years. Our own life span is only about a hundred years at
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“Zenfully Quool Quotes” Currently featuring “The Art of Living” By Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh You may like to apply the practice of mindful walking wherever you go, in the city or in a park, going to work or going shopping, at the airport or by the bank of a river. Nobody needs to know
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“Zenfully Quool Quotes” Currently featuring “The Art of Living” By Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh “When human beings first developed the capacity to walk and run it was either to chase after something or to escape something. That energy of chasing and running is deeply ingrained in every cell of our body. But today there
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“Zenfully Quool Quotes” Currently featuring “The Art of Living” By Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh YOUR DREAM IS NOW We have the tendency to think there is a means, a path, to realizing our dream, and that we realize our dream at the end of the path. But in the spirit of Buddhism, as soon
“Zenfully Quool Quotes” Currently featuring “The Art of Living” By Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh In Plum Village we have organized retreats for Israelis and Palestinians. Back in the Middle East, their lives may be a daily struggle to survive. There is always something to do and not a moment to stop. But when they
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Our business was doing great, but we still couldn’t afford to buy a house or a condo. Renting in Maui for another 30 years was not an option we wanted to take. Then, Bobbie Jo suggested we buy a sailboat that is comfortable to cruise and live in. By the end of January, we started looking for our new home.
After a long search, we found our dream boat in Mazatlan, Mexico. COVID-19 was not yet a concern when our boat hunt began, but masks were starting to appear at airports by the time we flew to Mazatlan. Originally, we had planned to get the boat ready as fast as possible to cover a full calendar for the busy wedding season. However, it was apparent our business was going to tank amid the pandemic, and the struggle went on until the end of the year.
Luckily, we scored an awesome condo for only $19 a day at Mazatlan. On the 10th day of our stay, we received the news that all harbors will be closed the next Monday morning. We thought we’d be stuck in Mexico longer, but another sailor advised us to leave before sunrise.
We felt the adrenalin of escaping the Mexican harbor master just before the sun rose that faithful day. The seas were rough as waves were building up in the tight channel that led us to the open ocean. We ended up anchored off an adorable little isle just a mile offshore. We enjoyed cruising to many spectacular anchorages and cute villages on our way to Puerto Vallarta, where we would depart for Maui on May 7. On May 30, 2020, we completed our 24-day passage from Mexico to Maui.
