If we have lost someone who is very close to us and we are grieving, the concentrations on emptiness and ‘signlessness’ help us look deeply and see the ways in which they still continue. Our loved one is still alive within us and around us. They are very real. We have not lost them. It […]
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“Zenfully Quool Quotes” By Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh In our Buddhist Peace Delegation office in Paris in the 1970sthere was an English woman who volunteeredto help us in our work.Although she was over seventy years old,she was in very good health,and every morningshe would climb up the five flights of stairs to our office.She
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“Zenfully Quool Quotes”By Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh I often tell a story from the Bible, from the book of Luke,about two disciples traveling to Emmaus after Jesus had died.They met a man along the road and began to talk and walk with him.After some time, they stopped at an inn to eat.When the two
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“Zenfully Quool Quotes”By Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh The insight of interbeing helps us connect withthe ultimate truth of emptiness.The teaching on emptiness is not about the “dying” of the self.The self does not need to die. The self is just an idea, an illusion,a wrong view, a notion; it is not reality. How can
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“Zenfully Quool Quotes”By Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh The two concentrations on emptiness and impermanence helpfree us from our tendency to think that we are separate selves.They are insights that can help us step out of the prison of our wrong views.We have to train ourselves to sustain the insight of emptinesswhile we’re looking at
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A Quool Quote by Thich Nhat Hanh from “The Art of Living” We can contemplate emptiness in terms of interbeing across space our relationship to everything and everyone around us. We can also contemplate emptiness in terms of impermanence across time. Impermanence means that nothing remains the same thing in two consecutive moments. ~ The
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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.
