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You are a buddha, and so is everyone else. i didn't make that up. it was the buddha himself who said so. he said that all beings had the potential to become awakened. to practice walking meditation is to practice living in mindfulness. mindfulness and enlightenment are one. enlightenment leads to mindfulness and mindfulness leads to enlightenment.

-Nhat Hanh

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You Are A Buddha, And So Is

Nhat Hanh

You are a buddha, and so is everyone else. i didn't make that up. it was the buddha himself who said so. he said that all beings had the potential to become awakened. to practice walking meditation is to practice living in mindfulness. mindfulness and enlightenment are one. enlightenment leads to mindfulness and mindfulness leads to enlightenment.

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If grief or anger arises, let there be grief or anger. this is the buddha in all forms,sun buddha, moon buddha, happy buddha, sad buddha. it is the universe offering all things to awaken and open our heart.

When we say, "i take refuge in the buddha," we should also understand that "the buddha takes refuge in me," because without the second part the first part is not complete. the buddha needs us for awakening, understanding, and love to be real things and not just concepts. they must be real things that have real effects on life. whenever i say, "i take refuge in the buddha," i hear "the buddha takes refuge in me."

The way anything is developed is through practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice and more practice.

When i said that i am the buddha, the christ, the lord maitreya, and more, it was not a question of superiority or inferiority. i added that phrase 'and more' very carefully, because i knew that people had a very limited understanding of the buddha and the christ, and hence if i said: 'i am the christ, the buddha', they would limit that reality to their own conceptions of the buddha or the christ, and life has no limit.

Meditation is not a process of learning how to meditate; it is the very inquiry into what is meditation. to inquire into what is meditation, the mind must free itself from what it has learnt about meditation, and the freeing of the mind from what it has learnt is the beginning of meditation.

If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new buddha. this is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.

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