Thich Nhat Han-A Great Master Of Our Time…..
Through your love for each other, through learning the art of making one person happy, you learn to express your love for the whole of humanity and all beings. Please help us develop the curriculum for the Institute for the Happiness of One Person. Don’t wait until we open the school. You can begin practicing right away. ~Thich Nhat Hanh
I so much admire and derive so much inspiration from Thich Nhat Han….I hope to one day meet him and recieve his blessings..Tsem Tulku
I saw in person in 2007 @ California. My favorite book of him is ‘The Heart of Understanding’.
I like his book called: Creating True Peace: Ending Violence in Yourself, Your Family,Your Community, and the World.
He is another Buddhist Master, like Tsem Tulku Rinpoche, that takes his Dharma right to the street and works on the front lines of suffering.
We are indeed fortunate to have many Great Living Masters in our lifetime. Rinpoche often refer to Great Masters as Living Buddhas. They are Humanity’s Living Treasures because these Great Master elucidate teachings beyond a book. They translate our reading into our understanding and spiritual awakening. So, I offer these words extracted from the Bodhidharma to our Teacher, a Great Master in his own right -
All know the Way, but few actually walk it.
If you don’t find a teacher soon, you’ll live this life in vain. It’s true, you have the buddha-nature. But without the help of a teacher you’ll never know it. Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help. If, though, by the conjunction of conditions, someone understands what the Buddha meant, that person doesn’t need a teacher. Such a person has a natural awareness superior to anything taught. But unless you’re so blessed, study hard, and by means of instruction you’ll understand.
This great master Thich Mhat Han says through love for each other. And then through your skill of making one person happy you find you can automatically still love another person if you make a habit of doing it. Like what the great master says you don’t have to wait until you can build an Institution. You can make more than one person happy in so many ways. Like our Kecara Soup Kitchen. By giving out food packets to the homeless and seeing them that they are happy to get a meal is also considered love. So these are one of the ways you can show your love to make more than one humanity happy.