[Unedited] Thich Nhat Hanh with Krista Tippett

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🗓️ 27 January 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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The Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh, revered Zen master, teacher, and poet, died on January 22, 2022, in his native Vietnam. Brother Thay, as he was known by his community and students, transmuted what he had experienced of chaos and bloodshed in his country and his life into an ability to speak with equal measures directness and compassion to the many conflicts and bewilderments of contemporary life. Martin Luther King Jr. nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize. He was a great teacher of the wonderful practice of “walking meditation.” He taught a way of living to face suffering, fear, and violence inside and beyond ourselves and yet to become “fresh, solid, and free.” Krista sat with him for this rare conversation in the early years of this show, and it has touched many. It is astonishing to re-experience the deep, enduring wisdom this monk leaves for our world now.

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0:00.0	Support for Onbeing with Christa Tippett comes from the Fetzer Institute, helping build
0:04.5	the Spiritual Foundation for a loving world.
0:07.7	Fetzer's new study, what does spirituality mean to us?
0:11.4	Reveals how spirituality informs our understanding of ourselves and each other, and inspires us
0:16.5	to take action for the common good.
0:19.0	Explore these findings and more at spiritualitystudy.org.
0:23.6	I'm Christa Tippett.
0:25.0	Next, my unedited conversation with the late, venerable Tick-Not-Hon.
0:30.8	I had this rare, intimate conversation with him around the edges of a retreat he led in
0:36.0	2003.
0:37.0	He died in January 2022.
0:40.2	You can find a produced, longer remembrance of him wherever you found this podcast.
0:48.0	I think what intrigued me, and I know since we don't have lots of time and you're very
0:53.8	tired, is that you actually wrote the miracle of mindfulness in those years when you had
1:00.2	somewhat withdrawn from that great political and social activism of the 1960s.
1:09.4	I wondered if mindfulness, that emphasis on mindfulness, was really the core of the learning
1:18.3	that you took away from those years of such turmoil and activism on your part.
1:26.4	Well, that was the practice that kept us alive, helped us survive.
1:35.0	The miracle of mindfulness was written for our social workers first in Vietnam because
1:40.6	they were living in a situation where the danger of dying is there, I was there every day.
1:53.2	So out of compassion, out of regularness to help them to continue their work, the miracle
2:02.6	of mindfulness was written as a manual practice.
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