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Berit Talan @bberit.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This one was so good and the sequel. Loved it.

Book cover of Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko

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Berit Talan @bberit.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Vielleicht mal bei den Kollegen gucken, wie man besser Schlagzeilen schreibt...

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Berit Talan @bberit.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

This is the crowd BEHIND us and we're about as far back from the Capitol as you just a bit more centered.

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Berit Talan @bberit.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I just listened to a Dharma talk by Marisela Gomez, a Dharma teacher in the Plum Village tradition. She reminded us that our purpose here is to be love. Not be loved and not to love. But to be love. Embody love. That this is particularly important .. 1/4 #ThichNhatHanh #Mindfulness #Buddhism #Zen

Calligraphy by Thich Nhat Hanh on rice paper in traditional Chinese black ink mixed with some of his tea. A zen circle and in the circle the writing: Love like a Buddha and Thay's red seal, which bears his lineage name and Dharma title, Trung Quang Nhat Hanh

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Berit Talan @bberit.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I just signed up for the Sound of Zen retreat (2/19 - 2/23) at Magnolia Grove Monastery, a Mindfulness Practice Center in the tradition of Plum Village, in Batesville, MS. Anyone want to meet up in person? 😀🙏🪷 magnoliagrovemonastery.org/the-sound-of... #ThichNhatHanh #PlumVillage #Mindfulness

Photo of the grounds of Magnolia Grove Monastery, a retreat center in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh. A pond with a foot bridge across it leading to a white statue of the Boddhisatva Avalokiteshvara, the bell tower behind the pond and the meditation hall in the background.

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Berit Talan @bberit.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Breath Awareness When we follow our breath, there are different parts of our bodies, where we can experience the breath. The rising and falling of our abdomen, the air cool at our nostrils as with breathe in and warm as we breathe out, the throat. #ThichNhatHanh #PlumVillage #Mindfulness 1/3

Calligraphy in black traditional ink on rice paper. A Zen circle with Breathe you are alive written inside

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Berit Talan @bberit.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

"It only takes one breath." When I heard Thay say this in a podcast 18 years ago it filled me with such hope. My mind was in chaos. Meditation was impossible. But I thought I can do 1 breath. It didn't matter if it was ragged or short or painful - as it 1/2 #ThichNhatHanh #PlumVillage #Mindfulness

Calligraphy in black ink on rice paper by Thich Nhat Hanh. Zen circle with the writing Breathe inside it

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Berit Talan @bberit.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

The Island of Self: One of the foundational practices is to take to refuge in our breath. Thay instructs us  „Breathing in, I know I am breathing in. Breathing out, I know I am breathing out.“ (1/6) #ThichNhatHanh #PlumVillage #Mindfulness #Buddhism #meditation

Gatha to readjust the posture while meditating

Feelings come and go
like clouds in a windy sky.
Mindful breathing
is my anchor.

breathe
A Thich Nhat Hanh Meditation Journal

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Berit Talan @bberit.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

How do we manage in these challenging times? Thich Nhat Hanh reminds us of the Buddha's teaching of taking refuge in the island of self. "When the Buddha was in his 80th year and knew that he would soon pass from this life, he felt a lot of compassion .. 1/6 #PlumVillage #Buddhism #Zen #Mindfulness

Thich Nhat Hanh in a brown robe sitting in deep concentration his hand in a mudra after inviting the bell.

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Berit Talan @bberit.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

as well as many Dharma books. Everything else was lost. Please help the community build accommodations for the monastics and rebuild and restore Thay's room. (3/3)

Burned out ruins of the Purple Cloud building in Plum Village. The oldest and most cherished building in Lower Hamlet, it contained Thich Nhat Hanh's room - a sacred space where he spent his time when in Lower Hamlet.

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Berit Talan @bberit.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Plum Village needs our help. Last night the Purple Cloud building in Lower Hamlet burned down. Purple Cloud was the hearth and home of Lower Hamlet since PV’s founding in 1982. Please donate to help the community rebuild! Thay’s room was there—... (1/3) plumvillage.org?form=PVLHFir...

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Berit Talan @bberit.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I feel what you're saying. I keep going back to this gatha. And to the teaching of taking care of our sense doors & the 5th mindfulness training: "...I am determined not [...]to use [...] any other products which contain toxins, such as certain websites, electronic games, ...(1/2)

Photo of a large still lake or the ocean, no land to be seen, the blue sky above with some white clouds. In white writing: Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor. Thich Nhat Hanh

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Berit Talan @bberit.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Tea meditation is such a lovely practice. It feels easy to be present: the smell of the tea, the warm cup against my hand, the liquid running down my throat. And it's a deep practice. There is a cloud in my tea. (1/2) #Buddhism #Mindfulness #ThichNhatHanh #PlumVillage #meditation

Calligraphy by Thich Nhat Hanh in black ink mixed with a little bit of his tea on rice paper. The writing inside the zen circle reads "there is a cloud in your tea"

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Berit Talan @bberit.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

"These words and music have been composed to serve as Dharma instruments helping us come back to the deepest place in ourselves, the place where we are most awake and alive. Chanting is often the most direct and immediate way to reconnect... #ThichNhatHanh #PlumVillage #Mindfulness #Buddhism (1/3)

Photo of lotus leaves in the background with the opening gatha for The Lotus of the Wonderful Dharma: Universal Door Chapter in white text: Chanting the Lotus Sutra by night,
the sound shook the galaxies.
The next morning when planet Earth woke up,
her lap was full of flowers.

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Berit Talan @bberit.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I take refuge in songs, poetry, and somatic exercises. This poem was written by Thay during the Vietnam war after the bombing of Ben Tre and the comment made by an American military man, “We had to destroy the town in order to save it.” #ThichNhatHanh #PlumVillage #Mindfulness #Buddhism #poetry 1/3

Framed calligraphy by Thich Nhat Hanh:

For Warmth

I hold my face in my two hands.
No, I am not crying.
I hold my face in my two hands
to keep the loneliness warm—
two hands protecting,
two hands nourishing,
two hands preventing
my soul from leaving me
in anger.

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Berit Talan @bberit.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Here is a gatha to remind us of the both the deliciousness of food and the suffering it contains. Artwork by Healing with Art by Gloria Keh. Mindful eating is one of my favorite practices. 3/3

Artwork by Healing with Art by Gloria Keh. Abstract artwork featuring a red face symbolizing the sun above a stylized landscape in black and white with a few red flowers. Text reads: "This plate of food, so fragrant and appetizing, also contains suffering." - Thich Nhat Hanh.

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Berit Talan @bberit.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

As I sit down to eat lunch today, I get in touch with the miracle that is this food. All the causes and conditions that made this food available to me. I also get in touch with the suffering contained on these plates. The working conditions of farm #ThichNhatHanh #PlumVillage #Mindfulness 1/3

Lunch served on four plates on a white table. Plates contain quesadilla, and various vegetable, fruits and tofu.

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Berit Talan @bberit.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I have started to say this gatha out loud as I enter my meditation space. It helps me transition to the cushion, focuses my mind, and is a vow of how I want to spend the next moments. #Buddhism #Meditation #Mindfulness #Zen #ThichNhatHanh #PlumVillage

A gatha for Entering the Meditation Room

Entering the meditation room,
I see my true self.
As I sit down,
I vow to cut off all disturbances.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Present Moment, Wonderful Moment:
Mindfulness Verses for Daily Living

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Berit Talan @bberit.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Anapanasati.Sutta: "The Buddha is always there within you. One way to reach the Buddha, anytime and anywhere, is through your breath." Here's a beautiful guided meditation by Thay on this. tiny.cc/TNHbuddhabre... #Buddhism #Meditation #Mindfulness #Zen #ThichNhatHanh #PlumVillage (1/3)

Thich Nhat Hanh holding the hands of two children is leading a public walking meditation in a French city

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Berit Talan @bberit.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

This postcard with Thay’s calligraphy is in my meditation corner. The purpose of sitting meditation is to enjoy. Don’t try to attain anything! Sitting itself is healing. Sometimes I don't want to sit. Too busy, too tired, too scattered. (1/3) #ThichNhatHanh #PlumVillage #Mindfulness #Zen #Buddhism

Postcard with a calligraphy by Thich Nhat Hanh that says "enjoy sitting"

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Berit Talan @bberit.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Solstice: Lighting three candles for blood, spiritual and land ancestors. Reciting this poem. Remembering dear ones who passed in 2024. Going for walking meditation in the dark. Giving to the flames my notes of what calls to me in the refuge of ... (1/2) #poetry #solstice #mindfulness #PlumVillage

Photo of snow covered pine trees with a starry sky above and the first light on the horizon.

A poem: How the Light Comes

I cannot tell you
how the light comes.

What I know
is that it is more ancient
than imagining.

That it travels
across an astounding expanse
to reach us.

That it loves
searching out
what is hidden,
what is lost,
what is forgotten
or in peril
or in pain.

That it has a fondness
for the body,
for finding its way
toward flesh,
for tracing the edges
of form,
for shining forth
through the eye,
the hand,
the heart.

I cannot tell you
how the light comes,
but that it does.
That it will.
That it works its way
into the deepest dark
that enfolds you,
though it may seem
long ages in coming
or arrive in a shape
you did not foresee.

And so
may we this day
turn ourselves toward it.
May we lift our faces
to let it find us.
May we bend our bodies
to follow the arc it makes.
May we open
and open more
and open still

to the blessed light
that comes.

by Jan Richardson

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Berit Talan @bberit.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

This evening was our sangha's annual tea ceremony. I almost didn't go as I'm in a Chronic Fatigue flare and feel crappy. I am glad I went. Practicing is always nourishing but practicing together is so powerful. Co-regulation is medicine. #ThichNhatHanh #PlumVillage #Mindfulness

Photo of Thich Nhat Hanh's simple tea pot and glass tea cup on a wooden tray.

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Berit Talan @bberit.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

As I mindfully eat my lunch, tomato and peppers, hummus and carrots, kiwis and grapes, I marvel that all this is just sunlight and star dust. I have such gratitude for plants that have found such ingenious ways to spin these two together. #ThichNhatHanh #PlumVillage #Mindfulness #Zen #Buddhism

Photo of Thich Nhat Hanh in his brown robes standing at a wooden table chopping carrots. He looks with full concentration at the vegetables and chopping board.

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Berit Talan @bberit.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

This book was really eye opening for me with regard to what you're describing.

Book cover: The chaos machine by Max Fisher. The inside story of how social media rewired our minds and our world.

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Berit Talan @bberit.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Someone shared this poem with me yesterday and I keep going back to it. I particularly like the lines The days are nouns: touch them The hands are churches that worship the world #poetry #mindfulness

Daily

These shriveled seeds we plant,
corn kernel, dried bean,
poke into loosened soil,
cover over with measured fingertips

These T-shirts we fold into
perfect white squares

These tortillas we slice and fry to crisp strips
This rich egg scrambled in a gray clay bowl

This bed whose covers I straighten
smoothing edges till blue quilt fits brown blanket
and nothing hangs out

This envelope I address
so the name balances like a cloud
in the center of sky

This page I type and retype
This table I dust till the scarred wood shines
This bundle of clothes I wash and hang and wash again
like flags we share, a country so close
no one needs to name it

The days are nouns: touch them
The hands are churches that worship the world

Naomi Shihab Nye

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Berit Talan @bberit.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Slow walking meditation is a formal practice that you do for 10 min unlike walking meditation, which you can do anywhere. In Plum Village you take one step with your inbreath, one step with your outbreath. #ThichNhatHanh #PlumVillage #Mindfulness #Zen #Buddhism (1/3)

Brother Phap Huu in the dark brown robes of Plum Village monastic is pictured from the back in the Still Water Meditation Hall practicing slow walking meditation.

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Berit Talan @bberit.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

This poem spoke to me this morning. In what way can I be a light today? #poetry

“The Buddha’s Last Instruction”
by Mary Oliver

“Make of yourself a light,” said the Buddha, before he died.
I think of this every morning
as the east begins
to tear off its many clouds
of darkness, to send up the first
signal — a white fan
streaked with pink and violet,
even green.
An old man, he lay down
between two sala trees,
and he might have said anything,
knowing it was his final hour.
The light burns upward,
it thickens and settles over the fields.
Around him, the villagers gathered
and stretched forward to listen.
Even before the sun itself
hangs, disattached, in the blue air,
I am touched everywhere
by its ocean of yellow waves.
No doubt he thought of everything
that had happened in his difficult life.
And then I feel the sun itself
as it blazes over the hills,
like a million flowers on fire —
clearly I’m not needed,
yet I feel myself turning
into something of inexplicable value.
Slowly, beneath the branches,
he raised his head.
He looked into the faces of that frightened crowd.

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Berit Talan @bberit.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Today I remembered the second practice of Right Diligence. "Changing the CD" or as the Buddha taught it "Changing the Peg". Consciously bringing up a positive mental formation to take the place of a negative one. (1/4) #ThichNhatHanh #PlumVillage #Mindfulness #Zen #Buddhism

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Berit Talan @bberit.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Returning to Thay’s teaching on practicing with unpleasant emotions. The quote continues „…if you continue with your practice of mindfulness, you understand the roots, the nature of the suffering, and you know the way to transform it.“ #ThichNhatHanh #PlumVillage #Mindfulness #Zen #Buddhism (1/5)

Quote by Thich Nhat Hanh: It's like a mother, when the baby is crying, she picks up the baby and she holds the baby tenderly in her arms. Your pain, your anxiety is your baby. You have to take care of it. You have to go back to yourself, to recognize the suffering in you, embrace the suffering, and you get a relief.

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Berit Talan @bberit.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Eating - final thoughts Practicing eating meditation had unforseen consequences. There are certain foods I once liked that I don't enjoy eating anymore because I'm deeply in touch with what they do to my body, other beings or the Earth. (1/4) #ThichNhatHanh #PlumVillage #Mindfulness #Zen #Buddhism

Thich Nhat Hanh is sharing a meal with his monastic disciples, sitting at a long table, on which vegan food and flowers are beautifully arranged. Everyone has their palms together in gratitude for this food.

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Berit Talan @bberit.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

So so wonderful, mesmerizing, and eye opening. And so comforting to read when there's so much 🤬 going on in the world. #booksky

Book cover of The Light Eaters. How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

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Berit Talan @bberit.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I joined Rohatsu Session at Clouds in Water a local Soto Zen Center today and will go back tomorrow. Rohatsu celebrates the Buddha's enlightenment and culminates in Bodhi Day tomorrow. Back here on Monday. #Buddhism #Zen

A tied up Oryoki set. Oryoki is a highly choreographed ritual of serving and eating food in Japanese Zen.

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Berit Talan @bberit.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Eating Meditation Part 7 At the end of the meal I still for a moment and then recite this gatha. It feels as important to give thanks at the end of the meal as in the beginning. It also connects me again with the 5th contemplation. (1/2) #ThichNhatHanh #PlumVillage #Mindfulness #Zen #Buddhism

Finishing Your Meal

My bowl is empty.
My hunger is satisfied.
I vow to live
for the benefit of all beings.

Thich Nhat Hanh
Present Moment Wonderful Moment
Mindful Verses for Daily Living

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Berit Talan @bberit.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Eating Meditation Part 6 Sometimes I recite this gatha while eating. Visualizing myself as part of a lineage, blood or spiritual, as a line of countless people before and after me, helps me with the insight of no-self. (1/3) #ThichNhatHanh #PlumVillage #Mindfulness #Zen #Buddhism

Gatha for Mindful Eating by Thich Nhat Hanh:

In the dimension of space and time
We chew in rhythm with our breath
Maintaining the life of all our ancestors
Opening an upward path for descendants.

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Berit Talan @bberit.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Such a lovely poem. May we all treat ourselves with such gentleness and love. #poetry

A poem

The Most Important Thing
Julia Fehrenbacher

I am making a home inside myself. A shelter
of kindness where everything
is forgiven, everything allowed—a quiet patch
of sunlight to stretch out without hurry,
where all that has been banished
and buried is welcomed, spoken, listened to—released.

A fiercely friendly place I can claim as my very own.

I am throwing arms open
to the whole of myself—especially the fearful,
fault-finding, falling apart, unfinished parts, knowing
every seed and weed, every drop
of rain, has made the soil richer.

I will light a candle, pour a hot cup of tea, gather
around the warmth of my own blazing fire. I will howl
if I want to, knowing this flame can burn through
any perceived problem, any prescribed perfectionism,
any lying limitation, every heavy thing.

I am making a home inside myself
where grace blooms in grand and glorious
abundance, a shelter of kindness that grows
all the truest things.

I whisper hallelujah to the friendly
sky. Watch now as I burst into blossom.

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Berit Talan @bberit.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Eating Meditation Part 5 After the first mouthfuls, I assess my state of mind. If my mind is very active, I bring myself back to pure sense impressions to calm it. The guidance is to chew each mouthful 40 times. #ThichNhatHanh #PlumVillage #Mindfulness #Zen #Buddhism #Mindfulness101 (1/3)

A calligraphy by Thich Nhat Hanh in black Chinese ink on rice paper.

the bread in your hand is the body of the cosmos

At the right bottom his red seal, which bears his lineage name and Dharma title, Trung Quang Nhat Hanh.

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Berit Talan @bberit.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Eating Meditation Part 4 As I start to eat I practice the 4 mindful mouthfuls. Each mouthful refers to one of the Four Brahmaviharas, the Four Immeasurable Minds: loving kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and non-attachment. #ThichNhatHanh #PlumVillage #Mindfulness #Zen #Buddhism (1/3)

A bowl of white rice beside text on mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh, explaining the practice of mindful eating through four mouthfuls.

4 Mindful Mouthfuls

With the first mouthful, I practice the the love
that brings joy.
With the second mouthful, I practice the love
that relieves suffering.
With the third mouthful, I practice the joy of
being alive.
With the fourth mouthful, I practice equal love
for all beings.

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Berit Talan @bberit.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Eating Meditation Part 3 With food on my plate I take a few moments to come home to my body, relax my shoulders and jaw. Then I recite the 5 contemplations. They help me focus my mind. #ThichNhatHanh #PlumVillage #Mindfulness #Zen #Buddhism (1/2)

On a light green background:

Five contemplations before eating:

This food is a gift of the earth, the sky, numerous living beings,
and much hard and loving work.

May we eat with mindfulness and gratitude so as to be worthy
to receive this food.

May we recognize and transform unwholesome mental formations, especially our greed and learn to eat with
moderation.

May we keep our compassion alive by eating in such a way that reduces the suffering of living beings, stops contributing to
climate change, and heals and preserves our precious planet.

We accept this food so that we may nurture our brotherhood and sisterhood, build our Sangha, and nourish our ideal of
serving all living beings.

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Berit Talan @bberit.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Eating Meditation Part 2 Before I start serving myself food, I recite this gatha. My bowl, empty now, will soon be filled with precious food. Beings all over the Earth are struggling to live. How fortunate we are to have enough to eat. #ThichNhatHanh #PlumVillage#Mindfulness #Buddhism #Zen (1/4)

Close up photo of rust colored lacquered alms bowl as used by monastics of the Plum Village tradition sitting inside an upside down Vietnamese conical bamboo hat that lies on grass covered with brown fallen leaves.

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Berit Talan @bberit.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Daily Practice Eating Meditation - Part 1 "Mindful eating is very pleasant. We sit beautifully. We are aware of the people that are sitting around us. We are aware of the food on our plates. This is a deep practice." TNH #ThichNhatHanh #PlumVillage #Mindfulness #Zen #Buddhism (1/4)

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Berit Talan @bberit.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I was too late in taking a picture. 🤦🏻 But at least it shows the cake was delicious!

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Berit Talan @bberit.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Parallax Press offers 40% off on book by Thich Nhat Hanh and other authors writing on mindfulness, personal and collective healing, and activism for peace, the protection of the Earth, and social justice. Use FALL40 for this offer. Below are three of the books I just ordered. www.parallax.org

Photo collage with three book covers. Thich Nhat Hanh - At Home in the World - Stories and Essential Teachings from a Monk's Life, Love Letter to the Earth by Thich Nhat Hanh, Black Buddhist Teachings of Ancestors, Joy and Liberation - Healing Our Way Home - by Valerie Brown, Marisela B Gomez, MD, Kaira Jewel Lingo

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Berit Talan @bberit.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Daily practice Gathas "The use of such gathas encourages clarity and mindfulness, making even the most ordinary tasks sacred. Going to the bathroom, taking out the garbage, and chopping wood become acts infused with poetry and art." TNH #PlumVillage #ThichNhatHanh #Zen #Buddhism #Mindfulness (1/3)

A watercolor painting with the moon in a dark blue sky with a flock of geese flying and the black outlines of leafless trees against the sky. In the middle in white writing "Turning on the light - Forgetfulness is the darkness, mindfulness is the light. I bring awareness to shine upon all life." In the lower right corner in white calligraphy writing "Plum Village".

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Berit Talan @bberit.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

"Each one of us should train ourselves to see our continuation body in the present moment. If we can see our continuation body while we’re still alive, we’ll know how to cultivate it to ensure a beautiful continuation in the future." #ThichNhatHanh #Buddhism #PlumVillage #Mindfulness #Zen (1/2)

A calligraphy by Thich Nhat Hanh. A Zen circle in black Chinese ink on rice paper. Inside the circle the "a cloud never dies". At the right bottom his red seal, which bears his lineage name and Dharma title, Trung Quang Nhat Hanh.

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Berit Talan @bberit.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

This poem spoke to me. And I've read it again this morning, as I am dealing with a Chronic Fatigue Flare and feel annoyed and impatient. #poetry #healing

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Berit Talan @bberit.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Daily practice After I recite the Wake Up Gatha and before I get out of bed, I recite The Five Remembrances. I used to feel that these are kind of grim, but they now bring me a lot of joy. (1/3) #ThichNhatHanh #PlumVillage #Buddhism #Zen #Meditation #Mindfulness

On the left, a picture of Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh sitting on a cushion with his monastic disciples in the background. On the right The Five Remembrances. 1. I am of the nature to grow old, I cannot escape old age. 2. I am of the nature to get sick, I cannot escape sickness.3. I am of the nature to die, I cannot escape death. 4. All that is dear to me and everyone I love are of the nature to change. There is no way to escape being separated from them. 5. I inherit the results of my actions of body, speech, and mind. My actions are my continuation.

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Berit Talan @bberit.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I take refuge in poetry. Always, but right now especially. I get a poem a day into my inbox from Rosemary Wahtola Trommer and often they are what I need. I've returned to Placing Attention a few times since it showed up in my inbox. www.wordwoman.com/a-daily-dose... #poetry

Picture of a dark blue sky with white clouds. Branches with golden fall leaves reach into the picture at the top. Some leaves are falling through the sky. In the middle of the picture a poem by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Placing Attention
As the weather is changing
and the light is changing
and the birds at the feeder
in the yard are changing,
as the leaders are changing
and the feelings are changing
and the way that we see
each other is changing,
I notice the invitation to turn
toward the truth
of what does not change—
something so vast, so unnamable,
so unable to be grasped and held,
something so present
there is no life without it,
that knows itself
through you, through me,
through clover and tree and cloud
and goes on and on and on forever.
That. I turn again and again
toward that.

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Berit Talan @bberit.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Daily practice I recite this gatha out loud every morning in bed before I sit up and put my feet on the ground. (1/2) #PlumVillage #ThichNhatHanh #Meditation #Mindfulness

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