<div style="color:black;font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Waw....
<div>what a beautiful poem...and so well it expresses the continuous arrival to the next moment... even if that brings the death of the body...<br>
it is an arrival...</div>
<div>thank you!</div>
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From: Yasskin Marc via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org><br>
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<div>Thanks Roz for passing this on to us ~ what a beloved soul/guide/friend he has been.
<div class="yiv2089735200">Heβs always touched me so deeply with his beautiful humble ways ~ </div>
<div class="yiv2089735200">for most of us ~ having come into our lives at another very crucial time ~ ( Vietnam ).</div>
<div class="yiv2089735200"> ~m. ππ</div>
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<div class="yiv2089735200" style="text-align:center;">Do not say that Iβll depart tomorrow ~ </div>
<div class="yiv2089735200" style="text-align:center;">even today I still arrive.</div>
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<div class="yiv2089735200" style="text-align:center;">Look deeply: every second I am arriving</div>
<div class="yiv2089735200" style="text-align:center;">to be a bud on a Spring branch</div>
<div class="yiv2089735200" style="text-align:center;">to be a tiny bird in my new nest</div>
<div class="yiv2089735200" style="text-align:center;">to be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower</div>
<div class="yiv2089735200" style="text-align:center;">to be a jewel hiding onto a stone.</div>
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<div class="yiv2089735200" style="text-align:center;">I still arrive </div>
<div class="yiv2089735200" style="text-align:center;">in order to laugh and cry</div>
<div class="yiv2089735200" style="text-align:center;">to fear and to hope.</div>
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<div class="yiv2089735200" style="text-align:center;">The rhythm of my heart</div>
<div class="yiv2089735200" style="text-align:center;">is the birth and death</div>
<div class="yiv2089735200" style="text-align:center;">of all that is alive.</div>
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<div class="yiv2089735200" style="text-align:center;">Thich Nhat Hanh</div>
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<div class="yiv2089735200">On Oct 6, 2020, at 8:21 AM, Roz via Thespiritexpress <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="yiv2089735200" ymailto="mailto:thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org">thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="yiv2089735200"><blockquote class="yiv2089735200" type="cite">From Thich Nhat Hanh's Sangha:<br clear="none" class="yiv2089735200"></blockquote><br clear="none" class="yiv2089735200"><br clear="none" class="yiv2089735200">Dear Sangha, there is word beloved teacher Thich Nhat Hanh has stopped<br clear="none" class="yiv2089735200">eating. There are a number of his monks traveling to him now in Vietnam to<br clear="none" class="yiv2089735200">be in his presence. Thay has been incredibly strong and vibrant following<br clear="none" class="yiv2089735200">his stroke in 2014 and he will mark 94 years on October 11. A report from<br clear="none" class="yiv2089735200">Plum Village on Sept 18th stated his health has been declining despite the<br clear="none" class="yiv2089735200">best of care.<br clear="none" class="yiv2089735200">Please join me and others in meditation for Thay. Plum Village has<br clear="none" class="yiv2089735200">requested we sit or walk for Thay and offer forgiveness to others as a way<br clear="none" class="yiv2089735200">to continue Thay's energy of peace. If we can sit and generate compassion<br clear="none" class="yiv2089735200">for others and forgiveness we increase the being and the legacy of Thay.<br clear="none" class="yiv2089735200">Thay taught us the next Buddha may be the sangha. Perhaps our mindful<br clear="none" class="yiv2089735200">thoughts and actions now for him will bring that closer and help him to<br clear="none" class="yiv2089735200">touch more lives than ever as he ends this incarnation.<br clear="none" class="yiv2089735200">May Thay be peaceful now in his root temple and feel the love and<br clear="none" class="yiv2089735200">gratitude from all over the world. π<br clear="none" class="yiv2089735200"><br clear="none" class="yiv2089735200"><br clear="none" class="yiv2089735200">_______________________________________________<br clear="none" class="yiv2089735200">Thespiritexpress mailing list<br clear="none" class="yiv2089735200"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="yiv2089735200" ymailto="mailto:Thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:Thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org">Thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a><br clear="none" class="yiv2089735200">http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/thespiritexpress<br clear="none" class="yiv2089735200"></div>
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