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Meditation & Mindfulness Practice in the Tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh

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The Power of Zero

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"You don't bring enlightenment into you from outside.
You just remove confusion, ignorance, forgetfulness, so the enlightenment can reveal itself.

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When we say zero is nothing, it is very negative. . .but that's not negative at all.

If you are in debt, if you owe someone a million dollars, and now if you arrive at zero, that's a lot!

Suppose you don't have any illness.
That's zero.
That's very much.
That's a lot!

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If suffering is there, something else should be there also ~ namely, happiness."

~ Thich Nhat Hanh, in a dharma talk given at Plum Village on July 1, 2007

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