This is a Happy Moment

Thích Nhất Hạnh’s mantra and our pain.

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I’ve been thinking about Thích Nhất Hạnh’s mantra because I’m hurting. I’m hurting because I see pain in the world, and feel that pain as if it were my own.

I’ve known some pain in my time. I find it easy to empathize.

When I look at the news and know the death of little children in war zones and floods; how…