Walk with Me Page #2

a beautiful cloud.

And you like the cloud so much.

And suddenly the cloud is no longer there.

And you think that the cloud

has passed away.

Where is my beloved cloud now?

So if you have time to reflect,

to look,

you'll see that the cloud has not died,

has not passed away.

The cloud has become the rain.

And when you look at the rain,

you see your cloud.

And when you drink your tea mindfully,

you can see the rain in your tea

and your cloud in your tea.

And you can say, "Hello, my cloud."

I know you have not died.

"You are still alive in a new form."

So doggy is the same.

And if you look very deeply, you can see doggy

in its new form.

When the storm finally passed,

layers of inner mortal lay crumbled.

On the now-deserted battlefield,

a few sunbeams peeked through the horizon,

too weak to offer any warmth to my weary soul.

I was full of wounds,

yet experienced an almost thrilling sense of aloneness.

No one would recognize me in my new manifestation.

No one close to me would know it was I.

Hieu, you have given me so much happiness.

When your father left, you gave me energy

so that I could continue to go to work

and live with you.

I know that what's happened is my fault.

My job is so stressful, and I don't know

how to control it.

That's why sometimes when Mom comes home late,

I don't have space to think or breathe,

and I yell at you, my child.

I promise that I will do better

and that I will breathe like our teacher,

Thich Nhat Hanh, has taught us.

I just want to say that Mom loves you a lot.

Breathing in

I enjoy my in-breath.

Breathing out

I let go of the out-breath.

In-breath.

Out-breath.

There is a song

that we like to sing in Plum Village.

"I have arrive, I am home."

This is a song of practice

because the practice of mindfulness

is to always arrive.

Arrive in the here and the now.

We have been running a lot but we have not arrived.

We are always looking for something,

searching for something,

longing for something.

And we have not found it.

And we continue to run.

And we don't know how long

how much more we have to run

and look for what we are looking for.

Maybe you are looking for some conditions

of happiness

that we believe we don't have.

And running, searching has become a habit.

And life and all the wonders of life

are available only in the present moment.

Because the past is no longer there,

the future is not yet there.

There's only the present moment.

So the practice of mindfulness help us

to go home to the here and the now

in order for us to learn how to live our life deeply.

That way we will not waste our life.

Mountains and rivers,

Earth and sun

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