When I was a young boy, people told me about the Buddha. I hear a lot of stories about the Buddha. Without freedom, without space, a person cannot be happy. How can you have space in you and around you? The kind of love taught by the Buddha is the kind of love that does not have frontier. That love can embrace many many living beings but not just one living being.
Thich Nhat Hanh is a global spiritual leader, poet, and peace activist, renowned for his powerful teachings and bestselling writings on mindfulness and peace. A gentle, humble monk, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. called him “an Apostle of peace and nonviolence” when nominating him for the Nobel Peace Prize. Exiled from his native Vietnam for almost four decades, Thich Nhat Hanh has been a pioneer in bringing Buddhism and mindfulness to the West and establishing an engaged Buddhist community for the 21st Century.
