Talk:Thích Nhất Hạnh

Having started this page, I have lots of quotes from my notebook that are not attributed yet. I'll start hunting down the sources and change those as I get them. Looking forward to seeing more contributions here. Nightngle 16:47, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Clean up

I deleted the "clean up" tag. I sincerely believe that I've cleaned up the issues noted. However, if any issues remain, please help me by letting me know what those are specifically so I can fix them. Thanks! :) Nightngle 15:35, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Image attribution

The image used is a press release photo from the Plum Village website, they ask that any use of the image be accompanied by the phrase "Courtesy of Plum Village Practice Center, France". If this is not acceptable on Wikiquote, then the image will need to be removed. Thank you. Nightngle 20:58, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

This is fine to have, but it doesn't mean we can't also include a quote in the caption, along with the citation. ~ UDScott 21:01, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

No problem, you and the other person had deleted the attribution. Having both is fine, but it has to have the attribution. Also, the title of the page is "Nhat Hanh" (as is the wikipedia page), not "Thich Nhat Hanh". His religious "title" does not need to be in the title. Nightngle 21:19, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

I think you're missing something with how the link works -- when it is posted as [[w:Nhat Hanh|Thich Nhat Hanh]], the first part (Nhat Hanh) is what links to the Wikipedia page, and the second part (Thich Nhat Hanh) is just what is displayed. Usually we display more of a person's name (for example if someone is named John Jacob Smith, we would set it up as [[w:John Smith|John Jacob Smith]]) ~ UDScott 21:26, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Do you commonly display a person's religious title? I've been told this is a no-no on Wikipedia, maybe it's different here. It also strikes me as looking inconsistant to have the title be "Nhat Hanh", then the first line be "Thich Nhat Hanh". While he is commonly referred to as Thich Nhat Hanh, he even signs his name "Nhat Hanh", which is why I started the page as "Nhat Hanh" and the Wikipedia article is also "Nhat Hanh" Thanks Nightngle 21:49, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

In the end, I don't have a preference one way or the other. I was just assuming that since Wikipedia used the full "Thich Nhat Hanh" in its introduction to him (its introductory text, not the title of the article), we would too (which is the usual way we list people). But you make a good point that this isn't really his full name, but rather it is a religious title. I would say that it should be whatever he is best known as, but since you probably know more about him than I do, I will defer to your judgment. Good dialogue -- I just wanted to ensure that this page was done just as others have been. ~ UDScott 22:10, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the info, Scott - I think I've looked at the Wikipedia site so many times, it didn't register that that page had "Thich Nhat Hanh" in the first line (there was some controversy about using the title ages ago). I've changed the Wikipedia article and will go ahead and change this too for consistency sake. I think the comment about him being commonly known as Thich Nhat Hanh takes care of the issue with the explaination that Thich is essentially a religious title. I've noticed that other religious leaders (like Rick Warren and Martin Luther King, Jr don't use their religious title in the fist line, either, so I don't want to have an inconsistency that seems to favor non-Christian religious leaders. Thanks again for the dialogue, it's good to be sure the pages are as good as they can be. :) Nightngle 22:56, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Unsourced

Wikiquote no longer allows unsourced quotations, and they are in process of being removed from our pages (see Wikiquote:Limits on quotations); but if you can provide a reliable, precise and verifiable source for any quote on this list please move it to Nhat Hanh. --Antiquary 18:21, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

• The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers. https://books.google.com/books?id=1dhgYD22jFIC&lpg=PA20&dq=When%20mindfulness%20embraces%20those%20we%20love%2C%20they%20will%20bloom%20like%20flowers.&pg=PA20#v=onepage&q&f=false

• People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle.

• Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.

• Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself. When you are carried away with your worries, fears, cravings, anger, and desire, you run away from yourself and you lose yourself. The practice is always to go back to oneself.

• When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see clearly that our love is not contingent upon the other person being lovable.

• There is no enlightenment outside of daily life.

• Reconciliation is to understand both sides; to go to one side and describe the suffering being endured by the other side, and then go to the other side and describe the suffering being endured by the first side.

• In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

• The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

• If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

• And once we have the condition of peace and joy in us, we can afford to be in any situation. Even in the situation of hell, we will be able to contribute our peace and serenity. The most important thing is for each of us to have some freedom in our heart.

• I would not look upon anger as something foreign to me that I have to fight...I have to deal with my anger with care, with love, with tenderness, with nonviolence.

• In April, we cannot see sunflowers in France, so we might say the sunflowers do not exist. But the local farmers have already planted thousands of seeds, and when they look at the bare hills, they may be able to see the sunflowers already. The sunflowers are there. They lack only the conditions of sun, heat, rain and July. Just because we cannot see them does not mean that they do not exist.

• True love is made up of understanding.

• If I had to choose between Buddhism and peace, I would choose peace.

• Whatever you can do, do it today and then old age will be a delicious fruit.

• Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.