Thich Nhat Hanh ⋅ Transformation and Healing (1993)

© Charles Ash 'Mountain Spring'

"A true cloud can produce rain. It is only in the midst of our daily life and in our actual contact with people and other species, including the object of our meditation, that we can know whether our mind of love and compassion is really present and whether it is stable. If love and compassion  are real, they will be evident in our daily life, in the way we talk with people and the way we act in the world. The sitting meditation position is not the only position in which we can give rise to the spring water of love and compassion."

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