After listening to this wonderful Vietnamese explaining how those who find themselves cut from the ancestral wisdom of their tradition become hungry ghosts, you will rightly wonder why this phenomenon appeared only in the West… 😕
The answer is in https://awakenersofthedawn.com/, answering the questions you were not allowing yourself to ask until the genocide of the Gazaouis and the Epstein affair.
“the marvelous Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh brings together people of all creeds. During the war in Vietnam, while some Buddhist monks were pushed by the energy of despair to set themselves on fire, Thich Nhat Hanh who had seeked asylum in France travelled to the US to inform its citizens of the horrors committed in Vietnam, in their name by the U.S. army. He was then proposed for the Nobel Prize for Peace by the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.. Today, his community of Les Pruniers celebrates its thirty year anniversary. It attracts people from all walk of life for retreats. In your situation following your couple and professional setbacks, there is nothing better than a retreat and today I would recommend to you a retreat in Les Pruniers, rather than a catholic monastery. – Well, what’s happening to a good Catholic like you, my Uncle? – I’m thinking about your own interests, my dear nephew, and since you’ve got all the right reasons to be depressed, I doubt that the austere atmosphere of a Catholic monastery would cheer you up. While at the Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh’s community, you will be in good company among religious and lay persons, immersed in joy and with retreatants of all ages, doing breathing and silent walk practices apeasing the mind. As the Orientals say, considering the breath as the horse and the mind as the rider : “if one calms down the breath, it cools off the rider”. And since everything is connected, our health requires the hygiene of the body, but first of all the hygiene of the mind, that’s what is taught at The Pruniers with the Full Consciousness.”
excerpt from https://awakenersofthedawn.com/ by Salik de Bonnault
