Dear Friends,
I hope this finds you enjoying mindful breaths during this busy season.
I will be reflecting on Thay’s 1996 Christmas Eve Winter Retreat Dharma talk shared in the New Hamlet at Plum Village. Christmas is often described as a festival for children and Thay invites us to consider how the child in us is always alive and maybe we have not had enough time to take care of the child within. Thay says that now we have an opportunity to help the child within us to be born again and again because the spirit of the child is the Holy Spirit, it is the spirit of the Buddha.
Merry Christmas…Joyeux Noel a vous tous!
A lotus for you
Tree
practicing mindfulness in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh