{"id":50817,"date":"2022-01-22T16:38:43","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T16:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wagingnonviolence.org\/forusa\/?p=50817"},"modified":"2022-01-26T20:33:11","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T20:33:11","slug":"honoring-thich-nhat-hanh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wagingnonviolence.org\/forusa\/2022\/01\/honoring-thich-nhat-hanh\/","title":{"rendered":"Honoring Thich Nhat Hanh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"oSxQ2hyYQ6FhMtCSYzJbKA\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/73606467\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'oSxQ2hyYQ6FhMtCSYzJbKA',sig:'6t-chWueq-JEFRkNXFm_qiWjJg6CIrYD3bXj5C3am8k=',w:'594px',h:'461px',items:'73606467',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src=\"\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\" async=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Born on October  11, 1926 in the city of Hue in Central Vietnam, renowned Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh was 95 years old when he passed away on Jan. 22. Author of over a hundred books, Nhat Hanh\u2019s legacy is one of interconnection with one\u2019s true self, others, nature and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nhat Hanh received his primary education at a Buddhist academy. At the age of 16, he entered a monastery where he learned the traditions of Mahayana Buddhism. In the early 1960s, he came to the United States to teach at Princeton and Columbia. In 1963, he returned to South Vietnam to aid fellow monks in nonviolent peace work. Despite denunciation by the government, Nhat Hanh helped found a Buddhist university, a publishing house and a peace magazine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With Chan Khong, member of a women\u2019s Buddhist monastic order, Nhat Hahn co-founded the School of Youth for Social Service, or SYSS. This grassroots organization set up schools and medical centers, resettled homeless families and formed agricultural co-ops. Based on Buddhist principles of nonviolence and compassionate action, SYSS attracted over 10,000 young people who helped rebuild villages destroyed by war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In July 1965, in response to growing military\nbuildup in Vietnam, the United States chapter of the\nFellowship of Reconciliation, or FOR, organized a group of religious leaders to\nvisit South Vietnam. Delegates wanted to\nsee what was going on and to initiate peace efforts with Vietnamese\ncounterparts, including Nhat Hanh. This was the start of a long and meaningful\nrelationship with this interfaith peace and justice organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On May 1, 1966 at the ancient Tu Hieu pagoda in Hue, Nhat Hanh received from Zen Master Chan That the \u201clamp transmission,\u201d making him a <em>dharmacharya<\/em>, or teacher&#8221; As spiritual head of the pagoda and associated monasteries, Nhat Hanh taught Buddhist psychology at V\u1ea1n Hanh Buddhist University along with a body of literature in Mahayana Buddhism known as <em>prajnaparamita<\/em>, Sanskrit for \u201cperfection of wisdom.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In late 1966, students issued &#8220;A Call for Peace,&#8221; a statement that declared, \u201cIt is time for North and South Vietnam to find a way to stop the war and help all Vietnamese people live peacefully and with mutual respect.\u201d Nhat Hanh went into exile, leaving Chan Khong in charge of the SYSS. University leaders accused Nhat Hanh and Chan Khong of being Communist. They denied this and claimed to offer a third way, neither pro- nor anti-Communist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under FOR sponsorship, Nhat Hahn came to the United States where he led a symposium on Vietnamese Buddhism at Cornell University. He called for peace at high levels of government and in civil society. He met a diversity of leaders including then Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara. Nhat Hanh identified himself as an anti-Communist who mourned destruction by people at war with his country of peasants, 80 percent of whom were Buddhist. He said the United States had become too afraid of the Communists to enter a peaceful relationship with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the spring of 1966, Nhat Hahn visited the Roman Catholic Abbey of Gethsemani near Louisville, Kentucky, where he prayed with fellow monk and writer Thomas Merton. Merton later recalled Nhat Hahn\u2019s visit in a brief essay titled, \u201cNhat Hanh Is My Brother.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"594\" src=\"https:\/\/wagingnonviolence.org\/forusa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/12\/24105214073_771bc6bbd4_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50835\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wagingnonviolence.org\/forusa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/12\/24105214073_771bc6bbd4_b.jpg 800w, https:\/\/wagingnonviolence.org\/forusa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/12\/24105214073_771bc6bbd4_b-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wagingnonviolence.org\/forusa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/12\/24105214073_771bc6bbd4_b-768x570.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>Thich Nhat Hanh with Martin Luther King Jr. at a press conference. (Flickr\/Jim Forest)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Chicago, Nhat Hanh met Martin\nLuther King Jr., to whom he had written a letter on the meaning in Mahayana\nBuddhism of self-immolation. The two men held a press conference. The <em>Chicago Tribune<\/em> reported that King\ncompared the civil rights movement in the United States with the protest of\nVietnamese monks against the war. In 1967, King nominated Nhat Hanh for the\nNobel Peace Prize. In his letter to the Nobel committee, King argued that Nhat\nHanh offered a way out of the nightmare. King explained that he knew no one more\nworthy of recognition than this gentle Buddhist monk from Vietnam, who he was\nprivileged to call a friend. On April 4, 1967, King spoke at Riverside Church in New York City where he repeated his\nopposition to the Vietnam War and cited Nhat Hanh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A year later, after speaking in Memphis, Tennessee, King planned to\ncontinue to the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky to join Nhat Hanh and\nThomas Merton on retreat. All three practiced meditation for their spiritual\nfulfillment and that of others. Each sought to help others to live\ncompassionately. One can only imagine how their dialogue might have ensued had King\nnot been murdered April 4, 1968.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Subsequently, Nhat Hanh deepened his \u201cengaged\nBuddhism\u201d a term he coined at a time when his country was being ravaged by the\nVietnam War. Among 14 principles, engaged Buddhists have sought to speak\ntruthfully and constructively; not to use the Buddhist community for personal\ngain or profit; to live with a vocation that harms neither humans nor nature,\nand to live in accord with the ideals of compassion, protection of life and\nprevention of war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the early 1970s, Nhat Hanh served on FOR\u2019s advisory council and staff. With FOR leader Alfred Hassler and Chan Khong, who had followed Nhat Hanh into exile, Nhat Hanh co-founded <em>Dai Dong The Gioi,<\/em> Chinese for \u201ca world of great happiness.\u201d This was an effort to link the global challenges of war, environmental degradation and poverty at a time of growing awareness of climate crisis. The United Nations organized two international conferences: the Biosphere Conference in Paris in 1968 and the U.N. Conference on Human Environment, which took place in Stockholm, Sweden in 1972. Dai Dong organized an alternative conference that sought to dramatize the depth and scope of existing world issues in such a way that it would be impossible for national delegations to ignore the crisis and of the urgency to make social and political changes necessary to realize the idea of a world community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During this period, Nhat Hanh lived in France. In\n1978, Nhat Hanh inspired creation of a Buddhist Peace Fellowship, one of FOR\u2019s\nreligious peace groups. According to its website, \u201cwe continue to learn from\nThich Nhat Hanh and benefit from the thousands of people who come to engaged\nDharma practice through his teaching.\u201d (Thich is an honorific title meaning venerable.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Working with his Vietnamese Buddhist colleagues,\nNhat Hahn sought to help war victims, including boat people who came to the United States. He also wrote several\nbooks, two of which were published by FOR: &#8220;The Miracle of Being Awake&#8221; was published in 1975 followed,\nin 1987, by &#8220;Be Still and Know.\nMeditation for Peacemaker,&#8221; which was co-published with Pax Christi.\nFOR also recorded an album titled \u201cCry of Vietnam: Three Vietnamese Voices That\nCannot Be Silenced.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wagingnonviolence.org\/forusa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/12\/1966_Thich_Nhat_Hahn_candid1-GOODWIN_JOHN_SWARTHMORE_HR-820x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50818\" width=\"311\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wagingnonviolence.org\/forusa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/12\/1966_Thich_Nhat_Hahn_candid1-GOODWIN_JOHN_SWARTHMORE_HR-820x1024.jpg 820w, https:\/\/wagingnonviolence.org\/forusa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/12\/1966_Thich_Nhat_Hahn_candid1-GOODWIN_JOHN_SWARTHMORE_HR-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/wagingnonviolence.org\/forusa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/12\/1966_Thich_Nhat_Hahn_candid1-GOODWIN_JOHN_SWARTHMORE_HR-768x959.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wagingnonviolence.org\/forusa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/12\/1966_Thich_Nhat_Hahn_candid1-GOODWIN_JOHN_SWARTHMORE_HR-1231x1536.jpg 1231w, https:\/\/wagingnonviolence.org\/forusa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/12\/1966_Thich_Nhat_Hahn_candid1-GOODWIN_JOHN_SWARTHMORE_HR-1641x2048.jpg 1641w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 311px) 100vw, 311px\" \/><figcaption>Thich Nhat Hahn in 1966. (FOR\/John Goodwin)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Uncertain how next to proceed, Nhat Hanh entered\na period of withdrawal. For five years, he lived at a hermitage in France where he meditated, wrote,\ngardened and received occasional visitors. After 1983, Nhat Hanh\u2019s vocation\nbecame more public. He helped form Plum Village in southwestern France. Characterized\nas a community of mindful living, Plum Village gathered people in\nconflict such as Palestinians and Israelis for peacebuilding retreats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Encouraging people to live mindfully and\ncompassionately, Nhat Hanh lectured and led retreats around the world. On September\n 28, 2002,\nNhat Hanh, Chan Khong and 45 members of Plum Village visited Memphis, Tennessee. As part of a wider\neffort to build opposition to impending U.S. war in Iraq, Nhat Hanh led a\nmindful walk, ate a mindful lunch, and gave a talk as part of what organizers\ncalled PeaceWalk 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nhat Hanh explained to the gathering that\npracticing peace means being peace in such everyday aspects of living as\nwalking and eating. During his talk, Nhat Hanh encouraged peacemakers to\npractice mindfulness by walking or eating silently in the present. He said such\npractices are essential to uproot seeds of war that germinate in one\u2019s being.\nTo prevent war in the future, we have to practice mindfulness today. Only by\nestablishing peace in our hearts and in our ways of looking at things can we\nbegin to deal with sources of violence and war such as anger, fear, hatred,\nmisunderstanding and possessiveness. Nhat Hanh taught participants the following\nchant, &#8220;I Have Arrived,&#8221; which goes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">     I have arrived \/ I am home \/ in the here \/ and in the now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">     I have arrived \/ I am home \/ in the here \/ and in the now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">     I am solid. \/ I am free. \/ I am solid. \/ I am free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">     In the ultimate I dwell. \/ In the ultimate I dwell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nhat Hanh stressed that during the war in Vietnam, people in the United States suffered just as much\nas the Vietnamese. In a poem, &#8220;Call Me by My True Names,&#8221; Nhat Hanh illustrated\nradical empathy by recognizing himself in a frog and in the snake that eats it,\nthen in a starving child in Uganda and in the arms merchant who sells deadly\nweapons there. Finally he identified himself in a 12-year-old girl raped by a\nsea pirate and also in a sea pirate, whose heart the United States is not yet\ncapable of seeing and loving. Darkness, he explained, cannot be dissipated by\nmore darkness. Only understanding and compassion can dissolve fear, hatred and\nviolence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One concrete outcome of PeaceWalk2002 was the\ndecision of participants to create Magnolia Grove Monastery, a 120-acre residential\nmonastery and mindfulness practice center in northwest Mississippi. A year\nlater, Nhat Hanh returned for its opening. Ever since, Magnolia Grove Village\nhas served as a place to rest with the present moment and to live peacefully.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2005, following lengthy negotiations, the Vietnamese government granted Nhat Hanh permission to return to his birth country. He taught, published four of his books in Vietnamese, and traveled with monastic and lay members of his order. In 2007, he returned to Vietnam. The goals of these trips were to support new monastics in his order and to organize and conduct &#8220;Great Chanting Ceremonies.\u201d These were intended to help heal wounds remaining from the Vietnam War. 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He received treatment in San Francisco and France. Though he\nwas unable to speak after the stroke, he continued to lead the community, using\nhis left arm and facial expressions to communicate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In October 2018, Nhat Hahn returned permanently to Vietnam. Mark Nguyen, one of the organizers of PeaceWalk 2002, visited Nhat Hahn in December 2018. Chan Khong took Mark to see Nhat Hahn through a window. Sitting inside looking out at Mark, Nhat Hahn acknowledged Mark with a slight nod. By all accounts, his health was remarkably stable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nhat Hanh offers a way of seeing ourselves and\nof looking at things that leads to diminished aggression, fear and hatred. He\nurges us to rely on each other and to seek to ensure that our children have a\nfuture. In his words, \u201cEvery day we do things, we are things that have to do with\npeace. If we are aware of our life, our way of looking at things, we will know\nhow to make peace right in the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The renowned 95-year-old Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh has passed away, leaving behind a legacy of interconnection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":617,"featured_media":50839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,61,78],"tags":[126,57,142,139,141,98],"region":[7],"series":[],"article_type":[],"class_list":["post-50817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-militarism","category-religion","tag-history","tag-martin-luther-king","tag-obituary","tag-religion","tag-vietnam","tag-vietnam-war","region-asia"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.4 (Yoast SEO v28.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Honoring Thich Nhat Hanh<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The renowned 95-year-old Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh has passed away, leaving behind a legacy of interconnection.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/wagingnonviolence.org\/forusa\/2022\/01\/honoring-thich-nhat-hanh\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Honoring Thich Nhat Hanh\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The renowned 95-year-old Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh has passed away, leaving behind a legacy of interconnection.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/wagingnonviolence.org\/forusa\/2022\/01\/honoring-thich-nhat-hanh\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Fellowship Magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wagingnonviolence\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-01-22T16:38:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-01-26T20:33:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/wagingnonviolence.org\/forusa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/12\/thichnhathanh.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"740\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"576\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Paul R. 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