"When we look deeply at our own nature, we can get in touch with its ultimate reality. This ultimate nature is free of birth, free of death, free from any notion such as high, low, this, that and so forth. In Buddhism, we call this 'nirvana' or 'suchness.' Nirvana is the extinction of all concepts, such as existence, nonexistence, death and birth.

You have this dimension called the 'ultimate' within you. In fact, you are free from birth and from death, free from existence and from nonexistence. Your true nature is the nature of nirvana. If you are from the Christian tradition, you could say that this ultimate dimension is God. The Kingdom of God is free from birth & death, free from high and low, free from existence and nonexistence."

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Your True Nature

Your True Home: The Everyday Wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh


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