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One of my favorite Zen monks, Thich Nhat Hanh, simplified the rules in just a few words: "Smile, breathe and go slowly. "

Nhat Hanh: To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing.

The moment I meet Thich Nhat Hanh at the Four Seasons Hotel in Manhattan, I feel his sense of calm.

Nhat Hanh: First of all, when you love someone, you want to share everything with him or her.

Nhat Hanh: As you walk, you touch the ground mindfully, and every step can bring you solidity and joy and freedom.

Nhat Hanh's plea for peace and reconciliation in Vietnam inspired King, who later nominated the monk for a Nobel Peace Prize.

Nhat Hanh: You don't have to listen to the news three times a day or read one newspaper after another.

Thich Nhat Hanh once recommended that stoplights be your mindfulness bell as you drive.

Nhat Hanh: Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person.

The Vietnamese monk, Thich Nhat Hanh has a very good commentary on the Heart Sutra.

Later Tang Dynasty unearthed in Luoyang Tiancheng two copies of a single page collusion Van Hanh .

Nhat Hanh: The question can be answered when you can answer this: What happens in the present moment?

Nhat Hanh: Yes. There is the mud, and there is the lotus that grows out of the mud.

Nhat Hanh: In the beginning, they were reluctant because they thought that the life of a monk is difficult.

Nhat Hanh: The day I saw a picture of the Buddha in a magazine.

Nhat Hanh: And sharing our happiness and our suffering.

Nhat Hanh: And I'm very happy.

Nhat Hanh: Well, Princeton University was like a monastery. There were only male students at that time.

Nhat Hanh: I mean the fear, the anger, the despair, the anxiety in us.

Nhat Hanh: There is a time for everything.

Nhat Hanh: Yes. We have the ten mindful movements.

Nhat Hanh: Yes, the collective energy is very helpful.

Nhat Hanh: One day when I was in my 30s, I was practicing meditation in a park in France.

Nhat Hanh: No egg, no milk, no cheese.

Nhat Hanh: Suppose you are drinking a cup of tea.

Nhat Hanh: People sacrifice the present for the future.

Nhat Hanh: It means compassion is our most important practice.

There is something extraordinarily child- like about the 84 -year-old Zen Buddhist master Thich Nhat Hanh .

Nhat Hanh: Anger is the energy that people use in order to act.

Nhat Hanh: I am real, and the tea is real.

Nhat Hanh: We try to do it not only every day but every moment.

"We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize. " - Thich Nhat Hanh

Thich Nhat Hanh goes on to explaing why Thich Quang Duc's self-immolation was not a suicide, which is contrary to Buddhist teachings

The Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh has turned his attention to how Buddhism could help ecology. Photograph: AP