With the holidays approaching, I started to wonder what this time of year is like for other people..are they happy, fed, safe and loved? If I could, the gift that I would buy the world is, of course, peace. But is world peace even possible? Where would we start? Is it just a unreachable fantasy? In my search for answers I came across the words and this video of the celebrated Buddhist peace activist and teacher Thich Nhat Hanh. The clip is a meditation with fascinating footage filmed on a retreat in Vietnam in the spring of 2007.
If in our daily life we can smile, If we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.
Smile, breathe and go slowly. - Thich Nhat Hanh
