What if you are afraid to disagree with people

by Thich Nhat HanhNovember 26, 2019

When we look at something like a flower. Although we are looking at the same thing, but the way we see that flower may be different.

So everyone is looking at that flower, but everyone have a different feeling, have a different scene.

So although we do the same thing, but we can do it differently already.

I don't think that we should try to try to make people think the same way we think.

What like is that the thinking should be productive. The thinking should bring about more understanding and more compassion. And there are different ways of thinking.

It's like meditation. Sitting meditation.

We should not want the other person to do exactly what we do because that is another body. The feelings in him or her are different.

So with intelligence that persons should manage his body, his feeling in such a way that the breathing and the sitting can be the best thing to him or to her.

And the way that person does may be different from our way.

So we should not expect the other person to do exactly what you are doing.

We should only respect that she'll be able to arrive at more peace, more clarity, more compassion. But the way might be different so he can be peaceful with it.

Because every flower is a wonder. Every person is a wonder.

And we should not produce the kind of talk with people like they do with machine.

So I think what we can say is that what we really want is more peace, more brotherhood and sisterhood, more joy, more freedom.

And the way to produce these wonderful things may be different and we should be free and tolerant enough in order for people to be able to do their own way, so we can combine the two.

You have this and you have also that which is freedom.

Thank you