![]() ![]() ![]() “Of course, when you are sitting down to meditate, feelings will arise, and many of us did cry, but the practice is at the moment of your crying to get ahold of your breath again, and say, ‘This is how I’m feeling now, this is how my heart is beating,’” she said. The grief comes in waves, she says, but Nhat Hanh, lovingly called “Thay” (teacher in Vietnamese) by his followers, prepared her to handle it. “But he’s already explained so many times in his dharma talk to look for him in the flowers, to look for him in the monks and nuns, and to look for him in the essence of who he was and to see how he has transformed into all these wonders.” “Everyone can feel the loss, that’s for sure,” said Bang Lang Do, a pianist in Orange County who attended her first retreat with Nhat Hanh in 1984. But his death was still painful for many of his followers. ![]() Nhat Hanh’s death was not unexpected - he had a stroke in 2014 that left him unable to speak, and his health had been in decline over the past few years. ![]()
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