#77 - 3 Minute Thursday: I Have Arrived
The Calm & Free Podcast with Pooja Mottl
English - December 16, 2021 17:00 - 3 minutes - 3.03 MB - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSelf-Improvement Education Society & Culture Personal Journals ancient wisdom business motivation mindfulness life lessons coaching spirituality greatness philosophy inner peace Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Welcome to our weekly segment, "Three Minute Thursday" (#3MinThursday) where I highlight a piece of wisdom I’ve come across from my own readings over the past week, or share with you an inspirational anecdote that can help you lead a more calm, free and compassionate life.
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Today I'd like to share with you an insight based on the book, Your True Home – everyday wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Buddhist monk who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Martin Luther King Jr.
He says that most of us believe that happiness is possible only in the future. And when you are searching for something else, you are not at peace with yourself, you are not satisfied with yourself. Then there is conflict. And with conflict there is no peace and calm. And when there is no peace and calm, there is no happiness and joy.
But the truth is, he says, that we have already arrived, we don’t have to travel any further. The conditions for our happiness are already sufficient. We don’t need any more labels, things, titles, or other type of currency to be happy and free. We only need to allow ourselves to be in the present moment, and we will be able to touch our happiness.
Thich Nhat Hanh talks about a practice to help us experience this. He calls it “I have arrived”.
When you breath in and bring you mind home to your body, you make peace with your mind and body. This is the practice. It takes only 2 seconds he says – you establish yourself in the here and now. You are enough.
Smile and internalize this idea that you are enough. There is no need to search, to wait, to seek for something better to happen. Better is happening now. Just breath in.
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Special Thanks :
Kris Kosach of the TPR Podcast for lending her VO for our Podcast Intro.
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