What do you really want? | Teaching by Thich Nhat Hanh | #mindfulness

We know that in our modern time, we work very hard.

Everyone is working very hard,

and we do not have the time to take care of our body, our feelings, or our emotions.

We do not have enough peace and happiness within us.

Even if we have the time, we do not know how to handle our body, our feelings, or our emotions.

There is suffering and conflict inside.

And there may be some loneliness inside.

Most of us do not want to go home to ourselves,

because we feel that if we do, we will encounter the blocks of pain, suffering, and loneliness inside.

So the tendency is to run away from ourselves, and that is a characteristic of our civilization.

People feel the need to run away from themselves because they don't want to be with themselves. They fear that if they go back to themselves, they will be overwhelmed by the suffering, despair, anger, and loneliness inside.

We are running away from ourselves.

So we do not have the time to take care of ourselves.

If you are not able to take care of yourself, how can you take care of the person you love, your family?

Not only are we running away from ourselves, but we are also running away from our families and friends.

We let them down.

At the same time, we do not have the time to go back to nature, to Mother Earth.

Mother Earth has the capacity for nourishing and healing.

But we are running away from her, and we may cause damage to nature with our technology.

You want to be number one, and you want to be happy at the same time.

But if you want to be number one, you have to devote all your time to your work, sacrificing family and self.

To be number one, you have to sacrifice happiness.

But what is the use of being number one without happiness?

So we have to ask ourselves the question, "What do we really want?"

Do we want happiness, or do we want success to be number one?