Following the death of Thich Nhat Hanh, and his funeral this week, I wanted to share the beautiful words he wrote in anticipation of this event called ‘I am not here.’ I hope you find them as poignant and uplifting as I do: I Am Not in Here ང་འདི་ན་མེད། རྐ་སྲས་ཀྱིས་བསྒྱུར། ཝེ་ཐི་ནམ་གྱི་ནང་ང་ལ་སློབ་མ་ཞིག་ཡོད། ཁོང་གིས་ང་ཤི་རྗེས་ངའི་རུས་ཐལ་གྱི་ཆེད་མཆོད་རྟེན་ཞིག་བཞེངས་འདོད་འདུག ཁོང་དང་གཞན་དག་ཚོས་མཆོད་རྟེན་དེར། “འདིར་ངའི་བརྩེ་བའི་སློབ་དཔོན་བཞུགས་ཡོད།”ཅེས་གསལ་བའི་བྱང་བུ་ཞིག་ཀྱང་འཇོག་འདོད་འདུག ངས་ཁོང་ཚོར་ལྷ་ཁང་གི་ས་ཆ་འཕྲོ་བརླག་མ་གཏོང་ཞེས་བཤད་པ་ཡིན། “ང་བུམ་པ་ཆུང་ངུ་ཞིག་གི་ནང་བཞག་ནས་དེ་མ་འཇོག་རོགས། ང་དེ་ལྟར་རྒྱུན་མཐུད་འདོད་མི་འདུག དེ་ལས་ངའི་རུས་ཐལ་ཕྱི་རོལ་ཏུ་གཏོར་ཏེ། ལྗོན་ཤིང་སྐྱེ་བའི་གྲོགས་སུ་གྱུར་ན་ཡག་ཤོས་རེད།” ཅེས་བཤད་པ་ཡིན།...
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