from Klaus aus Freiburg im Breisgau

Dear Thay Phap Nhat,

thank you very much for your wonderful teachings last weekend.

I am still impressed of everything that happened in waldbröl.

Never before I  left a seminar in such a good mood.

I am so gratefull, that I had the chance to meet you.

And I wish to meet you again soon.

Unfortunately I cannot join you in your vietnam trip this year, hoping that you will do it again.

Please let me know, when you are in the southwest of germany,

please let me know if I can do anything for you.

I am looking forward to a short answer, so I know my email arrived

chuc may man

Klaus aus Freiburg im Breisgau

what lies behind us

and what lies before us

is nothing compared

to what lies within us

Digging my own well

During the last weekend, I participated in the coursse „Mindfulness is the Source of Happiness“ with thay Phap Nhat. On the last day, he draw a picture of a pond and a well. Looking at the pond, it first seems that there is a lot of water in it; we can even take some water out of it and bring it somewhere to share it with others. But when the sun is shining, the water will evaporate and the pond may dry out. When we are looking at the well, we see that it is smaller than the pond on the surface, but it is very deep. When we take water from the well, we take it from deep down from the stream. This source of water will never be empty, because the stream continues to flow down there under the soil. Thay Phap Nhat explained the meaning of this picture for our practice. We can accumulate a lot of knowledge by studying. But if we stop at that point, we will be like a pond that can easily dry out. If we want to go deeper, we have to really become a practicioner; we have to dig our own well by developing the energy of mindfulness so that we are able to draw the water directly from the source.