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- Khorov Kelley

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Thursday, September 11, 2003 8:09 AM

[DailyDharma] EQUANIMITY: Thursday Morning Quote

Written in 1965 as a teaching on reconciliation and overcoming anger

for his young students who risked their lives daily and many of whom

perished during the Vietnam War. It is an eloquent expression of

equanimity.Promise me,promise me this day,promise me now,while the

sun is overheadexactly at the zenith,promise me:Even as theystrike

you downwith a mountain of hatred & violence;even as they step on you

& crush youlike a worm,even as they dismember & disembowel

you,remember, brother,remember:man is not our enemy.The only thing

worthy of you is compassioninvincible, limitless,

unconditional.Hatred will never let you facethe beast in man.One day,

when you face this beast alone,with your courage intact, your eyes

kind,untroubled(even as no one sees them),out of your smilewill bloom

a flower.And those who love youwill behold youacross ten thousand

worlds of birth & dying.Alone again,I will go on with bent

head,knowing that love has become eternal.on the long, rough road,the

sun & the moonwill continue to shine.

~~Thich Nhat Hanh

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