So when you try to help refugees and if they get lost in their panics and the fear, and if you also get lost in the panic and the fear, you cannot help them a lot. The essential is that you are mindful why you do things, whether you do it slowly or quickly.
Running mindfully is quite different from just running, and that is why mindfulness doesn't mean that you have to slow down or you do things very slowly. Like, when you walk, you can walk mindfully. Mindfulness is the energy that helps you to be aware of what is going on. The practice is in the practice of mindfulness. Were those two things compatible? Were you able to practice stillness and the ability to run for your life when you needed to? GROSS: You know, the image of mindful breathing and so on is an image of stillness, and in wartime, there's often the need to flee as fast as you possibly can. We did all sorts of things, but the essential is that we did that as practitioners and not just social workers alone. THICH NHAT HANH: We trained young monks and young people so that they become social and peace workers, come into the area where there are victims of war to care for the wounded, to resettle the refugees and to set up new places for these people to live, to build a school for our children, to build a health center.
TERRY GROSS: What were some of the things that you did during wartime in Vietnam to help other people? Terry spoke to Thich Nhat Hanh in 1997 and asked him about the work they did with Engaged Buddhism. He established dozens of monasteries around the world, the largest in southwest France.
While still living in Vietnam, he started a movement called Engaged Buddhism, which combined meditation and anti-war work. Thich became one of the world's most influential zen masters, campaigning for peace and urging the practice of mindfulness meditation.
Thich Nhat Hanh, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk who was exiled from his country for opposing the war in 1966, died Saturday at his home in Hue, Vietnam.
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