A Cloud Never Dies, A Poem By Thich Nhat Hanh

This is a poem by Vietnamese Buddhist monk and Zen Master, Thich Nhat Hanh. Thay, as he is lovingly, known by his followers wasa peace activist, author, poet, and teacher, who founded the Plum Village tradition. He’s known as the father of mindfulness. A cloud never truly dies. Instead, it transforms into rain, snow, tea, or life itself, showing that nothing ever passes from being into a non-being.

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A teaching from Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Buddhist monk. Even when the cloud is not there. It continues as snow or rain. It is impossible for the cloud to die. It can become rain or ice, But it cannot become nothing. The cloud does not need to have a soul in order to continue. There is no beginning and no end. I will never die. There will be a dissolution of this body. But that does not mean my death.