Stop, Don’t Strive
A brief teaching from Cuong Lu on doing nothing
Cuong Lu
Cuong Lu is a Zen scholar and teacher ordained by Thich Nhat Hanh who spent sixteen years as a monk at Plum Village. A former prison chaplain, he is the author of The Buddha in Jail and Wait: A Love Letter to Those in Despair. He is the founder of the Mind Only School in the Netherlands, where he teaches Buddhist philosophy and psychology.
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Stop, Don’t Strive
A brief teaching from Cuong Lu on doing nothing
TeachingsMagazine | In Brief, Teachings
Meaningful Suffering
Brief wisdom from a scholar and Plum Village monk
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