Let's Go Wild

#147: 12 April 2026 A Wild Prayer

“About twenty years ago, a close friend and I drove to southern Virginia to attend a retreat led by Vietnamese Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh. At the closing ceremony, he asked us to choose a partner—I turned to face my friend—and bow to each other. He then instructed us to hug our partner while taking three conscious and full in-breaths and out-breaths.

With the first breath, he said to reflect: “I’m going to die”; with the second, “You’re going to die”; and with the third, “And we have just these precious moments.”

After slowly releasing our embrace, my friend and I looked at each other through our tears. Thich Nhat Hanh had, in a beautiful way, turned us toward the refuge of truth.”

- Tara Brach

This is the true meaning of Wild; not just healthy relationships with others, but a healthy relationship with Self and Death both. Fearing neither, facing both eye-to-eye.