How the Great Zen Master and Peace Activist Thich Nhat Hanh Found Himself and Lost His Self in a Library Epiphany
The Marginalian • 2/19/2026 – 2/20/2026
Summary
Thich Nhat Hanh, a Great Zen Master and peace activist, experienced an epiphany in a library. He expressed the idea that to live, one must die every instant and perish repeatedly in the storms that make life possible.
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