After my sermon Sunday, I had a bunch of requests for the illustration by Thich Nhat Hanh. Thich Nhat Hanh is a wonderful Buddhist priest speaks very simply but also very profoundly. The point in sermon I was trying to make was that the line between life and death is not so clear if we consider the whole of things. I remembered Thich Nhat Hanh’s commentary on the Heart Sutra where he gives a wonderful image of a leaf dying and being reborn. “I asked the leaf whether it was fr