January 30, 2022 THICH NHAT HANH and MINDFUL AWARENESS By Gil Marvel P. Tabucanon "there is no way home; home is the way”.    Thich Nhat Hahn, world-renowned philosopher, scholar and human rights activist, died at 95 in Vietnam. Called an “antiwar poet” for his nonviolent yet socially engaged opposition against war in Vietnam, Martin Luther King nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1967. Dr. King said of Hanh “I do not personally know of anyone more worthy of [this prize] than this gentle monk from Vietnam. His ideas for peace, if applied, would build a momentum to ecumenism, to world brotherhood, to humanity”. Hanh tirelessly advocated for peace and compassionate social action in his talks around the world. He left behind a voluminous body of work centered on mindfulness, which teaches us supposedly tech-savvy mortals whose lives are caught in the daily grind of iPhones, Facebook and emails to “slow down” and “anchor our awareness in the here and now”. His book on the m...