This is the question & answer session offered by Thay for the Finding Our True Home Retreat at Deer Park Monastery, Escondido, CA. October 15, 2013. 103-minute dharma talk given by Thich Nhat Hanh from Deer Park Monastery in Escondido, California during the 2013 Nourishing Great Togetherness teaching tour. The sangha is on the 6-day retreat with the theme Finding Our True Home. Today we offer a session of questions and answers.

• How can I practice to have a connection with my father who has passed away? Also, can you talk about becoming a monastic?
• How can I stop being obsessed with playing video games?
• How do I practice compassion for those who are harmful to my family and friends?
• What is the purpose of doing good and creating happiness if they inter-are with suffering?
• How do I become more stable and confident in the decisions that I make and not to seek assurances from others?
• How do I work with having too much energy and a fear of burning myself out?
• I am fearful of the toxic air we are breathing, especially as it related to chem trails, and I am also angry. What can I do as an activist with these feelings?
• If I cause something and it doesn’t effect until the next life, who reaps the effects if there is no-self?
• I suffer from PTSD and I often wake up from nightmares. Are there practices I can do to work with my nightmares?
• I am a new grandmother whose heart has filled with love and a responsibility about the future for my grandchildren. I feel alone and fearful about the future.
• Seizing the moment for peace. Can you advise us on transforming our feelings of frustration to act for peace?
• How can I behave in a way so as to not be a victim?

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