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Thich Nhat Hanh · September 25, 2001 · New York, United States · Audio Only
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Thich Nhat Hanh speaks from New York shortly after the September 11 attacks in a live Q&A on coping with anger, embracing suffering, and the path to reconciliation.

Questions:

  1. How should we address you?
  2. Where are you from originally?
  3. How often do you come to the United States?
  4. Is this a usual time for you to come to the United States?
  5. Can you give me a brief history of Buddhism in Vietnam?
  6. How do you find the courage and calmness to overcome what you had to overcome?
  7. How do you apply that when the other side is not interested in talking?
  8. How much of that is our own doing?
  9. Do you think the American government is capable of doing that?
  10. What would you like to tell the American people now?
  11. How do you combat the eye for an eye mentality?
  12. What about the Taliban and the US?
  13. In situations like the terrorist attacks, isn’t anger a natural response?
  14. What do we do to stop discrimination and violence against innocent Muslim Americans and calm that anger?
  15. Are there practices we can use in our daily lives to ease our anger?
  16. What is mindful breathing?
  17. How do you deal with anger in this age of technology?
  18. What if we pretend not to have anger?
  19. Could you share your three sentences for reconciliation?
  20. How much of the anger that we feel is actually fear, especially when a loved one is attacked?
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