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Q&A: How to maintain Bodhicitta after ordination

Thich Nhat Hanh · March 23, 2004 · Deer Park Monastery, United States · Audio Only
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We are at Deer Park Monastery during the 2004 Winter Retreat, in a Question and Answer session for monastics.

  1. How do we educate younger siblings who, after ordination, no longer listen and do not know how to cherish what they have attained as they did when they were aspirants?
  2. Why must we discriminate and get caught in the two terms Patriarchal Zen and Tathagata Zen?
  3. How can we avoid being intimidated by the large number of senior venerables coming from other places?
  4. How can we hang out with young people without losing ourselves and without losing the young people?
  5. How do we resolve emotional attachments and the desire for special treatment from the person helping us in our practice?
  6. How can we overcome shyness and difficulty when trying to approach others according to the Sangha’s expectations without feeling unnatural?
  7. How can meetings have the same sincere sharing and contribution as in the Shining the Light sessions?
  8. How can older monastics not feel sad when the Sangha no longer accepts people over 50 for ordination?
  9. How can we practice dwelling alone when we have to deal with too much work, organize many retreats, and are surrounded by many voices?
  10. How can we have more private time for ourselves, more Lazy Days, and do more sitting meditation?
  11. How do we transform the mental formation of “standing on this mountain looking at the other” and being carried away by the crowd?
  12. How do we practice non-fear?
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