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Question and Answer

Thich Nhat Hanh · June 10, 1999 · New Hamlet, Plum Village, France
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It is twelve minutes before four o’clock in the afternoon on the tenth of June 1999 in the Lower Hamlet—time for questions and answers.

  1. What is the practice of stopping (śamatha), how does it relate to the practice of looking deeply (vision profonde), and is imagining past events part of true practice?
  2. How can I help my seven-year-old daughter, who witnessed her little brother fall into a well and die, when she is haunted by images of the accident and asks where his body is?
  3. As a beginner in mindful breathing and slow walking, how can I overcome habit energies like smoking and indecision, and if there is no-self, why do I still experience personal will and ego?
  4. How is mindfulness (pleine conscience) the same as the Holy Spirit, and how does deep attention sanctify matter?
  5. How would you reply to those who feel guilty about touching the earth with their suffering because Mother Earth already bears so much environmental suffering?
  6. What can be done to educate and support people addicted to alcohol, tobacco, and other harmful substances?
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