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Questions & Answers
July 19, 2011. 120-minute Dharma talk with Thich Nhat Hanh from Lower Hamlet, Plum Village, France, during the annual Summer Opening Retreat. This is the question-and-answer session.
Before we begin, Thay offers a teaching on ancestors because today is Ancestors Day. Every home in Vietnam, no matter how poor, keeps an altar for the ancestors. We have two kinds of ancestors: blood and spiritual.
Here are the questions:
- If we are living in the here and the now, how can we make plans?
- Why do I have nightmares?
- How can I help my younger brother to be happy if he annoys me?
- How to become enlightened?
- What is freedom, and can you be free even if someone tells you what to do?
- How can I be kind to myself when I lack confidence?
- What to do when daughters are treated less equally than sons?
- We are taught not to judge people and things, but how can we love them without judging?
- I feel that I attract people who have difficulties. Where is the boundary between being selfish and protecting yourself?
- I am very confused. I feel caught by impermanence. So when you become a full-time Buddha, you have a state of mind with ultimate freedom and true happiness. But doesn’t that state go against impermanence? When you become a full-time Buddha does the law of impermanence no longer apply to you?
- I am 50 years old, and I have a 15-year-old son. I would like to become a nun. Can I leave him to take care of himself and come to live peacefully in the temple?
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