Questions and Answers with Thich Nhat Hanh on 12 July 2011. A 111-minute Dharma Talk in English given at Upper Hamlet, Plum Village, France, this is the first Question and Answer Session of the Summer Opening Retreat. Thay takes questions from the children, the young adults, and from other retreatants.

Questions explored include: What is the difference between freedom and lack of self discipline? Is there interbeing between Catholicism and Buddhism? Why do I sometimes feel a heavy weight on my heart? Why do I sometimes cry for no reason? How are you? Why is everyone against me? Why do people lie? Why does anger come with sadness? Why do we so easily mix up sexual desire and love? How can we reconcile with someone we’ve hurt? How practice the Five Mindfulness Trainings in the corporate world? Why would someone want to be born into a world of suffering? How do we practice when we still are caught in the idea of having a separate personality? Is Thay a realized Buddha? How do we practice to forgive ourselves? How can we maintain our practice when we live in a place lacking compassion, without a Sangha? How can we make sense of the death of a child before they are born? How can we find happiness again?

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