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Thich Nhat Hanh · July 21, 1999 · Plum Village, France
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The session takes place in the New Hamlet on July 21, 1999, focusing on questions concerning the practice of walking, breathing, sitting, eating, and transforming suffering.

  1. Why do you like children so much?
  2. When confronted with a problem of death, why is there something rather than nothing, and what is the purpose of living: to eat vegetables or to get enlightenment?
  3. What should be done when large groups of people, no matter how friendly and open, cause feelings of discomfort, nervousness, and a lack of personal space?
  4. In order to develop the quality of mindfulness, how can efforts be made without creating tension, and what is meant by right effort?
  5. Could you elaborate on the statement that if one is not ready to become a monk right now in this instant, then one will never be ready?
  6. When seeing someone mistreat a child, and smiling with gentleness to the child and parent seems the only option, how is it possible to act otherwise?
  7. Is it possible that for many, means to practice have been found here that were not found in their roots, despite the instruction to return to them?
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