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Thich Nhat Hanh
· July 18, 2012
· Upper Hamlet, Plum Village, France
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July 18, 2012. 88-minute recording given at Upper Hamlet, Plum Village by Thich Nhat Hanh. This is the ninth dharma talk of the Summer Opening and a session of questions and answers.
Children:
- How does it feel when you are dead?
- Sometimes I feel nobody loves us and I’m all alone.
- A game the children are playing has something about killing. Is this okay? Help me understand.
Teens and Adults:
- People seem afraid of silence. Is it because they are afraid of being with themselves?
- I experience extreme energies and sometimes feel as a victim with the energy.
- Husband is in a deep depression and then one of our daughters was seriously injured. He feels it’s unjust and he is suffering. How can I help him transform suffering he doesn’t see in himself?
- Difficulties with meditation. What happens during meditation and how can I improve?
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Good morning, dear Sangha. Today is July 18, 2012, and we are in the Still Water Meditation Hall of the Upper Hamlet, and this is the second week of our summer retreat. And today we have a session of questions and answers.
The children will have time to ask a few questions, maybe three or four only. And the children are invited to come sitting close to us and wait for their turn to sit on that chair to ask their question. And after that, the teenagers are invited to ask their questions, and then young adults and others will follow.
We know that a good question can profit many people. A good question. And that is why we should ask the real question, the question of our heart, a question that has to do with our suffering, our happiness, our practice, our difficulties. And if you are a little bit too shy to come up, you can write down the question on a piece of paper and ask someone to bring it to Sister Toại, and she will read it.
We know that a good question does not need to be a very long question. And our practice is that before we ask the question, we breathe in and out three times with the bell so to calm ourselves, and the whole Sangha will breathe with us. So there will be peace, calm, mindfulness, and everyone will listen to the question.
You may like to ask your question in French, or English, or German, Vietnamese. And if you ask a question in Spanish, Chinese, or Japanese, you have to bring your own translator. So those of us who have a question are invited to come and sit close to Thay, and we will take turn to sit on that chair so that everyone can see us before we breathe in and out three times and ask the question.
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