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Questions and Answers
Today is a special day where the children are playing and practicing as kings and queens. A good question can profit many people and should be a real question of the heart concerning difficulties, experience, suffering, and happiness.
- If looking deeply means living every moment mindfully, what should one be mindful of, and is psychotherapy a deeper way of looking?
- Is there a special practice to help make the right decisions for the future, such as what to study or finding a job to serve the well-being of society?
- How can a mother who feels she needs mothering herself provide guidance and support to her child when faced with ancestral pain and difficulty?
- How can a person working to save abused dogs deal with the increased pain felt through meditation without turning away from helping sentient beings?
- What can help heal the cord with ancestors and open the heart to them when feeling cut off by emotional distance from parents?
- How can one deal with feelings of anger and despair triggered by news of social conflict and instead wake up with a smile?
- What is helpful to do for people who are dying or for their families when they do not have their own spiritual practice?
- How can a negative action in life, such as having an abortion, be repaired?
- What corresponds to the idea of God within Buddhist Dharma and practice?
- How can one break through addictions to things like cannabis, television, and music used to cover up a sense of emptiness, and how can a parent help a young adult in this situation?
- How can the circle of compassion be widened to protect life on Earth when many people protect themselves with apathy?