Questions and Answers: Awakening the Heart Retreat

Thich Nhat Hanh · August 12, 2011 · Blue Cliff Monastery, United States Reviewed

In this session of questions and answers the following questions were asked:

By the children:

How did you feel when you left your country?
Where did you learn to be mindful and to breathe?
Do you think you have accomplished the highest level of Buddhism? And if you haven’t, do you think you will?

By the teens and young adults:

Do you believe you have reached enlightenment, and if not, do you believe it will happen at some point in your life?
What was it like being on the Oprah Winfrey Show?
What is the goal of Buddhism?
How can I overcome self-doubt and negative thoughts that keep me from enjoying myself?

By the adults:

How can I stay connected with my deep volition to love when I often forget?
What practices might you recommend for those of us who are living with physical pain or living with despair in our caring for the world?
How can mindfulness practices be brought into inner-city life?
Do you see a shift in human consciousness from the head to the heart, and are the natural disasters in our world a reflection of what’s happening within us

This Questions and Answers session was organised during the Awakening the Heart retreat in the year 2011. Thầy offered this session at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

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The Flower Contains Everything

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Introduction to the Question-and-Answer session on Awakening the Heart

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How did you feel when you left your country?

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Sangha Member

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Thich Nhat Hanh

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Sister Tùng Nghiêm

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Thich Nhat Hanh

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Where did you learn to be mindful and to breathe?

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Thich Nhat Hanh

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Do you think you have accomplished the highest level of Buddhism? And if you haven't, do you think you will?

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Sister Tùng Nghiêm

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Thich Nhat Hanh

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Do you believe you have reached enlightenment, and if not, do you believe it will happen at some point in your life?

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Thich Nhat Hanh

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What was it like being on the Oprah Winfrey Show?

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Sister Tùng Nghiêm

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Thich Nhat Hanh

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What is the goal of Buddhism?

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Thich Nhat Hanh

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How can I overcome self-doubt and negative thoughts that keep me from enjoying myself?

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Thich Nhat Hanh

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How can I stay connected with my deep volition to love when I often forget?

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Thich Nhat Hanh

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Sister Tùng Nghiêm

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Thich Nhat Hanh

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What practices might you recommend for those of us who are living with physical pain or living with despair in our caring for the world?

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Sister Tùng Nghiêm

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Thich Nhat Hanh

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How can mindfulness practices be brought into inner-city life?

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Sangha Member

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Thich Nhat Hanh

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Do you see a shift in human consciousness from the head to the heart, and are the natural disasters in our world a reflection of what's happening within us

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Sister Tùng Nghiêm

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Thich Nhat Hanh

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