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Questions and Answers

Thich Nhat Hanh · September 28, 2008 · Plum Village, France · Audio Only
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Thich Nhat Hanh opens a session of questions and answers inviting young people and teachers to ask about practice, suffering, happiness, and profession.

  1. What do the words faith, grace, and virtue mean to you?
  2. How do you deal with grief when you lose a caring, compassionate person to violence and how do you address this in children?
  3. How can we make those who do not accept mindfulness training listen and slowly take them towards mindfulness, and how do we reconcile loving speech with confronting exploitation, stealing, and oppression?
  4. I lose my temper and get angry often and controlling it causes tightness in my head and chest—how can I get rid of this anger?
  5. You asked us to listen in order to understand without concepts and comparisons, but the methods like mindful walking and breath observation seem repetitive—do they lead to understanding?
  6. In a school that operates under the philosophy “more is better,” how can a teacher satisfy administrators’ demands while remaining true to mindfulness without walking away?
  7. As a helpline volunteer listening to suicidal callers, how can we deepen our practice of mindful listening and apply it over the phone?
  8. How can we control our impatience and continue to face difficult situations with a smiling face as teachers dealing with many students?
  9. Why does someone on the path of spirituality still get engulfed in sorrows despite cosmic consciousness and inner bliss, and how can they overcome this?
  10. Can you explain in short detail the three circles of life?
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