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Opening of the scientists’ retreat question-and-answer session

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Good morning, dear Sangha. Today is August 25, 2006, and we are in the Upper Hamlet of Plum Village during our retreat

What is the youngest age that someone could become a nun or a monk?

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Why do people have war and fight each other?

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Do you ever get angry?

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What do you expect from this retreat?

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How can I keep deep looking and awareness while thinking intensely at work?

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What is true letting go, and how can I release a strong attachment to a person?

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I worry constantly about my thirteen-year-old son, and he worries too; how should I practise?

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If the bird and I are one, why can’t I see the world through the bird’s eyes?

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Electric current and cloning, and children who remember past lives—how to understand?

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Transforming the ancient seeds of jealousy and anger rooted in our ancestral stories

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How can the gardener (mind consciousness) care for the garden (store consciousness)?

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Does discovery depend on individual certainty or collective critical mass, and is suffering perpetuated by belief in it?

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Closing directions for relaxation, tea and the day’s schedule

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