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Questions and Answers
Questions and Answers
Thich Nhat Hanh
· March 4, 2011
· Lower Hamlet, Plum Village, France
During the French-speaking retreat in March 2011 - Q&A session offered by Thay.
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Thich
Nhat
Hanh:
Good
morning,
dear
friends.
Today
we
have
a
session
of
questions
and
answers.
A
good
question
is
a
question
that
has
to
do
with
our
suffering,
with
our
practice.
A
question
asked
well
can
be
of
benefit
to
many
friends.
So,
please
ask
the
question
from
your
heart.
If
a
question
has
been
born
in
your
heart,
I
invite
you
to
come
and
sit
close
to
Thay.
Thich
Nhat
Hanh
(continued):
And
you
will
take
your
turn
to
sit
on
this
chair
so
that
everyone
can
see
you.
Before
asking
the
question,
let
us
listen
to
one
sound
of
the
bell
together.
So...
Thich
Nhat
Hanh
(continued):
And
after
the
question,
another
person
will
take
the
chair.
There
are
also
a
few
questions
that
have
already
been
written
down.
And
from
time
to
time,
Brother
Phap
Linh
will
read
one
of
those
questions.
If
you
are
a
little
shy,
like
me,
you
can
write
your
question
on
a
piece
of
paper
and
pass
it
to
Brother
Phap
Linh.
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Sangha
Member,
Question:
Dear
Thay,
dear
Sangha.
Yesterday,
on
three
occasions,
you
told
us
that
we
cannot
survive
without
food.
And
recently
I
saw
a
film
that
disturbed
me
a
great
deal,
and
intrigued
me
a
great
deal,
a
film
called
Light,
by
an
Austrian
director
named
Peter
Arthur
Straubinger.
And
this
gentleman
highlighted
precisely
the
fact
that
one
could
nourish
oneself
solely
with
prana.
Prana
as
food.
So,
beyond
the
anecdote
that
one
might
believe,
is
there
any
truth
to
this
prana?
Is
it
possible
to
nourish
oneself
solely
with
light?
We
saw
testimonies
in
this
film
where
people,
and
even
scientists,
experimented
with
the
fact
that
one
could
be
nourished,
without
eating,
without
drinking,
for
years,
with
the
energy
of
prana.
That
is
my
question,
dear
Thay.
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