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Questions and Answers: Stepping Into Freedom—Savouring Life Retreat
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In this session of questions and answers the following questions were asked:
By the children:
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How do you control the urge to hit when you are very upset?
-Do you ever get frustrated with yourself? - How can I not suffer when people are not being good to this world?
By the teens and young adults:
- How old were you when you decided to become a monk and what commitments are required?
- What should I do with strong positive and negative energy?
- What does it mean to go home to yourself?
By the adults:
- Can we communicate with loved ones who have passed away?
- Does taking the Five Mindfulness Trainings clean away past negative actions?
- How can I handle the discouragement and isolation caused by comparing my practice to Thầy?
- What to do when a commitment made from unclear understanding causes suffering if broken?
- How can the impulse to protect others be reconciled with the practice of non-discrimination?
- How can I reconcile feeling the presence of Jesus with what I was taught to believe about other religions?
During this session, Thầy Pháp Lưu introduces Wake Up, a movement of young practitioners aged seventeen to thirty-five dedicated to bringing mindfulness into their daily lives and local communities. He highlights the synergy between the youth and the older Sangha as the movement expands through university tours across the U.K. and the United States.
This Questions and Answers session was organised during the Stepping Into Freedom—Savouring Life retreat in the year 2011. Thầy offered this session at Blue Cliff Monastery, Pine Bush, New York, the United States.
Part of the following collection
Think Globally, See Globally: The Freedom of Non-Fear