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Questions and Answers: Summer Opening 2014, Session Number Four

Thich Nhat Hanh · July 30, 2014 · Upper Hamlet, Plum Village, France

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

By the children:

  • How do we eat our parents??
  • Through the lens of suffering, what made you become a monk?
  • Why do we sometimes cry when we’re sad and sometimes when we’re happy?
  • How did you create Plum Village?

By the teens and young adults:

  • Why is Plum Village using non-organic and imported food?
  • Who am I?
  • How do I recognize and take care of suffering, particularly loneliness, in a healthy way?
  • How to skillfully withdraw from someone whose presence is not nourishing?

This the fourth of four Q&A sessions organised during the Summer Opening in the year 2014. Thay offered this session at the Upper Hamlet, Plum Village, France.

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