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Questions and Answers: Summer Opening 2014, Session Number Three
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In this session of questions and answers the following questions were asked:
By the children:
- Why do monks and nuns always have brown clothes and shaved heads?
- Why does a seed sometimes give birth to a flower and sometimes not? Why am I myself and not like others?
- Why was Plum Village created?
By the teens and young adults:
- How can I express my anger without taking it out on anybody?
- How do I learn to take care of myself and love myself after struggling with self-harm and negative self-perceptions?
- How can I take it easy without giving up or hurting myself in a highly competitive environment?
- How can I love myself more and find confidence in myself?
- How can I help my friend whose father has cancer and is contemplating suicide?
By the adults
- How can I tell patients in an economic crisis to find happiness in the present?
- How do I love myself when I struggle to believe I deserve love?
- How can I better take refuge in the Sangha if I feel more comfortable alone?
Written questions:
- How can we learn about the practice of silence and its benefits?
This the third of four Question and Answer sessions organised during the Summer Opening in the year 2014. Thay offered this session at the Upper Hamlet, Plum Village, France.