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

By the adults:

• Are Precepts Received from Another Teacher Still Valid in This Tradition?
• What is Physical Pain?
• If Our Thinking and Feeling Aren’t in Accord with What We Say or Do, Are We Still Following the Precepts?
• How Can I Publicly Follow the Fourteen Precepts While Still Having Hesitations?
• Can the Expression of Anger Sometimes Resolve a Conflict?
• How Can We Do More Than Just Saying “Don’t Kill”?

Written questions:

• How Can We Amend Suffering We Have Caused, Whether the Person Is Living or Has Died?
• Can You Give a Specific Example of Solving a Social or Political Problem with Emptiness and Mindfulness?

This the first of two Question and Answer sessions organised during the Mahāyāna Vipaśyanā, twenty-one-day retreat in the year 1992. Thầy offered this session at the Lower Hamlet, Plum Village, France.