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Questions and Answers: Twenty-One-Day Retreat 2014, Session Number One
Questions and Answers: Twenty-One-Day Retreat 2014, Session Number One
Thich Nhat Hanh
· June 14, 2014
· Lower Hamlet, Plum Village, France
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In this session of questions and answers the following questions were asked:
By the children:
- How do we reduce the suffering of others without making them angry at us?
By the adults
- How do you understand the process of surrendering to God’s will?
- How can one help a friend in despair due to a troubled marriage?
- How to transform guilt from not providing materially for a parent?
- How to understand and practice to transform the equality complex?
- How can we help people with cancer face deep fears of death and uncertainty?
- How can I practise after the violent, sudden death of a loved one?
- How can I support my grandchildren after a family suicide?]
- What is your teaching on the death penalty?
Written questions:
- How to understand and heal the suffering of our ancestors’ if we never knew them?
This the first of two Question and Answer sessions organised during the What Happens When We Die?, twenty-one-day retreat in the year 2014. Thay offered this session at the Lower Hamlet, Plum Village, France.
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Today is the 14th of June, 2014, and we are in the Assembly of Stars Meditation Hall, Lower Hamlet, Plum Village, during our twenty-one-day retreat. Today we have a session of questions and answers. Those of us who have a question are invited to come up here and sit close to Thầy and take turns to sit on that chair and ask our question. And we know that a good question can benefit many people. And a good question is a question that has to do with our practice, our suffering, our happiness, our experience, our practice. And we know that a good question does not need to be very long. That is why we should ask the question of our heart, that question that has been there for a long time. This is the moment. And the young people are encouraged to come and ask their questions. Please.
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With all the suffering in the world, how do we reduce the suffering of others without making them more angry at us when we're trying to help them?
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Our friend is asking, with all the suffering in the world, how do we reduce the suffering of others without making them angry at us when we are trying to help them?
We should be fresh, smiling, loving, before we can do something meaningful and helpful. Without that, nothing can be done in order to help the world to suffer less. So remember, we should be fresh, smiling, loving, patient, and compassionate. And in order to be like that, we have to practice every day. We have to practice breathing, walking, sitting, looking deeply, so that we can have compassion in our heart. With compassion in our heart, we are fresh. We don't suffer. And we can help people. That's what we should remember. Do anything to have compassion to be born in your heart. And do everything to preserve compassion in your heart. That is the basic practice. Thank you for the question.
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