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Thich Nhat Hanh · February 18, 2001 · Plum Village, France

We are at Dharma Cloud Temple, Upper Hamlet of Plum Village on February 18, 2001, concluding the Winter Retreat 2000-2001. While sitting in meditation, the in-breath can become a question and the out-breath can become an answer to establish presence in the present moment.

Below are questions that can be used for contemplation during practice:

  1. Am I truly present?
  2. Am I at ease right now?
  3. Is there ease and relaxation in my body?
  4. Is my mind at ease right now, or is it preoccupied with something?
  5. Do I know that I am lucky to be sitting with the Sangha?
  6. Do I know that things are impermanent?
  7. Do I know that I am impermanent, that I am changing?
  8. Is my mother impermanent?
  9. Is my teacher impermanent?
  10. Do I see the nature of non-self in my person?
  11. How do I feel right now?
  12. What am I doing?
  13. What is my original aspiration?
  14. Who am I?
  15. Am I truly in touch with the nature of non-self?
  16. What question needs to be asked right now?
  17. What can I let go of right now?
  18. What can I do now that can be nourishing?
  19. Is what I am doing nourishing me?
  20. Am I looking with the eyes of the Buddha?
  21. What am I thinking?
  22. Which seed am I watering?
  23. Am I free?
  24. How am I breathing?
  25. Can I live without fear?
  26. Am I truly practicing mindfulness?
  27. What opportunity do I have right now?
  28. What elements am I made of?
  29. Is my mind right now an awakened mind or a deluded mind?

Following are questions to look deeply into past wounds in order to transform and heal:

  1. Is the person who made me suffer happy?
  2. How was that person treated when he or she was a child?
  3. What difficulties, what misfortunes has that person encountered?
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