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Questions and Answers

Thich Nhat Hanh · September 15, 2007 · Deer Park Monastery, United States · Audio Only
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We are at Deer Park Monastery during the retreat for Vietnamese speakers on September 15, 2007. Today we have a Question and Answer session.

  1. Does “Let the Buddha breathe, let the Buddha walk” mean that when we are lazy, we just sit up and practice breathing, or do we have to try to bring out the Buddha nature within us to do those things?
  2. How can we generate understanding, healing, and reconciliation within the divided Vietnamese community so that we can live happily in our families as well as in society?
  3. Please, Thay, speak so that a husband, who listens to Dharma talks but still claims that “only heaven understands,” can understand and listen to his wife a little more?
  4. How can I convince my husband and children to take refuge and go to the temple when they believe that they are practicing all the time and have contributed a lot to charity?
  5. How can I resolve the situation to everyone’s satisfaction when I want to separate from my husband, who has another wife and children in Vietnam, but he refuses and falls ill?
  6. How can I explain to my mother so she does not oppose my sitting meditation, given that she is obsessed with the fact that my father used to meditate and then suffered from mental illness?
  7. How can I accept the sudden passing of my spouse and find an answer for a group of friends in the same situation?
  8. How can I forgive and have some sisterly affection for an unfilial younger brother who often takes money and threatens our parents, so that my mother does not suffer because of him?
  9. What way or what words should I use to resolve the conflict between my wife and my mother when I am stuck in the middle?
  10. Why did the thought of becoming a monastic, which I had since childhood, suddenly disappear when attending the retreat, and is there any Dharma door to help young people addicted to video games return to mindfulness?
  11. If I have managed to write the letter, but when I go home I have to face my father directly and his sentimental phone calls, how can I be able to speak and listen?
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