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Questions and Answers

Thich Nhat Hanh · September 26, 2002 · Kim Son Temple, United States · Audio Only

This Q&A session took place during a retreat for monastics, after the community had to move from Kim Son Monastery to Duc Vien Temple due to a natural disaster. Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh introduces and invites the Venerable Elders to share their experiences of practice and study with the assembly.

What constitutes a truly correct and courageous aspiration to ordain?
How can one nourish and sustain inspiration for the practice on the long path when sitting meditation no longer generates as much inspiration as it did in the beginning?
What is the current situation of Buddhism in the homeland, and what attitude and methods should be prepared to propagate the Dharma smoothly if one returns to Vietnam?
When there are not many opportunities for novice duties and manual service as in the tradition, how should young monastics in the West practice in order to accumulate merit?
What helped you keep your mind firm to continue the practice when witnessing many Dharma brothers and sisters losing their aspiration or being forced to give up the practice during the difficult periods of the country?
What are the differences and distinctive characteristics of the Plum Village practice method compared to the traditional methods of the Vietnamese Buddhist Ancestral Teachers?
How can one cultivate virtue, transform greed, anger, and delusion, and keep the Bodhicitta solid; and have the Venerables ever wavered in the face of afflictions?

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How to nourish long-term inspiration for the practice when sitting meditation becomes less inspiring?

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The current situation of Vietnamese Buddhism and how to practice when returning to the homeland

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In the West, we lack the opportunity to “serve as a novice”; how should we practice and accumulate merit?

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What helped the monks persevere in their practice despite being arrested after 1975?

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How does Plum Village practice differ from the tradition of the Vietnamese Patriarchs?

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Transforming War into Flowers: Maha Karuna and the Third Nutriment

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Introduction to the Q&A session and introduction of the Senior Venerables

What is the true mind of leaving home?

How to nourish long-term inspiration for the practice when sitting meditation becomes less inspiring?

The current situation of Vietnamese Buddhism and how to practice when returning to the homeland

In the West, we lack the opportunity to “serve as a novice”; how should we practice and accumulate merit?

What helped the monks persevere in their practice despite being arrested after 1975?

How does Plum Village practice differ from the tradition of the Vietnamese Patriarchs?

How to transform jealousy, greed and anger, and maintain a solid Bodhicitta?

Summary of three key points and sharing the merit