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Thich Nhat Hanh · July 20, 1994 · Plum Village, France · Audio Only

The session takes place in the Upper Hamlet on July 20, 1994.
The seed of an answer is already within ourselves, and a good question concerning daily life and suffering contains a good answer inside.

  1. Why does tiredness persist despite sleeping and eating enough?
  2. How is it best to deal with people who offer unsolicited advice and try to fix problems without being asked?
  3. How can families and children find their role and feel accepted in a retreat environment where many adults seem unaccustomed to them?
  4. What help can practice offer for obsessive fears and worries that interrupt sleep, such as the need to repeatedly check things?
  5. Do residents at Plum Village share the same formal practice, and should one seek external advice on how much reading or meditation to do?
  6. How can one help a young friend with terminal cancer who is in denial, angry, and refuses to tell her family or seek treatment?
  7. How can practitioners maintain mindfulness and confront accelerating violence in society without falling back into old patterns upon leaving the Sangha?
  8. When is it appropriate to break a marriage commitment in light of the Third Precept, given the tendency to divorce rather than resolve conflict?
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