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Thich Nhat Hanh · August 7, 1999 · Plum Village, France
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The à la carte Dharma talk at New Hamlet, Plum Village, on August 7, 1999, where Thay Thich Nhat Hanh answers the most important questions in daily life.

  1. Regarding marrying someone from a different religion and a foreign country, what suffering and difficulties arise in daily life?
  2. Dear Thay, please show me how to help my mother who is in a prolonged coma to be liberated, and how to lessen my sorrow when I cannot be by her side?
  3. I can forgive others, but it is very difficult to forgive myself. How can the Dharma help me?
  4. Dear Thay, you spoke about teaching. What would the teaching say about combining discipline with the teaching when students do not show respect and it is difficult to practice loving speech in a class of 30 children?
  5. I have lost my pregnancy three times, it is very difficult for me. Please teach me how to overcome this?
  6. I have a gentle mother-in-law, but I am wounded by my stepfather and birth mother; now my father does not allow me to bring my child to visit my maternal family, I do not know what to do?
  7. Why do we often feel tired after caring for a seriously ill or dying person, and how can we avoid exhaustion and help them in the hospital?
  8. I have a friend who only believes in a Creator God and does not want to hear about Buddhism. What should I do to help my friend?
  9. I am afraid that my 7-year-old child may have an accident or die, and I cannot be at ease at work. How can I find peace?
  10. I have loved and suffered because of love, and now I do not want to love anymore. How can love return to my heart?
  11. Many of my loved ones have just passed away, one died last week. Where are their souls now?
  12. People say it takes great ancestral merit for a child to become a monastic. Please give me words to share with my paternal family?
  13. How should we educate our children and grandchildren so that they have a spiritual life, and not just a material one?
  14. I am preparing to visit a family with a 12-year-old child who has cancer and little hope of living long. What gift should I bring and how can I help the child?
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