Finding Our True Home Questions and Answers

October 15, 2013. 103-minute dharma talk given by Thich Nhat Hanh from Deer Park Monastery in Escondido, California during the 2013 Nourishing Great Togetherness teaching tour. The sangha is on the 6-day retreat with the theme Finding Our True Home. Today we offer a session of questions and answers.

1. How can I practice to have a connection with my father who has passed away? Also, can you talk about becoming a monastic?
2. How can I stop being obsessed with playing video games?
3. How do I practice compassion for those who are harmful to my family and friends?
4. What is the purpose of doing good and creating happiness if they inter-are with suffering?
5. How do I become more stable and confident in the decisions that I make and not to seek assurances from others?
6. How do I work with having too much energy and a fear of burning myself out?
7. I am fearful of the toxic air we are breathing, especially as it related to chem trails, and I am also angry. What can I do as an activist with these feelings?
8. If I cause something and it doesn’t effect until the next life, who reaps the effects if there is no-self?
9. I suffer from PSTD and I often wake up from nightmares. Are there practices I can do to work with my nightmares?
10. I am new grandmother who’s heart has filled with love and a responsibility about the future for my grandchildren. I feel alone and fearful about the future.
11. Seizing the moment for peace. Can you advise us on transforming our feelings of frustration to act for peace?
12. How can I behave in a way so to not be a victim?