Question and Answer Session: Is there a life after death?

July 24, 2012. 80-minute recording given at Upper Hamlet, Plum Village by Thich Nhat Hanh. This is the fourteenth dharma talk of the Summer Opening and this is a session of questions and answers.

Children

1. How can you make new friends after moving to a new school?
2. If there is no such thing as death, then why is it wrong to kill?
3. I suffer a lot from my father. I don’t want to see him anymore. Can I stop trying to change him?
4. Why did you become a monk?

Adults

1. I am the last child in my family linage and there is lots of suffering to transform. How do I help my parents generation? Secondly, why is there still discrimination against women in Buddhism?
2. Is there life after death?