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🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A
September 19, 2021
🔹Question : I get extremely stressed living with my mother and my husband because of their differences, and also from having to care for my mother-in-law who has cancer. The thing that stresses me a lot is the fact that my mother is helping too much around the house. Now that my mother-in-law is living with us, the amount of work that she’s doing at my house is unbearable and as a daughter, it stressesme out.
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🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A
2023. 12. 19
🔹Question : (Questioner)I translated my question into English using Google Translator. So, please understand that it may be a bit awkward for other audience members. My question is...first, thank you for your valuable time. I know that this opportunity to ask questions is rare, like today. I thought carefully about what questions I would ask. I have many concerns and questions. I thought about why I have these thoughts and why I'm worried about them. I think it is because my words and actions do not match. As I raise my children, I hear all the tips people giveabout how it is good to do this or how to do something that is helpful. But there are many things that I do not put into practice. How can I improve my current situation of not putting them into practice? I know what I should do,but I don't do due to laziness
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🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A
2022. 2. 19
🔹Question : Hello Sunim. I live in Torrance, California. Thank you for giving me this opportunity to ask you a question.I have a sister who lives with her husband in country side inKorea.They used to be very rich but they lost all their fortune during IMF,so now, their financial situation is rather precarious.They have a son who is in mid 40s. He lives in Seoul with his wife and a daughter.He has a very seriousillness. He's losing his capability to take care of himself slowly and there's no treatment for that. So there's no hope for getting better. Her husband doesn't want to talk about their son's illness at all. He just ignores and doesn't offer any comfort to her son. So when my sister calls me on the phone,all her financial problems, her son's worsening disability, and her husband's indifferent attitude. So she has a lot of unhappy things going on in her life. And she says, "Sister, I envy you. You don't have any of my problems. That's why you're happy."That's true, really I'm very happy and I have none of her problems. I really don't know what to say to her. My question is when my situation is much better than hers, I don't experience any of her difficulties in her life, how can I offer any comfort to her? What is practical things I cando to reduce her unhappiness? Thank you. (Sunim) Do you want me to provide you words of comforts or provide you an objective analysis of the situation? (Questioner) What I want is when you're in a much better situation and when you hearsomeone's difficulty, I have so many problems, is there any thing I can offer to be helpful? Or I can say, "Yes, I studied Buddhism. I listen to the Dharma talk of Sunim. So all your problem is in your mind. This is the Buddhist truth." I don't think that's a very kind way to say things. So, both waysI want to hear. Thank you.
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🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A
2019. 12. 3
🔹Question :Bottom of Form I’m recently looking to change careers. And due to incidents with my current living situation, I ended up moving back home with my parents. And it has been very interesting to be once again home and as a master role, a daughter, and not an independent person who is capable of doing whatever I would like, whenever I would like, where I would like in my own space and being sponsible for myself. And so I feel as though a lot of times I must be obedient first to my parents. But now that I am searching to change my career and pursue higher education, I find it difficult to make those decisions with my parents so close all of the time because they do care and they do love me. But I think there is a struggle for me to make good choices for myself but also be a good daughter. And I’m wondering if youcould provide some advice.
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🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A
October 10, 2021
🔹Question :Bottom of Form My wife and I married a few moths ago, but we’ve been seeing each other for a few years even before then. My question is she has a demanding career, and as a result, she’s stressed from trying to meet both her own and outside expectations. Is there any recommendation or advice as her partner. How I can support more effectively?
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🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A
October 10, 2021
🔹Question : My mother seems like a very negative person. She tends to criticize and finds something bad in almosteverything and everyone. She doesn't seem to appreciate anything or anyone in her life. I see this makes everyone around her suffer, but especially herself. But I know she can not and will not change by herself. How should I make peacewith this? Sometimes I wish I had no family, because it's nothing but a source of suffering. But please don't tell me just stop seeing her or my family. That may be technically possible, in fact already happening with some members of my family. But I won't find peace in doing so.
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🔹Ven.Pomnyun's Dharma Q&A
Selection from Casual Conversation with Ven. Pomnyun Sunim (Aug. 28, 2023)
🔹Question: I'm a mom of a five year old boy.
I filed a divorce when my son was 14 months old.
Then I went through an extremely high conflict divorce litigation over three years. My son has been living back and forth between my house and his father's ever since.
He does not hate his father, but he does not like to go to his house. His lifestyle has a lot of inconsistency and he says he experiences tiredness. His academic plans and extracurricular activities are greatly affected and becoming limited due to the arrangement.
My ex-husband always sends me threats, complaints, and messages and violates the order here and there only to try to upset me.
I feel great difficulties raising my son this way and often the excess behavior and messages disrupt my mind to be peaceful.
I learned to manage my peace by listening to your talks.
But how should I explain to my son his situation and how should I treat and raise him for another 13 years to minimize my karmic result on him?
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🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A
Selection from Casual Conversation with Ven. Pomnyun Sunim (July 19, 2021)
🔹Question : I want my kids not hating me when I walk away from their mother for a divorce. What is the buddhist's way to deal with this?
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🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A
2023. 11. 2.
🔹Question : We, as most people, are now living in such fast paced societies, and are so much focused on just one thing, and forget what's really important in our lives. For example, we can be focused on earning money and live almost not knowing what our priority is, like health, family, or even our own happiness. I want to ask Sunim, "In that case, where do we put a breakpoint and how?" Like if we lost where we are, sometimes we have to look back, put a break point, and look back to what the priorities are. To some people, maybemoney is priority, and to some people, happiness or families are priority. But we lose that during the time of chasing for something that we want. Sometimes we regret once...
For example, some people may be chasing for one thing andfind out that they're sick. And then, that's when they become, "Why didn't I think of that ahead of time?" So, from time to time, there must be some ways you can put a breakto it and rethink of your life.
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🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A
2023.5.5.
🔹Question : I wonder why the Buddha didn't return to secular or home life after attaining enlightenment, but continued to live as a homeless and build his monastic order. Couldn't he have tried to become a good king, like honorable, generous, and wise one who really watch out for his people? Was it because he knew that it would be so hard or impossible for a king to be free just like a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven? Or did he renounce the worldly pleasure: money, fame, power, comforts and etc. because those are based on somebody else's pain? Jesus said we cannot serve two masters: God and money. I wonder if the Buddha thought the same. I'm asking this question because, unlike the Buddha or Jesus's teaching, I was taught to achieve both: success and happiness. I understand that there is no end to the desire. However, I'm not sure if I can be happy being a homeless either. So, here are my questions. Is worldly success and being happy and free mutually exclusive? And, given somebody like the Buddha had to leave home and abandon everything to attain enlightenment, am I being so greedy wanting to be happy and free without giving up any worldly possessions? What do I really have to do if I really want to wake up and not just try to avoid a nightmare? Thank you.
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🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A
Ven. Pomnyun's Answer to " The Balance Between Our OwnHappiness And Other People’s Happiness” Selection from a Dharma Q&A session at Google (Nov. 10, 2014)
🔹Question : I’m not sure if you are suggesting that appiness is sort of the state that we should ideally be seeking. But if it is, I think to the people that I know who are the happiest and they are actually the people that are most selfish. And I observe that they’re very happy because they spend, you know, all of our time and energy are limited. And they spend their time and energy on their own goals and their own interests. And they don’t really help others. And that doesn’t seem to be the ideal way of living. The ideal way of living seems to be some balance between seeking your own happiness and also seeking others’ happiness. On the other end of the spectrum, I see other people who are very selfless and help a lot of people selflessly. But actually because ey’re so neglectful their own needs they are unhappy. So it seems like we need some sort of balance, right? How would you suggest striking an appropriate balance between addressing other people’s needs increasing other people’s happiness, and our own happiness?
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🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A
Ven. Pomnyun's Answer to "Worldly Life Versus InwardLife Selection from a Dharma Q&A session at Google (Nov. 10, 2014)
🔹Question : In your first answer that was a really beautiful. You talked about the importance of the how instead of the what. And I was wondering as people try to go down this path and look more inwards, how do you advise them in terms of spending their time inwards. Maybe people come to you for the monastic tradition. How do you advise people if the career or the worldly life versus more of an inward life? Do you have any advice?
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🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A
2019. 12. 24.
🔹Question : I’ve always been a curious person ever since I was a little boy. For example, when there was an ant’s nest, I would watch to see where the ants are going, where they’regetting their food and the trails they make. Now in English speaking cultures, there’s a saying ignorance is bliss. Actually I’ve found curiosity to be one of the more positive factors in my life. It doesn’t seem like ignorance is bliss, is one of the approaches of the Jungto Society. For example, I’ve seen you give talks with a podium like this where it says Happiness school in Korean, and then later on we see a video about some three minute clip or so about some starving children in North Korea or a bird dying full of plastic. So is it possible for me to become happy without losing the awareness of those things that are happening in the world?OK. (Laughs) It’s something that I hope is true, but I don’t know if I can have blind faith that it is true.
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🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A
2023. 8. 5
🔹Question : I have a goal of impacting the world on a global scale which has involved several reliminary teps including becoming a positive influence for everyone I meet and encounter. I found that impacting veryone around me has been necessary for my own growth because the people I interact with can influence me as well. I have successfullymotivated many people to live prosperous, fulfilling lives. But I have encountered many disconnected people either under trauma or suffering from depression or doubt. They reject the most basic lessons of creating inner happiness and fulfillment. And I believe that they don't mean to do this butinstead, I believe that they do this because of loss of identity and they believe that they don't deserve to be happy. So, here's my question. How can one start to believe in their own happiness, believe they deserve it and obtain the courage and knowledge to start growing happiness and compassion for oneself when their life views have become badly misshapen by trauma, self doubt, or depression. I know that working towards something in this magnitude is one ofthe hardest things that one can do. And I want to help others achieve this substantial goal, people who have been lost and forgotten about. Thank you very much.
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🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A
2019. 7. 2
🔹Question : I’m struggling between pursuing my dream and wanting to be with the person I’m in love. Just to tell you a little bit about myself, I’m a student studying in theStates, and I’m just here for the summer vacation. And my boyfriend is in Korea right now. Would it be unreasonable or ridiculous to follow my heart and decide to be with my boyfriend and not necessarily pursue my dream in the States?
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🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A
2024. 11. 18
🔹Question : I have a hard time trusting in relationships, especially, in romantic relationships. I have a hard time trusting men because my dad had affairs growing up when I was a child. So, I became pretty certain that I don't want to get married because I subconsciously think that marriage is the path to misery. But because I'm human, I still want to date and be in love. But whenever I get into relationships, I find that I get very anxious and worried about if I could trust this person. Instead of enjoying and feeling like I'm in love, I just feel more anxious. I think it comes from wanting to protect myself. I don't want to get hurt for any reason. But I don't know if I can truly open up and just enjoy relationships instead of always feeling on edge or anxious. That's my question.
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🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A
2023. 11. 8
🔹Question : I am inDharma school and learning Buddhism. I learned that we seek happiness whichcomes together with sufferings. I wonder what are those examples of happinessthat comes with suffering and are there any happiness that doesn't come withsuffering?
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🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A
2022. 3. 25.
🔹Question : I have a question about how to deal with the relationship between my girlfriend and my parents. Here’s the situation where I struggled a lot. So my personality is abit introverted and independent and my parents, they also don’t express their care a lot. But I can feel, I know they care about me, they love me. But sometimes my girlfriend will be mad at me because of how my parents treat me. Because sometimes how my parents behave, from my girlfriend’s perspective it’s like ignoring me. So I understand both sides, they both love me. But whenever I hear complaints from my girlfriend talking about my parents, I understand herpoints but I just don’t really feel comfortable because I can’t change my parents. They have their own stereotype and their own personality. So I’m trying to find a balance in myself because I love and appreciate both of them. Yeah that’s my question.
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🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A 2024. 7. 15.
🔹Question: (Questioner) Hello, I just have a quickquestion. You talked about the climate change and that people need to change. For me, it seems clear that people should or even must love and care about each other. But, at the same time, it's painfully clear that we don't. I have some personal experience that I was engaged in some activism.
My experience made me very cynical about even what humans are and what we deserve. Maybe it's wrong for me to want to love people or want people to care about each other.
I was wondering what's your take on it, given that you aretrying to help people. I'm sure you have seen a lot of people not helping others.
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🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A 2024. 10. 27
🔹Question : On my wife’sBuddhist calendar in the house, there’s a statement about not hating or blamingpeople at all is enlightenment. My question is, why does this society justifythe incarcerated people that continually commit crimes? Aren’t they to blame?
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