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Ven. Pomnyun's Answer to " The Balance Between Our Own Happiness 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

Selection from a Dharma Q&A session at George Washington University (Oct. 8, 2014)

🔹Question:   I believe that human desires to be successful is unlimited. I understand why people around you expect so much from you. Sometimes because of this stress I feel that I'm being chased by life rather than taking for granted. I wanted to hear your opinion on how I can better manage my stress and control my mind better.

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🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A

Selection from a Dharma Q & A at Harvard University Sep. 20, 2017

🔹Question:  
I am a third year undergraduate. This is my first year back after serving two years in the Korean military. I thought, after two years hiatus, I'd be older and wiser. I was in a situation where I didn't have any phone, I didn't have any alcohol. I was surrounded by a bunch of guys all the time. So at night, I would always dream of coming back to school How amazing it would be. I was always unhappy because I had all these desires and yearnings not only about academia but about all the other freedom I would have outside. Now that I am here, I get way too many emails, I have way too many assignments, I am always too stressed. It is the classic problem of grass is greener on the other side. I am really trying hard every day to think it is still better than being in the army. It is still better than unclogging toilets and doing the dishes every day. But I feel like I am still swayed so much by this eternal struggle of finding happiness from where I am. So I was wondering if maybe I am doing something wrong, I am trying to brainwash myself thinking this is good this is better than what I had before or if there is another way to do it.

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🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A

2024. 10. 7

🔹Question: My question was, as you get older, you look back on things you have done with regrets. People talk about mental health and depression, and I think regrets have something to do with it. How can you work on that?

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🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A 2024. 12. 2 🔹Question: Hello, Sunim. It's really nice meeting you in person. I have a question on my hand, but please bear with me looking through my question because I'm quite nervous. Currently, I'm between jobs and maintain a peaceful mindset despite life's uncertainty. While some people say that being desperate and driven is essential for getting a job or a goal, I also value my hard-earned peaceful life. But, at the same time, I recognize the need for balance and to avoid complacency. So, in this situation, how can I navigate this situation? I don't want to live a stressful life, but, at the same I don't want to live a complacent life. 🔻Jungto Dharma School (Introduction to Buddhism): https://www.jungtosociety.org/jungto-dharma-school-online-course/  🔻 Find more at the following links: http://www.jungtosociety.org http://www.pomnyun.com https://www.instagram.com/jungto.society/ https://www.instagram.com/ven.pomnyun.sunim/ https://www.facebook.com/pomnyundailyquote https://insighttimer.com/jungtokorea  🔻 All Jungto Society’s social platforms: http://linktr.ee/jungtoint 

🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A

Selection from a Dharma Q&A (April. 3, 2022)

🔹Question : When my loved one is suffering because of a vicious person, is it okay for me to fight back and take revenge from the person for their actions?

 

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Selection from Casual Conversation with Ven. Pomnyun Sunim (October 10, 2021)

🔹Question: Sometimes at school, whenever my friends are hurt, I always go and may help them, but then some of their friends just get there, and then I slack. Can I help too? They just slack. I don't know what to do. If I try and tell the teacher, they just say. Sometimes I overreact, so what can I do in that situation?

 

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🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A

Selection from a Dharma Q&A session at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Sunnyvale, California (Nov. 8, 2014)

🔹Question: As we live, we encounter problems such as love and betrayal. We encounter people that betray you like friends, business partners or even your loved ones. For me, it's very hard to forgive regardless of what happened. A lot of my friends tell me that I should for give the person regardless of what happened. I think betrayal is worse than getting love because betrayal means that you were being loved and thrown back. I tried to understand that we should forgive. But, then am I wrong? Animals don't forgive each other. Animals attack back if they were being betrayed. Am I wrong if I have no feeling, if I have no reason to forgive the person back?

 

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🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A

Ven. Pomnyun's Answer to "Dealing with Difficult Colleagues” Selection from a Dharma Q&A session at Bethesda Chevy Chase Regional Service Center in Washington D.C. (September 18, 2019)

🔹Question : Hello Sunim. So in this [pressure] to perform world, how you can control and how you can keep yourself calm when you are with your aggressive colleagues that always want to hijack your conversation with others, and tries to improvise and take the conversation in their own way. How can you keep calm in that situation?

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