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Q&A with Sr Chân Đức & Br Michael @ Wake Up Ambassador Retreat | 2018 05 15

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Channel: Plum Village · 2018 · Education

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This Q&A was held as the Wake Up Ambassador retreat and focuses on the challenges of facilitating a sangha. We are sorry for the audio quality, this was an impromptu recording.
Here are the questions that were asked:

1) How to cultivate joy when we feel under obligation, for example when we do something in the sangha and in the daily life because we feel we are obliged to do it?

2) How to practice trust? I like the practice that is about relaxation but often times I have tensions because of the fear that something bad may happen. How can I nourish my trust in life and in the practice?

3) How can I invite my Wake Up friends to study and have an interest to study the 14 Mindfulness Trainings?

4) How can build the sangha alone? When there is nobody who wants to have responsibility or care. I really have a wish to practice in a sangha, but the other members are just coming and going without being rooted and deep in the practice.

5) How can the organizing team take care of itself when there is a lot of time constraint or pressure to get things done?

6) How to introduce the practice to new people in the sangha? Sometimes when we explain a lot of rules I get worried I can’t transmit the freshness well enough.

7) I see a lot of beauty in the people in the sangha from what they are doing. Sometimes when we are involved in many things I feel hopeless, because I realize there is a lot of suffering in the world. I feel that what we are doing, what Thay has been doing, and what the Wake Up communities have been doing is not enough. It makes me suffer a lot. How do you practice to deal with this and bring about hope and motivation?

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