🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A

Selection from a Dharma Q&A session at Jogyesa Temple, Seoul (June 14, 2019)

🔹Question :  I’m an artist. I’m working as a professionalballet dancer in Korea. I have a question related with art and creation. So I personally need to often detach from my emotions and feelings. So I need to do this quite often. I don’t know, just my emotions can get too wild somehow. And I feel that I have the need to sort of process like detaching of my own feelings in a way. But I feel when I do that, there is something very strongabout it like I can feel it not only inside of me, but they are around me too. But at the same time, as an artist, as a ballet dancer I feel that, also as a creator, I feel like if there is no attachment to feelings, I feel there is noreal creation. I feel that if I don’t really attach to emotions, to any emotion, there is no really something I can create inside of me. I would just make something which it could be like beauty, but you know, that depth, it comes from attachment to my emotions and feelings. So I would like to ask you if there is a way to do not detach these, so then I can avoid suffering in a very high level but at the same time to be able to bring creation. Thank you.

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🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A

2018. 1. 16

🔹Question :  I play a sport here. I play baseball. I haveplayed baseball since I was three years old. Since that point, I have loved baseball. It has become a part of my identity. As I got older, got better at playing. It became a kind of physical meditation in a way that I could turn my mind off through playing the game. But then coming to college, I found that the stresses attached to baseball made it harder to separate my mind and my body while playing the sport. I still see some moments where that kind of freedom comes through in the game. But there are many more times when I feel I am more stressed about baseball. My question to you is, as I move forward and try to regain some of that freedom, some of that control over the game, and my relationship to it. Do you have any tools to redefine that outlook on the sport?

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🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A

Selection from a Dharma Q&A session at Busan City Hall,Busan (June 15, 2019)

🔹Question :  Five months ago my boyfriend broke up with meand I was originally going to ask how do I get over my ex. And then I thought some more, I ask myself why am I not over him, and then I thought because I’m way too attached. Because maybe I don’t want to get over this guy, because of all the past memories and then I hope for more. Well he knows I still like him and he knows. He told me that he doesn’t like me but Ijust felt really pathetic. And we still maintain a close relationship even now. So thus I tried getting over him in many ways and I tried surrounding myself with lots of things including my friends and other guys and that obviously didn’twork. So I thought to myself, wow, I seriously do depend on other people.  So now I want to ask you how do I get less attached, and I know you said before that this is a habit and I’m pretty young.  So how do I break that habit and how do I become independent as in what I do and as in realize I don’t need a guy in my life for my needs and happiness? 

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🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A

Selection from a Dharma Q&A session at Busan City Hall,Busan (June 15, 2019)

🔹Question :  Thank you sir for receiving my question. Howcan someone manage grief or sadness if a family member marries and moves away to another country permanently? What can you do if you can’t see your daughter, your brother, your mother, or even your father for an extended lengthof time?

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🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A

Selection from Casual Conversation with Ven. Pomnyun Sunim(November 14, 2020)

🔹Question :  Hello Sunim! It’s an honour for me to havethis opportunity to ask you questions. There is a research saying, during this pandemic, TV watching and online streaming have increased. I think it is true because most of us are staying at home. So I would like to ask you from theBuddhist perspective, how we can encourage others and ourselves to overcome this addiction?

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🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A

2024. 8. 11

🔹Question :  Personally, it’s my second time to meet withyou. So it’s nice meeting with you again, and thanks for coming all the way here to share your wisdom and advice. I would really appreciate your advice. I will share my story very briefly, my situation I’m faced with. I adopted two dogs from Korea that flew from Korea last year. One of them was found in a boxabandoned at a park in Korea. So he got easily scared. Last week, I went to a park for a walk with the dogs, and this poor dog got so scared by a bunch of kids running toward us and ran away. And I feel very stressed out. I’ve been searchingfor him for 9 days now. We did everything we can do, setting up food stations, surveillance cameras, and hired a professional tracker with a canine, a search dog and trapper, but still no sightings of this dog. Dogs are beloved familymembers. So I have two questions. I feel very stressed out and frustrated with the whole process. So how can I handle my emotions sufferings? I understand that my worries do not help, but still I’m worried about him, especially because Idon’t know where he is and whether he’s still alive. So the first question is about how to handle my emotions. And the second question is, I’m wondering whether even dogs have destiny connected to their owners. If there’s destiny, I’m wonderingwhether there is an end.

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🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A

Selection from Casual Conversation with Ven. Pomnyun Sunim(September 20, 2023) in Columbus, Ohio.

🔹Question :  How should parents guide their children to beindependent?

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🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A

Selection from a Dharma Q&A session at Jogyesa Temple,Seoul (June 14, 2019)

🔹Question :  My question is about non-attachment and goalsin life. I have noticed that having goals in relationship or career can bring a lot of stress. For example, when I was applying to do my exchange in Korea, I was worried something might go wrong with my application and I had a lot of stress. And I learned that not being attached to things could bring happiness and less stress but I still think I still have to have some goals that I want to achieve in my life. So how would it be possible to combine these two things in my everyday life?

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🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A

Selection from a Dharma Q&A session at Union TheologicalSeminary (Oct. 2, 2014)

🔹Question :  Few years ago, my brother was diagnosed with a mental illness. It's.... just really hard on my family. He's getting better now. As a sister I'm not sure what I can do to help him. I wanted to get your opinion. I try to encourage him but not sure that's helping.

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🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A

Selection from Casual Conversation with Ven. Pomnyun Sunim(September 9, 2023) in Seattle.

🔹Question :  I want to empty my mind and have no conflictin my mind. I tried to do that through meditation, but it didn't help. How can I empty my mind and maintain mindfulness?

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