Ven.Pomnyun_Sunim's Dharma Talk

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October 29, 2024 I Don't Feel Like Doing Anything
🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma
Q&A
Selection from Casual Conversation with Ven. Pomnyun Sunim
#Freedom #Five precepts
🔹Question: I'd always been driven by these big
ideas, passion, all these abstract thoughts, goals, dreams and things like
that. But a few months ago, I had been sick for a couple of months with COVID. I
initially thought it'd be just like any other cold, but it put me in a really
big depressive spiral. I couldn't do much, I was just home just lying down. It
was not because of physical sickness. Mentally I didn't want to do anything. Now,
I think I'm fully recovered. But I find myself not caring about any of the
things that used to drive me, like all these goals, missions, visions, and
thoughts. Even though I'm fully recovered now, I just feel super lazy about
everything and anything and I don't care about much. I've been going to work. I
have a habit of going to work. So, I still go to work, but I don't care about
work anymore.I don't care about my performance or doing well, I just do the
minimal amount that I need to put in, and I just come home. The same applies to
everything. Maybe this is the new normal, the old me will come back. But it's
been like this for a while, and it's a very new thing for me. I just feel like
I don't want to do much. So, what I wanted to check with you is, "What's
my next step here?" Do I just get up in the morning and try to do my 108
bows diligently, and call that good? Or is there something else that I need to
be looking out for?

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11min
October 25, 2024 I Always Set Boundaries in Human Relationships
🔹Ven Pomnyun’s DharmaQ&A
Selection from Casual Conversation with Ven. Pomnyun Sunim
(A ugust 7, 2021)
#HumanRelationship
#Emotional_Independence
#MulticulturalSociety

🔹Question: My question
today is about friendships or human relationships in general. As I get older, I
don’t get to have the type of friendships that I used to have as a child. I
understand that friends have their own lives and to respect our differences I
always have to set boundaries. And sometimes I find it exhausting just to
maintain this level of emotional independence if you will. Is this because of
not trusting people enough or my expectations of friendships are too high or I
just haven’t accepted the way life is.
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29min
October 22, 2024 Using the Squirrel Analogy to Convey the Buddha's Teachings
🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A
Selection from Casual Conversation with Ven. Pomnyun Sunim (2022.9.17)
#understanding
#nature #mental process #respect
🔹Question:
I wasn't expecting to ask you a question, so I need to
remember what I submitted.
The point of the question is that I wanted to revisit the
topic of nature with you.
Last time, I tried, but I wanted to come back
because I don't think my question was fully answered.
I think Sunim really refers to nature as the golden standard
when it comes to deciding what we should do.
To my knowledge, the inspiration is drawn from the precepts.
An example is when Sunim describes the story of the
squirrel.
When you compare us to squirrels and say that the squirrels
live
lighter lives and happier lives than we do.
I think some people, especially the younger ones
and the people in Western cultures, tend to disagree with
that analogy.
For example, my wife says, "How do we know if squirrels
actually live happier lives?
What if they're always paranoid that something's going to
swoop down
from above and eat them?"
When people disagree with this view of nature,
how should we approach them when it comes to explaining the
precepts
and this framework to decide what's good and what's bad?

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19min
October 18, 2024 How to Handle a Big Age Gap in a Relationship
🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma
Q&A Selection from Casual Conversation with Ven. Pomnyun Sunim (September
11, 2023)

🔹Question: What is true
love? I am in love with someone who is much younger than I am. I am not sure if
we should be together. I’m worried.

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12min
October 18, 2024 What's the Difference Between Like and Love?
🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma
Q&A Ven. Pomnyun's Answer to "What's the Difference Between Like and
Love?" Selection from a Dharma Q&A session at George Washington
University (Oct. 8, 2014)
🔹Question: I have a
question. I have dated with three girls so far. When I look back, none of them
satisfied me. I can say I liked them, but I don't think I loved them at all. I
want to know the difference between to like somebody and to love somebody.
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8min
October 04, 2024 I Feel Bad for My Son Growing Up Without a Father.
🔹Ven.Pomnyun's Dharma Q&A
Selection from a Dharma Q&A session at George Washington University (Oct. 8, 2014)
🔹Question: I was dating a guy little over four years ago. I got pregnant. Because where he was in his life, he did not want any more children. When I heard my boy's heartbeat I couldn't terminate. Should I insist on him to sign the birth certificate? My boy has a right to know who his father is. How should I do my prostrations so my boy...I hope he will forgive me. I just want to know how to control myself?
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14min
October 01, 2024 I Have a Loved One And There Was a Misunderstanding
🔹Ven.Pomnyun's Dharma Q&A
Selection from a Dharma Q&A session at Google (Nov. 10, 2014)
🔹Question:
I have a loved one and there was a misunderstanding.
And there have been many, many years where I've tried to clear up the misunderstanding. And it hasn't clear up.So it's been difficult for me. And the question is, until when do I keep on trying? Or do I just, for my own emotional lightness of being, sever the relationship and move on?

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6min
September 27, 2024 How Do You Distinguish Love from Desire?
🔹Ven.Pomnyun's Dharma Q&A
Selection from a Dharma Q&A session at UBC (Oct. 3, 2017)
🔹Question: You spoke I believe in the question by this gentleman here about a mother’s love for a child, but you also spoke in length about desire. And I suppose my question revolves around how you would compromise those two. How would you live a loving life while at the same time attempting to attain your own happiness by removing yourself from desire. How do you distinguish love from desire? Are they distinguishable?
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11min
September 27, 2024 Can We Live Only with Love without Darkness?
🔹Ven.Pomnyun's Dharma Q&A
Selection from a Dharma Q&A session at Busan City Hall, Busan (June 15, 2019)
🔹Question: my question is, Mister, what do you think about Yin Yang philosophy as there is a day and night, there is love and hate, and the complete contrary is the utopia.
What do you think is the possibility to live only or if there is a possibility to live only with love as according to Buddha’s teaching?
If we look at love or let’s say light is just non-presence of darkness, so if it’s possible actually, if in this world we can live only with love, except [for] the night. If there is a possibility that we can live without the dark side, let’s say.
Because I believe each person has their own dark side and we need this dark side to be here, to appreciate the good things that happen in our lives. So I would define the love as the bright side.
Thank you for answering. I really appreciate it. So I would just say that Majjhimāpaṭipadā, the middle way.
It’s the coexistence, as you said, of all the religions, all types of religions they coexist, all Buddhist systems.
So I think as well the light and darkness as well the love and hate, as long as there is the middle way there is the coexistence. This is the most important thing. Thank you.
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20min
September 15, 2024 How To Deal With Lockdown Symptoms
🔹Ven.Pomnyun's Dharma Q&A
Ven. Pomnyun's Answer to “How To Deal With Lockdown Symptoms”
Selection from Casual Conversation with Ven. Pomnyun Sunim (August 14, 2021)
🔹Question:
I’m a city dweller in Sydney suffering from lockdown in the Covid.
In the city there’s a lockdown now, we’ve been in lockdown for about 10-12 weeks and sometimes it’s really difficult.
I suffer from stress or increased sensitivity for clutter, noise and I get more anxious, just high stress level.
Sometimes I notice that going outside for running, exercise and that works but it’s not always possible, and I live in a small space with my partner and I don’t have any doubts about our love for each other but sometimes it can get a little bit tense and sometimes I don’t know how to deal with that.
So my question is how to deal with lockdown symptoms, let’s say, when you’re confined in a small space.
#Lockdown_Symptoms
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39min

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