Thich Nhat Hanh, part IV

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Thich Nhat Hanh, part IV
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The Burning Monk

• As a Buddhist, should he have immolated himself?
  Why or why not?
• Contrast with poem on p 145 is it better to live
  or die for ones beliefs?

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Sutra of 100 Parables (p 124)

• Was the father wrong?
• Is the parable too harsh?
• What does it mean to be too rigid or inflexible
  in ones beliefs?
• Can one be committed to ones beliefs and yet not
  too rigid about them?

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Jesus and Buddha

• How is communion like mindfulness? How is it
  different?
• What does Thay means that to touch someone who
  authentically represents a religious tradition is
  also to touch ones own religious tradition? (p
  136)
• Dialogue begins with oneself (p 138)
• Be transformed by what is good in another
  tradition (p 138)