Ven.Pomnyun_Sunim's Dharma Talk

🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A Selection from a Dharma Q&A session at Busan City Hall,Busan (June 15, 2019) 🔹Question: I find that when I’m alone I’m generally at peace, you know, in my day to day life. But whenever I’m in a relationship, I start to stress and think is this person what’s best for me. Is this person on my path, so to speak. I just want to know how to have more peaceful and con...

🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A Selection from a Dharma Q&A session at Bethesda ChevyChase Regional Service Center in Washington D.C. (September 18, 2019) 🔹Question: Hi Sunim, it is very nice to meet you. I’m really a big fan of your work and then I watch a lot of your Youtube videos. So a hundred million accounts some of my watch aswell. So my questions is how do I really know what I want? So...

🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A Selection from Casual Conversation with Ven. Pomnyun Sunim(February 20, 2022) 🔹Question: My Son is on the Autism Spectrum. How can we help him to be back to normal self and when would that be?   🔻Jungto Dharma School(Introduction to Buddhism):https://www.jungtosociety.org/jungto-dharma-school-online-course/   🔻 All Jungto Society’ssocial platforms: http://linktr.e...

🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A 2018. 12. 16 🔹Question: I graduated college one year ago. I’m working a job that I like doing but doesn’t pay a lot of money. My family owns a business that I would make much more. I am verytalented at it, but I’m not 100% passionate about it. And I’m still trying to figure out what’s the best option for me. How do I decide which  one to go with?     🔻Jungto Dharma...

🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A Selection from a Dharma Q&A session at Union TheologicalSeminary (Oct. 2, 2014) 🔹Question: MY question is how to control my mind that's becoming more and more greedy. I was able to graduate from the program that I wanted to study. I think I could potentiallyget a job that I've been dreamed of. Anyway I was able to marry the person that I wanted. I was ab...

🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A Selection from a Dharma Q&A session at HarvardUniversity (Sep. 20, 2017) 🔹Question :  My question is about finding balance. As college students, we struggle. We have to balance maintaining a social life, spending enough time with friends and professors,and also maintaining good academic standings and extra-curricular activities, and also taking time to take care...

🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A Selection from a Dharma Q & A at Harvard University(Sep. 20, 2017) 🔹Question :  Hi. Thanks for speaking to us. So I am a recent graduate of Harvard. I just graduated in May. I am leaving tomorrow for England to do a master’s program. I want to ask you about uncertainty and how to deal with uncertainty. So, for example, basically, the reason I am doing this maste...

🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A Ven. Pomnyun's Answer to "My Students Struggle toMaintain Their Motivation in Learning English." Selection from a DharmaQ&A session at Jogye-sa Temple, Seoul, Korea (Jun. 15, 2018) 🔹Question :   I am married to a Korean woman and we have a small English school and I wanted to ask a question about education. In our school, we help elementary student...

🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A 2023. 7. 3 🔹Question :   Hello. First, I would like to thank you for doing this and making it available for many people. I personally have learned so much from your videos. I'm a graduatestudent studying interdisciplinary field in math, physics, and engineering. And I enjoy learning and doing research. My concern is regarding the future after my graduate study....

🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A 2023. 11.19 🔹Question :  Hello, Sunim. Thank you for taking my question. I hope you get better soon from your surgery. My question is about my current work and changing jobs. I'm wonderingwhat I should do when I don't know exactly what I want. Up until now at work, I've tried to do what I'm told to do as best as possible. But I often get annoyed and...

🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A 2022.6.19 🔹Question :  My question is how do we deal with feelings of shame like feeling bad or unwanted? Sometimes you might get hypersensitive to criticism or feel anxious.     🔻Jungto Dharma School(Introduction to Buddhism):https://www.jungtosociety.org/jungto-dharma-school-online-course/   🔻 All Jungto Society’ssocial platforms: http://linktr.ee/jungtoint 

🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A Selection from a Dharma Q&A session at Union TheologicalSeminary (Oct. 2, 2014) 🔹Question : I'm interested in working for North Korea. I believe the unification of South and North Korea should happen in the future. I'd like to be part of the help in terms of economics. What are the good directions? What kind of study should I do? My second question is ,...

🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A Ven. Pomnyun's Answer to "I Am Really Bad at AngerControl " Selection from a Dharma Q&A session at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Sunnyvale, California (Nov. 8, 2014) 🔹Question:  Hi. I'm a graduate student at Stanford University studying biochemistry. To me or to us It seems like you have answers to most of the questions or conundrums. Do you s...

🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A 2023. 6. 4 🔹Question:  Thank you, Sunim. I have a question about whatI can do here in Australia for the peace in the Korean peninsula.   🔻Jungto Dharma School(Introduction to Buddhism):https://www.jungtosociety.org/jungto-dharma-school-online-course/   🔻 All Jungto Society’ssocial platforms: http://linktr.ee/jungtoint 

🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A 2023. 7. 16 🔹Question: Hi Sunim. It's nice to see you. I appreciate having this opportunity. My question is about a relationship with a neighbor. I am someone who really loves nature on manylevels including the beauty of nature, and, in particular, I love flowers. Last year, we bought a new home, and it was not in great shape, so we made repairs. We had a landsc...

🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the death and thedestruction that we see on the media are heartbreaking. In all conflicts, each side has justifiable reasons, but it is not right to resort to military intervention to resolve disputes. I sincerely hope that the current military conflict comes to an end as soon as possible and that the Ukrainian people can quickly r...

🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A Selection from a Dharma Q&A session at University ofMichigan (Oct. 26, 2014) 🔹Question: My Question is, I know you spoke last year at Union Seminary about liberation theology. Were you involved in the Korean liberation movement, the theological movement like Min-jung Theology? And how were you involved? My second question is how did your spirituality or your spi...

🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A 2016. 3. 25. 🔹Question: When we see the current movement of President Park Geun-Hye, she often talks about reunification and she mentions that reunification is a jackpot. She continuouslypromote the idea of reunification that might threaten North Korea in an aggressive behavior. How do you think about that? My second question is, have you ever thought about specific...

🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A Selection from a Dharma Q&A session in UCLA (Nov. 16,2014) 🔹Question: When we see suffering and when we see crimes being perpetrated by certain groups against the rest of the world, how do we approach that problem? How do we engage it? Today you could see in many parts of the world where similar things are happening, where people are very determined to advance t...

🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A Selection from a Dharma Q&A session at Google (Nov. 10,2014) 🔹Question: Sunim, I have to ask you about North Korea because you are one of the world’s top experts on the topic. And I’m just going to ask you a very broad question, which is talk about peace and humanitarian issue in North Korea today.   🔻Jungto Dharma School(Introduction to Buddhism):https://www.j...

🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A 2014.11.10 🔹Question: Hi. I agree many of our sufferings are really due to our minds. But this year seems, I mean, this year has been especially complicated or hard to swallow for me. I mean, early this year starting with the Ukraine crisis, and then the conflicts in the Middle East. We had this Ebola outbreak and what not. I feel as if the entire universes is kind...

🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A 2019. 8. 20. 🔹Question: You began your talk very well with talking about the difference between an atheist and a believer. At least in that case. They agree on the topic of whether or not there is a God. That’s great. Now talking about reunification, I think thesituations are similar but different. For example, among the various reunification efforts and movements i...

🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A Selection from a Dharma Q&A session at Jogye-sa Temple,Seoul, South Korea (June 15, 2018) 🔹Question: I've just recently returned from Japan after conducting research for a year. And my question is this. Is there anything we can take from Buddhist teachings to helpKoreans understand Korea-Japan relations? What is the way for it given the emotional suffering t...

🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A Selection from a Dharma Q&A session at Jogyesa Temple,Seoul (June 14, 2019) 🔹Question: I’m from Japan to see you. I’m so happy to see you. There are just fear and discrimination and the hate speech disregard for Korean people which are living in Japan. So I think Korean peninsula was divided into two countries, North and South Korea as you know. So it’s why we m...

🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A Selection from a Dharma Q&A session at Bethesda ChevyChase Regional Service Center in Washington D.C. (September 18, 2019) 🔹Question: This has been extremely educational for me. Thanks very much. I’m gonna raise this bar a little bit to the world peace. I like your concept of Jungto and world peaceand happiness. I would like your views and insight into what is t...