🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A

Selection from a Dharma Q&A session at St. ThomasEpiscopal Church in Sunnyvale, California (Nov. 8, 2014)

🔹Question: I study psychology and I actually study goals and motivations, so I am very interested in this topic. You talked about desires. You said there are three categories of desire which was survival needs, relative needs or desire and excessive needs. Because human has more intellect, I was thinking that humans also have desire that’s beyond survival desire. A desire to maintain identity or to accomplish something, or lead a purposeful life, so to say, to self-actualize. My question was whether this kind of desire falls inone of these three categories. How should we deal with this desire? Should we cultivate it, or should we suppress it, or regulate it? I thought this is out of these three kinds of desires.

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🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A

session at Bethesda Chevy Chase Regional Service Center inWashington D.C. (September 18, 2019)

🔹Question: Hi. I have a question about what you, from your perspective, what would you quantify as success in life, if not materialistic things, maybe career success and these kinds of ways to measure success? What do you personally, how do you quantify that?

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🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A

Selection from a Dharma Q&A session in UCLA (Nov. 16,2014)

🔹Question: I recently listened to your lecture about careers. And I thought about my job in jewelry industry which in a way allures people to spend money to show off and put emphasis on outer beauty. But I really love my job and my goal is to become a jewelry designer. Whether my designs are for fashion jewelry or high jewelry, it still can mislead people. SoI was wondering about how I should view my career.

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