Ven. Pomnyun's Answer to "How Can I Deal with Stresses from Seeing Irresponsible People?”
Selection from a Dharma Q&A session at Jogyesa Temple, Seoul (June 14, 2019)

Questioner : I’ve been living in South Korea for about 8 years now.
ut after a few years of living in Korea, I found myself feeling lots of frustrations. One feeling I’m having is, kind of a lack of control in a way. I know that I can’t control all aspects of life. I can’t control all of the people. I get that. But one thing that I’m really struggling with is people’s accountability, people taking responsibility for their actions.
Yea, so my job is, for sure it’s to help them to learn and to obviously improve their English skills.
I understand your point and I think that I’m trying to learn myself just to try and understand how to deal with the stresses and anxiety that I’m facing myself because of my expectations. I know I have high expectations of my students and they follow that. But I need to, my wife and I need to basically learn to deal with…

 

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