Drawing on the story of a Zen student asking his teacher for his most advanced teaching, Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh shares his own experiences on how to take care of sadness, anger, loss, injustice, and how to transform the seeds of suffering we have inherited from past generations. Using examples and often humorous stories, this classic talk (given during a retreat in 1998) offers concrete practices and contains the teachings that would later lead to his best-selling books Transformation and Healing, Anger, and Interbeing.