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Attending Dr Hanh Tho’s Speech that Inspired Me

Dr Tho is one of the disciples of venerable Thich Nhat Hanh. Venerable Thich Nhat Hanc is Vietnamese Buddhist, author for more than 100 books and Nobel Peace Prize Nominee. Dr Tho who works Programme Development Coordinator at the GNH Centre. He was invited to Royal Institute of Management as an eminent speaker in first inspiration session of 2013 on 20 th February. He talked about applied Buddhism to Happiness. I was in and out of sleep through whole speech because tiring class and extra class coupled with late sleep earlier night.   I couldn’t understand many things. However, I loved a story of a woman in the war torn Darfur. The Red Cross had set up the ad organization where malnourished baby was given enough nutritious diet. Like any other women with breast feeding baby, she was given diets to feed her baby. When she came next week for baby’s evaluation, Red Cross officials were surprised because baby was still underweight. Then officials enquired her on the matter. S