Don't get involved.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.

Not monastic goods are not attached to rights. Also, that benefit will bring disaster to your body. The younger brothers and sisters are young, the road is long, so it must be noted.

Speaking of this, I remember when I was studying at the Bao Quoc Pagoda in Hue, I read the Great Tripitaka to the book Truc Song Tuyet But of the Great Master Lien Tri, the part about "Silkworm Spider". In it, the two animals both released silk and meshed. But one must die because of that spike, and one will take advantage of the spitting silk to catch prey. The silkworm released silk and was then boiled, and the spider also released the silk but left itself on the threads, not trapped.

Master Lien gave this example to remind everyone. Because everyone has a career. People also have a career, but the monastic also has a career; just big or small. However, I remember creating a career to be like a spider, not like a silkworm silkworm and then dying in a cocoon.

I found it good, amused, always remembering and practicing spirituality. Come to think of it, since 1946, I have established Lien Hai Buddhist School, Buddhist Institutes, established temples, worked for the Church such as: Head of Education, Director General of the Sangha, and then President of the Institute of Buddhism Huệ Nghiêm ... but working without being bound.

At the time of being the General Director of the General Affairs Department, it was 4 months before I opened an office. The teachers found it so curious to ask, I personally thought that when I was caught, I had to get in there. Later, I personally went to visit HT. Tu Nhon held the position of Deputy General Director and set up an office at An Quang Pagoda. So I opened the office from there, but just stood outside to take care of the spirit and preached the sutras to the brothers.

I don't have to expect the same benefits as ordinary people think, just always ask for merit. The benefit of a practitioner is to be good and virtuous, not a material money. The brothers have to remember where they all have to create merit, not to follow the external material. 
At the time of holding the position of General Director General, the increase was all 10 years. During that time, any teacher who wanted to study abroad in Hong Kong ..., when I came to me, I signed. But we have to come directly to it, if through intermediaries, other people will think that we do something bad, such as money. I just thought, to help some teachers who are predestined to study, to do this is also to cultivate the merit and virtue for themselves, never stick to money.

The second thing: I always follow my own slogan: Things that are legal, spiritual or material, "Don't pray nor from". This is a slogan for me to get along with, which means "Don't seek nor refuse". For example, if there is a grace to take away the temple, but that charm comes on its own, it is worth noting it. Even the four offering offerings, the things that are not used, but do not refuse. I do not use it, then transfer it to others, for the public to use. At the same time as Van Duc pagoda restoration, I did not let go to donate, anyone who knew, came to make offerings, but still "sought" is definitely not.

In addition, if you do anything, even if you have a big benefit in the short term, when you do something, it will harm you in the present or in the future. For example: Honors, money, compliments ... If you benefit, you must see if there is any harm or not.

I have seen the practice for a few decades, thanks to the application of the above two things, there is no loss of great harm, but I find it easy to relax. Although there is still a lot of hardship, but only a few, the results are quite a lot.

Here I said at the bottom of my heart, the brothers felt right, they should imitate, so that the practice is not entangled, and the merit of virtue is always increased. That's what I always wanted to be in all the brothers! END=NAM MO SAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.15/2/2019.