Be careful in keeping the precepts and the precepts are shameful.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THE WOMEN OF THE SAKYA CLAN CHAN TANH. 144. Be careful in keeping the precepts. The essence of the precept is shame. If in doubt, please do not express your opinion. That is the precept. There is no doubt, it is pure and pure. 145. There are two levels of Dharma practice. Keeping the precepts is the first basic part. The precepts bring happiness, comfort, and harmony. The second - more positive - unrelated to comfort - is the practice of the Dharma to awaken and free our mind from all attachments. Liberation of the mind is the source of compassion and wisdom. 146. Virtue is the parent of the Dharma that flourishes within us. Virtue provides nutritious food and points us in the right direction. 147. Virtue is the basic condition for creating a harmonious world, in which people really live as human beings and not as animals. Keeping the precepts is the main thing in the practice of meditation. Keeping the precepts, developing loving-kindness, respecting others, being cautious in words and actions; it's your inheritance. If you use precepts as the basis for all your actions, your mind will be peaceful, clear, and calm. Meditation will easily flourish in this land. 148. Take care of and keep the precepts like a gardener takes care of and preserves trees. Don't get attached to the big tree, the small tree, the important tree and the unimportant tree. Some people want to take shortcuts. They say: “Skip meditation, go straight into insight meditation; Ignore the precepts, go straight into meditation.” We have many reasons to justify our craving. 149. Right effort and wisdom is not an external matter, but an inner perseverance and self-control. Therefore, giving, if done with good intentions, can bring happiness to oneself and others. But morality must be the root, then this charity is pure and pure. 150. The Buddha taught us to do good, stay away from evil, keep our mind clean. Our meditation practice is the same: "do good, avoid evil". Do evil things still exist in your mind? Of course still! Then why not clean the house. In correct practice, doing good and avoiding evil is a good deed, but there are limitations, because in the end we have to go through both good and bad. Liberation is all-inclusive, but not attached to anything. From this non-attachment, love and wisdom flow naturally. 151. We must start where we are now, direct and simple. The first two steps are the completion of precepts and right view. Then the third step is wisdom, uprooting the defilements, which will naturally arise. Just like when the lamp is lit, there is no need to worry about dispelling the darkness. No wonder where the darkness has gone. We only know there is light. 152. There are three levels of precepts. The first is ordination from the teacher. The next thing is to keep the precepts and live in the precepts. Finally, at the highest level - the sages - they do not need to think about precepts, right and wrong. True morality comes from wisdom, thoroughly understanding the Four Noble Truths. Their actions spontaneously sprang from this realization. 153. Many secular monks went into battle, rolling themselves on the arrowheads of bullets. They want so. They want to go. Danger came from all sides but they were still prepared to go. They were willing to die in bombs, but no one would die for keeping the precepts. Really strange.END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).BUDDHIST DHARMA WHEEL GOLDEN MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THE WOMEN OF THE SAKYA CLAN CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.24/9/2021.