Know the good of the patron.

 When your patroness values ​​you, they donate. Therefore, you should be grateful, appreciate, but cultivate properly.

 As you dress simple, frugal, dare to discharge the body to work for the temple; The outsiders look at you, they will find that: "These monks really touched me, they know how to sacrifice for the Tao, for the temple ..." and they naturally want to make offerings to you. As such, invisible, you have the degree, they planted the good in the field of merit. This is the teaching of France, profit!

 The practitioner must suffer extreme suffering, not be attached to the concept of "me" and "my", then born to love to groom beautifully, eat deliciously, and want everything to be convenient. Suspicious, affluent The body in brown robes to clean, adjust is enough; By the monk who lived too happy, too enjoy no home at all want to offer! Those who know how to bear extreme poverty, the new owner admired, want to donate. Life is just enough to eat rice, warm clothes are enough.

 The monk: the foot of the land of credit, head of the sky of credit, the body in his master's donation, the mouth to eat the master's meal, sleeping in the master's building. It is calculated that every day you cultivate a hundred coins of merit. Whenever you initiate the mind to make your body and mind impure, the deduction is thirty dong. In addition to the cost of meals worth thirty dollars, housing is twenty dollars, dress code worth fifty; A total of one hundred thirty merit coins. See, the virtue of spiritual practice you make during the day is not enough to pay for these costs; So what else do you have merit? Faithful donors are hard to digest!

 Want to solemn rise, self-solemn. Wherever, when, I must also dignified. For example, when chanting, if monks and nuns are solemnly worshiped, then naturally they will have faith in the Tao, and no longer consider Buddhism to be negative.

B. Encourage believers

 Bodhisattva is the beings beings, so we have to combine good conditions with beings. Currently I am alive, when people come to my opinion you have to try their luck with them. See who you are, you should also welcome, greet; But do not be fond of (using emotional tricks to earn private benefits), not high tribute, that "I am the monk, you are only at home!" You have to understand that all expenses for daily activities such as meals, accommodation, clothes are all donated by the host!

 When people have a bad relationship with their benefactors, you should not be influenced by him, making you also bad luck with the sponsor. You must have the capacity to recognize the right, to self-control; Because we need good grace.

 So say: "The Buddha, the predestined charm"; This means that when you have not become a Buddha, first and foremost, you have to be happy with everyone.

 When there are believers in the temple, you cleverly use their blessings, invite them to bow to Buddha, eat rice, walk the pagoda. That is good grace, and also the way to practice. The most important thing is not to pretend to be noble, "this is me".That is not spiritual practice. Believers are practitioners, you are a cultivator must practice Bodhisattva. Do not cultivate bad behavior; Have to practice only good. When an evildoer arrives at a temple, do not pay attention to him. Do not nag, do not swear someone else's nostalgic. To practice, to cultivate until wisdom;Now, when you touch something, you can see right away. At that time, what you can say in a formal way. When you have stood firm, then others will be happy to receive you, but you do not create karma.

 Believers bring items to offer, it is because they want to bless. So, even if the small thing is like a blade of grass, you must be happy to receive it. If you see that they bring good things to offer, then you are born greedy, you can not enlighten the Dao.When somebody brings food that is bad to you, bring it to good taste, it is a blessing and wisdom! If you do not know how to handle it properly, on the contrary, just blame the host who offered spoiled food; Then it is self unhappy and self-made karmic only!

 Although family members or their relatives come to the temple to eat rice, we should also advise them to donate money to the temple for them to have the correct concept (Causality, karma.)

 You should be close, all beings; Think they and me are just one. The master again cultivate, re-planted good; I have to take Bodhi mind, compassion for them is correct.

 When someone is talking, do not interrupt or interrupt. Wait for them to finish talking, let's say; That's called politeness. When you talk to your benefactor, you should talk about the Buddha-dharma. When they want to talk secularly, you apologize, saying, "I do not have the time, please come to Buddha, or take a walk."When you meet bad guys, you do not notice him as the best;Because the two currencies that hit each other must surely be slammed!

 Relationship with people: they are too social only. Therefore, when you apply them, your mind must be self-reliant, there is always Buddha-dharma (enlightenment). Do not join the secular conversation conversation life. Please bring the Buddha-France comparison.

 Speaking of humorous parallelism, the Buddha-dharma will make the listener unhappy.

 The monk who does not speak the Buddha-dhamma talked again; Which is the duty of the monk? When a cultivator also speaks the mundane world of people, that is, he can not pass the gates (mundane habits); Then how can he qualify to discuss the two words "practice"?END=NAM MO SHAKYAMOUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.THE MIND OF ENLIGHTENMENT.VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.4/7/2017.