There’s a big difference between practicing and not practicing. Now that you’re practicing, when you go outside and hear people talk, you get tired right away. It’s better to just stay quiet, you don’t even know where to begin arguing anymore. Before you practiced, if someone said something wrong, you’d jump right in to argue. Now you don’t want to argue anymore, it’s too exhausting, don’t even know where to begin to argue. They’re all wrong. Just forget it then. But when someone who truly practices speaks, you can tell right away they’ve practiced. Anyone who practices and has results, you can hear it in the way they talk. They’ve practiced, they’ve realized something. […]
If the outside circumstances are too favorable, sometimes we don’t get the opportunity to go within. When the outside world disappoints you, the sadder you are and the more you can’t move forward, you will turn more inward. That’s why you’ve understood so much and have become enlightened so deeply. Our wisdom will come naturally. […] Opposing forces will strengthen us. Right? (Yes.) In this universe, everything has yin and yang. The tougher the circumstances, the more determined one is in their spiritual practice. That’s why initiates in Âu Lạc (Vietnam) have so many [spiritual] experiences. […]
Even though we know everything is an illusion. As I’ve said many times, I know everything is an illusion, but when I see a dog(-person) suffering, I still can’t bear it. (Yes.) I still feel pain. Don’t think I don’t. There was a black dog(-person), there was a guy who kept pulling his collar, jerking it around. That night I lay there in pain, I almost couldn’t bear it. […]
