May I remind you, monks, that you shouldn’t gossip. That’s one of your precepts. You don’t tell things that are not true, just to put somebody else down, like you did to me. Even if you want to gossip, you have to do research whether or not all this gossip is true. Telling lies deliberately is even worse. They will cut your tongue in hell, you know that. Buddha taught you many things about how people are being punished in hell if they do not virtuously adhere to the precepts – just to be a good human, not to talk about being a saint yet. Even just the Five Precepts for the laypeople, you trespassed almost all of them. […] So please be careful. Don’t gossip about me. I don’t care anymore about my reputation, honestly, because I can’t fight all of you, monks and laypeople, too many. But that also brings bad luck to your country, Âu Lạc (Vietnam). Got that? Anything bad will be bad for you and bad for your relatives, your friends, your family, your country. OK? […]
Being a monk, above all, you should have compassion. You even humiliate my physical being, just for your fun, just so that people think that I’m this and that and others. Why do you have to do that? Use your own talent, your own eloquence, your own knowledge about Buddhism, at least just from the sutras, not to talk about how you’re not enlightened at all. Otherwise, you wouldn’t have done such a thing, like gossiping about me, because I’m a very good person, not to talk about I’m a Buddha or not, or enlightened or not. I’m a very good person. All my life, I’ve just been helping people, helping animal-people, helping to build temples, helping some of the nuns or monks who needed some help financially, or some other things at that moment and this moment.
I have never done any harm to you or your temple or your reputation. I didn’t even know your name. Many of you – I didn’t know you. I never knew you. I have never hugged any monk in my life and said, “I love you.” I don’t see anything wrong with that. If I really loved that person, I would hug him or her, or babies, children. And I do that many times with my own disciples. I hug them in public, if somebody is good or if I feel they are loving and kind and that they did something good for society. Even like the homeless or the poor people, I would hug them. Or if they are poor and helpless or their arm is broken or something, I would hug them and say, “I love you,” for sure. But for monks, I have never done that. Because I know the monks’ precepts. They should not be near any woman, not to talk about hugging and saying, “I love you,” and all that stuff. This kind of thing, you kind of beat yourself, let people know that you are not a real monk.
Especially I don’t even know you. I never knew you. And even if I did hug you, even if there is, oh, I don’t know, out of 10,000 million times, one of those times, I hugged you, one time I hugged you or said, “I love you,” then that means I’m good for you, I love you. Then why would you even talk bad about me, gossip untruthfulness about me, slandering me so that people would think I’m bad or my disciples would have less trust in me or leave me? That’s worse than the sin of gossiping and telling lies about me. Worse, because separating the sangha in Buddhism, that is one of the worst sins you can commit, as worse as killing your parents or killing or harming the Buddha. You know that. If you don’t, I advise you to take off your robe. Don’t continue cheating the Buddhist believers anymore and heaping more and more forever hell karma on you.
Think about that. Read the sutras again and avoid doing similar kinds of things to anybody, not just to me. To me, you already did it. It’s too late now. I don’t know if you can repent and clean your sin out of that. Even if I forgive you and forever forgive you, or even want to help you, I don’t know if I’m allowed to do that. The laypeople, the lay Aulacese (Vietnamese) people, they’re vulnerable still. They are not all enlightened. If they follow monks like you, they’ll never be enlightened. So if they scold me, they slander me, they humiliate me in any way, I understand. I forgive them and I pray for them, for their sin. But you, supposed to be a master. When you’re a monk, everybody calls you a master already, no matter how long you have been a monk. Even if you just shave your head, they respect you, they give you donations, offerings. They bow to you. They prostrate to you. And this is how you behave?
Think about that. Don’t create any more hell, the forever hell for you, the relentless hell that’s mentioned in the Buddhist sutras. The Buddha mentioned it many times. You must remember it. Don’t just wear the robe and don’t know anything about Buddhist sutras. It will lead you to hell, not to Buddha’s Land. I promise you that. And I swear to GOD Almighty, to all the Buddhas, that I’m telling you the truth. So watch it. Watch it, you’re a reverend. Change your ways and become a real reverend, a refuge to all your followers. Not to become “refuse.” A “refuse.” Refuse is different from a refuge. I wish you’d change and become enlightened in whatever way you can find. And remember hell so that you don’t fall into it, so that you may change, and become a real good monk. May the Buddha bless you.
All my beloved children of GOD, GOD’s disciples, I don’t know how many non-disciples would watch our TV, I mean to see this, if we ever put it out for Fly-in News, but I’m sure all of you understand and know for sure that I told you all the truth. It’s just, I’m thinking it’s interesting for you to know about the glowworm, for example, who looked down upon my youthfulness and told me that I’m “too old” to fight the negative. I just laughed and felt very amused. I never am angry with her. She stayed only for a while and then she left. And after a while I asked her, “Oh, where are you?” She said she’s far away now. And it was three hours afterward. But I said, “How far are you?” And she said about 200 meters from me, from my tent. Oh my God, it took her three hours to cover 200 meters. And she’s going forward to look for the partner. I told you already.
Being animal-people, even insects, that’s such a troublesome life. And we thought we humans have very complicated and troublesome lives already. So it’s better we don’t regress. Practice your Quan Yin Method as taught to you at the time of initiation. Be a good human, at least. Keep the Five Precepts. That’s how you can be a good human all the time. And even if you have to come back as a human again, you can be a human. You don’t have to go down the scale of evolution, but you go up only. And you will have a comfortable life, a rich life then. It depends on your merit, of course also, life after life, and this life as well. The best is to free yourself from all that, from all that. Free, free from everything – from fortune, misfortune, from fame, from bad and good, everything – free, free yourself from all that. Don’t treasure anything in this world as long as you still live here. Then you will be free forever. And you can even help others to be free, like what I am doing right now. Let me drink some water. I’ll come back.
Recently, one of my dog-people was very sick, suddenly sick like that. And I could not even take him to the doctor or give him medicine myself. He’s not with me right now. Heaven told me this is from the negative power, which is using my dog-person to give me pain. Even not physically, but... And I asked GOD to let me take care of the karma for him, but I’m not allowed to, because that would be too good for me. Up to now, especially in recent years, I’m not allowed to have anything that gives me pleasure, gives me happiness. Even like having the dog-people with me, or having the bird-people with me, or having any of the good team members with me, stuff like that. Or even tasting good food, rarely. Same food, but if you eat it, you will say, “Wow, this is Heaven.” For me, it’s just plain, like grass, or feels a little salty or sweet – that’s it, nothing more, not even like appetizing or enjoyable. I just eat because I know I have to. Even eating for me is also like to be connected with the world. I explained this before already.
But I’m glad to live here, in this place at the moment, because this is a very blessed forest, a very blessed location where I put up my tent – a very highly spiritual treasure.
Photo Caption: “Good Appearance Not Always Means Real Good Quality!”
