Be Forgiving and Merciful: Supreme Master Ching Hai's Diary, Part 3 of 7, Feb. 3, 2015

And on the 7th, I felt so much pressure because he wanted to go back to where he likes to go. People say they can renounce the world to be sometimes monks and residents, all that. But it’s not true. The mind can still have a very, very big hold on them and make them feel homesick or miss their friends, or whatever. Even monks and nuns, so it’s very difficult to work when you don’t have a lot of support around. (Yes, Master. Understand.) Even then, sometimes even (being) around, they can lend some of their disease karma or something and then make my dogs sick or make me sick.