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There is a Vietnamese saying: “A frog sits at the bottom of the well”, which means he could only see the sky via the top of the well, hence, he always thinks that the sky is just as small. The frog likes water, and it comes and goes from one well to another. The only way he could get out of a well was for someone to take the water, when he could take the opportunity to clutch onto the bucket of water. Sometimes, though, he would think that he was trapped, so he jumped back to the well again.

"Animal" is a lower tier than human, "Human" is ourselves, and "Saints" are holy people. When we compare these three forms of beings, we know that we will take the path of Saint, not the path of Animal.

Sống đơn giản – An vui
Sống đơn giản nghĩa là xài vừa đủ
Không đua đòi lãng phí xa hoa

Why should we take the dual path of Meditation and Pure Land cultivation?
What did our founders mean when they set up the dual path of Meditation and Pure Land cultivation?

Trung Thu là tết thiếu nhi
Mà sao người lớn cũng đi hơi nhiều.
Người lớn thật là đáng yêu,
Vì yêu người trẻ nên yêu trăng già.

Chớ hỏi tại sao trời năm nay nóng thế?
Sao năm qua rét buốt hơn nhiều?
Và bão tố chừng như càng hung hãn?
Lũ quét, đất chuồi, phố ngập nước thành sông?

Everyone is trying to live right. Really! It is true. If we did not try to live right, and always made mistakes and committed sins, bad consequences would have happened. When we made mistakes, others would look down on us, or even worse, we might have been punished by law, leading us to a miserable live. And speaking of religious beliefs, the law of Cause and Effect will always govern and direct our lives. The retribution will come to us in many afterlives “As ye sow, so shall ye reap”.

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