I don’t need to be a nun forever. Inside, enough. Have to go above monkhood in order to be liberated. It means you know what you are, go above. […]
We use our brain, our mind, our hands, our everything, just to beautify the world and help other people. Not because we want money, we want fame, or we want position, but since we have ability, and since we are more enlightened, we have even more ability to work. So, why should we rot ourselves? Therefore, all our monks and nuns have to work. It’s not because of the money, it’s just the self-reliance and the self-discipline, self-respect that we have to keep. And dignity, the dignity that we have to keep. Now, that’s why I told them all of them have to work. Even just to do anything. It’s not the money that we want. It’s just they have to occupy themselves. Otherwise, their mind will be rotten, think of all kinds of evil things. And will give into the sensual demand of the body even, if we have nothing to do, and no striving for survival, then our body will start to make a terrible demand on us. Sometimes it doesn’t help. It doesn’t help. You can’t meditate 24 hours a day, no, no, no. […]
At that time I began to get requests from disciples to lecture. Of course, the audience was not like now. It used to be about 300, 400 at the most at that time, because we didn’t know how to advertise, we didn’t do anything, they just came, with very little circulation. And in the evening, they would get initiation by the riverside. […] No house, no land, nothing. Just on the riverside is how we began our business. And I still don’t take donation from disciples. […]
