When we do good deeds, we should do with right understanding. Giving to the others or donating to Buddha Dhamma and Sangha or volunteering in meditation center like this or social organization are doing good deeds. Keeping at least 5 precepts is also doing good deeds. Practicing Vipassana meditation or mindfulness and detachment is also doing the best good deeds of all.

Now you are doing good deeds with Buddha Dharma Sangha in 10-day meditation retreat. Whatever we donate to Buddha Dharma Sangha, all our donations will be our own merits or good deeds. The more we give to the others or donate to Buddha Dharma Sangha, the more we can save merits or good deeds.

Our own merits or good deeds can fulfill our needs. The more we do good deeds, the more our needs will be fulfilled.

Now we are doing good deeds together with Buddha Dharma Sangha and Dharma friends or meditators. As a layperson, we are not complete, but Buddha Dharma Sangha are complete. Therefore, we should rely on Buddha Dharma Sangha in doing all kinds of good deeds. By paying more and more attention to Buddha Dharma and Sangha, we need to detach from ourselves or from the lives of a layperson.

For me, I have been doing good deeds like this for over 24 years continuously. Doing good deeds like this can change everything, everyone, everywhere and every situation. Because of doing good deeds like this, more and more people are practicing meditation. There are also more and more Thabarwa meditation centers. More and more time and conditions or situations are using for doing good deeds. If you are able to do good deeds like this for many years continuously, there will also be more and more better changing in Vietnam also.

This is right action with right understanding. The more we do good deeds like this, the more we can detach from wrong actions or wrong understanding.