Question: Hello Sayadaw, I come from Thabarwa nursing home in Vietnam. Volunteers from our center and people who are there from the begining are conflicting badly. Most of our volunteers left and people there they want to run the nursing home in their way, not the nature way. What could i do just to solve the problem, Sayadaw?

– “It used to be like this in the begining of the Middle Way. We just need to be patient we just need to know, to learn more and more from the weakness of this or that method, this or that person, this or that organisation. We just need to continue to know more and more details about the weakness of tradition. That’s what we can do in this condition. If no one knows about the weakness of tradition means everyone most of people, most of organisation using by grasping one of the method, one of the place, one of the organisation. The more we know about the weakness or mistake of the people and organisation doing good deeds, there will be less and less mistakes for sure. knowing the truth is really powerful, it can be shared among people, it can be spread from one to another. So whatever happens in nursing home, whatever mistake are done in nursing home we should try to learn more and more clearly. The more we know the less we want it to happen, the less we want to do like this. So also there will be less and less wrong actions or mistakes for sure. It will take times but it is really effective. Even if we cannot do what is right, we should try to know more and more about wrong understanding and actions. Right view will surely solve the problem in right time.

If we are not mindful we should try to know the appearing and disappearing process of ignorance. Not knowing the truth is the cause of that endless cycle. Knowing the truth is the cause of deathlessness. If we are in trouble, we will remember our parents or Buddha. If we are not in trouble, we will not remember our parents or Budha . This is because we are used to rely on our parents and Budha only when we are getting into trouble. By practising meditation like this, we are trying to rely on Buddha Dhamma and Sangha at every present moment. if Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha are in our mind, we are sure to be what we want and to be safe. If we are keeping our family, our job and our belongings, we are sure not to be satisfied and safe. Laws and regulation ordered by human beings are also not complete. Natural laws or cause and effect of impermanent nature is complete. Doing right or good actions are the cause of getting good results. Doing wrong and bad actions are the cause of getting wrong and bad results or consequences. The intelligence and abilities of someone or something is limited. Instead, abilities of Buddha Dhamma and Sangha are limitless. If we are keeping Buddha Dhamma and Sangha in the mind we can do everything. No mediation centers are long lasting that’s why we should rely on Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha all the time in our mind. “