Question: How to detach when facing financial and economic difficulties? I am a monk, but I still do not have the ability to detach from money like you.

If we see from the side of the truth, money is not everything, just something. Merits or good deeds is everything, not something. With this right understanding, we should save merits or good deeds instead of saving money.

We can use money not for saving but for merits or good deeds. Before I started practicing meditation, I was the owner of my own business. Therefore, I’m skillful to use the money and material to get my own apartment and car. But money and ability and quality and intelligence about business cannot solve all the problems. Thats why, I started to rely on something or someone special. In this way, I became a meditator and also meditation teacher, and also a monk who is always busy with doing all kinds of good deeds for the others and teaching meditation like this.

Teaching meditation only is not enough, complete. We need our own meditation center, our own volunteers, our own donors. I came to understand like this after 5 years of teaching meditation continuously. As a meditation teacher only, I need no money. As a founder of a meditation center, I need money to use for the meditation center. Now I have been using money for over 17 years continuously.

Practice makes perfect. In this way, I became useful to use all living beings and non living beings, including money, without grasping or attaching in the mind. I’m skillful to use the money like this not only by practicing by myself but also teaching to others. You can also come to Thabarwa center to learn to use money in the best way. But you need to be careful, money is really dangerous, you need to learn how to use money in the right way.