“Myanmar is controlling the people to go out less and less to reduce activities to stay by ourselves. Most of the people don’t understand how to do good deeds. Even if they understand, they cannot practice in their daily life. But we are meditators and volunteers; therefore, we are trying to do good deeds to prevent the attack of the virus. Actually, the virus is not much powerful and dangerous. But it is worldwide well-known. The strong ignorance and attachment that are concerned with this virus are really dangerous. Most people cannot avoid the virus. Until now, nearly 900.000 people in the world are attacked by the virus and nearly 50.000 people died. Doing all kinds of good deeds together by using the methods of to be doing-only is nearly powerful. Now I am teaching to be doing-only or not doing-only to the public. When we are practicing doing-only or not doing-only, we just need to emphasize on our present action of “”doing”” or “”not doing””. Who we are; what we are doing; where we are; what time we are using; whatever is happening in ourselves or our center or the world are all to using-only, no need to emphasize. We are not rejecting the virus. Besides, we are not attaching to the virus. We rely on the method of doing-only or not doing-only. That’s why we are detaching from the virus with mindfulness. In this way, neither friends nor enemies, we are not the same with the virus. We are keeping precepts all the time, but the virus is not. We are together with the people who are keeping precepts and doing good deeds. We can not be together with the people who are not keeping precepts. In this way, we can be safe from the virus.

No killing, no stealing or destroying the belongings of the others, no sexual misconduct, no telling lie, no taking alcohol are in our mind. We are using the Truth or good actions in the mind. The virus is concerned with the mind of killing, stealing,… In this way, we will not be together [with the virus] because of using the opposite mind. This is the way which we use to prevent all dangers. If we want to kill the virus, the mind is breaking precepts. We can get the virus and we will not be safe. We should use different views and activities to avoid the virus. When we are doing good deeds, we should be in harmony with the changing of time, place, person, condition. In the past, we have a chance to travel from one place to another in the country and abroad. Therefore, we have been traveling continuously to do good deeds. Because of doing good deeds outside most of the time, we can not stay and do good deeds in this center. Nothing is permanent. Now we cannot go out. We need to stay in the center. In this way, we have a chance to do good deeds here. We need to correct the mistakes of the center. This is doing good deeds in harmony with time, place, person, condition. We don’t need to change the time, place, person, condition. We just need to accept the changing nature to do good deeds to be doing or not doing continuously. ”

[Women screamed and cried]

” She is a Hindus. Her religion is Hinduism. Hindus, Islam… they have strong attachments on religion. They rarely change to other religions. They are seriously concerned with religion. So their problems are concerned with religion which is difficult to solve. She meditates and she want to get enlightenment, but she cannot understand and practice enough. That’s why she is not satisfied with herself. She cannot accept failures in her practice. That’s why she cannot control her mind. Her strong attachment and ignorance made her crazy. She cannot be a real enlightened person, that’s why she cannot accept the truth, so she lies herself to be an enlightened one. That is very difficult to solve this kind of problem. We need to be patient. The weather is hot, so this is the time to be crazy for most of the mental patients. When the weather is changed, this problem will be solved naturally. We need to be patient and endure. We just need to continue doing good deeds. That is the best we can do for them and ourselves.

There are many people in this center, so also many problems but I rarely try to solve the problems directly. I continue to do good deeds in the most needed places to solve the problems in both: the place I was staying and TNC Thanlyin. I continue to do good deeds in other countries or other places which the intention of solving the problems in TNC Thanlyin and also the current locations. This is solving the problem indirectly because the problems here are connected to the problems there. By solving the problems in other countries, it will affect to the problems in this country. Now this is the time for this center to correct many mistakes, one after another, by doing good deeds continuously together. This is the same for you all if you cannot go out and not much connection with the others. It is the time to solve the inner problems of your mind by practicing mindfulness and detachment to be less ignorance and attachment. This is the chance which the coronavirus gave to all of us! “”

Question: Today, I heard from a local volunteer that a patient from rainbow hospital are not allowed to go out anymore. I just want to know this order comes from the hospital manager or the government officers or the housekeepers or from who?

– “It is the desire of the government and also the one in charge of that building and also my teaching every day. I don’t guide them to stay at home or in one place. I just suggested better not going out, reducing activities. Everyone should stay more and more at their places, only for emergency cases then they can go. That’s the knowledge, especially most of the people here they obey me, so they know I rarely make mistakes. In this way, if I say something, there are more serious than the others. I haven’t stopped them but it is difficult for most people to decide that it is an emergency or not. Making mistakes is natural here in this country. So there will be misunderstandings or wrong decisions. I haven’t stopped them going out but I suggested that it will be more and more dangerous in the future, so it is better to stay at home or your places. With my permission, you can do it [take the patients out]. I can arrange if you have a reason which is enough to get the patients out, then I will allow you, so you should cooperate with me. That is important, you cannot do by yourself. I am concerned with many people and many things, so I can see from many sides. Therefore, I am free to do something here. You are not much free. So you should let me know what you want to do. Surely, there will be fewer and fewer activities because of the Thingyan festival – the most dangerous time. We should try to be in harmony with this situation. If we reject, there will be many problems in the mind, so we should not against society also. More and more people are cooperating with the government. That’s why we also should cooperate with the government.

They understand this is the most dangerous place in Thanlyin because of many foreigners and old and sick people. That’s why they don’t want anything bad to happen. They don’t want the virus in this center. That’s why they will try to support us. We are also trying not to have the virus in this center, they also want, because we are connected. If there is the virus here in this center, it can spread to the village, to Thanlyin, and to this town. The other places are easy to control but this place is not easy. They understand. But they don’t know very well how to support us. So they ask for my advice on whether they can support doctors or nurses or face masks or hand sanitizer gel. They can understand only by their own experiences. They understand that closing this center will make more side effects. They understand about this center and about what we are doing here. They also have difficulties in cooperating with us. But only by cooperating with us, they can understand more and more. So only by practice, they will try to find the solutions. Only by practice, we can teach them also.

They also understand that this is the hot season. The weather is hot. So it is difficult to control the people here, especially the mental patients. But not rejecting, they will cooperate with us but they will also do with my suggestions under my guidance. They understand they cannot do like us. That’s why they don’t reject, they want to cooperate with us. That is what I understand. Because this center has already existed for 12 years. That’s why more and more people know about us by their own experiences. In the beginning, there were many misunderstandings about this center. Now, more and more right understandings about us, so there is not much difficult for them to cooperate with us. They will do to support us. We are together. That’s why the people here may become serious about not going out, staying by themselves. Because some people here are retired government staff, so they know. For those people, they are easy to obey the law of the government. That’s why they want to cooperate with us, so it is better to be together to solve the problems. We cannot do it by ourselves, so also they cannot do it by themselves. If we are together, we can do better for the safety of this center.”