Question: How it is possible to feel compassion with detachment. Because when we see someone suffering while you are compassionate. Then you feel his sufferings and attach to those sufferings. So in order to help him, part of you is identifying with his suffering. I don’t know how to do that, how to feel the sufferings but not to suffer myself.

“We should try to accept not only good but also bad. We must accept life and death. We must accept both being healthy and sick. If we can accept things like this, success and failure. We can make good use of the worst condition to do what is good. We should understand to experience only, neither rejecting nor attaching. Many people here in need of help. They can’t rely on themselves. But when we are facing them, we should accept experiencing only, not to like and dislike. Not to be happy and beautiful. Just to experience. This is the truth. Because we can do nothing for their sickness, old age. That’s why we should try to accept it. You’re doing good deeds here, you should emphasize to be doing only. You may not get success. Other people may think what you are doing is not very useful. Some others may think you are really useful here. We should not rely on the comments or feedback. We just rely on the truth of experiencing only, to do only. You must be able to do it continuously. Whether we are healthy or sick, whether wanting to do or not, whether we can get success or failure, we must be able to do this. Because it’s right to do. We should do it when it’s right to do. You shouldn’t do it when it’s wrong to do. So with this right understanding, we should not give up doing what is good. We shouldn’t give up helping the people. Although we can’t helpfully, we shouldn’t give up helping the people.

In the early years of the center, not much support from the public, just more and more people rely on us. Many patients, not many volunteers. So we can do nothing, we just ignore them. Because we were overload and what we understand is people here are free to stay or to die. But when they stay in the society, they are not free. They are not welcomed at home by their family members. Here, they have a chance to stay till the end of their life. So compared to their former conditions, here is better. No one kicks them out. Besides we will take care of them as much as we can. At least here we can teach them about the truth and meditation. Besides, they may have friends here. At home, they were alone. No one takes care of them. That’s why compared with the conditions in society, here is better. Although, we can do nothing except allowing them to stay here. But we continue to do this. That’s why we are able to do it accurately. We can be doing only with what we are doing here. That’s why we can get success by the public. No support from the government, but many supports from people in society. That’s why we can do many things now. We should not think of the results or effects. We just think of the cause we are doing here. We are doing for the others, we are here for the truth. We are doing what is right. That’s why we should try hard. We must be skilful in our job. That is what we can do. If we are skillful in our job, we are satisfied, and we can continue doing good deeds.

That is the way I’m using and also teaching the others. Old and sick people here are trying to stay till the end of their life and they are not running away. So also we shouldn’t stop activities here. So there are competitions. We are working together. We will try our best, we can get success in our job. So old and sick people here will believe in us. Their belief is the biggest support for us. If they don’t believe, they will go away. This is useful for all organizations, including Thabarwa centers worldwide. We try to be skillful in our activities. So if we are able to do like this. We can be stable, we can get the success of our teamwork. That’s really powerful. Now we are working together here, we will succeed in teamwork. Most people may not understand, but it is possible to get success. We just need to do it continuously. We must be able to detach from ourselves. It is really important. If we can’t detach ourselves, we can’t use teamwork. We are able to do ourselves, we are not able to do with the others. So if we are working with the others continuously, we will be skillful teamwork. If I see only from my side, I can’t do like this, I can’t solve problems. But I’m not thinking from my side. I’m thinking from the side of the truth – the power of nature. So I can do many things. I can solve many problems. Because of the power of the truth or the nature. This cause and effect already exists. If you don’t use this, you can’t understand. If we believe in cause and effect, nothing is difficult. There are many problems and difficulties here but we need nothing to do, just continue doing good deeds and everything will be okay. If we believe like this, we are sure to get success. This is the truth, but most people don’t believe this. That’s why it’s difficult to solve the problem. It is easy, nothing is special to do, just do this continuously and then everything will be okay. “