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The Saltiness of SaltBuddhism is like salt. Salt is always salty. Whoever eats it will find thatit’s always salty. Whoever doesn’t eat it won’t taste the saltiness. In the sameway, Buddhism can’t degenerate. People degenerate. Buddhism doesn’tdegenerate.Some people see monks behaving in a bad way and they blame Buddhism.It’s like a person who doesn’t eat salt and complains that salt isn’t salty.Actually, the saltiness of salt is there all the time. If anyone eats the salt, thesaltiness will appear. That’s the way it is with Buddhism.Lead vs. GoldI’ll ask you a question. Suppose there’s a hunk of lead weighing onekilogram and a hunk of gold weighing one kilogram. If you were to ask peopleto take one of them, which one would they take?It’s the same with your son deciding to ordain for life. He sees thatordaining has more value. He sees the whole world as a hunk of lead with novalue. That’s why he doesn’t want it. It’s the same as your wanting thekilogram of gold and not the kilogram of lead. Why? Because the lead has lessvalue—or no value at all. That’s why you decide to take the gold.
The Thinking of EarthwormsThese days, Thai people are ordaining less and less. I don’t know why.Whether it’s because of their work or because the world is developing, I don’tknow. In the past, people would ordain for at least four years, five years. Butnow there are people ordaining for seven days, fifteen days. There are evenpeople who ordain in the morning and disrobe in the evening. It’s because ofthis sort of thing that Buddhism will disappear.Some people say that if people ordained the way I say—three or five years—the country wouldn’t develop. We’d run out of people staying at home; therewouldn’t be anyone making a living; we wouldn’t be able to keep up with theworld. So I tell them that this kind of thinking is the thinking of earthworms.Earthworms live in the dirt. They’ve been eating dirt from the verybeginning. But even though they keep on eating, they’re afraid that they’ll runout of dirt. So when they excrete dirt, they put it up next to their heads to eat,for they’re afraid they’ll run out of dirt. This is the thinking of earthworms.People who think that the world won’t develop, that it’ll come to an end:That’s the thinking of earthworms.
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The Language of the DhammaAll langu
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Genuine WealthSilena bhoga-sampada:
Page 16 and 17: Learning about FireWhen you see the
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Page 31 and 32: Running in CirclesWhen you live alo
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Page 35 and 36: Know One, Know Them AllSights, soun
Page 37 and 38: Strength & HarmonyVirtue is a stren
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Page 41 and 42: Feeding Through the MouthPeople who
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Page 53 and 54: Staying at HomeIf you have mindfuln
Page 55 and 56: Overcoming PainSuppose you’re sit
Page 57 and 58: The Name of the FruitThe fruit that
Page 59 and 60: Mr. A & the Letter AWhen we speak a
Page 61 and 62: The Farmer & the CobraIn short, the
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Page 69 and 70: Grabbing Hold of a DogEven when you
Page 71 and 72: The Parts of a KnifeThis knife plac
Page 73 and 74: Our Own AffairEventually, the teach
Page 75 and 76: Filling the GlassThe way that peopl
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