06/01/2026
IT IS A MIRACLE that has happened in the East. The West is still unable to understand it. For centuries in the East, IF SOMEBODY WAS MEDITATING, THE SOCIETY WOULD FEED HIM. It was enough that he was meditating.
NOBODY WOULD THINK THAT HE WAS A BURDEN on the society -- "Why we should work for him?"
JUST BECAUSE HE WAS MEDITATING WAS ENOUGH -- because the East came to know that IF EVEN ONE MAN BECOMES ENLIGHTENED, HIS ENERGY IS SHARED BY ALL.
IF EVEN ONE MAN COMES TO FLOWER IN MEDITATION, his fragrance becomes part of the whole society.
AND THE GAIN IS SO TREMENDOUS that the East has NEVER said, "Don't sit there and meditate. Who is going to feed you? Who is going to clothe you? And who is going to give you shelter?"
Thousands and thousands... BUDDHA HAD TEN THOUSAND MONKS, SANNYASINS, moving with him... but people were happy to feed them, to shelter them, to clothe them, to look after them. Because they were meditating.
Now it is very, very impossible in the West to think that way. EVEN IN THE EAST it is becoming difficult. In China now, monasteries are being closed, meditation halls are being converted into hospitals or school rooms. GREAT MASTERS ARE DISAPPEARING. They are forced to work in the fields or in the factories. NOBODY IS ALLOWED TO MEDITATE... because a great understanding is lost. THE WHOLE MIND is FULL OF MATERIALISM, as if MATTER is all that exists.
IF A MAN IN A TOWN BECOMES ENLIGHTENED, THE WHOLE TOWN IS BENEFITED. It is not a wastage to support him. For nothing, you are going to get such tremendous treasure... PEOPLE WERE HAPPY TO HELP.
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Dang Dang Doko Dang
Ch #5: Two ladies and a monk
am in Buddha Hall
[_via Shree Amitabha Subhuti _]