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[{'start': '0.066', 'end': '1.366', 'text': 'publicly denounced,'}, {'start': '1.800', 'end': '3.966', 'text': 'monk Minh Tue did not clear a word,'}, {'start': '4.366', 'end': '6.000', 'text': 'accepted the loss of reputation to gain what'}, {'start': '6.400', 'end': '7.900', 'text': 'when the monk did not defend'}, {'start': '8.200', 'end': '11.166', 'text': 'Minh Tue in an era that leaves no room for peace,'}, {'start': '11.966', 'end': '14.100', 'text': 'a person who was denounced did not refute,'}, {'start': '14.666', 'end': '16.533', 'text': 'a person who was targeted in the midst of storms,'}, {'start': '16.766', 'end': '18.666', 'text': 'but hoped that the person attacking him would be happy'}, {'start': '19.366', 'end': '22.966', 'text': 'in a society where taking the initiative is the guiding principle,'}, {'start': '23.266', 'end': '25.300', 'text': 'the saying "I have no opinion"'}, {'start': '25.533', 'end': '27.533', 'text': 'makes people surprised, as if hearing an'}, {'start': '27.933', 'end': '30.300', 'text': 'ancient Buddhist voice echoing in the noise of the digital age,'}, {'start': '30.866', 'end': '33.300', 'text': 'that is a way of behaving that is easily misunderstood as abandonment,'}, {'start': '33.500', 'end': '34.300', 'text': 'but if you look'}, {'start': '34.600', 'end': '36.766', 'text': 'closely, it is the deepest level of wisdom. practice'}, {'start': '37.066', 'end': '39.600', 'text': 'when the monk no longer reacts, lives according to the instinct of survival,'}, {'start': '40.333', 'end': '43.000', 'text': 'follows a private way, is quiet but not indifferent, is'}, {'start': '43.300', 'end': '44.500', 'text': 'sad but not giving up,'}, {'start': '45.100', 'end': '46.800', 'text': 'while social networks are tense'}, {'start': '46.900', 'end': '48.066', 'text': 'with verbal battles,'}, {'start': '48.366', 'end': '49.466', 'text': 'livestreams, and accusations,'}, {'start': '49.800', 'end': '51.766', 'text': 'this person is called a sinner of the ages, that person'}, {'start': '52.200', 'end': '54.133', 'text': 'is a livestream hero,'}, {'start': '54.700', 'end': '56.866', 'text': 'the image of monk Minh Tue not speaking up,'}, {'start': '57.500', 'end': '59.166', 'text': 'not joining the battle, not shouting,'}, {'start': '59.600', 'end': '61.133', 'text': 'becomes a lingering question,'}, {'start': '61.900', 'end': '64.100', 'text': 'is it the person who does not take the right part,'}, {'start': '64.333', 'end': '66.333', 'text': 'but the person who is standing in the most correct position of the religion'}, {'start': '67.100', 'end': '69.866', 'text': 'in a society?  Society is fond of noisy defenses,'}, {'start': '70.200', 'end': '73.066', 'text': 'then the words of Master Minh Tue are like a difficult antithesis to resolve.'}, {'start': '73.933', 'end': '75.666', 'text': 'Pray for everyone to be happy,'}, {'start': '75.933', 'end': '77.400', 'text': 'even those who hate us. Is'}, {'start': '78.066', 'end': '81.100', 'text': 'that neglect or the behavior of someone who'}, {'start': '81.466', 'end': '83.800', 'text': 'understands every layer of karma and non-karma,'}, {'start': '83.933', 'end': '85.733', 'text': 'of gain and loss, of fame and virtue.'}, {'start': '86.166', 'end': '88.333', 'text': 'Once being falsely accused and misunderstood,'}, {'start': '88.733', 'end': '91.266', 'text': 'most people often choose to react,'}, {'start': '91.600', 'end': '93.266', 'text': 'speak back, prove and refute,'}, {'start': '93.733', 'end': '94.700', 'text': 'but he did not.'}, {'start': '95.366', 'end': '96.766', 'text': 'He kept his position'}, {'start': '97.266', 'end': '99.500', 'text': 'like a blacksmith looking into the fire,'}, {'start': '99.800', 'end': '102.200', 'text': 'not lost because of the surrounding knocking. Why are some'}, {'start': '102.600', 'end': '104.966', 'text': 'people still able to maintain that mindset while their'}, {'start': '105.066', 'end': '106.066', 'text': 'reputation is being eroded?'}, {'start': '106.566', 'end': '107.900', 'text': 'Is it because they know that'}, {'start': '108.266', 'end': '110.366', 'text': 'reputation is a by-product of practice,'}, {'start': '110.700', 'end': '112.000', 'text': 'not the goal of a practitioner'}, {'start': '112.400', 'end': '113.200', 'text': 'in Buddhism?'}, {'start': '113.700', 'end': '116.133', 'text': 'There is a fundamental thing that few people can practice.'}, {'start': '116.366', 'end': '117.933', 'text': 'Letting go is not losing,'}, {'start': '118.200', 'end': '119.566', 'text': 'but a conscious action'}, {'start': '119.666', 'end': '121.266', 'text': 'so as not to prolong new karma.'}, {'start': '121.666', 'end': '122.766', 'text': 'If a person is offended'}, {'start': '122.866', 'end': '125.000', 'text': 'but still wishes the other person to be happy,'}, {'start': '125.366', 'end': '127.266', 'text': 'then that is no longer a moral reaction,'}, {'start': '127.466', 'end': '129.300', 'text': 'but a choice based on wisdom.'}, {'start': '130.000', 'end': '132.600', 'text': 'We do not want the karmic consequences to repeat themselves again'}, {'start': '133.300', 'end': '134.133', 'text': 'in the future.  The Vinaya Pitaka is'}, {'start': '134.533', 'end': '136.900', 'text': 'not lacking in examples of monks who were misunderstood,'}, {'start': '137.166', 'end': '139.133', 'text': 'but the Buddha did not teach'}, {'start': '139.766', 'end': '142.200', 'text': 'them to be clear-minded. He taught them to dwell in mindfulness and compassion'}, {'start': '142.566', 'end': '144.400', 'text': 'because when the inner self still needs to be defended,'}, {'start': '144.866', 'end': '146.766', 'text': 'it means that they have not truly stood outside the storm.'}, {'start': '147.066', 'end': '149.466', 'text': 'In the Samyukta Agama Sutra, the'}, {'start': '149.966', 'end': '152.000', 'text': 'Buddha once told the monks that'}, {'start': '152.666', 'end': '155.800', 'text': 'if they see existence and do not see non-existence, they fall into eternalism.'}, {'start': '156.533', 'end': '160.100', 'text': 'If they see non-existence and do not see existence, they fall into annihilationism. A'}, {'start': '160.766', 'end': '162.900', 'text': 'practitioner must see the causes and conditions of birth and death and'}, {'start': '163.133', 'end': '165.700', 'text': 'not cling to either side to get closer to the truth.'}, {'start': '166.500', 'end': '169.966', 'text': 'That saying seems far from the reality of life,'}, {'start': '170.300', 'end': '173.300', 'text': 'but it is very closely reflected in the words of the monk Minh Tue. He'}, {'start': '174.100', 'end': '175.800', 'text': 'wished that everyone would be happy,'}, {'start': '176.100', 'end': '177.600', 'text': 'including those who hate him.'}, {'start': '177.966', 'end': '179.900', 'text': 'Here, he did not choose either side, he did not'}, {'start': '180.400', 'end': '181.366', 'text': 'choose to resist'}, {'start': '181.866', 'end': '183.266', 'text': 'because that is the normal mentality'}, {'start': '183.333', 'end': '185.866', 'text': 'when being insulted, falling into the extreme of protecting himself, he did'}, {'start': '186.500', 'end': '187.666', 'text': 'not choose to surrender'}, {'start': '188.000', 'end': '190.200', 'text': 'because that is the retreat of someone who has lost his ideals,'}, {'start': '190.300', 'end': '192.100', 'text': 'falling into the extreme of denying himself.'}, {'start': '192.466', 'end': '193.500', 'text': 'He entered the middle path,'}, {'start': '193.700', 'end': '196.366', 'text': 'where the self is no longer the center to be protected,'}, {'start': '196.933', 'end': '199.366', 'text': 'but it is still a place where compassion is still maintained'}, {'start': '199.700', 'end': '202.066', 'text': 'like a flame that does not go out in the wind of karma. The'}, {'start': '202.566', 'end': '205.200', 'text': 'middle path is not standing in the middle, right?  The wrong'}, {'start': '206.166', 'end': '207.366', 'text': 'middle way is to see clearly'}, {'start': '207.533', 'end': '209.266', 'text': 'the nature of birth and death of all phenomena,'}, {'start': '209.666', 'end': '212.366', 'text': 'not letting your mind be bound by any extreme.'}, {'start': '212.966', 'end': '214.966', 'text': 'In the dialogue between Buddha and the'}, {'start': '215.133', 'end': '216.866', 'text': 'non-Buddhist monks in the Agama,'}, {'start': '217.000', 'end': '219.966', 'text': 'a monk asked WHO harmed you, would you be angry? The monk'}, {'start': '220.733', 'end': '221.766', 'text': 'answered no,'}, {'start': '222.066', 'end': '223.600', 'text': 'no, because if we are angry,'}, {'start': '223.733', 'end': '226.133', 'text': 'we become the second victim of our own hatred.'}, {'start': '226.966', 'end': '229.766', 'text': 'Master Minh Tue, with a seemingly simple statement,'}, {'start': '230.166', 'end': '232.500', 'text': 'is shouldering a very Buddhist act of'}, {'start': '232.766', 'end': '234.500', 'text': 'cutting off the reincarnation of the sentence'}, {'start': '234.800', 'end': '237.400', 'text': 'by not letting his mind create an opposing interactive force.'}, {'start': '237.533', 'end': '240.400', 'text': 'That is not empty philosophy,'}, {'start': '241.133', 'end': '242.000', 'text': 'that is the practice'}, {'start': '242.166', 'end': '243.800', 'text': 'of applying the quintessence of the Middle Way'}, {'start': '243.900', 'end': '245.533', 'text': 'to the hottest place'}, {'start': '245.766', 'end': '247.400', 'text': 'where the reputation is damaged, the heart is'}, {'start': '247.700', 'end': '248.700', 'text': 'distorted,'}, {'start': '249.066', 'end': '250.533', 'text': 'how many people in this era'}, {'start': '250.566', 'end': '251.666', 'text': 'dare to stand before public opinion'}, {'start': '251.733', 'end': '253.566', 'text': 'without reacting in an extreme way. Following one side,'}, {'start': '254.200', 'end': '256.666', 'text': 'daring not to need to be justified, nor to be overthrown,'}, {'start': '257.500', 'end': '259.700', 'text': 'daring not to choose right, nor to choose wrong,'}, {'start': '260.000', 'end': '262.000', 'text': 'but only choosing to keep your heart and not add to resentment.'}, {'start': '262.766', 'end': '264.333', 'text': 'While modern society increasingly'}, {'start': '264.500', 'end': '266.366', 'text': 'forces people into statements of position, the'}, {'start': '266.566', 'end': '268.666', 'text': 'middle way is the way to remove Kim from the'}, {'start': '268.866', 'end': '269.666', 'text': 'bomb of debate,'}, {'start': '269.800', 'end': '271.366', 'text': 'keeping yourself from being detonated'}, {'start': '271.566', 'end': '273.133', 'text': 'by the anger of the majority.'}, {'start': '273.500', 'end': '275.066', 'text': 'In the case of Master Minh Tue,'}, {'start': '275.400', 'end': '277.933', 'text': 'if viewed through the lens of the Samyukta Agama,'}, {'start': '278.133', 'end': '279.966', 'text': 'that behavior is not weakness'}, {'start': '280.333', 'end': '282.300', 'text': 'but a way of life. According to the principle of cause and'}, {'start': '282.300', 'end': '284.000', 'text': 'effect, do not sow more bad karma,'}, {'start': '284.666', 'end': '285.900', 'text': 'do not add strength to bitter fruit. The'}, {'start': '286.333', 'end': '289.500', 'text': 'ancients once said that keeping the heart unattached when being praised,'}, {'start': '290.166', 'end': '292.166', 'text': 'keeping the mind unshaken when being criticized is'}, {'start': '292.666', 'end': '294.300', 'text': 'called a person with spiritual roots.'}, {'start': '294.966', 'end': '297.333', 'text': 'Master Minh Tue does not stand on his own side,'}, {'start': '297.400', 'end': '300.100', 'text': 'does not condemn the opposing side, but only sends a vow.'}, {'start': '300.900', 'end': '302.533', 'text': 'That is not the end'}, {'start': '303.100', 'end': '305.933', 'text': 'but an opening point. For those who are calm enough'}, {'start': '306.000', 'end': '306.800', 'text': 'to contemplate'}, {'start': '307.400', 'end': '310.333', 'text': 'that sometimes the strongest thing is not the voice'}, {'start': '310.933', 'end': '312.866', 'text': 'but the place where no one can push you away. The dog'}, {'start': '313.533', 'end': '315.666', 'text': 'barks. The moon does not shrink, but'}, {'start': '316.333', 'end': '318.133', 'text': "the moon still goes. Following one's own orbit, the"}, {'start': '318.700', 'end': '319.600', 'text': 'monk is the same.'}, {'start': '319.800', 'end': '321.600', 'text': 'If you are still controlled by praise and criticism,'}, {'start': '321.900', 'end': '324.566', 'text': 'then you are practicing. Following the sound of applause, not Following'}, {'start': '325.333', 'end': '328.166', 'text': 'Master Minh Tue, choosing to keep the mind calm and not fighting,'}, {'start': '328.600', 'end': '331.400', 'text': 'that is not only courage but also a message.'}, {'start': '332.200', 'end': '334.266', 'text': "I am not the center of AI's life,"}, {'start': '334.533', 'end': '336.666', 'text': 'so I do not need to prove anything to AI.'}, {'start': '337.400', 'end': '339.300', 'text': 'You understand that curses'}, {'start': '339.466', 'end': '340.400', 'text': 'do not make others suffer'}, {'start': '340.500', 'end': '342.266', 'text': 'as much as the resentment in their hearts.'}, {'start': '343.066', 'end': '343.900', 'text': 'And if possible,'}, {'start': '344.466', 'end': '347.166', 'text': 'you are willing to stand up.  Bearing a part of that suffering is'}, {'start': '347.400', 'end': '348.766', 'text': 'not to become a saint'}, {'start': '349.066', 'end': '351.266', 'text': 'but to reduce the number of others who continue to sow karma.'}, {'start': '351.800', 'end': '353.333', 'text': 'If viewed with the eyes of'}, {'start': '353.533', 'end': '355.400', 'text': 'mortals, such a person will be considered weak,'}, {'start': '356.200', 'end': '357.866', 'text': 'but if viewed with the wisdom of'}, {'start': '357.866', 'end': '360.400', 'text': 'someone who has experienced great changes in his mind,'}, {'start': '360.666', 'end': '362.600', 'text': 'it is a type of extraordinary strength, a'}, {'start': '362.966', 'end': '365.900', 'text': 'strength that does not need to lift a sword or raise his voice.'}, {'start': '366.333', 'end': '368.700', 'text': 'And the final question is posed to us,'}, {'start': '369.400', 'end': '372.466', 'text': 'those who are watching, following, and discussing'}, {'start': '373.000', 'end': '374.133', 'text': 'whether any of us have'}, {'start': '374.166', 'end': '376.000', 'text': 'ever prayed for the person we hate to be at'}, {'start': '376.100', 'end': '377.933', 'text': 'peace. If we have not, then we are still'}, {'start': '378.166', 'end': '380.866', 'text': 'very far from the path that Master Minh Tue is walking'}, {'start': '381.400', 'end': '382.600', 'text': 'calmly amidst the rumors.'}, {'start': '382.866', 'end': '384.766', 'text': "Meditation from Master Minh Tue's words. If you"}, {'start': '385.333', 'end': '386.733', 'text': 'give, you will not receive. If you'}, {'start': '386.966', 'end': '388.066', 'text': 'lose, you will not gain.'}, {'start': '388.533', 'end': '391.333', 'text': "Master Minh Tue's words startled many people. Anyone who is a"}, {'start': '392.066', 'end': '394.800', 'text': 'child wishes for them to be well and happy.'}, {'start': '395.333', 'end': '398.000', 'text': 'If they denounce you, making them happy and joyful,'}, {'start': '398.300', 'end': '400.566', 'text': 'then they will do it. I have no opinion.'}, {'start': '401.300', 'end': '402.566', 'text': 'A person being denounced'}, {'start': '403.066', 'end': '404.600', 'text': 'does not clarify or refute,'}, {'start': '404.966', 'end': '406.300', 'text': 'instead, a prayer is made'}, {'start': '406.366', 'end': '407.800', 'text': 'for the accuser to be at peace.'}, {'start': '408.566', 'end': '411.000', 'text': 'We are facing a reaction that is completely opposite'}, {'start': '411.100', 'end': '412.166', 'text': 'to our defenseless survival instinct.'}, {'start': '413.733', 'end': '415.900', 'text': 'no debate no attempt to get the right part the'}, {'start': '416.400', 'end': '417.333', 'text': 'question is raised Is'}, {'start': '417.866', 'end': '420.300', 'text': 'this helplessness in the face of public opinion'}, {'start': '420.466', 'end': '421.600', 'text': 'or a level of Wisdom'}, {'start': '421.733', 'end': '423.333', 'text': 'that not everyone is capable of reaching The'}, {'start': '424.000', 'end': '424.800', 'text': 'ancients taught that'}, {'start': '425.400', 'end': '426.800', 'text': 'if we respond to evil with'}, {'start': '426.866', 'end': '429.166', 'text': 'evil, that evil will never end'}, {'start': '429.600', 'end': '431.566', 'text': 'but are people today calm enough'}, {'start': '431.866', 'end': '434.500', 'text': 'to listen to a word of letting go in the midst of a storm of news'}, {'start': '434.800', 'end': '437.766', 'text': 'or will they quickly see it as a trick Who is silent'}, {'start': '437.966', 'end': '439.266', 'text': 'to avoid legal confrontation'}, {'start': '439.800', 'end': '441.666', 'text': 'when a monk is misunderstood'}, {'start': '441.933', 'end': '444.100', 'text': 'but can still start to wish the person who falsely accused him to be'}, {'start': '444.166', 'end': '444.966', 'text': 'happy, is'}, {'start': '445.000', 'end': '447.266', 'text': 'that the attitude of an innocent person'}, {'start': '447.500', 'end': '448.500', 'text': 'or the gentle surrender'}, {'start': '449.100', 'end': '451.000', 'text': 'of someone who knows he cannot win the world'}, {'start': '451.066', 'end': '451.866', 'text': 'with reason'}, {'start': '452.500', 'end': '453.733', 'text': 'The story of monk Minh Tue'}, {'start': '454.000', 'end': '456.600', 'text': 'if only seen with the naked eye can be misunderstood as'}, {'start': '456.866', 'end': '458.100', 'text': 'not daring to face the truth'}, {'start': '458.866', 'end': '460.333', 'text': 'but if observed with the eyes that'}, {'start': '460.366', 'end': '462.400', 'text': 'have read through the pages of the 8-day sutra'}, {'start': '462.666', 'end': '465.000', 'text': 'and pondered to the point of no self, no law,'}, {'start': '465.200', 'end': '467.533', 'text': 'then what he said is the place of not keeping anything'}, {'start': '467.733', 'end': '468.700', 'text': 'so it cannot be taken away'}, {'start': '469.200', 'end': '471.066', 'text': 'in the law of our life is advised to'}, {'start': '471.500', 'end': '473.000', 'text': 'have the right to keep silent'}, {'start': '473.266', 'end': '475.866', 'text': 'but when he is silent the consequences can still come'}, {'start': '476.566', 'end': '477.866', 'text': 'but  in the religious precepts,'}, {'start': '478.000', 'end': '480.300', 'text': 'sometimes silence is the highest answer,'}, {'start': '480.500', 'end': '482.733', 'text': 'not to avoid but to rise above.'}, {'start': '483.366', 'end': '485.733', 'text': 'Master Minh Tue did not defend, did not sue, did'}, {'start': '485.966', 'end': '487.333', 'text': 'not ask anyone to defend,'}, {'start': '488.166', 'end': '489.866', 'text': 'but that does not mean'}, {'start': '490.000', 'end': '491.533', 'text': 'he did not know what was happening.'}, {'start': '492.500', 'end': '493.400', 'text': 'It only shows that'}, {'start': '493.766', 'end': '495.900', 'text': 'this monk chose to stand in a place'}, {'start': '496.133', 'end': '498.333', 'text': 'where most of us do not have the strength to stand.'}, {'start': '498.866', 'end': '500.700', 'text': 'Where there is no ego to defend.'}, {'start': '501.200', 'end': '502.166', 'text': 'If you are hurt, do you'}, {'start': '502.733', 'end': '503.666', 'text': 'dare to pray'}, {'start': '503.733', 'end': '505.500', 'text': 'for the person who hurt you to be happy?'}, {'start': '505.933', 'end': '507.533', 'text': 'If someone slanders you,'}, {'start': '507.766', 'end': '510.800', 'text': 'can you leave it alone because you believe that life will answer for itself?'}, {'start': '511.500', 'end': '514.200', 'text': 'In an era where words are put on the scale of public opinion, is'}, {'start': '514.400', 'end': '515.900', 'text': 'such a silent word'}, {'start': '516.066', 'end': '518.300', 'text': 'enough to save an organization from being caught up'}, {'start': '518.400', 'end': '519.200', 'text': 'in a dispute?'}, {'start': '519.466', 'end': '522.933', 'text': 'Compassion when choosing an object is not deep enough.'}, {'start': '523.766', 'end': '527.466', 'text': 'Wisdom when still seeing the need to win or lose is not bright enough.'}, {'start': '528.166', 'end': '530.700', 'text': 'And the ego when still feeling the need to be justified is'}, {'start': '530.966', 'end': '533.000', 'text': "still stuck in the middle of life's discrimination."}, {'start': '533.800', 'end': '536.733', 'text': 'So the story does not stop at Master Minh Tue.'}, {'start': '537.200', 'end': '538.933', 'text': 'It raises the question again. For each of us,'}, {'start': '539.166', 'end': '541.200', 'text': 'what are we practicing to preserve'}, {'start': '541.933', 'end': '543.733', 'text': 'and what are we willing to let go of'}, {'start': '544.300', 'end': '545.566', 'text': 'when it is hurt?  If you'}, {'start': '545.733', 'end': '546.900', 'text': "don't lose love, you won't get it."}, {'start': '547.066', 'end': '549.100', 'text': 'The price of a lifetime is not to exchange anything.'}, {'start': '549.800', 'end': '550.600', 'text': 'In Buddhism,'}, {'start': '550.933', 'end': '553.100', 'text': 'everything operates. According to the law of cause and effect,'}, {'start': '553.366', 'end': '555.100', 'text': 'sow and reap. Let go lightly. Only when you lose'}, {'start': '555.366', 'end': '558.100', 'text': 'can you be born. A deeper level of gain can be created.'}, {'start': '558.866', 'end': '561.466', 'text': 'But the paradox of life makes people cling to'}, {'start': '561.566', 'end': '562.366', 'text': 'old things.'}, {'start': '562.900', 'end': '564.500', 'text': 'Fame, image, voice, and'}, {'start': '564.766', 'end': '567.933', 'text': 'defense, hoping to keep something that is no longer intact.'}, {'start': '568.500', 'end': '571.100', 'text': 'People who refuse to lose their reputation will not have peace.'}, {'start': '571.866', 'end': '573.400', 'text': 'People who refuse to lose their victory'}, {'start': '573.866', 'end': '575.966', 'text': 'will never understand what understanding is.'}, {'start': '576.700', 'end': '577.866', 'text': 'People who refuse to lose their ego'}, {'start': '578.000', 'end': '580.500', 'text': 'will only touch the outermost boundary of compassion.'}, {'start': '581.266', 'end': '582.333', 'text': "That's why some people say that the"}, {'start': '582.800', 'end': '584.666', 'text': 'highest gain is the last gain'}, {'start': '584.700', 'end': '586.666', 'text': 'when all unnecessary things have been lost.'}, {'start': '587.333', 'end': '588.133', 'text': 'In Zen history, there'}, {'start': '588.200', 'end': '590.200', 'text': 'is a story recorded of Zen master Trieu Chau.'}, {'start': '590.900', 'end': '592.700', 'text': 'One day, a thief entered the temple and'}, {'start': '593.066', 'end': '595.200', 'text': 'took the precious robe he was holding. His'}, {'start': '595.533', 'end': '597.966', 'text': 'disciples ran to report that they wanted to chase him. He tried to get it back, but'}, {'start': '598.566', 'end': '599.600', 'text': 'he just shook his head. He said he'}, {'start': '600.266', 'end': '602.533', 'text': 'got it, which means we can give it back.'}, {'start': '603.300', 'end': '605.966', 'text': 'That night, he brought a pair of sandals and placed them outside the gate, telling them that'}, {'start': '606.366', 'end': '609.900', 'text': "if the thief came back, he wouldn't have to bother looking for them. People who"}, {'start': '610.533', 'end': '612.933', 'text': 'heard about it said he was naive,'}, {'start': '613.300', 'end': '614.700', 'text': 'but those who studied the Dharma understood that'}, {'start': '614.866', 'end': '617.400', 'text': 'his gain did not lie in  a pair of sandals or a robe that'}, {'start': '617.900', 'end': '620.533', 'text': 'is in the complete letting go of the possessive mind,'}, {'start': '621.333', 'end': '623.900', 'text': 'so let me ask you, if today our reputation is taken away,'}, {'start': '624.066', 'end': '626.100', 'text': 'would we dare to put a pair of sandals in advance for others to take away the'}, {'start': '626.133', 'end': '627.866', 'text': 'rest of our prejudices?'}, {'start': '628.100', 'end': '629.866', 'text': 'When Master Minh Tue said, "'}, {'start': '630.133', 'end': '631.966', 'text': 'They just do it, I have no opinion," he was'}, {'start': '632.533', 'end': '633.966', 'text': 'neither giving up'}, {'start': '633.966', 'end': '635.200', 'text': 'nor showing his tolerance.'}, {'start': '635.966', 'end': '637.933', 'text': 'That was the view of someone who had clearly understood that'}, {'start': '638.666', 'end': '642.333', 'text': 'every event, whether it was slander or a confrontation, was'}, {'start': '642.666', 'end': '645.000', 'text': 'just a passing phenomenon on the surface of the lake,'}, {'start': '645.466', 'end': '648.000', 'text': 'only those who clung to it would sink.'}, {'start': '648.800', 'end': '651.700', 'text': 'He clearly knew that the person who accused him was not an enemy'}, {'start': '651.866', 'end': '652.733', 'text': 'but a condition that'}, {'start': '652.800', 'end': '655.400', 'text': 'needed to come so that we could clearly see the extent of our own letting go,'}, {'start': '656.000', 'end': '658.700', 'text': 'and he chose to keep the only thing that was worthy of keeping'}, {'start': '660.733', 'end': '662.100', 'text': 'that calmness. It was not a virtue'}, {'start': '662.333', 'end': '664.666', 'text': 'but the result of a journey of losing many things,'}, {'start': '665.166', 'end': '666.900', 'text': 'losing the ego, losing reactions,'}, {'start': '667.200', 'end': '669.100', 'text': 'losing even the need to prove oneself. The ancients'}, {'start': '669.566', 'end': '673.666', 'text': 'taught that when you gain, you are happy when you lose, you are afraid, that is the mind of transgression.'}, {'start': '674.133', 'end': '677.600', 'text': 'Seeing that you gain and lose are both passing winds is the mind of meditation.'}, {'start': '678.533', 'end': '680.766', 'text': 'Therefore, when he did not fight back, did'}, {'start': '681.200', 'end': '683.966', 'text': 'not keep his reputation, did not convince WHO is right or wrong, that'}, {'start': '684.566', 'end': '686.900', 'text': 'was when he kept what was more important.'}, {'start': '687.600', 'end': '689.066', 'text': 'avoid Let others suffer'}, {'start': '689.366', 'end': '690.966', 'text': 'because of their own response'}, {'start': '691.400', 'end': '692.200', 'text': 'Someone asked'}, {'start': '692.700', 'end': '695.333', 'text': 'if everyone lets others insult them without speaking back, can the'}, {'start': '695.500', 'end': '697.133', 'text': 'Dharma still be protected I would say that the Dharma does not'}, {'start': '697.733', 'end': '700.900', 'text': 'need to be protected by the ego but needs to'}, {'start': '701.166', 'end': '702.800', 'text': 'be maintained by living in accordance'}, {'start': '702.900', 'end': '704.000', 'text': 'with the spirit of letting go'}, {'start': '704.800', 'end': '707.866', 'text': 'as long as we still maintain the ego to fight against gossip, the'}, {'start': '708.066', 'end': '711.100', 'text': 'Dharma we maintain is not necessarily the Dharma of enlightenment,'}, {'start': '711.466', 'end': '713.566', 'text': 'sometimes it is just a shell of self-love'}, {'start': '713.700', 'end': '715.566', 'text': 'gilded with the name of purity.'}, {'start': '716.200', 'end': '718.600', 'text': 'People say when a reputation is damaged, the'}, {'start': '719.133', 'end': '721.700', 'text': 'first thing to do is to maintain For oneself the right part,'}, {'start': '722.200', 'end': '726.133', 'text': 'but here Master Minh Tue let that reputation fall by itself,'}, {'start': '726.366', 'end': '727.766', 'text': 'without holding on, supporting,'}, {'start': '728.100', 'end': '729.800', 'text': 'or stopping it To avoid harm,'}, {'start': '730.366', 'end': '732.933', 'text': 'he only said a sentence as light as a breath, I'}, {'start': '733.300', 'end': '734.700', 'text': 'have no opinion,'}, {'start': '734.966', 'end': '738.266', 'text': 'that is enough, not because he had nothing to say,'}, {'start': '738.733', 'end': '740.933', 'text': 'but because in the deepest part of awakening,'}, {'start': '741.200', 'end': '742.666', 'text': 'there are times when keeping a steady mind'}, {'start': '742.866', 'end': '745.000', 'text': 'is a stronger answer than any excuse.'}, {'start': '745.700', 'end': '748.666', 'text': 'In reality, not reacting is not because of weakness,'}, {'start': '749.066', 'end': '750.933', 'text': 'but because of knowing the consequences of reaction,'}, {'start': '751.666', 'end': '753.200', 'text': 'reaction pulls, bondage,'}, {'start': '753.966', 'end': '755.700', 'text': 'Buddha refutes, pulls, disputes, Justification,'}, {'start': '756.100', 'end': '757.900', 'text': 'pulls, confrontation'}, {'start': '758.400', 'end': '759.200', 'text': 'and  like that'}, {'start': '759.266', 'end': '761.933', 'text': 'karma arises from things that seem to be right'}, {'start': '762.333', 'end': '764.666', 'text': 'Buddha once taught praise and criticism is wind wind'}, {'start': '765.266', 'end': '766.100', 'text': 'has no'}, {'start': '766.466', 'end': '769.466', 'text': 'fault fault is in the mind is not strong enough to not be swept away'}, {'start': '769.966', 'end': '773.200', 'text': 'the accuser is wind the defender is also wind the'}, {'start': '773.800', 'end': '776.533', 'text': 'noisy social network out there is all'}, {'start': '777.300', 'end': '779.333', 'text': 'wind wind comes from karma from the past'}, {'start': '779.600', 'end': '782.366', 'text': 'from causes and conditions from ill will from misunderstandings'}, {'start': '783.133', 'end': '785.566', 'text': 'but the mind is afraid then there is no roof tile'}, {'start': '785.600', 'end': '786.966', 'text': 'for the wind to overturn I'}, {'start': '787.900', 'end': '789.300', 'text': 'have no opinion at all'}, {'start': '789.733', 'end': '791.733', 'text': 'at first it sounds like a way to avoid'}, {'start': '792.300', 'end': '794.600', 'text': 'but under the lens of precepts and meditation'}, {'start': '794.933', 'end': '796.766', 'text': 'that saying is the pinnacle of a person who'}, {'start': '797.166', 'end': '799.933', 'text': 'no longer needs anyone to establish whether he is right or wrong'}, {'start': '800.666', 'end': '802.966', 'text': 'in life everyone also wants to be recognized to'}, {'start': '803.766', 'end': '805.000', 'text': 'hear a voice on the right side'}, {'start': '805.533', 'end': '808.000', 'text': 'Clarify what he is being accused of'}, {'start': '808.766', 'end': '810.066', 'text': 'but the more he wants to keep it'}, {'start': '810.300', 'end': '811.733', 'text': 'the more he is affected by it'}, {'start': '812.366', 'end': '815.100', 'text': 'Master Minh Tue has returned the entire stage'}, {'start': '815.266', 'end': '816.500', 'text': 'To those who need to speak'}, {'start': '817.166', 'end': '819.733', 'text': 'while he retains the work of the practitioner'}, {'start': '820.166', 'end': '823.400', 'text': 'observing, understanding and nurturing the mind without resistance'}, {'start': '824.000', 'end': '825.133', 'text': 'in the sutras the'}, {'start': '825.500', 'end': '826.266', 'text': 'image of the earth is'}, {'start': '826.266', 'end': '828.700', 'text': 'often used to compare to the mind of the wise'}, {'start': '829.300', 'end': '831.700', 'text': 'people pour manure on the ground the earth does not refuse'}, {'start': '832.366', 'end': '834.966', 'text': 'people sow seeds on the ground the earth 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If we are hurt,'}, {'start': '867.866', 'end': '871.100', 'text': 'dare we sit back and look at that pain without blaming'}, {'start': '871.466', 'end': '873.100', 'text': 'the slandered name. That is the'}, {'start': '873.466', 'end': '875.366', 'text': 'conclusion. In the end, it is just a shadow that'}, {'start': '875.400', 'end': '877.166', 'text': 'is fed by the expectations of others.'}, {'start': '877.866', 'end': '879.066', 'text': 'When that shadow disappears,'}, {'start': '879.366', 'end': '881.933', 'text': 'what remains is a stream of consciousness that is learning to let go,'}, {'start': '882.066', 'end': '882.866', 'text': 'learning to love,'}, {'start': '882.900', 'end': '884.766', 'text': 'learning not to try to win anything.'}, {'start': '885.466', 'end': '886.400', 'text': 'Master Minh Tue,'}, {'start': '887.000', 'end': '890.466', 'text': 'if judged by social standards, may be suffering,'}, {'start': '891.000', 'end': '892.900', 'text': 'but if viewed through the eyes of a monk,'}, {'start': '893.300', 'end': '894.866', 'text': 'he is the one who is winning,'}, {'start': '895.300', 'end': '896.100', 'text': 'winning over himself,'}, {'start': '896.400', 'end': '899.800', 'text': 'winning over the ego that is very skillful in disguised as morality to counterattack,'}, {'start': '900.466', 'end': '903.366', 'text': 'winning over the mind that needs to be praised, needs to be, and the side that needs to be understood,'}, {'start': '904.066', 'end': '905.733', 'text': 'that is not a loss,'}, {'start': '906.466', 'end': '909.133', 'text': 'that is a victory.  Silent victory has no medals'}, {'start': '909.533', 'end': '910.333', 'text': 'but there is freedom to let go,'}, {'start': '911.200', 'end': '913.600', 'text': 'not to abandon the burden without resentment.'}, {'start': '913.933', 'end': '916.000', 'text': 'When a monk goes through the fire of gossip'}, {'start': '916.466', 'end': '917.566', 'text': 'while the entire online community'}, {'start': '917.600', 'end': '919.000', 'text': 'is in turmoil because of the'}, {'start': '919.100', 'end': '920.366', 'text': 'fiery confrontation between Lam Vo'}, {'start': '920.733', 'end': '923.566', 'text': 'Phuong Nguyen and the controversial character 16 TV,'}, {'start': '924.000', 'end': '927.100', 'text': 'somewhere there is the image of a monk still quietly walking'}, {'start': '927.500', 'end': '929.800', 'text': 'among a series of sensational and provocative statements,'}, {'start': '930.133', 'end': '932.700', 'text': 'even someone is called a reactionary who sells out the country for'}, {'start': '932.733', 'end': '934.400', 'text': 'glory. A sinner of the ages,'}, {'start': '934.733', 'end': '936.133', 'text': 'there is a monk who does not swear, does'}, {'start': '936.366', 'end': '937.166', 'text': 'not respond, does'}, {'start': '937.500', 'end': '938.533', 'text': 'not call anyone his enemy.'}, {'start': '939.266', 'end': '942.366', 'text': 'Monk Minh Tue is carrying his part,'}, {'start': '942.700', 'end': '944.933', 'text': 'but what makes people most confused is that he'}, {'start': '945.400', 'end': '946.500', 'text': 'carries it without'}, {'start': '946.800', 'end': '947.866', 'text': 'resentment. Letting go without leaving'}, {'start': '948.566', 'end': '951.133', 'text': 'Buddha does not teach monks to avoid life.'}, {'start': '951.566', 'end': '953.666', 'text': 'Buddha also does not teach them to seek out gossip'}, {'start': '953.966', 'end': '955.666', 'text': 'to prove that they are good at enduring.'}, {'start': '956.300', 'end': '957.666', 'text': 'Buddha only teaches one thing: to'}, {'start': '958.100', 'end': '960.933', 'text': 'be a human in life, but the mind is not controlled by life. 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As'}, {'start': '1006.133', 'end': '1007.666', 'text': 'for people like 16 TV'}, {'start': '1007.766', 'end': '1010.300', 'text': 'VI, who many people are calling traitors to the country, who are'}, {'start': '1010.566', 'end': '1011.500', 'text': 'slandering history and'}, {'start': '1011.733', 'end': '1013.666', 'text': 'using the name of freedom to distort the truth, the'}, {'start': '1013.900', 'end': '1015.866', 'text': 'reaction of public opinion is understandable,'}, {'start': '1016.400', 'end': '1018.000', 'text': 'but if we only stop at anger,'}, {'start': '1018.366', 'end': '1019.533', 'text': 'society is'}, {'start': '1019.666', 'end': '1022.000', 'text': 'falling into the same trap that those who destroy morality'}, {'start': '1022.100', 'end': '1022.900', 'text': 'always want to'}, {'start': '1023.500', 'end': '1026.666', 'text': 'divide, hate, and extremistize the national spirit.'}, {'start': '1027.333', 'end': '1029.533', 'text': 'Carrying without resentment is a very 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'text': 'who uses patience to resolve hatred'}, {'start': '1082.966', 'end': '1086.500', 'text': 'the question is not only who is right and who is wrong'}, {'start': '1087.000', 'end': '1087.800', 'text': 'but'}, {'start': '1087.966', 'end': '1090.733', 'text': 'who is helping this world to reduce some of the suffering'}, {'start': '1091.333', 'end': '1093.533', 'text': 'is it the person who does nothing'}, {'start': '1094.000', 'end': '1095.333', 'text': 'who is doing the most'}, {'start': '1096.100', 'end': '1097.400', 'text': 'and whether we'}, {'start': '1097.766', 'end': '1099.966', 'text': 'in the midst of livestreams filled with anger'}, {'start': '1100.300', 'end': '1101.400', 'text': 'are sober enough to see that'}, {'start': '1102.166', 'end': '1104.400', 'text': 'true strength does not lie in shouting'}, {'start': '1104.866', 'end': '1107.933', 'text': 'but in the person who knows how to keep himself from screaming when being slandered the'}, {'start': '1108.700', 'end': 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'text': 'go is daring to look at what you are holding'}, {'start': '1139.733', 'end': '1141.966', 'text': 'and admit that it is no longer necessary to'}, {'start': '1142.866', 'end': '1146.000', 'text': 'carry without resentment is because you understand that if not, whoever carries'}, {'start': '1146.266', 'end': '1148.933', 'text': 'that resentment will go further and harm many other people'}, {'start': '1149.600', 'end': '1152.900', 'text': 'in a world that is falling apart because of stubborn egos'}, {'start': '1153.300', 'end': '1155.266', 'text': 'then a person who lets his ego fall'}, {'start': '1155.266', 'end': '1156.566', 'text': 'without bending down to pick it up is'}, {'start': '1156.966', 'end': '1158.466', 'text': 'probably teaching us a'}, {'start': '1159.200', 'end': '1163.200', 'text': 'moral principle not to keep his reputation but to keep his moral heart'}]