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　　 Well, he was afraid that if he stayed around, he would be chased and beaten again. So practicing the Bodhisattva Path is really not that easy to do. When it comes to practicing the Bodhisattva Path, I don”t think any one of us is up to the level of Never-Slighting Bodhisattva. If someone says the slightest bad word to us, we simply cannot take it, how much the less if somebody came around to hit us. If someone just says one unpleasant thing to us, we feel terrible. This is the radical difference between the cultivation of ordinary people and that of sages.

　　There is still a half hour left. If anyone has a question, you can ask it. Ask simple questions, because I don”t know how to answer deep questions. But only ask what you don”t understand. Don”t come here to show off. (laughter)

　　My name is Joseph Wong, and I would like to ask the Master, why do Bodhisattvas make vows not to become Buddhas until their vows are accomplished

　　 (Laughter)

　　Ven. Master: That”s not a Bodhisattva, that”s a ghost. The ghost has fallen into the three paths of suffering, and so he doesn”t get to become a Buddha quite so quickly. It”s a little slower for him. He”s a lot like me in that regard. Why do I say that I”m a ghost

　　 I”m sure you don”t believe it, because I look like a person. It”s because I have saved some ghosts, and they pulled me down into the hells. And when I wanted to come out of the hells, there was no one to pull me up, so I just roamed around and took a tour of the hells. I saw a lot of my old ghost friends down there suffering so much, so I thought I would wait for these hungry ghosts to become Buddhas first, before I become a Buddha. Now I don”t dare compare myself to Earth Treasury Bodhisattva, whose vows are that he won”t become a Buddha until the hells are empty. My vow is that as long are there is a single ghost, I will not become a Buddha. Now, this is speaking for the present. What happens to them in the future is not something I”m going to pay much attention to! (Laughter) That”s another time.

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