..续本文上一页s can we truly gain the most benefit. Even if you don”t have the causes and conditions to help others in this life, the brilliance of the kind heart will continue to shine forever.

　　Question: Just now you mentioned that you only sleep five to six hours a day. How are you still able to put such great effort into reading so many books, translating so many treatises, and also teaching and promoting the Buddhadharma

　　Answer: I didn”t deliberately try to reduce my sleep. It seems that, naturally, my body just doesn”t like sleeping very much.

　　Typically, I like to spend my time reading books. If I find some excellent treatises, I would like very much for more people to learn about the principles in these treatises, so that they may gain some benefit. Because of this motivation, if there are no Chinese versions of these treatises, I start to translate them. Some of the works I have completed are not translations, but are the lectures I have delivered, then compiled and edited. They are collected in the Treasury of Wisdom Compassion. As for other works, compared to the past renowned masters or the present philanthropists, they are like a drop of water compared to a sea, so they are not worth mentioning. What causes and conditions I may have in the future, I cannot determine. Anyway, I will just let things flow gradually.

　　(13) Question: I am a PhD student from the School of Liberal Arts. I would like to ask one question, the simplest question: What is right; what is wrong

　　Answer: This question can be answered from two perspectives: Firstly, we can investigate it from an inpidual viewpoint – if a thing is harmonious with our mind, it is right; if it is not harmonious with our mind, then it is wrong.

　　If we investigate it from an objective point of view, then if a thing is in agreement with the truth, is irrefutable, and is able to stand scrutiny, we say it is right. For example, the nature of fire is to emit heat, the nature of water is wet, and what is opposite to that is what we would consider wrong.

　　Question: You mentioned that you read Tagore”s and Shakespeare”s poetry. Do you also read Tsangyang Gyatso”s poetry

　　 What do you think of his poetry

　　Answer: I quite like Tsangyang Gyatso”s poetry. When reading his poems, I have two feelings: Firstly, Tsangyang Gyatso is one of the great poets. He uses simple, very accessible terms, and the romance that people cling to most as the starting point, to gradually guide us to renounce and let go, thus gaining a state of freedom and comfort.

　　Secondly, from Tsangyang Gyatso”s secret biography, we can see that in such a historical background and living in such an environment, he was still able to face reality with a free and easy attitude. When enduring various adversities, he not only didn”t blame anyone nor was defeated by the suffering, but he was also able to write poems which described his subtle state of mind; such noble sentiments are truly worthy of praise.

　　Actually, Tsangyang Gyatso”s love songs have three levels of meaning: outer, inner, and secret meanings. Ordinary people mostly know about the outer meaning, and feel this is quite suitable for the desires of men and women and their minds. But they don”t go beyond that to comprehend the spiritual teachings or practices in these love songs.

　　(14) Question: I am a lecturer from the Department of Information and Communication Engineering in Hohai University. I came here to listen to your teachings. Something has been puzzling me for a while: After many years of economic development in this country, our present living standard is getting better and better. However, many people, including myself, can feel that, on the contrary, people”s hearts seem to be even more tormented. Why is that

　　Answer: This is not a problem for one or two …

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