The Mahāpadesa (Great Standards) concerning Dhamma from the Mahā-parinibbāna-Sutta* must be used together with the principles for judging Dhamma-Vinaya from the Gotami Sutta** in order to discern what is right with the most accuracy and completeness.

The Great Standards of the Discipline (Vinaya Mahāpadesa)* in the style of the Vinaya (Discipline) must be passed on and taken as necessary in these modern times that are materially developed to the point of filling the world with problems of morality and discipline, both for wanderers and householders.

Having Dhamma all night and all day is not so hard to do. When about to do any of the duties of daily life, become aware of the fact that “Duty itself is Dhamma.”

The principle of vaccination — using bacteria to cure disease — can be applied in Buddhist Dhamma practice by applying greed’s power to coveting goodness and merits, by applying anger’s power to hating defilements and dukkha as enemies in order to destroy them, and by applying delusion’s power to infatuation with doing basic kinds of good rather than falling into evil.

The secret trick of Zen is merely the original way of Buddhism that adds tranquility to insight (vipassanā) so that they work together in the instant that there is both concentration (samādhi) and a penetrating investigation that seeks the mind’s original state — freedom from defilement.

Please allow me to object to the words “work is money, money is work.”* They are out of line with Buddhism, which teaches us to work as a duty that is proper for all forms of life, rather than to work seeking money to fatten up life so that it delights in the roads to ruin (apāyamukha) or in the pleasures that are nothing but “flashes of insanity.”