The Taiwanese (Formosans), not only the government and ordinary people, but the renunciated people like I-Kuan Tao monks and nuns, and Buddhist monks and nuns, and priests from any religion, you have to also go out of your way, of your comfortable seat and introduce the people, encourage people to become vegan to save your nation. Because that’s what you became renunciates for. […] Not just talking, not just reading the sutras, but go out, tell people to do it. You have a chance. You have a temple, you have your monk’s robe, which is a very good protection and a good advertisement for you. People, mostly outside, they follow monks and nuns, the ones with the robes and all that. […] So you use that power to go out of your way, go out of your comfort zone to talk to people, tell people, make a lecture, do anything. You have it all. You can do that just to save your country at least. Not to talk about saving the world through the compassionate way of life. Thank you. […]
So all of you, citizens of the world, especially those who are in trouble and at war or at the threat of war by other countries, please rely on yourself. Be God-citizen-like, be good, be virtuous, be benevolent, like the way you always pray to God, “God, You’re compassionate, have Mercy on me.” […] Be the mercy that you ask from God. Be the compassion that you demand from Heaven. Be the benevolent being, like Godlike children.
I have mentioned before, I have talked about that before. I said only if your country is at war or in a desperate situation; otherwise, don’t go to any other country. Don’t be refugees. Least of all, illegal refugees. People look down upon you, and you just build up a kind of dreamland, but it’s not like that. […]
