<iframe src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fpermalink.php%3Fstory_fbid%3Dpfbid02nJKb5TNoZrm5X42VG38a7QrACA84vEQSRonZ7rrsRc7dx2dv5TH9ZDQDTGSGhmwql%26id%3D100033165156246&show_text=true&width=500" width="500" height="264" style="border:none;overflow:hidden" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true" allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share"></iframe> English --- People have a lot of faults. But you are not supposed to look at their faults. What are you supposed to do instead? Look at your own faults. You should ignore all of those external faults. Look at your own faults and remain respectful. Don't look at others' faults—not just the Sangha's, but anyone's faults. Anyone else's faults are none of your business. You should see them as if you don't see them. If you get afflicted by them, you are only afflicting yourself. That is your own fault. A 'great assembly' is not a perfect assembly filled only with Bodhisattvas and Buddhas. No, a great assembly is a gathering of a lot of afflicted people who are guaranteed to afflict you. They are all very good at getting afflicted themselves and afflicting everyone else around them. That is why it is called a great assembly. If you come and get afflicted, you will be taught how not to get afflicted. Because if you get afflicted here, the exact same thing will happen to you when you go back home, go to work, or go to see your parents; you will get afflicted there too. Therefore, by going to a place that is practically designed to afflict you, and by hanging in there, you get trained on how not to get afflicted. If whatever you do at the temple results in you becoming less and less afflicted, you are on the right track.