Using your time to practice as diligently as possible; using your time as tightly as possible
We have to fix our habitual tendency to be lazy, right? (laugh) “I've been lazy and then to be more diligent.” Our laziness affects our practice, which makes it very, very, very slow and we are very forgetful (laughed). We forget to practice Dharma many times, many days. Therefore, we have to fix this problem.
Get up early for practice is something nice to do, nice to hear, nice to know because not many people are able to do that
Get up early [for practice] is something nice to do, nice to hear, nice to know. Because not many people are able to do that. Not many people really put efforts into their practice. Even though they may say [they] are but the practicing [is] probably verbal.
Don’t push youself too much, but try to be diligent nevertheness
People somehow get lazy, but try practicing Dharma for some time or any time is good. There are some more powerful than others, some are not that powerful. The more you do the better, more effective. And you should know how to practice well. We need to have good instructions and we need to have a good teacher and then we need to have good mind, good interest...
Dharma practice is something that need a lot of patience, take a lot of patience and diligence
It’s very nice, very important thing that people here tonight are trying to continually practice Dharma. Not only saying about practicing Dharma but [you] are really practicing Dharma. It is not easy to practice Dharma in your daily life. It is even more difficult to get up early and not one or two days but every day.
You lie for one thing then you may have to lie continually for your entire life, because you are afraid of being known as a liar
The negative [force] that reduces the power of speech is verbal non-virtuous karma that we've created by speech, like harsh words, lying and this and that. So we need to purify that by chanting these three syllables.
We have been lying a lot through countless lives so, that reduces the power, the positive quality of the speech
Because it's powerless, when we read even though we read quite a lot of mantras, we still don't see the result. The reason is because there is heavy karmas that exist in our speech. Therefore, we want to purify that negativity first to make the speech more powerful.