-- without slacking or weakening, enabling themselves to expel defilement from their hearts, making their hearts superlative and becoming our refuge -- did so without going outside the principles of this middle way. So I ask that you listen to this and take it to heart. Don't set your heart on the deceitful and counterfeit issues filling the world of rebirth. Set your heart on the truth of the Dhamma, the truth of the practice. You will see the truth continually appearing in your heart in the midst of all the counterfeit things in the heart and throughout the world. Don't harbor any doubts, for that would be to linger over the defilements that know no end. In practicing the Dhamma, aim at the qualities of the heart -- virtue, concentration, and discernment -- more than at material things. As for material things, if we have just enough to get by, that's plenty enough. Wherever you go... We are born from human beings. We monks come from people. People have homes; we monks need places to stay -- enough to provide ordinary shelter -- but they should be just enough to get by. Don't make them fancy. Don't go competing with the world outside. That would simply foster your own defilements and make you known throughout the world in a way that the defilements would ridicule. Make yourself known instead for your virtue, concentration, and discernment, your conviction and persistence. Make yourself known for having striven to cure yourself or