And also, "No Returning" is a pair, either you are on the direction to obtain the fruition, or you have already obtained the fruition. [Thay indicates on the board.] The word quả [Vietnamese sp?] means a fruit. [Thay draws on the board.] It was a kind of drawing. This is the fruit, and this is... And become this. It comes from this design. A fruit. And the fourth fruition is arhat. The Buddha is an arhat. The Buddha is also a bodhisattva. But his foundation is arhatship, completely released. The word arhat, it has so many meanings. The first meaning is worthy of offering, a being that is worthy of your respect, of your salutation, of your offering. You become a kind of fertile field where people can come and plant the seeds. And they are sure that if they plant the seeds in that fertile field, they will ripen many, many good things. It's the field of merit. Phuoc Dien [Vietnamese sp?], happiness, merits, the field of merits.

When you become an arhat, you become a field of merits and where people can plant the seeds, the good seeds, and surely they will ripen very wonderful things for themselves. The second meaning is you have, you have won a victory over the afflictions. Craving, anger, delusion, you have won the battle over. You have destroyed all these kinds of afflictions. You become free. Sát tặc [Vietnamese sp?], phá ma [Vietnamese sp?], hưởng cơm [Vietnamese sp?] is worthy of offering. Sát tặc. You have already killed the afflictions. You have already uprooted the afflictions in you, that's an arhat. And there are those of us who are on the path, on the way to arhatship, there are those of us who are already arhats. So that is the fourth pair, so you know now the meaning of the word. It is a community that is constituted, [Thay reads from a book.], "It is the community that is composed of four pairs and eight kinds of holy people."