[Thay reads from a book.] "It is the community that is composed of four pairs and eight kinds of holy people." There are four pairs of holy people, and four pairs are eight kinds. And in this assembly, there are holy people. And we can recognize them in the four pairs. For me, holiness is something real, something daily. When you eat your lunch mindfully, joyfully, fully alive, the element of holiness is there, generated from your being and your eating. And combined with the element of holiness generated by other members of the Sangha, you have the atmosphere of holiness. And when people touch that atmosphere of holiness, they are transformed.

The first pair of holy people is the stream, the people who are on the way to enter the stream, or who are actually in the stream. We call it "Stream Entrance", Nhập Lưu [Vietnamese sp? or Yu luu [Vietnamese sp?]. [Thay writes on the board.] The Sangha is like a stream, it's like a river, or if you want, it is like the TGV, the Train of Great Vitesse. It can carry many, many people into a kind of destination. If you board the TGV in Bordeaux, you can arrive in Paris. If you identify with a river, and you go with the river, you'll suddenly arrive at the ocean. There's a stream. There's a path. There's an orientation. And those of us who are proceeding to the stream, you are not in the stream yet, but you are heading to the stream. You are not on the TGV yet, but you are on the taxi going to the station. And that is the first of eight kinds of holy people already. You are joining the stream that will lead you to the ocean. And that is a big event, an important turn in your life. [Video jumps.] The first pair.

[Thay writes on the board.] Someone who is heading towards the stream, already in the stream. If you are already a drop of water, if you have become the river, then surely, certainly, you will arrive at the ocean. If you have climbed into the train, the TGV, surely you will arrive in Paris. And this is the first pair, the first pair of holy people. Either you are going to join the stream, or you are already in the stream, you belong to the first pair of holy people. That is why do not have any complex, the element of holiness is in you. You know where to go. You know your path. Having a path is wonderful. Having a path, seeing the path, is already great happiness. Tien Bao [Vietnamese sp?]. You have seen the path. There's no reason why you have to be fearful anymore. There's no reason why you are confused anymore. For those of us who do not know where to go, we suffer terribly. We get lost. There's a lot of confusion, we don't know who we are and what we want to do.