(English) Excerpts from Supreme Master Ching Hai’s lecture: Will power is very important to getting ahead in any field, and if you belittle yourself by giving in to anything, by giving up your high standards in exchange for some physical comfort when you can do otherwise, then you just harm yourself, and that's what I call detrimental. We want to keep ourselves absolutely in control, like you control your situation. If you control what you eat, you eat what you want and not what is forced upon ...