“I must be avoiding many informants’ harassment,
Doing Crazy-Mad is also ’cause of these things.
Who is to be deserving of the eyebrows and moustache,
Loving the world, I compose the poem to exhort them.
Still patiently waiting for the time to come,
So we have to put up with the public smear and admiration.”
(Pages 283-288: THIEN LY CA)
Through the above verses, the Master has defined the two words Western evil, but he is not comfortable saying clearly who they are, but the reader can clearly know who they are in a time when many people follow the bait of fame and fortune lured by the French authorities to collaborate with them, tracking and arresting patriots. For that reason, he called himself with the style name Mad and Crazy. He had to patiently wait for the right time and advised his disciples the same, otherwise their long-term enterprise would be compromised.
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