《172》当有人问阿姜 查，身为一个佛教国家的泰国，为何犯罪率这么高，仰或印度为何如此混乱。他说：「这些犯罪的人都不是佛教徒，也不是佛教在做的。这些都是人类所为，佛陀从不曾教过我们这些事。」

When someone asked Ajahn Chah why there was so much crime in Thailand, a Buddhist country, or why Indochina was such a mess, he said, "Those aren’t Buddhists who are doing those unwholesome things. That isn’t Buddhism. Buddha never taught anything like that. People are doing those things!"