appreciate LIFE, START WITH ENLIGHTENMENT. The Real Homeland Of The Soul Howis everyone? Still recognize me from last time? Is there anyonefrom last time? Please raise your hand. (Some of the audiencerise their hands.) Oh! Fine! So, I don't have to start from scratch.No?! Is this still very early for you? (Audience: No!) No, ha?You don't work today? (Audience: No.) Oh, fine. And I have towork.
I had a lot of inspiration about what God is,and how to better our world, and how to better ourselves, andhow to be in samadhi, etc,.. but I lost them all when I came toColorado. I guess because Colorado people are very spiritual,and the environment here, it looks like Himalayas. So, I thoughtall of you are yogis, (laughter) yes. So, you don't need to provethat to me by any funny gestures, okay, or mudras or anything.(Master laughed.) This is one of the places that I might considerto stay, and make myself at home. Consider only! Ha, Consider(Master and everyone laughed.), because I have many other peoplewho consider that I should stay at their hometown. And I can neverwin because I am alone, and there are so many people. But todaymaybe I would like to take some of your time to introduce youto our real hometown , or maybe invite you to have a look at it.
Many people believe that God creates only goodness.And then other people believe that God creates also evil, becausethey say everything comes from God. Ah, what do you agree? Thefirst one or the second? (The first one) Ah? The first one. Right?Then where does evil come from? Ah? (Audience: Image.) Image?(Humans) Ah, humans. Oh, so you're very enlightened indeed. (Masterlaughs.)
You see this place which is called our world,it's not the original plan of the universe. And it has becomethis and that and others, with all kinds of suffering and allkinds of undesirable situations, because of the by-products ofhumans and other beings' inter-relationships. If evil has trulyexisted, then it couldn't have changed from one place after another,or from one country to the other, or from one period of time tothe other.
Humans Can Stop Evil As you see, in the old time, we did not haveguns, and we did not have atom bombs and all kinds of these thingswhich could destroy mankind in no time. So, actually the evilsthat exist in this world are not God-made. It was not alreadythere. Therefore, it changes from time to time, and from differentcountries, yes. Why were we talking about this? Because we mustrealize that if evil is man-made, then man can also stop it oravoid it, instead of blaming God all the time, or waiting in acorner of the church for God to descend and do something aboutit.
For example, between I and Mr. Smith, whoeverthat might be, we never met each other and nothing happened betweenus. And suddenly someday Mr. Smith came to see me, or I came tosee him. Suppose we are both very ignorant and then, we both wantedto do something. We both wanted to arrive at a position whichis very lucrative and profitable and famous and all that for ourselves.Then both of us are in competition about that object. And thenif one of us wins, of course the other will feel very frustrated.And if he is a bad tempered man, he might try to revenge in somekind, or make trouble for me. And therefore, in this process webreed another kind of atmosphere between us and apart from us.Originally both of us had no hatred and then, now we have hatred.And that hatred is the third energy which is born from both ofour energies.
So, you see, this is not necessary. It wasn'tthere in the first place. If we come to think about it like that,we couldn't blame God for anything that is unfortunate in thisworld. Most of the people think God has made everything includingevil. I used to think that way. But I think, as I am getting older,and you know I have more sympathy for the Old Man. You get moreunderstanding, you know, for old people as you grow older. (Masterlaughs.)
Yes, it's just like you and your wife or husband.Normally both of you have no children. But then, you got together,and then the third kind was born. Those are your children. Andyour children may be exactly like you in character, in intelligenceand in ambition or virtues. But, they might not be. And they mightcause you a lot of trouble and headaches. So, these are not yourmaking, not entirely. Maybe some of it is your making. But, ifyou are very virtuous parents, and very exemplary, and your childrenare the opposite, then it is not your making.
Similarly, our world has become, sometimes,intolerable. It is our own making. So now, in order to improvethis or repair the world, or the house, the big house that welive in, with so many rooms which are the nations, then we shouldknow that evil is avoidable. Evil is avoided by doing good, bykeeping the commandments, by loving thy neighbors. But becauseour mind is so used to an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth,it is difficult to do what we think we ought to do, or to treatothers in a very loving, kind way. Therefore, we need a strongerforce to help us, to pull us out of our habitual thinking andactions. That is why enlightenment is necessary. It is just likea woman who is already very beautiful, and if she dresses herselfup, and wears a little bit more jewelry, and learns to walk ina graceful way, then her beauty is more enhanced.
Everything In This World Is BeneficialTo Us Everything in this world is actually also goodfor us, even evil. Evil is our mistakes, fine. But, then we don'thave to stay in the mistakes forever. At least the mistakes area kind of shock. When we receive the effect of our mistakes, wewill be shocked into realizing that this is not a proper thingto do. And they cause us misery and unhappiness, therefore, weturn around. And even all things in this world which are beautiful,enjoyable, are reminding us of our true happiness within, or inour true home. Therefore, it's not a sin to enjoy the things thatGod created for us. But if we always feel very attached to thesethings, and God will remind us that this is not proper. And therefore,we will sometimes experience unhappiness, or misery from the thingsthat we cherish most.
It is wrong to deny the world. But it is notright to sink deep into the world all the time. Because we missthe better half of life which is spirit, which is more enjoyablethan anything in this world could afford. Everything in this worldis just a reminder of the true happiness, the true glory and thetrue life that we should have, and that we should know, becausewe have forgotten.
Many people ask me about a kind of woman andman relationship and sexual pleasure and that. Whether it is sinful.I say: It is not. But you should know there are many more pleasuresthan that. And for example, sexual pleasure is only a copy ofthe true pleasure when you are in union with yourself, when bothforces within you, the feminine and the masculine aspects withinyourself are united. And the union between man and woman is justa duplicate of that one.
So, actually God sends us into this world notwithout any instruments to remind us of the Kingdom of God. Itis just that we have forgotten that these are the reminders only,and we just love the copy and forget the original. And that'swhat makes our life miserable. And even then, we could not enjoythe copy completely.
Therefore, many of the man and woman relationshipseven, are rocky, and the sexual relationship between you is notthat holy, not that mutually respecting. But it's a kind of sometimesabusing, and just a frustration release; a kind of instrument.Therefore, if we truly want to enjoy this life even, we shouldenjoy the true life which is a hundred thousand times better thanthe life that we know on earth. And by knowing that life, we canalso enjoy this life.
More Intense Feelings Toward ThingsAfter Enlightenment Just like one of our friends just expressedher opinion-that after initiation or enlightenment she enjoyedlife also. She would feel whatever is there, in very intense awareness.And when you are happy, you are truly happy. And you have no reservationsfor your laughter. You are not constrained and not feeling ashamedfor laughing very loud, very heartedly with your friends, or evenalone. And when you feel sorrow, you truly can weep. You weepall of your emotions out, and then you get relief. Not that afterenlightenment we become like wood or stone, and have no feelingswhatsoever.
Some people keep asking me whether I fall inlove sometimes. Are you interested, by the way? No, ha! If not,I don't talk about that. It is private. Are you interested? (Audience:Yes.) Okay, okay. I thought it was too personal. You come hereto talk about Buddhahood and God and all that. And here I bringthings which sound very mundane, yeah. Never mind. You see, andI say yes, yeah, off and on, now and again. Or maybe I don't knowif that is falling in love or not. Well, when I see a person probablyI like him, and then after he is gone, good-bye. Is that in loveor not? Steve, you have more experience. (Laughter.) Is that fallingin love, Steve? (Yes.) Yes? Really! Okay! But not in Coloradothough. I haven't... okay. But before that, before enlightenment,I didn't know this kind of feeling. You understand? I never missedanyone. I didn't love anyone. I didn't care about anyone. I didnot enjoy the friendship with the people. I was a very lonelychild, very quiet. I did not feel lonely though. I was just avery alone person, until now, until I was forced into this job.(Laughter.) I was a very quiet person. I could not talk. I meanI didn't speak. I didn't make friends. I enjoyed myself. I feltI needed nothing. And you know what it's like in our society.You work and then one month a year, you have a vacation, right?!Even if you don't want to, you have to. It's the law. So, whenI was alone there, I wasn't married then. And then, this forcedone-month vacation was the time I had trouble. I didn't know whatto do, because I had no friends and there was no where I wishedto go. But you had to go because if you didn't come back witha tan, people would not respect you that much. So, you come, youspend all your money and go to Costa Bravo or whatever. And layingthere, bake yourself to death, spend all your time in the sun,and get burnt, get peeled, get scorched, and do whatever you canwith the cream and all that to comfort yourself. And then go home,to show people, Here I am . Yeah, from Costa Bravo, cost a bomb, cost a lot of money . [Laughter] Yes, so that was the kind oflife that I had. Probably some of you experienced the same upto now.
And then, after I became, you know, the "MainBro" in this 'office', I became more talkative. I changed,I became an entirely different person than if you knew me before.Might have been five, six, seven years ago, you wouldn't recognizeme now. When I was married, and my husband had a lot of friendsfrom his medical doctors' circle. And they talked a lot to himabout many things, yes. And also they talked on phone a lot. ButI hardly could speak anything to him. And sometimes I stood aroundand felt very envious with these friends. I said, Jeez, if I couldjust talk half of the time like them, I would feel already verygood. I felt a little bit inadequate because I couldn't speak.I mean, I am not a talkative person. I'm always quiet, do my job,and have feelings, but nothing more. And even the love for myhusband, I don't know it was a love or not. Well, I missed himwhen he was away. And I was happy when he was around. But thatwas it, that was just about it. It was not very kind of passionatething that you read about in a novel romance or watch movies,things like that. I thought, oh, looks like I am not the personof this world, don't belong here. The Fabulous Network LeadingTo God
But after enlightenment, you feel that yourfeelings and your emotions and your affections, and your... everythingare very sharp. You know, you realize more that you are trulyliving beings. Many people fear that maybe after enlightenmentthey would shave their head, and yeah, cast off their beautifulclothes, and go into the Himalayas, or find a cave in Coloradosomewhere. But it is not true, it is not true. Maybe you do thatin the beginning because you are too fanatic, too eager, too eagerto know God, and forgetting all the while that He is always here.Because you are God, you are the representatives of this God power,and we are all connected together in this marvelous network. Andshould we forget that, we will be very lonely. Deep in our heartwe will never be satisfied. Doesn't matter how many friends wehave, and how much money we earn, or how busy we are. Many ofthe moments of our lives will be in loneliness, dissatisfaction.We just don't know what is it that is lacking in our lives. Sowe do feel something missing. That is because we have forgottento tune in with this network which connects us as the whole, withthe whole universe. And therefore, whatever we do, we do alone.We work alone and we feel great burden on our shoulders. That'swhy Emerson says: A great burden falls from our shoulders whenwe let God run the universe. To let God run the universe doesn'tmean we sit there and wait for bread to fall from the sky. Itmeans that we work together with the whole universe. And whateverwe do, it will be blessed, watched over, and helped by the wholepower. Therefore, we will be the great beings. And everythingwithin us including so-called human emotions will be very alert.We feel for the first time in our lives that we are truly alive,that we truly enjoy everything that God gives us in this life.Not the denial of the world. Not truly. Not like that. I don'tthink an enlightened person is so negative in his attitude. BecauseI feel, and I see, and I know that my fellow initiates, people- you can call them disciple, that's your word, yeah - they arevery alive, they are very alert, and they are happy. They knowthat life is alright. Eh, not that all of them are. Very seldomthat they want to run away from life. Maybe in the beginning becausebefore I used to wear nun's clothes, and looked very serious.So people thought to be serious and become a monk is the end toall means of Buddhahood.
Enlightenment Solves All Problems After I realized that, I changed because thatwas a wrong conception. It's okay I wear the clothes if I wantto. But that is not the leading motive of enlightenment. Thatis not the condition for enlightenment.
Enlightened people are very happy. And theyaccept the situation whatever it is. And I have a very positiveknowledge that if all people are enlightened, then we don't needto change the world at all. We don't need to make India becomerich, we don't need to change communism into capitalism, becauseeveryone will be contented under whichever circumstances theyare in. And we don't have to change anything. We don't need toeven vote for a new president every four years. And Mr. Clintoncan stay there forever, (laughter) whether he is good or not,because we are good. That is important. You see, one presidenthowever good can not do much. But the whole nation is strong whenpeople in that nation are altogether, at oneness, because of theconnecting network. And the whole world is altogether in unisonbecause they're all connected with that network. And then, thepresident cannot help himself but to be good. He has to behave,right. I don't mean Mr. Clinton, please don't tell him. He mightnot give me visa next time. (Master and everyone laughed.) Sothe problems in this world are not to be blamed on politicians,not to be blamed on the economic system of any country or anyism of any nation, but to be blamed on the ignorance of our self-nature.That we do not know how great we are, that we do not know thatwe are the contentment incarnate, that we do not know that weare love personified. Therefore, enlightenment is a cure for allillnesses, for all worldly problems, for all wars, and is onceand for all finished! And as long as all of us are enlightened,the world will never come to an end. Everybody predicts aboutthe end of the world. I mean not everybody, everybody worriesabout it, just some people predict, and make many people worry.But even if the world comes to an end, the enlightened peoplewill never feel bothered, because they know this world comes andthen it will go one day. But the life eternal always goes on,and that nothing can affect it. Life eternal is what we are. Wisdomis what we possess. Love is what our nature is. And that cannotbe destroyed with any bomb at all. It cannot be limited by spaceand time. Therefore, the masters initiate disciples without thelimitation of the space and time. The master doesn't have to alwaysbe where the disciples are, but can help the disciples and blessthem. And the disciples will grow into mastership, and also cando the same, yeah. So whatever I do you can do also. That waswhat Jesus said to us.
The World Is The Shadow Of The KingdomOf God But can we do it? Can we do what Jesus did?No, not yet, because we did not learn what He learned. We havenot tuned into the Kingdom of God. We have forgotten our Fatherwho is perfect. Therefore we live in imperfection. Now to correctthis is very easy. Yes, if we want to go northward, then we haveto face north, and continue, begin and continue to walk or togo northward. But if we want to go south, then, of course we haveto turn back and face south and begin to go there. It's very simple.
Therefore, everyday we face the world. We walktoward the world, we think toward the world, we merge ourselvesin the world. All our attention, energy, emotions, best talentsface the world. We don't face God. Now, it's very simple. Turnaround. I will show you how at the initiation and there you are.Very simple. But you will ask me the question is that, If youface God, then you have to turn your back to the world? It isnot so in the Kingdom of God. Because actually if there is noKingdom of God then there is not this world. This world is onlya copy of the real thing, of the real life. Therefore, you donot have to forsake the world in order to know the real. But youhave to know that the world came from the real by realizing thereal. Just like you get to know a beautiful lady instead of chasingafter her shadow. Then you have both. If you want the shadow thatmuch, you can include, because the shadow comes from this beautifullady. It's no good always clinging to the shadow and not knowingthe real. But soon as we know the real, the shadow also belongsto us.
Since ancient times we have always heard manystories about how fantastic a master is. Just like Jesus, yeah,Jesus, He is great, fantastic. He can do many things, and we admireHim. But He should not be the only one in this position, becauseit is said in the Bible that Know you not that you are the templeof God, and the Holy Spirit dwells within you.
We house God. You understand that? We housethe almighty within ourselves. And here we are having nothingof this almighty glory. It is because we face the other way. Weface the shadow, we chase after the shadow, and try to correctthe shadow to suit our taste-that the legs were too long, thehead is too flat, or the ear is too pointed. It was because ofthe light which projected the real and made it become the shadow.And if we chase that all the time, and trying to make it different,of course we make trouble for ourselves. We exhaust all our energyand we achieve nothing. We might be able to adjust a little bithere, a little bit there, but this is only a shadow. Right? Tomorrowit will become ah, ear, the ear will be pointed again. Thereforein order to truly enjoy we have to correct the real... we haveto know the real one and adjust accordingly.
If you know the beautiful girl, where she stands,then you can even make the shadow become more beautiful if youwish. See, you can make the light behind her go a little bit aboveor under, and then her shadow will become very much like the realperson; or do some technique to adjust the shadow. But if we donot know the real and try to adjust the shadow from the shadowitself, then we always have problems. That is the problem withthe world. That's why our world is always in trouble, becausewe try to correct the shadow and not the real object.
A Peaceful World Comes If EverybodyIs Enlightened And so many heroes have come and gone. So manygreat kings have reigned the world, but the world is still theway it is. If you have fixed some problems here, other problemswill breed themselves elsewhere. If you have enough medical carefor the people, now you have incurable diseases like AIDS forexample, troublesome. And so we never come to an end without problems,if we always try to fix the world.
I have known one person, he is very much interestedin our teaching and wants initiation and that. But he told methat he would like to stay in the world, to remain in the worldas worldly people, in order to understand their problems and inorder to help them. Many of the heroes of our history have thoughtthe same thing, and the world has not become a paradise. Eventhough we have a lot of better equipment, more civilized society,but then we have other more troublesome problems. So you see,our brothers and sisters, what the conclusion should be. It'snot that after enlightenment we forsake our political career.Or leave the President alone in white house and all the aids willgo out, because they're all enlightened. But we stay there, andwe do better job because we know how to adjust the shadow now.Or we don't bother at all to adjust the shadow anymore. Whateverthe shadow may be, fine, because we know it's not important. Wemay feel amazed at the shadow, of its changing shape and sizeand color, of different time of the day. We might watch it withamazement, but we no longer chase after that, and we no longerput great importance upon this shadow. That's why everyone shouldbe enlightened. And the world will be at peace. No other thingneeds to be done. I don't know if you agree, yes or no? I tellyou from example, not sheer talk. See, for example. Now you lookat me, I'm wearing beautiful clothes. Actually we designed ourselves,I designed myself and I have seamstresses who are monks and nuns,together yeah. I mean we are those who live together and do nothave family ties and that. So we work everything together withoutwanting any wages or any position anyhow. So, now it's very inexpensiveanyhow. But it looks beautiful, right?! So now I am happy becauseI am beautiful, fine.
But when I am alone and I have not to see youin such a great event and important greeting like this, then Ijust wear whatever it is, right - very old clothes but very comfortableand old shoes flat. And I don't even care to wash them very carefullybecause I would just pitch my tent next to the river and put myclothes in the bucket and some soap in it, river water and I usemy feet to stamp on them and while I clean my teeth at the sametime, yeah. I use my feet to just, you know, walking on the bucket,walking on the clothes after a while and then let it be in thesun for a while. And then after I clean my teeth or I bathe, andI swim, and then I just shake them loose, yeah and get the riverwater to clean them. Then I throw them on the rocks and aftersome time they are dry. And that's a life of beautiful enjoymentthat I most cherish.
But nevertheless when I go out I stay in, sometimes,hotels, sometimes stay in a very beautiful mansion which someof the disciple lend us for few days, and I also enjoy that. Yousee, I also enjoy the freshly cut lawn and the beauty of the flowersthat you plant around in your gardens and every so-called luxuriousthing that you have. I enjoy. Yes.
An Enlightened Person Conforms ToCircumstances Whatever They Might Be Therefore enlightenment affords us the enjoyment,not the situation. So I enjoy in both cases. I do not deny luxury,and I do not cling to asceticism, because both have its beauty.Whatever it is there, you accept it and that is the simple life.Some people ask me, Simple life means going to the forests andliving in caves and eating weeds, and all that? I say no no no.Simple life means you stay where you are enjoy whatever you have.If you are rich, you enjoy your rich life and share whatever leftover,too much, with other people. If you are poor, enjoy your simplelife and be happy that you don't have to worry about thieves.[Laughter] And that is simple living. You see, simple living,yeah - stay where you are, enjoy what you have, that is in mythinking a simple living. Do you think that's alright? Becauseif we try to change our life it makes us not simple. Right? Youare so used to with clean bath rooms and all that. And now youhave to punish yourself and adjust yourself to kind of outsideopen toilet and it freezes in the winter and maybe you are notused to with the cold. You'd get cold and you'd get sick. Andthen is that simple? No, then you have to be administered to ina hospital and get all the needles in your tongue, in your kneesand wherever necessary. (Master laughs.) And that looks very complicatedindeed. At least from the outside. Therefore simple living meansyou are comfortable where you are. But of course there are somethingswe adjust to life. For example if we meditate a lot, then we cannotafford to eat meat too much because that excites our energy, stimulatesthe passion, and we would like to sit still in order to know ourown treasure and wisdom. Therefore if we do not follow a simplediet then it will have some side-effects. Therefore, some peoplemeditate at random and do not adhere to the vegetarian diet theycome into a kind of disturbance, you see? Many people have mentalderangements. It is because of violating the law of nature. Thelaw of nature teaches us to be vegetarian.
You know all of this. And I think in the samplebooklet that you were given it has already been proven scientificallythat we humans are vegetarian species. Because our teeth and ourintestines... is that right? yeah? okay - are made for vegetarianbeings, yes. And the meat-eaters beings are different in the bodyconstruction and the inner organs and the digestive system areall different. Anyhow I'll be long about enlightenment and shortabout diet, okay? Because in case you are allergic to vegetariandiet I won't mention anymore.
The Quan Yin Method Is The UltimateMethod But be enlightened anyhow, by all means andby whatever you can afford in your environment and in your mentalstate of preparation. There are many ways to enlightenment. Butthere is best way, quickest way, or longest way, yeah, safer wayor a little bit risky way. Just like you climb the mountain thereare many roads, but some roads are even and some roads are morerocky and some roads are dangerous.
So I have found that the Quan Yin Method, themethod of observing the inner Word, the inner sound and the innerheavenly light is the best, and is the ultimate because ultimatelywe have to arrive to the light of God and to the Word of God inorder to get the wisdom. All other roads are leading you to thatstate - that you could hear the sound of God and could see thelight. Or other methods are having this same goal, but we areright here, - the teaching directly and you immediately experiencethe enlightenment taste, you see immediately. So you get thislight and sound right away at the time of initiation. Wherebyother methods, you have to take a long time or many years or manyascetic kinds of sacrifice in order to arrive there.
Therefore, actually this is not a method. It'sjust a fruit and the meal is already prepared for you hungry guests.The others, maybe they are not hungry so they try to mess aroundwith their food or cook all the time and not eat it. Many of ourpeople who stay permanently in many of our centers around theworld, their life is very simple, but they are very happy. Ourlife is so simple that when compared to the most simple life stylesin other countries, theirs seems pale! The other day we were speakingwith some of the people who work with the government in Au Lac.They are not the governmental officials, they are just workingin a businesswise and so we had a chance to talk about this. Andthen, I said, Actually the Au Lac people in Au Lac if they wereenlightened they wouldn't feel so troubled about communism even.
I say because, actually I am a true communist.Because whatever I earn I share it all with people. Communistmeans you have everything not for yourself, but for the community,you see. You live in a community. Therefore, actually I don'ttalk communism, but the communists should give me the best medalfor it, yeah, because I live what they preach. (Laughter.) I livein tent. I live simple life. I don't earn money for myself. Allthe money runs around the world for the sake of my disciples,for the enlightenment of others, and for the poor and needy. Andeven my clothes I design for myself so it's cheaper.
Changing Ourselves Is Changing TheWorld Therefore, it's not what we should have inlife but to what degree we are contented with life. To tell youhonestly I have no better life than any of the people who livein the communist system. For example, from thirty-six or fortyhours up till now I have only had one meal and that wasn't much.There was only maybe half a bowl or one bowl of rice, just a fewtofu and a few vegetables. That's all there was. And I am workingso, very... you can not say it's not hard. It's hard work becausewe run from one place after another and we are always packingand unpacking and talking to hundreds of, thousands of peopleall the time. I seldom rest with my voice, very seldom. I'll tellyou my schedule. For example yesterday, the night before, I wasin Seattle, yeah, talking to thousands and after that talkingto the disciples and non-disciples, etc. And then, I did not goto bed until about five o'clock in the morning. And before that,I meditated for a while and then slept a little bit. And got upagain at nine or something, got ready to go for the airplane.And then, at the airport I had to speak to hundreds of peopleand make them happy, right. And then, went to the air... (Laughter.)What, you're laughing at? It's not true? It's true, yes. Because,if not, then they are not happy. And then, in the airplane, Ihave to talk again to the neighbors because they will ask me whereI come from and what I do and all that. Fine, I enjoy also. Andthen I had a little rest, maybe ten minutes. And then, again,came down to the airport. And hundreds of people were alreadythere awaiting for me to talk again. Okay, I talked, until nineor something, huh? And then we went home. And then I had a littlerest. And then came the telephone, and I talked again for aboutone or two hours, one hour at least. And then came out, and thenall my disciples, their immediate friends, the Americans, theywanted to be exclusively treated. So only Americans were around,and I talked only in American language. Ah, that was about, yeah,just for a while, yeah? And then, I came and took that meal thatI told you. Yes, and that was it. Up till... I had nothing fromthat meal until now. And before that I didn't have meal. Beforethat meal I nibbled two mouthfuls of bread and two mouthfuls ofmilk. That was before I left Seattle. And I came to last nightand had that meal. The only meal up till now. So, therefore, Ihad in forty hours or fifty hours, actually only one meal. Nothingmore. And if the communists are proud of their teaching, theyshould be more proud of the action, and they should give me abest medal. (Laughter & applause.) Actually I am too proudof myself. It's my ego at work, you see. (Master laughs.) Don'tworry, I'll put it aside later. (Laughter.)
So, the problem is not to change anything ofthis world but to change ourselves you see. I would have complainedbefore. Without enlightenment I would have complained. I wouldhave loved to have my beautiful house, my lovely husband and my,whatever is mine. You understand? And I can't just sacrifice likethat. But by the way doing this, I do not even feel sacrifice.You understand what I mean? Just very natural, very happy to doit. Of course I am tired and I complain sometimes. Because ofsome of the unnecessary tiresome questions or demands from peopleand disciples. And sometimes it agonizes you. You understand whatI mean? Having to accompany kindergarten children while you areteaching in college, yes. It is very difficult also, but I getthrough, I get through. That's a reasonable complaint, no? Isit not? (Laughter & applause.)
Enjoy The World Within And Without Thus, if the people in any poor country orin whatever situation if they get enlightenment, they would notfeel suffering. Some of our disciples are relieved from even themost dangerous sicknesses after initiation or after they practicefor a while. Yes, it depends on also their sincerity and karma.And some of them have to undergo sometimes this retribution, butthey go with smiles on their faces.
Yesterday while I was in Seattle, even oneof the women told me she had to undergo operation, but then shehad prepared herself already to go to play in heaven while thebody was undergoing operation. She told me: Ah, fine. I know already.I will go and let the doctor inject me and then meanwhile I willgo to Buddha's land and have a look around. (Laughter.) Yes, that'swhat she did. And she had no fear of whatsoever. Yeah, yesterdaysome of you had heard it. Any of you from Seattle yesterday? Yes,you heard this, yeah. That was an Au Lac lady. She is about myage, maybe younger. But don't make me feel very old. (Master laughs.)Yes, that's what they do. And sometimes some of our fellow practitioners,their lives are not rich like you perhaps in Formosa. They drivetaxi. Okay, they are taxi driver but while driving the taxi theycan see Buddha's land or heaven, Kingdom of God at the same time.Therefore their lives pass very quickly. And whatever they do,they do it in joy. They enjoy the real life and the shadow ofthe real life, because both will blend together-there is no separation,no rejection of any kind.
The Beauty Of Enlightenment When I was in Indonesia or some other country,some people said, Oh, you look beautiful. Would you consider toremarry? Yeah. What do you think? Do I have time for that? (Masterand everyone laugh.) Yes, but I said to him, Why do you ask thisquestion? He said, because he thinks that enlightened people wouldnot care so much about these things and no love and very dry andall that. I said, No, if you consider you should propose first.Yeah, you propose and I will put you on the marry list. (Laughter.)
But then, that's the last I heard of him. (Laughter& applause.) Probably after a close examination of my faceand figure and whatever, and my life style and he thought he hadbetter not take adventure. (Master and everyone laugh.) So, mydisciples everywhere are enough to scare the biggest hero on earth.(Master laughs.) They would run away you know. When you are athome, and you have only one husband and wife and if the thirdperson comes, you already feel very scared, right, very frightenedthat your love would be shared. How much more if they see my disciples!They hang around twenty four hours, they eat everything with me,and they interfere with all kinds of privacy, except when I amin the bathroom. (Laughter.) My door is never be able to lock.Always coming up and down and my room is just like a restaurant.So whoever dare to be my husband should prepare for war. (Masterand everyone laugh.) So, that's the life it is. You see whetheryou have or you don't have it's fine. It's very fine with youbecause you are contented within yourself. You do not reject life.But you do not sink into life deeply so that you know nothingelse except the material existence of life. And that's the beautyof enlightenment.
Alright, I am ready for your questions, becausethere will be more talk by the way. You can ask anything, yeah.And I am free to answer or not, so don't worry.
It is a very good atmosphere today, huh! Right?Yes, for the first time and then you can laugh so much. I thinkwe don't charge the lecture with money but we charge the laughterbecause this is very rare. (Laughter.)
QUESTION & ANSWER SESSION Q. In the Bible Jesus Christ said: I and my father areone.
M. Yeah.
Q. But, how can I reach this state?
M. Get enlightenment, yeah. Get initiation.That's what we are here for, to help you.
Q. Dear Master, I have never eaten vegetarian. However,after I listened to your videos and read your magazines, I startedto eat vegetarian once or twice a month
M. Wa, big deal, big deal!
Q. Can I meditate? If yes, is there any danger?
M. Fine, it's already a big improvement, yeah.From thirty days to twenty-eight days.
Q. Dear Master, how to live a happy life?
M. Didn't I tell you? (Master and everyonelaugh.) To get enlightenment is a sure way of a happy life. Okay,I am very patient.
Is Abortion An Offense To The Precepts? Q. Could you please explain your precepts against killing.Specifically against abortion.
M. Wa! You get me into trouble. Ah, Thou shaltnot kill is the precept of all religious scriptures, not onlyChristians. It's even in Jainism, Hinduism and other religionsalso. If they truly take this thou shalt not kill in a true senseof the precept, abortion, of course, should be avoided. And thedoctor should be very precise in determining what is the specialsituation that people should undertake this. Because maybe sometimesit's dangerous for the mother, yeah, or dangerous for both. So,the doctor should be fair in determining that situation. OtherwiseI think we should save life in any way we can. Whatever specialcircumstance with you, that you have to answer, your self-conscience,and the doctor has to determine that. Okay? I am not here to condemnanyone, because I know life is very hard, and very difficult tosay which is right and which is wrong. Because we are also allunder the sway of karma, of the law of cause and retribution,and sometimes it is very difficult for a person to go above that,to be saintly, and to be decisive about anything in life. But,bear in mind that if you have faith in God, and in all our wisdomand if we are enlightened, no circumstance is difficult, no situationis hard to handle. So, I just propose enlightenment, and no condemnationfor anything.
Q. Is it okay to receive initiation from more than onemaster?
M. Yeah, it's okay. But why is it necessary?For example, if your master has already taught you the light andsound within you, and you are satisfied and you're making progresswith that path, then you don't have to be initiated by anothermaster who will teach the same method. But nevertheless, if youare not completely satisfied and you would like to have more,I mean you are more convinced in some other master, of courseyou may do so.
Respect The Talent And QualitiesOf Other People Q. Jesus ate fish, why do you not?
M. You always put fish in Jesus' mouth. (Laughter.)Alright, suppose he ate fish, he is Christ, he can do many otherthings that you cannot do. Why you look at the piece of fish onlyand not at his qualities and his holiness? As soon as you becomeholy as he is, and powerful as he is, you can eat human beings,okay?! (Laughter & applause.) If you are that desperate formeat... Oh God! We always compare the things that other peopledo to suit our taste. But we do not respect their qualities andtheir talents, yeah. We have to know what we have and other peoplehave, hm, and then we can say what we can do or not. The presidenthe can stay in the white house, he has a lot of bodyguards, hehas power over the whole nation. So, somethings he can do, wecan not. Okay, right?!
Q. Are pain and illness always the result of presentkarma? If so, how do we clean them out?
M. We clean it out by enduring it. Alright?Because it's already too late now to reverse the wheel of karma.But we could minimize it, we could lubricate it by being enlightened,by meditation on the perfection of the Father every day throughthe guidance of a teacher, through initiation. Then, we minimizea lot of things. Yeah, um.
Q. Do you feel this initiation is important? Why canit not be done on our own?
M. The question answers itself, um. If youhave done it yourself, then it's not necessary to get an initiation.But if you couldn't do it, if you haven't seen the light of Godand the sound of heaven, then, initiation is necessary. Besidesthere are many steps to heaven that you must know, verbally, theinstruction, and so many pitfalls that you should avoid. And ifyou do not know that, you'd waste a lot of time, and sometimesit's dangerous, um.
Q. Who was your Himalaya master and what lineage?
M. I think I talked about that already in someof the tapes. You go and have a look, okay? Now I'm here and youkeep asking about my master all the time. I am jealous. (Laugher.)I am so beautiful, and you don't care about me. (Master and everyonelaugh.) You care about an old man with wrinkled eyes and crankymood and doesn't talk to any one, doesn't accept disciples. (Laughter.)
Q. Master, specifically what is the difference betweenenlightenment and the power to initiate, and which one does thepatriarch of the Bible have?
M. The power to initiate came first. You willhave the power of initiation also if you are pointed by the master,because a master will initiate through you. And also you havethe power, the true power, the perfect power, not the borrowedone, when you become a master. When you reach the fifth planeof consciousness, then you become Christ or Buddha, yeah. At thattime you can initiate. But enlightenment is a part of it, partof the power. And you will expand this, and get to know more ofyour greatness, more and more until you realize your completeself. And that is the time you'll know God. That's the time you'llbe able to initiate people.
In The State Of Samadhi Q. Dear Master, is it right that we have to be at orbeyond the second level of spiritual practice to have a samadhiexperience?
M. No, no. It's not true. It's just that deeperor shallower samadhi. If you see the light or hear the sound,that means you're already in samadhi. It's just a little bit notvery deep. And sometimes you're in very deep samadhi, and yousit there and only aware of the inside, and sometimes aware ofboth, inside and outside.
Q. If initiated, can one practice meditation an hourin the morning, half hour in the middle of the day and an hourat night? Does one have to meditate two and a half hours continuouslya day?
M. No, no. You can separate it. You can doit on the bus, in the park, on airplane and the train, etc. tomake up for the hours that you need.
Q. Please explain the reason for not eating or usingeggs, and how do eggs represent life and death?
M. Because egg is a symbol of life and death.In it contains life, yeah. And many of the black magicians orwhite magicians they use eggs to withdraw some of the negativepossessive spirit within some people, yeah. Therefore, if we eateggs too much we tend to attract this negative force toward ourselves.Yeah, that's one of the reasons why we should not eat eggs, hm.
Q. Do you have homosexual disciples?
M. Yes. Do I have to report to you their privatebusiness? You see, homosexuality is just a misconception abouttheir awareness. They misunderstand their body's function. Andwhen they become enlightened, this will be less and less, becausethey will identify themselves less with the body, but more withthe spirit. Therefore there's nothing wrong with that. Yeah, whenthe children are very young, they play with plastic models andthey cling to their teddy bears, but when they grow up, they willleave them. So do not worry about your misidentification withyour body or with your birth appearance. It's alright, just getenlightenment, and everything will fix itself in due course.
Q. Master, I often see that in meditation it is my mindwatching my mind, I lose faith that I can't go beyond this technique.Any advice? Thank you!
M. Oh, of course, it's not the very suitabletechnique for you perhaps. Because if we use the mind to watchthe mind, we are still inside the mind and inside the creation'sdestroying and nourishing process. We should go beyond the mind.Therefore in our meditation, we don't use the mind at all. Yeah,and that is the most advanced technique. So, maybe try ours, Okay?!Um.
Q. What happened to your husband?
M. Oh, thanks for your concern. We've lostcontact for, I think, several years now. Well he waited for mesix years, alright? And then, he remarried after six years. Andduring the time we wrote off and on, half a year a letter, orone year a letter. And after six years, he got married again,with a vegetarian doctor wife. And then he got a son and he reportedthat to me. That was the last I heard of him. If you are interestedto know, maybe I'll go into the second level and have a look athis future. (Master and everyone laugh.)
Q. Master, how important is it to see the light eighteeninches in front of me. I only see it close to my forehead. Thankyou.
M. It's fine, It's a good beginning. Don'tworry. It will grow further.
Why Budhi Dharma Sat Facing TheWall For Nine Years Q. I don't know if it's my business to understand, butI would like to find out about Buddha's message when he came fromIndia and sat facing the wall for nine years.
M. Oh! The patriarch, the Budhi Dharma? Facingthe wall for nine years? Because He had nothing else to do. (Laughter.)If it weren't for you, I would probably sit and face the ceilingfor nineteen years. (Laughter.) You see. If they have things todo, they would do them whole-heartedly. If they have nothing todo, they just do what they want to do. Yeah, that's it. And ifHe loved the wall so much, why not? (Laughter & applause.)You see actually, of course I make a joke about it. But you see,to elaborate it further, you should understand that an enlightenedperson is very contented within him or herself, and does not desireto do anything when it's not necessary. For example, if I don'tcome to you or if I don't lecture or if nobody requires me tocome out to see them or talk to them, I am always in my room.Yeah. Of course sometimes I like to take a walk in the gardenor in the forest whenever it's there. If not, I stay in my room.I do nothing, I am just happy. Yeah, I may read books, or notread books. I might meditate, or not meditate. I may sleep, orI may feel awake. I may eat something or not eat something. I'mfine within the walls. You see! That's the problem with the prisoners.Because they are not enlightened, therefore they feel walls separatethem. If they were enlightened they would sit pretty well in thereand they'd never probably want to leave prison at all. Yes, itis because we are very contented within ourselves. You see. That'swhy the patriarch, He sat there and felt good. At that time, probablythere was no lecture hall for Him, and not many people understoodHim. So, He just sat there and enjoyed Himself. He could havedone other things, but it wasn't necessary at that time.
There was a story about a Zen master and hisdisciple. I am afraid to lose your time. Is it okay to tell? (Audience:Yes.) Okay. One Zen disciple, yeah, very enlightened perhaps,came to see his master after some time, and then his master askedhim, Ah, well, well, what did you do all these months? Yeah, youhad a summer vacation, now what did you do? He said, Oh, in mybackyard, there is a big piece of land. I cultivated it and plantedsome vegetables, and they tasted so good, they looked good. Yeah,and I feel very good about it. So, the master praised him andsaid, Oh, well, well, you did not waste your time, huh! You knowhow to use your time, it's very good, yes. And so the discipleasked the master: Then what did you do during this time that Iwas not here? What did you do? And the master said, Oh, in thedaytime I ate and read books, in the nighttime I slept, hm. So,the disciple also nodded his head and said, Oh, well, well, master,you also know how to use your time, you didn't waste your time,you are very useful! You understand? Yes, it's very comfortable,huh! It takes an enlightened mind to understand an enlightenedmind. So, that's what it is, with the enlightened people. If theyhave work to do, they do it. If they don't they don't miss anything.So, whenever we are on tour, we are sometimes in a kind of veryfamous place. You know? Like when we were in Mexico, we were nextto the pyramid, yeah and of course people would like to go there.It was about one hour from our place actually, and my room wasin the middle of the city, with all the noises and all the narrowness,everything. But still I didn't long to go to the pyramid. So,we never did go.
Even though I stayed there six days, and lecturedonly one day. But I saw people every day of course. But I hadno longing to go to see pyramid, or anything else. I stayed alwaysevery day, every minute of the day in my room.
And so, I told you again and again, enlightenmentis the only way for the cure of everything in this world. Otherwise,if anyone else, you put them in the room like that, yeah, anddon't let them go to see pyramid, something, they will be unhappy.But we are not. I and my disciples, the immediate crew, you know,nobody wanted to go to the pyramid. I asked them, If you wantto go, you are free to go. Don't have to wait for me or ask mypermission. But nobody wanted to go. They are just happy to serve.They sleep when they have time. And when they wake up, they goand prepare for the lecture-equipment and all that. No one longsto go sightseeing, nothing. It's because we are very contentedwithin ourselves.
Therefore, the first patriarch, Bodhi Dharma,the Buddhist who came to China and faced the wall nine years,it was the same situation, um.
Why Ego Exists? Q. During meditation do we need to keep ourselves awakeso that we know that we are meditating? If I fall into a stateof not fully being awake or I fall asleep, is there any good inmy meditation at all?
M. Yes, it's a good sleep. (Laughter.)
Q. I have been on a vegetarian diet for three months,but I can't cross my legs because there is a problem with my legs.So, am I qualified for initiation? And can you comment on posturein meditating?
M. Then don't cross your leg for God's sake.Do what you want with your legs. I don't want your legs. I justwant your enlightenment, okay.
Q. After initiation and if Master is not with us, ifI have any problems with my meditation, what should I do?
M. The Master is always with you, hm. Masteris not the body. We are wisdom. We are connected with the wholeuniverse. And the master who is worth his name is omnipresent.So, whenever you are in trouble, the Master knows. And the Masteris always helping you to progress. Whether you see the Masteror not, it depends on your power of samadhi. Otherwise, Masteris twenty-four hours awake and taking care of you. So don't worry,okay?
Q. Master, You are very beautiful and have much to offer.I am glad to be here. My question has to do with the ego. Whatare we to do with it, if anything, and why does it exist?
M. I see. The ego doesn't exist actually. Theego comes from the information that we collect during our time,and during our inter-relationships with others or with all thingsaround us, yes.
For example, when you were born, you had noego. But when you grow up and then you know yourself to be beautifulor handsome, yes, then, the ego begins to grow yeah. And everybodypraises you. Wa! you're beautiful! And then, You have a Ph.D.!You grow more in pride, and that is the ego, yeah. But, don'tworry about it. It's just a good accessory sometimes. And youcan throw it away anytime you don't need. But, you have to haveenlightenment first in order to know when to wear it, and whento put it down. Okay?
Initiation Is The Only Way To ReachThe Fifth World Q. What kind of light and sound can I hear when I reachthe fifth level? I mean what symbol will let me know if I cometo the fifth level of meditation?
M. That I tell you at the time of initiation.Because I cannot just tell you like that at random. I don't knowwhat kind of meditation you do. If you want to elaborate further,maybe it's better, um. The fifth level is meant for the initiatedpeople only, not for other disciples. They couldn't even reachthe first.
Q. Dear Master, I'm married, but I sometimes have dreamsof being with other beautiful girls. How do I prevent these dreams?Am I creating heavy karma? Please tell me.
M. It's alright! Just enjoy your dreams okay?!(Laughter.) Just don't do it in the reality. Otherwise, your wifewill not let you enjoy it. And keep it a secret. What can we dowith dreams? Right? Forgive yourself. It's okay!
Q. When does the soul enter the body? Is it before ourbirth or after our birth? How can it happen if we are born asa twin?
M. No, because you like to stick together,I guess, huh! You have affinity with each other, um. And you wantto go out at the same time to have companion. No problem abouttwins, yeah. We are twins ourselves. We have both feminine andmasculine aspects inside. And we, if we reunite that, we're happy,um. Forget about the physical aspect.
Experience Is Better Than EmptyTalk Q. Dear Master, please let us know more about energy,the relationship between energy, peace and love. The only thingwe know from science is that energy can not be destroyed or created.Energy can be transformed from one kind to another kind. Somesay God is energy, God is love. What do you think?
M. I think these are only sayings. Before youexperience that, all sayings are empty. I do not like to be aliving dictionary but an example of the true knowledge. When youare enlightened, you understand this energy and all the metaphysicalquestions. Energy is many kinds, negative and positive. When weare enlightened, we balance both and make use of them for thepurposes in life and in the right time, the right situation. Itold you already. If we are enlightened, the world will be atpeace. No need to change anything. Of course, that is peacefulenergy that we radiate after enlightenment.
Q. How to affect our beloved, such as husband or wife,to be a more moral person. Is there a special method to help them?
M. Yes, enlightenment. Enlightenment helpsyou to be sharper in all feelings, yeah. And you'll be a betterwife, be better husband even. Many of our initiates claim thattheir married life became much better after both of them practicedGod's presence, yeah, the light and sound. Before that they justhad a kind of very lukewarm relationship, or cold to ice cube.And after enlightenment they know how to care for each other andthen feel more toward each other, um.
Q. Dear Master, I had a lot of nightmares in childhood.Now the nightmares are gone, but, I still dream frequently everynight. Please tell me are these dreams involved with my karma?
M. Maybe you had a very rough life before,um. You lived in truly nightmarish life . Therefore, the influencestill lingers up till now. Well I sounds like advertising manager,but enlightenment is also for everything. If you want to livea fearless life, and dreamless life, then, of course enlightenmentis the answer.
Q. Master, were Hermes, Zoroaster, the Essences, theGnostics masters? And who were the first masters? And who is thegreat white brotherhood?
M. All masters, all true masters are one. Theycome from one source. And the highest master is the supreme master,the almighty which is in all of you. When we first came here wewere masters before. And we came here, we blessed the world. And,we forgot all about our power and our glory. And our energieswere also exhausted, because we paid attention to outer phenomenas.So, all the masters who came here are the ones who are awakenedin this awareness and know their true glory, and they can travelthe road home frequently. And they can lead us back home. So,no need to discriminate between any master. All the religionsare founded after the master has gone. Therefore we have Christianafter Christ, Buddhist after Buddha, etc., okay?!
Q. Enlightenment always seems so lofty. In what wayswill I be different after enlightenment ? How will I know? Isit in black and white?
M. Oh, you'll know it, you'll know it definitely.You'll know it, just like you walk inside the door and when youwalk outside the door. It's very definite and very beneficialto your daily life. You will know it, very definitely. Just likean educated person and an uneducated person, there is a greatdifference.
Q. Is it true that to become fully realized one mustpractice the highest yoga-tantra and the secret mantra? And ifBuddha performed these before full realization?
M. I didn't see anything like that in the scriptures.I only saw that He sat under the Bodhi tree for forty days ormore. And He saw the stars at the time of realization. So, ifyou want to have this same realization as Buddha, you can haveit, right now, um. And about tantra and tantrum, I do not know.I did not see anything in the Buddhist scripture referring tothe Buddha's practice before He was enlightened. I only know thatHe saw the stars and He saw the light. So, if you want that kind,we have it. Okay?!
Q.There is a vow to refrain from intoxicants. What aboutchemicals on fruits and vegetables?
M. Oh, my God! You are fanatic. Wash them withthe salty water, yeah, and eat them. Otherwise, you die, hmm?(Laughter & applause.)
Q. Since I started the vegetarian diet, my son who'sseven years old asks, Is it another no-meat day? I realize myson was born with the great nature of not eating meat. But dueto my ill-concept I started his meat eating habit. How can I restorehis greatness and reduce my guilt?
M. Um, then take time. You have taken muchtime and efforts to force your son into meat, and now you haveto take the same amount of effort and time to reverse.
How Dictators Emerge? Q. Dear Maser, please explain what kind of karma itis when there were dictators like Hitler, Lenin, Ho Chi Minh,who caused the wars that killed millions of people, and made millionsof others suffer.
M. That is a collective karma of mankind which,as I told you, are by-products of the inter-relationships betweenhumans and other beings in this world or other worlds. And thosekinds of by-products became a kind of very forceful strong energyhanging around our earth's atmosphere. And when it is too condensed,then it has to manifest into some kind of visible, such as a verygreat dictator who kills millions, etc. As you have asked, sotherefore, these people are not to be blamed also, in a sense.But, ourselves are to be blamed. If each one of us leads a lifeof virtues, keeps the commandments, and refrain from killing ofany kind - including the indirect killing, so keeping the vegetariandiet - and the world would never have bred these kinds of dictatorsin the first place. These are there to remind us of the virtuousway, and if we are not awakened yet, then these things will continueto remind us until the whole mankind is awakened.
How To Eradicate Anger? Q. What is anger? Why does it boil inside us? And howdo we release this anger?
M. Sometimes it helps to release it outwardly.Sometimes between husband and wife or men or parents and childrenthere exists some kind of tension. And after you have clearedit together, you clear the air, it's also helpful. Whatever comesnaturally, just let it be. If you cannot control it or you cannotcontrol it completely, just try not to bear hatred in it. Justexpress what you feel, express it in as best manner as you canokay?! Because sometimes anger, when swallowed too much of thetime will breed disease within the body.
So the best is that, first we have the virtuesof God, and then other passions like anger, greed, attachment,will subside by and by.
Q. You say only human beings can become a Buddha. Iwant to know if when a disciple passes away and he is on the 4thlevel, does he need to come back to this world to be a human beingand after that to study until he becomes a Buddha?
M. Oh, no, he doesn't have to. He studies fromthere. The Master will continue to teach the disciple and neverleave the disciple until the disciple completely realize himself,hm!
Q. You said You denounce immorality. What is meant bysexual misconduct? Is that wrong?
M. I do not denounce anything. I just propagatecorrect way of life. And you are free to follow it, okay?! I donot denounce anything. If you feel that is a denouncement, it'snot true. Just that you go into the wrong direction. Now you shouldgo back to the right one, if you want to arrive at your destinationwhich is the Kingdom of God. Too much sexual abuse and indulgencetires your body, exhausts your mental power which should be conservedfor the greatest enlightenment, and to help yourself and to helpmankind. It's more noble that way. That's all, yeah. Sexual misconductmeans you have too many girl friends, too many boy friends, toomany husbands and wives. It exhausts your storehouse of energy,okay?!
Q. How do You suggest that a person go about attainingenlightenment when that person lives in extreme and almost constantpain.
M. There are many drugs that help you withpain these days. You do not have to endure that. Medicine, youcan take in order to prevent the pain. And then when you are calmand peaceful, then you can meditate.
Q. Please let us know if God, the comforter that Godsent, the spirit of truth, is only one comforter or a few comforters?If there are a few, please let us know how many?
M. You want to shop, uh, shopping for enlightenment!(Laughter.) One is enough for you, right now, okay?! Because evenif there are a few, who knows if they will come to you and when,and whether you are still alive when the other comforters come,understand? Okay?
Q. Oh, Master, I have a hard time meditating becausemy head hurts when I start to meditate. Please tell me how tostop the headaches?
M. Maybe you try too much. You should not haveany effort, yeah. But I don't know what kind of method you study,so it's difficult to tell you. But whatever you do, relax, yeah.Just do it just like you are mowing a lawn or eating the breakfast.No need to put strain on your brain for concentration. In ourmethod we do it without effort. We just sit there and the lightcomes. Therefore, it is better.
Q. What does it mean when some people are absent-mindedwhen someone talks to them, and they just don't react, or theyinstantly forget what you've just said. Is it because they'retoo mental or they use their mind too much?
M. How do I know? You ask them?!
Q. Dear Master, when You die where does your soul goand what happens to your energy and karma?
M. Me or anyone? (Q. It says when Youdie.) I'll tell you after I die, okay?! (Laughter & applause.)It's too early. I mean I am still very young.
Heavy Karma Incurred In Meat Eating Q. If after being initiated and I still make a mistakelike eating meat or having an evil thought, does it mean thatI'll be disconnected from God or suffer some bad punishment?
M. Evil thought, you might not be able to controlit immediately after enlightenment, because it's just like thecar brake, you see. When the car runs sixty miles an hour, andif you want to brake it, do it slowly, yeah. So, it'll probablytake some time to be able to purify completely yourself. But themeat you can avoid it, yeah, except when you don't know it andyou eat it by mistake, then that's fine. But you have to meditatemore on that day to clean that, because that is a very heavy karma.That's what makes people ill, what makes our body suffer, andwhat makes us go to hell afterward to repay for the sufferingof other beings.
Q. Dear Master, I sincerely thank You for the lecturetoday. I wish that You take care of Your health, so that You cancontinue to give lectures for the rest of the world, and savepeople who have the sincerity to find the way back to God's home.Thank You again. Please take care of Yourself.
M. Thank you, thank you. God takes care ofme. You take care of me. Because you have love for me, you havegood thoughts for me, you have loving wishes for me, thereforeyou take care of me. I can't take care of myself. I just flowwith the water. Wherever there is demand, I just have to fulfillit. I have no time or actually no very fixed schedule to say thatI can take care of myself. Never mind, I am okay. I work hardand I am alright.
Q. This question is about discipline. I find that Iam very devoted to trying new techniques for a period of time.When I do not see results or when I get too busy or too tired,I just give up, I don't stay with the discipline. How can I pushthrough my weakness and continue with daily routine and mastery?
M. Ah, of course if you have a method and itdoesn't work very well, and also maybe you do not follow the practiceregularly and diligently and sincerely, then, you lose your faith,yeah. So, try to do what is instructed, and then your faith willgrow more with the results. Of course if you don't have results,you don't have faith, and the less faith you have, the less results.So, you'll be in the circle.
Awaken The Primitive Force Of TheUniverse Q. Master, sometimes during meditation with the ConvenientMethod, I feel a chill from my spine going up to my head, andthen there seems to be a feeling of energy encircling in my head.What does this mean? Is this a bad or good sign?
M. It's okay. It's your kundalini at work.Afterward you'll be used to it. It's only a Convenient Method,and still it works all so much, because of the master power blessingyou. Other people they practice many years to try to awaken thekundalini, and they can't do it.
Q. Did Jacob receive bad karma for tricking Isaac intogiving him the blessing? Did Benjamin receive bad karma for trickinghis brothers into bringing his father to Egypt?
M. Oh, he talks about Bible?
Q. Ah, the Old Testament.
M. Oh, what do we know about these people?Why do we care? They are all gone, yes. (Laughter & applause.)I think we have enough work to do with our own. Okay. That's it?I am relieved? Ah, fine. Thank you for your attention.
