Recognize Our Own God Nature
Irvine University, CA, USA. June2, 1998.
Page 3The Soul Needs Spiritual Nourishment Q. Why does one need to meditate two and half-hourseach day?
M.Just like you have to eat two or three hamburgers now and again.(Master and all laugh; applause) That is, more or less, the portionof food that you eat every day to sustain your body. So thereis a portion of spiritual nourishment that you should take everyday in order to become strong again in God, in Godlike qualities.You don't have to, but this is prescribed, the doctor's prescription,fixed amount.
It's more or less; it's not so strict. Besides,we can meditate in sleep as well. We can meditate on the bus,we can meditate on the airplane, meditate in the toilet, excuseme. (Laughter) Yes, yes, we can do so. We can do many jobs atthe same time. There is always time to meditate. Cut down on someof the "unfavorite" television programs, read only theessential things in the newspaper; talk less on the telephone,then you'll have a lot of time; stay in bed a little bit less.Sometimes, we don't sleep, we stay in bed late in the morning,just turning around. (Laughter) That's the time we can meditatevery wonderfully. Instead of tossing and turning, you just meditate,concentrate. That's it. Very simple. Instead of thinking all kindsof nonsensical things, you just concentrate. That's where yourmeditation is. You don't have to sit down and cross legs likethe Buddha; you just lie there and concentrate. I'm showing youhow to utilize your "lazy" time, oh, I'm sorry, (Masterand all laugh) your "unproductive" time, or some othertime in which you scatter your mind all over and you don't doanything. Those times we can gather together and remember God.Very easy.
Q. Do You believe there will be world peace one day?
M.(Master laughs) Do you? (Laughter) Maybe in the year 3000! No,there won't be world peace at all, ever, because otherwise, itwouldn't be called the world, it would be called heaven.
Q. Dear Master, thank You for being here. Where doesintuition come from? How do we know which decision to make? SometimesI get so confused. I have two options, and sometimes it's so hardto decide because each choice it comprises makes up my life andI don't really know which one I should do? I want to get to theplace where I know exactly which decision I should take.
M.That takes some time. That's why we must be enlightened. That'swhy we have to get back the power of wisdom that we have forgotten.We let too many mundane troubles cloud our vision. That's whywe are indecisive. We cannot make decisions because we do notknow, we are not clear. That's why we have to be clear. The twoand half hours that we reserve every day are to clear our mind,to get back to the origin, to be Godlike. Then we will know whatto do better. It will be clear. It will be very clear. Meanwhile,if you don't meditate that much, if you don't want to meditateand if you have intuition, that is the remnant of whatever isleft over of the so-called Godlike wisdom. It's sometimes cloudedby worldly worries and survival efforts, but then, sometimes it'sclear. That's what we call intuition. Meanwhile, if you are notso clear, then you just have to take a risk. You have to feelwhich one is more appropriate or which one ins a higher percentage,then just do it. You have to risk. There is no one else to tellus what to do. Pray to God, and just pick one. Or else, you teartwo pieces of paper -- one left, one right, and then pick one.Either way is risky, so you have to get your own wisdom, yourown Master power.
Q. Dear Master, if I sincerely pray to You, willI be liberated eternally?
M.I think so, (Master chuckles) but only one person. Whereas ifyou get enlightenment yourself, you can take other people withyou too. Like one person enlightened, many generations of yourrelatives and friends, even your dogs and cats, will be liberated.If you pray to a God person, you get only one ticket if you'rereally sincere. You don't even know if you're sincere or not.Sometimes it's hard to tell.
Q. Does hell exist as the Bible says?
M.What do you think? Does it exist? Look at our world, and you knowthe answer. There's no need to look elsewhere. There is a badjoke, do you want to hear it, about hell? Yes or no? (Yes!) (Laughter)Don't be mad. There was a girl, 18 or 19, came home, crying toher mother, "Oh, mommy, I don't want to marry John anymore.I called the wedding off!" The mother said, "But whyhoney? You're engaged already. You're going to get married nextweek. What's the problem?" The girl said: "I don't likehim anymore. He is an atheist. He doesn't even believe in hell."So the mother said: "Don't worry dear, after marriage, hewill!" (Laughter) Bad joke. It's not always true, though.
Why Did We Come To This World Q. Master, why did we fall? Why couldn't we haveremained pure consciousness for those who may have never wantedto be incarnated in the first place? I understand karma, but arekarma debts and credits, a part of the Creator's plan? Why didHes desire our suffering karma so much?
M.Hes doesn't, we do. That's a part of the deal, so that we learnto know the difference between God and un-God, so we can recognizethe light when we come back to the light again. We go into thedarkness deliberately, so that we might know the light at itsfull splendor. For those who did not want ever to leave heaven,they did not come here. There are some who never left heaven,that's for sure, some masters. Some left heaven to come here toteach us. Some have also reincarnated many times and became amaster. We had our choice. We did because we wanted to.
There are many answers to this, but in summarythere are two main purposes that we have karma. Number one isthat we want to know God, we came here purposely just to knowGod. At some time, we lived in heaven, all full of light, everyonewas a saint, everyone was God. Then we said, "God, what isGod?" So God said to you: "You are God. God is you.God is that." "I don't know what is God." Hes said:"You are like this. It's God." But the soul did notfully understand, and asked God: "How can I know God? Howcan I know myself as God?" God told him, "Then you haveto become different from God, from yourself, first. And when youlook back, you will know." That's why we came here. The purposeof our coming here is to know ourselves better.
The other one is, since creation had not begun,nothing had appeared in this world or any other world, then Godmade a plan. Hes wanted creation to spring forth, to come intobeing, and we joined. We were happy to play every part of thegrand design, just for fun. Just to make life more colorful, someknowingly played their part, and for the purpose also that oneday they'd become God again. They would know God again.
In order to know God, they had to play manydifferent roles and one role was related to another. Just likein the movies, you have the main character, you have the supportingactors and all that; otherwise, it doesn't work. So, the karmafor us right now feels very heavy and very unreasonable. But atthat time, for us, it was no big deal. Because we were God, wedidn't see suffering, we didn't know problems; we didn't lookat obstructions as anything undesirable. For us, everything wasjust a play, until we really played, then we felt that suffering.But that's a part of the game, a part of the universal plan. Ifwe don't play our role, we don't exist, nothing is here. I don'tsit here. You don't sit there. You're not blonde; I'm not black.What is there then? Everything is just so plain. It's okay. That'swhy all the perfect masters say, Everything is perfect underthe sun. Jesus said, You are all the children of God. Theyrealize there is nothing to do; everyone is perfect. But we donot realize it yet, so we suffer. We have to realize the sameas they do, and then we know why. Then we look at suffering asnot suffering. It's still suffering; it still hurts when someonepinches you, but you understand it's just for something. You don'tsuffer. You do not sink into the suffering, just float on topof it.
Q. Dear Master, my wife is here today for initiation.She has been vegetarian for a long time. I tried, but could not.Please tell me why and how to.
M.Maybe your wife should go and learn vegetarian cooking more. Thepoor husband cannot just eat when it's not tasty. So actually,enlightenment begins here too, (Master points to Her stomach)not just here. (Master points to the wisdom eye) (Laughter) WhenI first met my husband, (my ex-husband, he already remarried)I was a vegetarian, he was not. He was a doctor, very practical,very down to earth. He's a Taurus kind; he belongs to the bullin the zodiac of the orient, so he is a double bull. So he doesn'tbelieve any nonsensical things, but because I cooked very nicely,he ate every day with me and he had nothing against vegetarianismat all. After I left him for "to save the world kind of idea,"(Master says jokingly) he gathered all my recipes and cooked forhis friends. He always advertised, "My wife used to do this,my wife used to do that, and all the vegetables are very richin vitamins." He cooks exactly like the recipes I left behind.
If even a Westerner, a German, a scientific-mindeddoctor like that, could be a vegetarian, you could be too. Ifall the wives cook very tasty meals, you don't miss anything.For example, you eat a bowl of soup, like Chinese soup, you havenoodles and some pieces of meat in it. Instead of those meat pieces,you can have like gluten meat, tofu meat, or vegetarian ham meat,everything, all kinds. even fish. Everything can be made exactlylike the non-vegetarian, so it's a matter of skill. The way toenlightenment goes through the stomach, I believe. So you wives,please take care of your crafty fingers, make it nice and tastyso your husband will be able to eat with you. Women are easier.Truly. Once you believe something, you just eat anything. (Masterand all laugh) But men they are more scientific, they are morepractical not too sentimental like a woman. A woman can live bysentiment, affection, emotion, so she believes, then she eatsand she doesn't care how it tastes. (Laughter) But men, they'remore critical, so they please their taste first, and then enlightenmentcomes. (Laughter)
Q. Master Ching Hai, please explain our relationshipspiritually to You. After You die, and one has been initiated,is our flight back Home still guaranteed by Your soul spirit?
M.Guaranteed. As has been said earlier, we are not the body; weare the spirit. So when this body goes or comes, there is no difference,no distance between us. And I have told you already, at the timeof initiation, the Method is explained to you so that you canuse it for life. There is nothing that can come between anymore,unless you don't want it and you leave. But the seed is stillthere for next life.
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