being A DISCIPLEAdisciple must remember God at all times, and God will be everywhere.We take some karma from people around us, by looking at them,by thinking about them, when sharing a book or a meal, etc. Thisis how we bless people and reduce their karma. This is why wepractice, to spread the light and dispel the darkness. Blessedare those who give us some of their karma and we are happy tohelp them. We do not practice only for ourselves but for anyonecrossing our path. This is why our progress is slow. Otherwise,we would go immediately to heaven, and who would bless the worldafter our departure! So we must stay here to pay our debt andbless the world. We are, after all, connected to each other. Thepeople making roads, planes or our house, everyone receives someblessing from us. Just like the amount automatically deductedfrom your pay check for insurance, social security, etc. No wayto escape! You can think of it another way. If you want to havea comfortable lifestyle, you will have to spend a lot of moneyto buy the new inventions and services society offers. So whenwe practice, people are automatically entitled to take a partof the result, of the merit. That is how five or six generationscan be liberated, how your friends and your family members willbe blessed when they die. These people are connected to you becausethey helped you, because you love them and they love you.
Most of our disciples, whenever they meet otherdisciples on the street or anywhere else, if they run into oneanother in a strange land, they just feel they are brothers, andthey know they can trust that person. They know that person willhelp them, will love them, or at least will not harm them. Therefore,if the whole world is like this, what do you think? Of course,we still have our failures and our personalities, but we knowwe can trust each other, and we know we have love. We know wecan give love. We know we give whatever we have. On this, we haveconfidence with each other. If we create a world like this, wedon't need to go to heaven, we will stay right here. Therefore,we started with Nirvana and ended up on Earth. That is fine.
..... Wehave seen our true nature, the brightness inside, the greatnesswithin, and when we talk to others, we have wisdom flowing out,and we feel that we know better now, and that we are truly nearsainthood. But still, in some other moments, if we are not careful,we forget our greatness, we don't use our wisdom, and so it appearsthat we have fallen in the same habits of yesterday. Therefore,the precepts are there and the spiritual diary is there to remindus that we are the teachers of ourselves, anytime, always checking,always controlling, and always knowing when we stray.
You are as great as you make yourself to be.You are as great as you are, when you use your own greatness forthe benefit of others as well as for self-enhancement. Otherwise,do not blame me if you don't see God, if you do not know yourBuddha nature, if you don't know your Kingdom of God. It is you,yourself to be blamed. You are the one you should rely on to knowyour own greatness. I only point the way. It doesn't matter howgreat I am. You benefit nothing if you do not try to discoveryour own greatness and make use of it. Okay!
..... Afterleaving this world, a practitioner of the Quan Yin Method willnot have to be reborn again in this world, unless this personwants to come back as a Buddha to help relieve the suffering ofmankind. It is because there are many more beautiful, extraordinaryworlds for the practitioner of the Quan Yin Method to go. He hasno need for this suffering world. His wisdom, his vibration, afterpracticing the Quan Yin Method has risen to a level of sainthoodand it enables him to be fit to live in the glory of the Kingdomof God.
..... Donot always run around to take care of me. Take care of our guests,take care of our brothers and sisters or whoever needs to be takencare of. It is okay. Everyone likes to run around and take careof me, but you don't realize that I am in all of you. For youto take care of each other is like taking care of me. I only needa little amount of attention. I don't need all of you taking careof me, you will run over me! (laughter). You will overwhelm mewith love and attention, and other brothers stand around and nobodytakes care of them and it is me too, it is me who you left behindor didn't take care of. I feel the feelings of the person. Youdon't feel it, but I do. So if you don't take care of them, itmeans that you bother me, because I will know it, and I will bebothered.
