Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai,
Florida Center, USA, February 15, 1999 (Originally in English)
Q: Many so-called experts say there will be disturbances during the next
year, social problems, etc., the millennium, computer problems, all these
things are predicted for the next year. I am wondering what preparations
You see that we should make: families, centers, to help our community,
just to be prepared for everything.
M: Yeah, be prepared to die anytime, that's my advice. [laughter and applause]
Because we die in any millennium, I tell you. [Master laughs]
Q: In every Millennium.
M: Anytime, be prepared. That's right. It could be in the next few days.
It could be the next moment. I am prepared all the time. Disaster may strike
at any time in any area anyhow, in any millennium. For example, sometimes
you are here and the weather forecast is for a storm coming, or flood coming,
then of course, you have to prepare your Noah's Arc somewhere. Put it in
the attic or hang it from the ceiling to feel secure for your children.
Of course, you are responsible for their safety, and do your best to bring
them into safety. That's it. Whenever it comes, there is no millennium
as bad as now.
They have been predicting that for thousands of years. We are supposed
to be dead already according to their predictions [laughter]. Some of the
predictions say our planet is supposed to be kaput already. Finito! But
it goes on, you know. And if it doesn't go on, we have other planets. We
have the inner planet, which is indestructible. Don't concern yourself
much about physical things. All these predictions are concerning the physical
only. There's not much to worry about. Even if we do worry, even if I know
tomorrow is the end of the world, what can we do? You think we can escape
somehow by preparing, or hanging some bottles on the ceiling or something
like that? When God wants to take us away, or to bring us back to where
we belong, we go. But meanwhile, if we don't know that Hes wants us to
go, then we prepare whatever like everyone else, because what else is there
to do?
Q:Thank You.
M: The reason why we prepare, I'll tell you why. For example, even though
you are a practitioner, and you believe in God. You say, "Oh! God
will take care of me, and everything." But why? Why let God worry
about two bottles of water and packing rice and some bread for you? These
things you can do yourself. And why do you do it? To have peace of mind.
Why should you sit there and worry about whether you will be safe or not,
whether God will come or not? And why would you let people who depend on
you, like your children or wife worry about whether you have food to eat,
if supposing a flood comes? So that's why you have to be prepared. You
prepare it when the flood comes, prepare some food, put it safe somewhere,
or drive them to safety, things like that. This is a normal thing to do.
So I don't advise people to put away anything, anyway, or make anything
anywhere. And if I do so, it's just because it's at a specific time to
ease their mind. I want them to concentrate more on the wisdom than on
food while they are at it.
If they already know: "Okay, we have a cave of food somewhere,"
they meditate better. That's all. It's not because that can help us. Lots
of people are concerned about the Millennium and the end of the world and
all that. It's okay. As long as we do our spiritual practice and send out
loving energy, the world will still go on splendidly and get better and
better. And if people don't practice well, and there's not enough good
energy, then the world has to go, and that's okay. God will make another.
Q:Do You think the reason it hasn't happened is because there are more and
more spiritual practitioners?
M: That, also. Yes.
Q: Do You think there are other reasons?
M: There were many reasons for why it hasn't happened.
Q: Like so many changes were supposed to happen right now.
M: Yes, yes. And it's supposed to be true, too. And if it's true, the reason
why it did not happen is because the atmosphere changes, people's consciousness
changes. They fear God, and they pray more, and they go more inside, they
repent, and they go in a more right direction, so the energy changes into
being more positive and uplifting. So it changes. Everything changes. Because
disaster is attracted by bad energy, by a vicious energy, atmosphere.
So if everyone starts to think good thoughts and pray to God, then the
atmosphere changes. When the atmosphere changes, the disasters, which are
bad energy, have nowhere to hook onto, so they have to pass by or disappear
somewhere else in the vastness of the firmament, or, in the atmosphere.
So if we are happy-go-lucky persons, we attract more luck and happiness.
That's normal. And another reason that it doesn't happen is because that
person probably predicted wrongly. [laughter] Yes. He kind of had clairvoyance
or some astral psychic powers. And what he saw happening was somewhere
else, or was his own illusion. The third reason is that sometimes he sees
these things in the past, or in another place, not this planet, and he
gets it all confused. Since he lives here, he thinks it's here. Since he
lives in this present, he thinks it's now. But the time in dreams sometimes
doesn't coincide with the time of this reality.
When he thinks it's coming this year, he calculates it wrongly in the different
dimension. The time is different. And maybe there is no time at all. So
when he comes back, he thinks it's this year. He calculates that everything
is this year, but it's not so. So there are many reasons. There is no need
to bother about all these metaphysical and physical phenomena. The more
we meditate, the more we spread the good news, the more we feel good. And
even if we don't feel good, and we have to go, then we go. We have to go
at the end. We don't stay here forever, whether we practice or not.
