Unexpected Grace Will Come Anytime!
Spoken By Supreme Master Ching Hai, Berkeley University, U.S.A.
October 13, 1989 (Originally in English)
Q: What does one do if one cannot just sit down and meditate?
M: Then stand up, walk around for a while, wash
your face, or take a shower. Take a walk and come back again; try
again. Don't give up. When you meditate everyday, it's not that
everyday you get good refreshment and results; but you must do it
everyday. You must do it whenever you can because God's grace doesn't
make a rendezvous with us; doesn't make an appointment with us,
saying, "Tomorrow I will come to give you peace, tomorrow I will give
you a vision, tomorrow I will take you to the third Heaven." No, no,
no. It comes anytime, any second, even when you least expect it. So you
just have to persevere with whatever technique you meditate, and pray
to the Godhead within us, the most high within us to guide, to help,
to sustain, to bless us. Everyday we must meditate, with or without
success. And anytime, maybe tomorrow, maybe the next minute, you get
it. Just don't give in. Just like when we open a shop to sell things,
you never know when the customers will drop in. You have to open all
day long and wait. With or without customers, we have to open.
Sometimes the last customer comes and buys the whole shop, or half of
the shop.
Spoken By Supreme Master Ching Hai At Pang Suan Kaew Hotel, Chiang Mai,
Thailand. December 4, 1994 (Originally in English)
Q: Is it necessary to pray before doing the meditation?
M: Yes, we can; but
it's not necessary. meditation is the deepest prayer, through which
you get anything you want. Anything that is good for your spiritual
and physical well-being will automatically come your way, whether you
pray or don't pray for it. That's why the life of a Quan Yin
practitioner is full of contentment and satisfaction - he wants
nothing. The more he practices, the less he wants. The more he
practices, the less he prays. Seek you first the Kingdom of God, and
all the things shall be added onto you.
