Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai Hsihu, Formosa,
June 28, 1991 (Originally in Chinese)

Most of you fail to do things well because you lack concentration, and just carry out one profession only. Suppose you grow up, study medicine, and become a doctor. Whether you are a good doctor or not will depend on whether you possess concentration and are compassionate at heart. You may not even do well in your professional career. Suppose you have learned to be a business person, an engineer, or a certain type of professional, and you improve constantly as you gain experience and undergo more training. But even then, your performance may not be very good. That is why some doctors perform better than others, and some architects have greater achievements than their peers. The cause lies in their different levels of concentration and intelligence.

Why are Enlightened Masters able to do everything? It is because they are always in a state of concentration. They concentrate all their actions, speech and thoughts on whatever they are doing. They can also concentrate simultaneously on other areas and have billions of manifestation bodies. They can dance in one place and have billions of manifestation bodies at the same time. This is because their minds are never defocused; they have reached the state of never lacking concentration.

The Sun shines on every corner of the Earth without having to consume anything; however, a candle can only illuminate one spot and yet its radiance is short-lived. This is where a spiritual practitioner differs from an ordinary person. Why do we see things that others cannot see? It is because we possess concentration. Why are we able to do everything so perfectly and better than others do, and even better than the experts, if necessary? It is because we are always concentrating.

My heart and mind are forever concentrated on whatever I am doing, and they are never distracted and never drifting on to other things. Even when I think about other things, only one part of me is doing the thinking, so I can still do a lot of work at the same time. Ordinary people can never do that. If you are not trained or if you are not used to it, you cannot work with concentration. You can do your work well, not because you are focused, but because you are a professional. Being a professional is different than being concentrated. Being a professional, you are only good at one particular job, and even then, you may be good at it only because you have done it habitually.

When we spiritual practitioners practice and attain a superior level, we don't have to be professionals to do our jobs well. We can perform even better than the professionals because we are focused on wisdom, which lets us accomplish everything perfectly. And because of this difference, we are able to do anything. Once we attain wisdom, we can do anything, for wisdom can illuminate the whole universe and create the whole universe. Is there anything that It cannot do? It does those things that are necessary and leaves the unnecessary things alone.