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Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai, Three-day International Retreat, Los Angeles, USA,
December 16-18, 1998 (Originally in English) Videotape No. 639Q: And as we move into the Golden Age, won't that mean that a lot of our initiates will start sort of "popping up" to the fifth level and becoming masters? If that's the case, then I would like to ask to be brought to the fifth level, because I am tired of being down here.
M: You are as high as you want to be. So you just have to want to be that. Everyone is tired. But I think you are already a master. If you wait until the Golden Age to pop up and become more of a master, then I don't know where I will go. You are already a master of yourself in terms of your destiny; you have everything you want. There's no need to number "fifth" or "fourth" again. That's the Buddha's stuff. We don't care.
We have to be happy and then be confident, be positive. Every time you think that you are at a lower level, throw that idea away. Every time you feel you are depressed or beaten up, throw that idea away! It's tough, but that's how you beat the blues. That's how you become higher. You cannot want to be at the fifth level and be thinking at the same time that you are lowly, beaten up by karma and being negative. I can't help you. You are the one who decides at which level you want to be, not me. I can't bless you; you bless yourself. Suppose I say, "Okay, go to the fifth level; I bless you." But your mind is still used to thinking negatively and being depressed and pessimistic. You have to train your mind. Tell it that you are the master; tell it what to think, what to do, what to feel, and which level you command. When you can do that, you know you are the master. You are already a master; it's just that you have a hard time convincing yourself. You have to work with yourself.
