Selected Questions and Answers

 

 



Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai,
Three-day Retreat in Los Angeles, California, USA,
December 16, 1998 (Originally in English) Videotape No. 639B

Q: Please, Master, I would like to ask You, my mother and I have gotten some children to adopt who are orphans, and we want to get more. But people in Brazil from certain religions have told us that this is wrong because you can't change the karma of those children. How can I know if I am doing the right thing?

M: You are doing the right thing when it makes you feel good. (Thank You!) When your heart tells you it's good and it makes others happy, just do it; and don't worry about the karma. Jesus died; He probably didn't like it, but He felt good doing it. Because He did it for humankind, for His disciples, He didn't care.

Q: So we aren't causing problems or trouble for the children?

M: If they need you and you feel good and you can afford it, just do it if it makes you feel good. Because you also have to be able to live. If you want to adopt them and you can take care of them, then adopt as many as you can take care of and feel good about it. God never forbids you to do things like that. Even if you take their karma, so what? We are here to take karma. If we can, we do it, and we aren't scared.

Q: Thanks a lot.

M: Yes, do it; no problem.