Selected Questions and Answers

Meditation is the Great Purifier

Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai,
Videoconference with initiates from the San Jose Center,
Costa Rica, September 28, 2002 (Originally in English)

Q: During our life of vegetarianism, if we need a blood transfusion from meat-eating people and continue practicing, how much can it affect the process of our spiritual elevation?

M: If you have to have an emergency operation, or experience an emergency for which you have to have a blood transfusion, just take it and then practice more and you’ll purify the little blood you receive. Besides, our bodies keep changing and changing and eliminating all the time so a little blood transfusion will be out of your body in no time, and be replaced by a purer vegetarian kind of blood. So don’t worry so much, and if you receive a little blood transfusion from someone who eats meat, that person and the animal that offered the meat will gain merits from you and that’s also fine. Yes, meditation can purify everything. Besides it’s only for a short-term period so you can eliminate it in no time; don’t worry.♥

Illness Increases One’s Longing for Enlightenment

Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai,
Videoconference with initiates from Hamburg,
Germany, October 6, 2002 (Originally in English)

Q: Bodily illness has created many obstacles on my spiritual path. On the other hand, such illness makes me understand many things so is it good for my practice?

M: Yes, it’s good so that you understand the ephemeral nature of human existence and the urgency of getting enlightened. So try your best to meditate more because the more you meditate the less illness you’ll have and the more relaxed and happy you’ll become. And the more relaxed and happy you are, the better your body will heal itself. Meditation is your medicine. Do it.♥