You already
are! It's just that you make yourself different, because you choose not
to act like a Buddha. You choose to act like an idiot or devil, or whatever.
Oh, that's your choice, it's all right. But don't blame God or Buddha
when you suffer from the consequences of your choices. Don't blame me
that you have not become a Buddha after you have been imparted the Quan
Yin Method and you have not found your nature. You already have it, why
do you have to find it!? There's nothing to find anymore. You already
are the Buddha! It's you! You just have to recognize it and act it out.
Choose the Buddha's way.
Choose your original way of being. Be a quality person. Be something that
you want to be, like a Buddha. It's all right if you don't want to be a Buddha,
for me; because it's your choice. You do what you want with your life; but
if you really choose to be a Buddha, then you must do it. You must act out
that Buddha quality. That's all there is. There's no need to become Buddha
anymore because you already are a Buddha. You must act out that authority.
You must realize your quality, and that's all there really is to do.
Now, the five precepts,
for example. It's not a must that I impose them upon you. It's a measurement
so that you know what you are, where you are going, where you have reached
up to now. This is a kind of Buddha's quality, or at least noble human being
quality. You would not like to kill anymore. If you were a Buddha, you wouldn't
like to. You wouldn't like to take lives that you have created, or maybe
God has created. God has created life not to be taken away, you know that.
If it's your own creation, because you are a God or Buddha, then the more
so you don't like to destroy what you have created. So, that means no killing,
under avoidable circumstances. If you still think, if in your heart you still
have this vicious quality, still like to kill people, or even kill, disturb
their mentality just for your own good, then you must know that you have
not reached the state of Bodhisattvahood or sainthood. That's all there is,
it's a measurement for you. If you've found, by chance, by thought or by
any habit, that you have kept the precepts during your life, or up to now,
or at least after initiation up to now, then you know your qualities have
been refined. You have become more noble now. You have reached the state
of near the original quality that you have, like Buddha nature or God quality.
There is nothing like,
if you don't keep the precepts Buddha will punish you. You will punish yourself;
because as a Buddha you know what is right, what is wrong, and if you deliberately
have done something against this kind of Buddha quality or God nature, then
you'd feel terrible. You'd feel like you are Buddha-less, Godliless, and
that's what makes you suffer. That is hell. It could be long, it could be
short. It depends on how deep is your deliberation in judgement, against
your own absolute purity. That is what hell is. There's no hell ready-made
for you. There's no God who sits there and pin-points a finger saying you're
good, you're bad, you're all this. You are Hirm. So make sure that you do
not commit anything that is less noble than God, and less noble than a Buddha.
That's how you are a Buddha. That's how you become Buddha, the master of
your own self. Get the choice that you must make.
There's no need for me
to sit every time in retreat and remind you to be good, to be holy, to be
Buddha, and things like that; because you must do it. There's no choice for
you. If you want to become Buddha, if you want to recognize your noble quality
again, there's no other choice for you but to discipline yourself to return
to the noble road that you have strayed away from.
There's
no need for anyone to tell you what to do. You know exactly what to do.
Just ask yourself. Always check inside, and always have to be integrated
within yourself to see what kind of quality you have. That's why the
spiritual diary is there for you, so you know everyday how far you have
gotten and how much further you want to be. It's very easy.
To be a Buddha is very
easy. Just act like one, think like one, speak like one, because you already
are. All you have to do is be it! If you refuse yourself, you deny your own
compassion, your own love, your own mighty power, your own highest position,
then of course even if there is a true, a one and mighty Buddha, or one mighty
God, the one and only, could not even save you if you deny yourself. That's
why we have strayed from Godliness. That's why we have strayed from Buddhahood
and we descended into a lower existence. We get into hell, we get into suffering,
etc., because we deny ourselves. But it's all right. This is a process of
learning. You wanted to learn that way, it's okay.
But if you are ready to
return, you're fed up with it, you don't want it, then you must know now
it's time to change, to return, to turn your head and walk back. Walk back
to where you have come from and that's all there is. Like before, we behaved
badly, we killed people, we stole from people, we slandered people, we did
all kinds of bad things; now we have to return. Just don't do anymore of
these kinds of things and you become Buddha again. That's why you can become
instantly Buddha, can become instantly enlightened. That's why the Buddhists
say if you just throw down the butcher knife, you become Buddha. Just turn
your head, that's it. Walk back, very easy. There's nothing more to do to
become Buddha than just return to where you are, because you already are
Buddha. How many times do I have to tell you. I will continue until you realize
this. It's like a mantra, "I'm a Buddha, Buddha, Buddha..."(Laughter and
applause) But it doesn't help much, it might help me only. Keep on saying, "I'm
a Buddha, I'm a Buddha!" Then (only) I become a Buddha. (Master laughs.)
Well, try to remember. Try to remind yourself that you are a Buddha and nothing
less.
Of course, it's difficult.
I wouldn't tell you, I wouldn't cheat you that it's easy, because your mind
won't let you think that way. Your habit is all-binding because you would
think, "Oh, I'm so lowly. I'm so sinful. I have been so bad, how can I be
a Buddha or how can I become a Buddha?"
You can!
Just return. Just walk back, that's it. Doesn't matter how far you've
walked north, just turn your head and walk south. One day you'll reach.
If you don't turn your head and walk back, you never will. Doesn't matter
how long I accompany you and tell you to walk south, you will never reach
south if you continue walking north. Very simple. Just return.
Before we had bad habits,
now we have to have good habits. Before we thought lowly, now we have to
think nobly. In any situation, act just like a Buddha. Be noble. Be yourself.
That doesn't mean you have to give your head to everyone to chop if they
want to. It's not that way. You have to know what a master should be in any
situation; what he would do; what a master like yourself would do in that
given situation or those given circumstances; what a master of the universe
would do. Think about it and then do it. Maybe it's not exactly as a master
would do but at least you proclaim yourself that you are a master, because
you are. What else are you? You think you came from the devil like some doctrines
has stated? What do we have a God for? Doesn't Hes have enough power to create
us that Hes has to leave it to a devil to do it. Does a devil have more power
than God that he can create human beings like this and God cannot? What does
God do then, all Hiers daytime, nighttime and lifetime? What does Hes do
in eternity? Nothing? What kind of useless God is that? So, don't recognize
the devil as your father.
We have to recognize God.
We do not have a God as a father even. We are God! We are a divided nature
of God. We're just one part of God, but still God. You have a birthday cake
and you cut it into ten pieces because you invited ten friends to come together.
Do you think one piece of the birthday cake is different from the next? No!
You cut it maybe a little smaller because you are not skillful, or bigger
than the next piece, but it is all birthday cake, the same cake, the same
quality. That's why you invited all your friends to share it. Similarly,
everything around here, everything about you, everything under you, behind
you, above you, underneath you, around you is God. Just divided into different
ways, just like a birthday cake. Sometimes it's written "Happy Birthday" and
then one person gets an 'H,' the other one gets a 'y,' the other gets a 't'
or 'u,' something like that. Or, "Happy Birthday to Michael" one gets 'Mi-'
the other one gets '-chael,' but that makes no difference. It's still the
same cake, and same quality. Nothing different from that.
So, similarly, the person
next to you - the shorter one, the black one, the white one, the yellow one,
the red one - they're all God, all Godly quality. But because of the way
they choose to express their own experience, that makes the difference. So,
one person would choose to be a bad boy or things like that, go out and even
murder people. That is when the devil is created; because, to all human kind,
that kind of action is the devil and you cannot say the devil is not there.
Devil is anything that's against the Godly quality, against the creative
power within us; because God only creates and doesn't destroy. So, if we
choose the destroying path, the damaging path of the opposite, then at that
time we act like a devil because we want to deny the almighty power of God,
deny ourselves. We like it that way. Some of the people do it like this;
they just deny, deny until the end of the denial and they're fed up. Then
they return and recognize their Godly quality again. They say, "Okay, okay,
okay. That's no good. That's not a very good experience. I've suffered, and
other people have suffered for that too, so I had better change it."
Similarly,
if anything we do in our life we think it's wrong then we just change
it, and that's all. Okay, we might suffer from the consequences, but
the earlier we change the less grave consequence we have to bear. That's
the best repentance. There's no need to sit there and pray to Buddha,
to God to forgive you. No one will forgive you. Whatever you did, you
did. There's no need to ask for forgiveness, just change it. That's the
best repentance, the most sincere, because then you forgive yourself
because you are God. Who else can forgive God but God Hirmself?
If you are repentant within
your heart the God in you knows, "All right. Good that we're returned. We've
come back to where we belong. That's all right to go to the south instead
of continuing to the north." Then you will face the south and you'll be nearer
to the south. That is the forgiveness that you've made for yourself and you
created for yourself.
No one can force you to
turn south if you don't want, even if you pray on the road for a hundred
years, "Please, please, please lead me to the south. Please lead me to the
south." What is the use of that? Just turn your head and walk back. Is that
not easier? Yes, that's the way to do it with us. If anything we think is
not God, everything we do is wrong, just forget it, don't do it again, and
do the opposite. Before you were stealing and hating people and now you're
giving, you're forgiving people. That's it! That' God. God is love. God is
forever forgiving. It's that simple. No need to repent and all that kind
of trouble and starve yourself for seven days in order to clean your sins.
There's nothing to clean your sins except yourself, your determination to
change. Very simple to clean your sins, by acknowledging them - that they
are wrong, they are unGodly, they are not like what a Buddha would do, and
you just change them and do the opposite.
That's the only repentance
that I recommend to you, and that's the only effective way to do it, there's
no other thing. No need to tell me how bad you are and ask my forgiveness.
I don't forgive you. I never will, because I have nothing to do with your
badness or goodness. I don't own you, your life. I don't owe any judgement
to anyone; but it's you, yourself.
Whenever
you want to change, the situation will change. If you turn and walk southward,
you will see more and more of the south. Has nothing to do with my forgiveness,
my turning you, helping you, or blessing you. Nothing! You just walked
the other way and that's when your life changed. That's why after initiation
you have been determined to change your life by measuring yourself according
to the precepts. You know why after initiation your life has changed
for the better? Because it's you, you're determined to return. You walk
back to the south so, of course, you see more and more of the south's
scenery everyday and then say, "Oh, wow! Now I'm in the right direction." Of
course you are in the right direction. If you turn and walk to the right
direction then you are in the right direction, and that's all there is.
Of course, with the precepts and then trying to quiet down to remember
your quality inside by meditation everyday, you remind yourself. Then
you become more and more Buddha everyday.
The Buddha deserves the
best, and that's all there is. The nearer you're to the Buddha yourself,
the more noble you become, the higher position you'll reach. That means you
are nearer and nearer to your original position, the most high, things like
that. Of course your life will become better, what else can it be? That's
very simple. No need my blessing, anything! I will bless you anytime you
need. If I have any blessing, please take it. But remember, the great blessing
is you, that you are determined to bless yourself with your noblest quality,
with your highest position in the universe that you are.
If you don't do that you
will always be a beggar, begging for my blessing, begging for the dead Buddhas'
blessings, anyone's blessing you have to beg for like a beggar. But if you
return to your own original nature and you keep your noble purpose in your
mind - always trying to remember your noble position, noble quality, then
you deserve only better, better, better and best.
That's
very logical. No need to think that I'm the Buddha and I bless you so
that your life is better. There's no need to be like this. We are all
one. I bless you, you bless yourself, is all the same. If you don't bless
yourself and allow me to bless you, it's the same - it's also Buddha.
So the Buddha nature blesses you, it's not from me, not from anyone,
it's the Buddha nature in the whole universe that we make use of and
bless ourselves.
So, no need to worship
me and make me become an idol to you or things like that. You can if you
want to because I will not take the liberty to interfere in your process,
in your growth or in your time, and tell you what to do; but I just tell
you that finally you will have to admit that you are the Buddha and that's
the best for you. In the infancy state, you probably have to seek Buddha's
blessing or any master's blessing, and that's all right, too. But you will
remember the total and then you'll know who you are. That's the best for
you, instead of always seeking the blessing from me.
I don't know what else
I can tell you. What now? But did you understand anything? (Master laughs.)
You say it but you will forget. (Applause) If only you really understood
it, it would be so good for you. Never mind, take your time. If you want
to play the fool, it's okay. Play around, play around it's okay. Also gives
me some job to do. (Master and audience laugh.) The problem is even though
all the masters say the same thing, "You are sons of God. Whatever I do you
can do better. You are the future Buddhas. You and I are equal, etcetera,
etcetera." We still cannot realize it. That's the most difficult part. Not
that we don't know; but we cannot masticate it, we cannot digest it, we cannot
make it become the whole Truth within our being because of the mind, because
of the accumulated worldly knowledge about everything about ourselves - how
bad we are, how bad we have been and things like that.
So, you just have to forgive
yourself, forget the whole journey that you have done, just return. You have
not been anything sinful that can not be forgiven. Just forgive yourself.
Because you wanted to experience that way, so now you know it's no good and
you want to experience something else. That's all right. You are God, you
do what you want. You have the right to experience suffering, badness, worse
situations, if you want to; because you are free, you are God. Can you imagine
a God that is not free to do what Hes wants whether it's bad or good in the
eyes of the mortal? Of course not.
God, Buddha are free. So
you do what you want, but then you know it. You know the consequence is different,
that's all.
Now you
don't want that kind of consequence, you just leave it. You don't need
to take the karma for it. Probably if you still linger there, you'll
take some of the effect; but if you jump out right away, you won't. You
set the house on fire, you say, "Oh, now it's a mistake! Terrible!" The
house is burning, it's hot. Jump out! At least you save yourself. So,
anything you have done bad in the past, just forget it. You have suffered
some consequences, but that's done. Let's not suffer anymore. Let's not
stay there and suffer more than that. That is good. Then, once you jump
out of a situation you're free. No more consequences will affect you.
Understand that? So, no karma. (Applause)
Sorry I didn't give you
a chance to clap, it's to (Master laughs) exercise; but I wanted you to concentrate,
to listen to all this because it's good for you. Good for you, better for
you than to praise me with your applause, clapping hands, and loud hurrahs.
Better that you concentrate and understand. It is difficult, I know, sometimes.
But don't make it more difficult than it is by telling yourself that you
cannot do it, that you are sinful, that you are bad, and things like that.
We're not! We're the Buddha. Okay, we made some mistakes, now we just begin
anew. Whatever consequences we have suffered, that's gone. We don't suffer
anymore if you walk out, turn. Many people cannot do it, I know it; and that's
why you have come here. That's why the world is suffering as it is, because
they cannot tell themselves to return.
That's why Buddhas are
rare. Not because everyone is not Buddha. They are. They just don't make
the choice, don't make the effort to get out of the water, to get out of
the mud, clean themselves, and be renewed, refreshed. They think they cannot
do it. The mud is too far, the water is too much, their efforts are too little,
and they're too weak, etcetera, etcetera.
The more
they remain there, the weaker they become, the more dirty they get, and
the harder to convince themselves to get out. That's why the Buddha must
come, to rescue another Buddha (Master and audience laughs) out of the
mud and tell him to go wash, "Go wash and see yourself in the mirror.
You're not like that. You're not dirty like that. Take some vitamins,
eat some food, then you'll be strong again. Look at yourself, you're
okay."
Sometimes the people remain
so long in the mud, so frozen in the water that it takes some time to recover.
That's all there is, that's the problem with us. After initiation, it takes
time. Sometimes it takes a longer time because we have remained too long
in the water, frozen ourselves. All the systems have become rigid, difficult
to revive it. Difficult doesn't mean impossible. So, just get on with your
job of recovery and the doctor and nurse are there to help you. But you must
take the vitamins, you must eat the food, you must take the medicine that
the doctor has prescribed for you.
Even like I was hospitalized
the last two weeks, I had to take the medicine, too. Whatever the doctor
said, I did it. No problem. Then you get better, no problem. But if you don't
take the prescribed medicine or the advice from the doctor then it takes
a longer time, that's all. Not that the doctor will kill you or do anything
to you. He will not do that. He probably feels sorry for you and he probably
has to work harder, longer to nurse you back to health again. That's the
problem with some of us sometimes because we don't try to help ourselves.
Either we are lazy, we think we are too weak to do it, or we like to stay
sick. Some people like to stay sick, I don't know why. So that they get sympathy,
get attention. (Perhaps.)
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