Aphorisms

 Spoken By Supreme Master Ching Hai
(Originally In Chinese)

 ★Being spiritual practitioners, we should repent even more gravely if we have failed to use our wisdom.

★If we can rectify ourselves and increase the good qualities in us, our life will attract many of the so-called blessed retribution.

★We should not try to find the Buddha nature from the outer appearance or clothes, but we should look right through into the soul of mankind.

★Once we attain the highest power, we can help ourselves and help the whole world; this is the highest ideal.

★To love others is to love ourselves; to hate others is to give ourselves troubles.

★Ego is a manner of arrogance and complacency. If a person always insists on his or her thinking, preference and habit, does not compromise comparatively with anyone, his or her ego is rather serious.

★Just because we complicate our lives, therefore, we cannot be one with the universe and God can not contact us.

★If we talk, we must speak what we know and what we truly are convinced with, then it has force; then it has energy, and it benefits people.

★We should not let any situation obstruct our work or our decisions. Therefore, in this world we can live meaningfully in such a short period of time and create many plans.

★The best thinking is to liberate ourselves from life and death, to get the big wisdom, highest power and then help ourselves, help others to be liberated from the suffering. This is the best ideal, the best thinking.