Penetrate The Tunnel

Between Life And Death

Spoken By Supreme Master Ching Hai

Group Meditation In Austin, Texas (USA)

 Aug. 14, 1994 (Originally In English)

Meditate sincerely. Always pray before, so that you can cut through the thin veil, the thin curtain that separates us -- the illusion of world, from the knowledge of the Truth. It's only very thin. So thin like smoke. If you pierce that curtain, you know many things, you know everything. If you do not, you remain forever ignorant. That's the only difference between a sage and a common ignorant person. Only a very thin curtain.

In the Bible it is also said, The road to heaven is so thin like a razor's blade. It's the separation between heaven and earth. Some Indian sutras, some Indian bibles say, The difference between knowledge and the ignorant is one hair apart... So thin!

It is true like that, like the curtain that you see when you meditate. You saw that it was so thin and so fragile that you could penetrate it anytime, but it's difficult. Sometime, you see it and then it disappears. You can not concentrate there. Try, keep doing it. Just like the man who dug the mountain, made a tunnel out of it. Saved his life, saved the life and conscience of the son of the enemy, as well as saved the lives of many other innocent people. The story might be true or not, but it's similar to our meditation practice. We have to penetrate the tunnel between life and death. Save ourselves, save many people.