Pearls Of Wisdom

True samadhi means that we communicate with our highest wisdom, or the so-called God or Buddha. When our spiritual body ascends, it will be filled with happiness, love and the will to serve sentient beings. When we are out of samadhi, we carry with us the full love to bless any of the people around us. When they get close to us, they will feel very comfortable and happy. Their illnesses might be cured or their anxieties eased. They will also be enlightened, et cetera. That's true samadhi. In order to obtain this kind of samadhi, we have to keep the precepts, practice the correct method, and have the right concepts.

--Spoken By Supreme Master Ching Hai, Hualain, Formosa
March 22,1989 (Originally In Chinese)

Your children will not get anything from you -- maybe no money, no fame, no position, no title; but it doesn't matter. We practitioners do not care for these. If we have, fine; if we don'tt have, it's fine. Everyone must fight for themselves, must defend themselves, must work themselves up into a high position in society or into the kingdom of God without us having to use our glory to cover them. Because each one is born from the Most High power, then this power will take care of them ac-cordingly; and they will have to develop and use their own wisdom accordingly to progress themselves. We have not to worry about our later generation whether they have enough, whether they're rich or poor, whether they will become senator, president or not anything, because God will take care of that. It's enough that we live an exemplary life and then we leave this precious substance of Truth, goodness and beauty to our children. That is the best property that they can inherit from us, and that's the best glory as well.

--Spoken By Supreme Master Ching Hai, Hsihu Center, Formosa
Oct. 27, 1995 (Originally In English)

Whatever you do, if it's a good, noble idea, you put all your effort, that is devotion. So in everyday life, whatever you do, if it's good for yourself and other people, put all your best. That doesn't mean that you have to be successful in order to know that you are devoted. You don't have to. Whether you are successful or you fail, if you have put out all your best, your most sincere desire to do that, to accomplish whatever you do, or to try to make that person happy, that is already devotion; because devotion brings concentration, one pointedness; and devotion, one pointedness brings success and happiness to you. Especially, if you do it for a good cause, for a noble ideal, because at that time you concentrate everything on that thing and then you forget everything else so your mind is very clear. That is also a kind of putting down everything. That's also a way of practice. Ah, that's also a kind of samadhi. That's why it will bring you happiness and relaxation, and then a contented feeling.

--Spoken By Supreme Master Ching Hai, Hsihu Center, Formosa
October 25, 1995 (Originally In English)