85/Pearls Of Wisdom /Ego Trick

Pearls Of Wisdom
EgoTrick Spoken By Supreme Master Ching Hai at the International 7-Day Retreat, Cambodia May 11, 1996 (Originally In English) Don't let the ego trick you because sometimes it comes in so many different forms that we think we don't have it. "Why I love the Master so much," for example, "I love the brothers and sisters so much, I'd do anything for them." Yes, you'd do anything for them, but the way you want. And you busy yourself with being a good girl, good boy and charitable person, et cetera. In fact, you cause more trouble than help, because you don't do the things people require you to do. You busy yourself with any other things to make your days so busy, and you look so good that people cannot even scold you. They dare not even scold you. You'd do anything, anything except the things that other people want. So the ego can always trick us into thinking that we're virtuous, good and egoless; but it's not true. So every time we do something, we must think whether this thing is needed or not; because sometimes the people feed on the charitable actions, like they would feel very good that they did something good. Similarly, the practitioners like us can also sometimes be very deluded into thinking that we are good, that we are very charitable, that we're very egoless by being busy all day and doing everything, that everyone knows that we are busy. But it's not necessarily beneficial. Spoken By Supreme Master Ching Hai,Had Yai, Thailand November 27, 1994 (Originally In English) If we want to go higher and to know the most powerful level of consciousness, we want to taste the powerful energy of the universe, then we must be prepared, we must be pure, we must be one with this purity in order to survive; because this power contains nothing but purity, positiveness, love, compassion. If we have any trace of negativity, of the opposite direction, anything that doesn't mix with this, anything that can not become one with this purity, love and compassion, then it has to be eliminated. That's why we have trouble. So now we know why we must be loving, why we must be compassionate, why we must be pure. Because we want to attain this absolute power.

Spoken By Supreme Master Ching Hai at the International 7-Day Retreat, Cambodia
May 11, 1996 (Originally In English)

Don't let the ego trick you because sometimes it comes in so many different forms that we think we don't have it. "Why I love the Master so much," for example, "I love the brothers and sisters so much, I'd do anything for them." Yes, you'd do anything for them, but the way you want. And you busy yourself with being a good girl, good boy and charitable person, et cetera. In fact, you cause more trouble than help, because you don't do the things people require you to do. You busy yourself with any other things to make your days so busy, and you look so good that people cannot even scold you. They dare not even scold you. You'd do anything, anything except the things that other people want. So the ego can always trick us into thinking that we're virtuous, good and egoless; but it's not true.

So every time we do something, we must think whether this thing is needed or not; because sometimes the people feed on the charitable actions, like they would feel very good that they did something good.

Similarly, the practitioners like us can also sometimes be very deluded into thinking that we are good, that we are very charitable, that we're very egoless by being busy all day and doing everything, that everyone knows that we are busy. But it's not necessarily beneficial.

If we want to go higher and to know the most powerful level of consciousness, we want to taste the powerful energy of the universe, then we must be prepared, we must be pure, we must be one with this purity in order to survive; because this power contains nothing but purity, positiveness, love, compassion. If we have any trace of negativity, of the opposite direction, anything that doesn't mix with this, anything that can not become one with this purity, love and compassion, then it has to be eliminated. That's why we have trouble. So now we know why we must be loving, why we must be compassionate, why we must be pure. Because we want to attain this absolute power.