Do
you know why there won't be any saints if there are no sentient
beings? We have the great wisdom, the great compassion and the great
power within us, which comes forth when we want it in earnest. Our
inner wisdom is one with the universe, and we can, after becoming
saints, manifest into any form we wish or any form preferred by
sentient beings. It is very scientific. There is nothing mysterious
about it.
In
the higher dimensions, great spiritual practitioners have access to
million times more information and material than we do. They can transform
light photons into many tools and things they need. Beings who have
attained the ultimate Truth do not bore themselves with nothing to do,
or just fly around on clouds or lotus flowers. They have all kinds of
missions and that is why the saints have many different names. For instance,
the Eastern Medicine Buddha is so revered because he specialized in
medical research and healing people. Since he loved to conduct research
on medicine before he became a saint, he continued to do so afterwards.
Of course, he possessed other qualities after he became a saint, but
he was superior in this aspect.
★Scientific
Knowledge On Superior Planets
Even
before we have attained the highest level of enlightenment, we are already
capable of manifesting many things. Just suppose we are living on a
very advanced planet or in a country that is not visible to the human
eyes. When the superior beings there want to build a house, they create
it with their own power and wisdom. Here on Earth, we use clay to bake
bricks, pulverized stones to become cement before we can build a beautiful
house. In the higher dimensions, houses are built with crystal.
The
beings up there do not have to dig, grind or pulverize anything to create
crystal the way we make bricks and cement. It is not necessary. All
they have to do is use their imagination. Crystal, diamonds and all
kinds of gems are readily available up there. Should you wish to build
a house with crystal, just take a small piece of crystal, place it before
you, and then use your supernatural power to transform it into any size
or amount you wish. Just as we plant crops and flowers here, crystal
can also be planted and then used to build houses.
Sometimes people say: "Sow seeds of merit and reap blessings."
This is certainly true! Whatever merits we have sown here, such will
be the blessings that we will reap up there. We can take the blessings
with us when we leave this world and go up. If we have as great a merit
as a saint, we can have anything we want very quickly. However, the
saints and heavenly beings in the higher dimensions need things only
to help the less capable sentient beings or inhabitants of underdeveloped
planets. They do not need anything for themselves.
In
their houses, there are no kitchens, because they do not do any cooking.
They never go grocery shopping because they virtually eat nothing. Even
if they do, they can use the power of the universe. They are free to
use any resources in Creation should they need anything, being one with
Creation. Having transcended to the higher dimensions, every being is
very responsible, very wise and intelligent, very loving and eager to
help others. There is no corruption; no one is tempted by the richness
of the universe and brings things home to store them. No one would abuse
the wealth of Creation.
The
homes of most saints and heavenly beings are unfurnished, because they
do not need any furniture. All they have are many advanced tools which
they use to help sentient beings below. You may ask me: "Why do
the saints and heavenly beings still need tools?" It is because
of the tremendous difference between their level and ours! There has
to be an intermediate tool to dissolve and neutralize the difference,
so that people down here can receive them or what they want to give.
Otherwise, we cannot receive anything from dimensions that are so much
higher than ours.
Take,
for instance, the high intensity of electricity in our world, which
must be distributed through transformers that lowers the electric voltage
for home use. We cannot use the electricity if the voltage is too high!
(Applause) Why do you applaud? Have you never heard of this before?
This is simple. When the saints want to communicate with us, they have
to take on a physical form, which is also one of their many tools. In
the Western Paradise or other superior worlds of the saints for example,
they can create tools using materials from the universe. However, that
is not even necessary, because there are many departments that specialize
in producing physical bodies, just like many factories produce garments
for sale to people in this secular world. It is not the responsibility
of the President, the internal affairs minister or the foreign minister.
I am not saying that they are incapable of doing it; they can if they
need to, but this is beyond the scope of their duties. So, they do not
have to do it.
Suppose
you want to take a short trip to the secular world below after you have
become a saint. This short trip will take you a hundred years, because
the time scale is different! There are no time or space concepts above,
unlike the way we are confined to the cage of time and space in this
world. Sometimes, the saints might want to take a walk in this cage,
but to do that, they have to clothe themselves with this garment of
human skin. They can just pick one from those "factories"
and then run! This is nothing! To them, it is even faster than this!
(Master snaps Her fingers.) Faster than a brief instant! However, in
the human world, this is equal to nine months in the womb, a dozen years
of growing up, and then six months or six years of questing for the
Truth. After graduation, one spends decades spreading the Truth. For
the saints, however, all these take less than an instant.
Suppose
you become a saint and ascent to the superior dimensions with your Master.
You will continue to learn whatever work you used to enjoy. While learning
to become a saint, you also learn more about your original specialty,
so you can be of assistance later. Down here, we study the computer
or atomic science and help people with this knowledge later. Compared
to those of the higher realms, the scientific technologies of this world
are inferior.
If we study in the superior dimensions, we would learn more advanced
scientific knowledge and become well-known scientists when we come back
to this world. We could teach the less capable scientists here and raise
their levels a little. Then we could take them up for advanced training
so they could become masters in their field of expertise, that is, masters
of science. They would be wiser and more capable of doing many things.
Most
of the scientists in our world are taken, either with or without their
knowledge, to the higher realms to learn some lessons while they are
asleep at night. Some scientists in the higher dimensions are very concerned
about how our planet is developing, so they come frequently to take
our scientists up there for training. Very often, it is not that easy
to take the scientists up, so some top scientists are sent here from
above. However, when they are here, their wisdom diminishes, compared
to how they were above.
They
seem to live two lives simultaneously -- one here and one above. Their
spiritual body lives up there, and their physical body lives down here.
The two bodies are interconnected, so they can adjust their minds and
bodies from above, and command them to work. What is the use of the
physical body? It is for communicating with other people. There are
many levels of sentient beings engaged in many professions. Among them,
the scientists wield greater influence on the world, so it is necessary
to train them to change this world.
★Enlightened
Scientists
The
saints send some heavenly beings here as top scientists, and through
them, develop contacts with other scientists. Due to these contacts
having been established, the scientists can, with their consent, be
taken to higher realms to be trained at night. They have more or less
been influenced by the top scientists who contacted them, so their inner
concepts have changed a little.
Some
scientists never make any progress. They come here life after life,
yet they are stuck somewhere and cannot advance because there are some
theories or laws that they refuse to accept. Then, the top scientists,
who are enlightened, come to provide proof to them, explaining and persuading
them to accept the theories. When they are convinced, their mental barriers
dissolve, they become open-minded, begin to make progress, and slowly
accept more advanced laws and theories.
Therefore,
it is essential that we have saints and heavenly beings here at all
times, though they function in different ways according to the levels
of sentient beings. Aside from the scientific aspects, the saints and
heavenly beings are also good at many other things; they have learned
everything. For instance, if you want to be a very good scientist, you
have to study for over a millennium before you can become an expert
-- a "master"-- in this field. After millions of years and
many lifetimes, you master several subjects and become a saint.
This is a very tedious process of learning many things through repeated
transmigration before you attain the great enlightenment. Saints who
have attained the great enlightenment can understand things with one
glance; they do not need to go through the arduous process of learning.
Those top scientists, of a lower status of enlightenment, are only working
for the saints, who do not have to do these things. The tools in the
houses of the saints are only used to transform superior power so that
it can be received by our inferior world.
★Creating
With Light
Suppose
you want to know how human beings in this world are born and how human
bodies are created. Once you are enlightened, your Master can take you
to places where human bodies are made so that you can see for yourself.
It is very simple and no big deal. All things are created with light.
For
instance, if we want to create something, perhaps a cup, in this world,
we have to melt some materials and mold them using our hands, minds
and equipment. Up there, we use two or three light beams and adjust
them with a tool, which is equivalent to a computer in this world. However,
we have never in this world seen the kind of computers that are used
up there. The computers and other equipment in this world lag far behind
and can in no way compare with the equipment up there. So I cannot tell
you what the equipment up there is like.
I
can only give you a brief description. Let us take as example a heavenly
being who wants to create something with a tool he has. He happens to
be a low-level heavenly being rather than a high-level one. High-level
ones do not need to go through such trouble. So this heavenly being
presses two areas and two or three beams of light converge. One light
beam may be red and the other blue. You choose the light you want to
use depending on what you want to create. You do not have to use red
and blue light beams all the time. Different light beams have different
functions, qualities and intelligence levels. All light has intelligence,
in contrast to the stone-like things in this world which have no feelings.
All light up there has feelings.
When
the two light beams converge, they might produce something small, perhaps
purple in color. Then the heavenly being uses his power to enlarge and
mold it into any shape he wants. He can use his wisdom to adjust it.
This is like how, when we were less scientifically advanced, we used
to put a piece of iron in the fire and after it became malleable, we
would compress it and hammer it flat. If we wanted it to become a circle,
we would hammer it into a spherical shape. If we wanted to make a knife,
we would hammer the iron into a long shape. But up there, no hammer
is used and no force is required. The heavenly beings used their wisdom
to create whatever they want. Many things can be accomplished through
the merging of the power and the light of the universe.
However,
this is still low-level and in development stages. A saint does not
use, or need, such complicated tools. He may teach heavenly beings to
do these things, but only as a part of training, because many of them
like to do this kind of work. They get bored when they have nothing
to do all day. Can you imagine that? The heavenly beings up there have
nothing to do, so they play with light, get two light beams to converge,
and then create many things out of them.
Why
do we suffer so much in this world? Because it is always troublesome
to create something. Even making a knife requires effort. It was even
more troublesome in the past. Many intelligent sentient beings have
come down from the Astral World and the World of Causality to teach
human beings. That is how we have become more and more intelligent and
have advanced, creating scientific things to make our world more comfortable
and our people happier. Can you imagine that places with higher wisdom
and which are more advanced are billion and trillion times more superior
than our world? That is why these places are called the Western Paradise,
the Buddha's Land or the Kingdom of God.
Why
do we suffer after we are born into this world? It is because we desire
many things that we cannot get. When we want something, we have to make
an effort, and use our strength, get sweaty or shed tears before we
get it; and sometimes we may not even get it. We lack many things, so
we feel annoyed. This world is different from the higher realms where
beings can quickly have what they desire and, therefore, do not suffer
much.
From
this, we can see that if our desires, or even material or low-level
needs, are easily fulfilled, there would be fewer painful situations.
Due to material shortages, many countries in the world have been destroyed
and many people killed and conquered by other countries. Because of
war, many people have become slaves and are controlled by other countries.
This is also a kind of suffering. If there were no shortage of material
things in this world, it would have become heaven.
★The
Difference Between Heaven And This World
I
am not using material things to attract you to heaven. I am only telling
you the differences between heaven and this world and letting you know
why we suffer so much and why the heavenly beings are happy, can do
things easily, and are more intelligent and more advanced. Why do most
of us desire many things? It is because we know the higher realms and
have been there before; we have seen them and studied there. The scientific
knowledge and the saints' levels are recorded in our memories. If we
open our memories, we will see these things clearly and gradually understand,
"Oh! I used to have that many abilities." That is all.
We
came down from the saints' realms to this world to have a look, but
we forgot who we were after our descent. However, we can perceive the
saints' realms when we meditate. Where do these realms come from? Did
I buy them at the supermarket for you to look at? Did I turn on a television
to let you see them? No! They are all inside you. They are recorded
in our memories. God is not outside. No one has brought Hirm to you.
It is you who see Hirm when you close your eyes.
Therefore,
there can be no saints without sentient beings. God is our friend, our
nature. Hes is not outside. If anyone is looking for and worshipping
the God outside, it is very sad, because he is walking on an outer path,
a wrong path. We should look inward. All things are within us. Now you
understand that my teachings are logical. (Applause)
If
anyone disagrees with me or feels allergic when I say, "You don't
have to worship God in order to become God. One who worships God can't
become God." It means that he is not enlightened enough to understand
the logic. Throughout the ages, no one has ever found God outside. Once
one finds God, one realizes that everything is created by the mind.
The
Buddhists always recite this in their morning and evening prayers, "If
one wants to realize all the past, present and future saints, one should
contemplate his own true nature and hence understand that everything
is created by the mind." Even God is created by the mind. So we
should look for God inside and not elsewhere. We should not worship
mountains, rivers or idols.
I
have just told you about that realm only so you can compare it with
this world. It is not the highest realm where there is no need to do
all those things. I only told you about some low-level things to let
you understand. If I tell you that you do not need anything in the highest
realm, you may be afraid, because you like to have many things; the
more, the better. Now if you hear that you do not need anything in the
highest realm, you may not be able to bear it and may find it too far
away from you. God has everything. Hes does not need any tools, nor
does Hes need to adjust two beams of light. Hes does not need to do
those things. Hes is omnipresent and can turn into whatever Hes wants
to become. However, some people still cling to certain appearances and
want Hirm to look like this or that, so Hes just complies with their
wishes.
We
have heard that after a person attains sainthood, that person becomes
one with all Creation. But why is there still this saint and that saint?
They are one with the universe, of course, but they still preserve their
own personalities. Since we have developed our individualities, we cannot
go back to what we used to be, when we were all one and had no individual
identities.
This
is just like giving birth to a child. Although the child comes forth
from your blood, your bones and your love, you cannot put him back into
you. He has been borne and becomes an individual. Similarly, since we
were born from the great light of the universe, we have been developing
ourselves individually. Although we are one with the universe, after
we have developed ourselves individually, we cannot become the original
light even though we still have the same quality, power, strength and
love. (Applause.)
★We
All Came From The Kingdom Of God
When
we live in the world of saints, our concepts, views, intelligence, ways
of doing things and ways of thinking are different than when we live
in this world. In this mundane world, we are trapped by the space and
time constraints and we think and do things differently. That is why
we have to be enlightened, in order to break the constraints and go
out to have a look. Most of us were saints once. We came to this world
to have a look, bless this world, and educate the sentient beings, animals,
plants and stones here; we wanted to teach them, bless them, and elevate
their levels. But after teaching them for a long time, we became accustomed
to it and attached to what we were teaching. We couldn't let go and
that is why we are bound here.
I
am not teaching you a new method, nor am I teaching you a new scripture.
I have always told you that you are exactly the same as I and exactly
the same as God. However, you need to practice in order to remember
who you are. How do you practice? Every day, you should look for the
God nature within and it will appear to you. After you have perceived
it for a long time, you will wake up inside and then understand.
For
instance, if we have not used our hands for a long time, we may forget
how to use them. Sometimes after we meditate for a long time, we may
feel that we have no hands, no physical form, and we may not be able
to walk. Only after massaging can we feel our hands and are able to
use them. Sometimes if we have been locked up or tied up too long, we
may become numb all over. When we are released later, we may not be
able to move our hands and feet. This is the reason.
The
same applies to our God nature. If we do not practice developing it,
do not wake it up or get it out and use it, we are no more than ordinary
beings. Although we have the God nature and the great wisdom within,
we cannot use them if we do not get them out. This is like saving money
in a bank, not withdrawing it, and then starving to death. (Applause.)
★Making
It A Habit To Practice Using The Third Eye
When
pursuing spiritual practice, before initiation, or for some of us, after
initiation, why can we not see the light sometimes? Why do some of us
see it only occasionally? This is because we have not used our third
eye for a long time and it has become mildewed and rusted. Even if we
want to use it now, we are not used to it. This is just like a person
who practices using his muscles every day, and his muscles grow stronger
and stronger. Some people eat a lot and practice using their stomachs
every day, so their stomachs get bigger and bigger. (Laughter)
Some
people practice using their third eye, so their third eye becomes more
and more open and brighter and brighter, then they can see everything.
If we can see the outside world with our physical eyes and the inside
world with our third eye, we will have all kinds of eyes and can see
both within and without. Only then will we truly know that the realm
of the saints exist as do high-level spiritual dimensions.
Our
world is only one of the realms in the universe. It is coarse and more
material, but it has a spiritual form, which is similar to its physical
appearance, though more beautiful, more subtle and more elegant. We
cannot see it unless we look at it with our beautiful, subtle and elegant
eye. Just like human beings have both physical bodies and souls, we
may see a material flower, but it has a spiritual, and more beautiful,
form.
An
enlightened person or one who has his wisdom eye open is no big deal.
If you practice focusing your attention on something, you will get it.
If you practice using your muscles, you will become muscular. If you
practice using your stomach, your stomach will become very big. If you
practice using your mind, you will become intelligent. When you go to
college and study many things there every day, you will become more
intelligent and gain more knowledge. Scientists practice using their
minds and do research every day, so they can invent many things for
this world.
Similarly,
when we practice using our third eyes, it is like doing a job or pursuing
a hobby. We should not renounce our wives, sons and families in order
to practice using our third eye. I did not renounce everything. I have
many sons and wives. (Master laughs, audience applauds.) I only renounced
a small family, only one person; but I received such a retribution.
If you think that it is troublesome to have a husband or a wife and
two or three children and that they hinder your spiritual practice,
you can take me as an example. If you renounce your families, you will
become like me; you will have to take care of more people. You cannot
run away from it.
Therefore,
you should still take care of your families, while practicing using
your third eye only as a hobby. This is not a big deal, not is it a
mysterious act. All the saints have been recorded in your memory. They
have remained by your side while you did many things life after life.
You will realize that when you remember them. You should remind yourselves
every day and eventually you will realize, "I'm also a saint!"?
Meditation
And Science:
Different Paths To The Same Goal
Spoken By
Supreme Master Ching Hai, Thailand
January 1, 1994 (Originally In English)
There
was a great Western scientist named Tesla. He proved in science what
we experience during meditation is the real emptiness. People refer
to it by different names. They call it God, the Kingdom of God, the
Buddha nature, energy or the Quantum theory. It is real, the void does
exist. When we meditate, we empty ourselves of everything and enter
into this real emptiness, the real substance of all things.
From
the void comes substance. It flows into our inner selves and makes us
better and better and more intelligent. That was what Tesla was getting
at. The real emptiness within is where all things come from. That is
where you and I come from. Since we have already solidified into this
form, we might just as well enjoy it.
Tesla
had proved, as many other scientists have, that all things are not solid
the way we think they are. The Buddha also proved that our bodies are
an illusion. They are nothing mysterious. It is all very scientific.
When we look inside, we find nothing; we find no physical form, no substance;
instead, we find a real existence, a real energy. That is where we come
from. If we do not regard ourselves as a corporeal body, then we will
realize that is where we come from. That is the real energy from which
everything comes. That was what Tesla said.
If
we can communicate with this real emptiness, real substance, and separate
it, then we can make every use of it and make anything out of it. We
can run cars, airplanes and all else free of charge without having to
use petroleum or to abuse the world's resources.
Perhaps in the future, we will have more scientists who will prove that
meditation is real. They can use scientific means to get the real substance
out of the emptiness while we use our mechanical body and intelligent
brain to derive energy from meditation. We will realize that is where
we come from and where we shall return. We will understand that we were
originally and essentially not a physical form. We have to use a scientific
explanation to clarify mysterious aspects of spiritual practice - that
these are no mysteries really.
Open
Your Hearts To God's Grace
Spoken
By Supreme Master Ching Hai, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
March 13, 1996 (Originally In English)
(Excerpt from Supreme Master Ching Hai News
magazine No. 78 "Master's Words".)
Not
many scientists can offer their inventions to the world. You might be
very famous, or might have invented something that really benefits humankind,
but your invention might hurt the interests of many businessmen. Nicholas
Tesla's inventions are still used by some people today, but when he
was alive, he was rejected and almost persecuted. So he lived in hiding
and tried to do his best in his own capacity and with minimal finances.
That is why to the very end of his life, he still could not realize
his ideas. Had they been realized, many companies would have had to
declare bankruptcy. So they found ways to do away with him.
Sometimes
we blame God for making our lives miserable here. We blame Hirm for
the inconveniences and high electric bills, and we complain why God
does not send some geniuses to come and help us. Yet, when Hes does
send them, we strike them down, abuse their powers, make life miserable
for them, destroy their property and talents, and make things very difficult
for them.
Jesus
Christ came down and was persecuted by the people. The Buddha came down
and was slandered by many, so it was very difficult for Him to accomplish
His work. We should not blame God anymore. We must do what is within
our power to help speed up the evolution of humankind and of ourselves.
God
Takes Care Of Everything
Spoken
By Supreme Master Ching Hai At The 5-day International Retreat,
Long Beach, CA, USA December 28, 1996 (Originally In English)
(Excerpt from Supreme Master Ching Hai News
magazine No.77 "Master Says".)
We
have a lot of advanced technologies, medicine, ways to end the suffering
in this world right now -- even at this minute. There is no need to
have hunger, suffering, incurable diseases anymore. We are already so
advanced, we have found many substances to combat even the most deadly
diseases. But sometimes society as a whole chooses not to do so, just
to protect the economy. I think you know better than I do.
So
it's not that God doesn't give us everything, that Hes cannot do the
impossible things. It's us. It's we who are the obstacles because our
faith is sometimes so thin. We cannot believe that if God gives us a
means to cure the disease, then Hes would give us another means to sustain
the medical working system, and not let it go bankrupt. If God gives
us a mean to find free energy, free electricity, then Hes would give
us another means to sustain the whole industry and not let people go
without work. They will find other work somehow, they will find other
things to do.
We
should live a more simple life with fewer wants. We wouldn't have to
struggle so much -- working, earning money, for example. There are many
geniuses who can prove to us that it is workable, that this world can
become a paradise, even materially, in one instant.