Spoken By Supreme Master Ching Hai (Originally In Chinese)

★Retreats are very important! Why do our fellow initiates make such quick progress? It is because we hold retreats frequently to make up for what we can not achieve in our daily time schedule.

★Regardless of whether you do something right or wrong, if you do it at the wrong time or in the wrong place, it is futile.

★The more we meditate, the more we communicate with our inner selves, the more we contemplate the light and the sound, the more lighthearted and energetic we will be to help others.

★ "Death" is not to be feared. At the time of death, we only fear that we have not learnt our lessons.

★The more we benefit sentient beings, the more we benefit ourselves; such is the law of spiritual practice.

★Cowardice and fear have trapped us in the cycle of transmigration for a very long time.

★If we have not overcome our habitual fear, we will have to come back to learn our lesson. For us, this feeling of "fear" is the most terrible thing. We should dread this fearful feeling, for it is this fearful feeling that makes us "fear".

★We work and contribute only because there is a need at that moment. After we have done it, that's all. There are no other reasons for doing it.

★ When our actions, speech and thoughts are pure, our body will feel clean and comfortable, and we will be happy spiritually. We will not be affected by anything that others do. We just feel blissful. We will attain the perfection of patience.