Spoken By Supreme Master Ching Hai , Mexico, April 1, 1993
(Originally In English)

Q : What's the importance of music in our lives? Does it have any importance ?

M : Yes. It does. It's very important. This is why many people in mental hospitals use music as one of the healing instruments. And sometimes after a hard day's work, we listen to some soft soothing music. It's very relaxing and recharging. And in some of the factories they put music so that the people work better. But that's only the outer music. Can you image how more beneficial it is if we listen to the inner music, the music from heaven, which initiation will help you to rediscover.

This music is the word of God. It will give us more and more wisdom, more and more intelligence each day. Together with the light of God, it will bring us closer and closer to the Father, and then tell us everything in this non-verbal language how to handle our daily lives. That's how the life of the initiates becomes better, more comfortable, more intelligent and nearer to God each day.

Spoken By Supreme Master Ching Hai United Nations N.Y. U.S.A.
June 26, 1992 (Originally In English)

It sounds too religious when we say the Kingdom of God. It's actually just some level of higher consciousness. The people in the old days, they said that it is heaven, but in scientific terms, we can say it is a different higher level of knowledge, a higher level of wisdom. This we can have access to, should we know how.

So lately in America, we have all heard of the latest invention -- that people even have a machine to put you into samadhi. Have you experienced this? You haven't? No? It's in America, four hundred to seven hundred, depending on what level you want. This is for the lazy people who don't want to meditate, just want to be right in samadhi. Now, in case you don't know, I'll be brief about that.

They say that this kind of machine can put you into a relaxed mental state then you will achieve a high level of IQ. That's supposed to give you high knowledge, high wisdom and then you feel great, etc etera. This machine uses some selected outer music, so you need earphones, and then they put some electric, probably, currents that stimulate you, Then you probably see some flashes. So you need also a blindfold. The earphones and a blindfold, that's all you need for samadhi. This is very good, and four hundred dollars -- very cheap. But our samadhi is even cheaper, it costs nothing, and it's forever. You don't need to charge with batteries or electricity, plug in, plug out; or in case the machine goes out of order, you don't need to go and fix it.

Now, even if the artificial light and music can make people become so relaxed and so wise -- it is supposed to give them this, but I have only read in a newspaper what it's supposed to do, I haven't tried it myself. So that's why it is very hot and has sold a lot, I've heard. Even these artificial things can put us into a relaxed mood and increase our IQ, then can you imagine how much the real thing can help us in our wisdom? The real thing is beyond this world but it's accessible to every man, should we want to contact it. This is the inner heavenly music and the inner heavenly sound. And depending on the intensity of the inner light or inner music, we can push ourselves beyond this world, go into a deeper level of understanding.

I guess it's just like the laws of physics. If you want to send some rocket beyond gravity, you have to have a lot of pushing power behind it. Also when it flies very fast it emanates some light. So I guess when we go fast into the beyond, we also, radiate some light, and can hear the sound.

The sound is a kind of vibrational power that pushes us into the higher levels, but it does that without any noise, without much trouble and no cost and no discomfort to the "experiencer". That's the way to go into the beyond.

And what is beyond this world that is better than our world? Everything that we can imagine and cannot imagine. Once we experience it, then we know. No one else can tell us really. But we have to be persistent in that, and we have to be truly sincere.

Spoken By Supreme Master Ching Hai in Canada February 26, 1991 (Originally In English)

So, Quan Yin means contemplating the sound. Now, I'll explain something more about the sound so that you understand. In order to practice to be near God we must follow the source, the stream, the life current -- to go back to where it comes from because we come from that. Just like the river, if we go along the river side, we'll go back to the source where the river comes from. Now the sound manifests itself in many stages. The coarsest stage is in this world.

And we hear many things -- music, talking, language. We use this kind of visible or audible sound to the ordinary ears to communicate and even to transmit some of the understanding of the invisible sound. The invisible sound is God, which is also connected with this visible sound, but in a finer, in a more subtle degree. Once we understand what the so-called master or our teacher or our guide says about the invisible sound, and that we want to connect with that source, through the spoken words, then after instruction by this teacher or guide or expert, we can contact the finer sound which is above this physical sound, above this physical world. We must raise our consciousness higher in order to catch this sound.

Now our consciousness is just stuck in the physical body in different directions. Through the eyes, it sees things. Through the ears, it hears the sounds of the physical world. Through the touch, it experiences the surroundings and all the entities, and all the existing objects in this world. But if we withdraw this so-called consciousness to a certain point in the body, for example, here (Master points to the wisdom eye). Then, we can rise higher through this door to a more subtle world, in order to experience the more subtle levels of consciousness, the more subtle existences or worlds, and hear the more subtle sound.

But the subtle sound also connects with this physical sound, too. But it's just on a different level. In order to hear that, we must be concentrated and somewhat distracted from the outer environment for a while. And the so-called masters or experts should be able to help us to do this in no time, immediately. That's why it's called immediate enlightenment. Enlightenment means we can see light. The light in us is enlightened. Now, we can see light or the heavenly world and hear the sound of the higher world. That's what's called enlightenment, through the process of sound connecting with the original sound of the universe, which is the "word" in the Bible, or the sound of many waters, etc. in the Buddhist Sutras. Anyone who is able to help us to connect ourselves with this original sound or God's energy, is called a master.