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In The Universe Spoken By Supreme
Master Ching Hai, Youngdong Center, Korea May 9, 1998 |
Actually
the system of working in this world is of course boring most of the time. Because
of survival, a lot of people have to waste their talents, time and precious
freedom in order to earn a living. That's what makes many workers miserable,
because they feel they are forced to do it. They are trained to do only one
job and they can't change. But the perfect system would be that each one should
be able to work the way he or she wants, and not because of the money. But then
everyone should be provided enough to survive and with everything else extra,
then you do what you want.
In some of the other
more advanced societies in the universe, you don't have to work for a living.
Everywhere they have like a common kitchen, a common store. Everyone can exchange
their labor, exchange their work, their crafts for the goods that they need
and even if they don't have any, they can also have something. But if they want
extra, they have to strive in different ways, and each one just contributes
his talents or his abilities to society. Not for the money, but for the pleasure
of it, for the honor of contributing. And money doesn't exist in those societies
because they don't need any. You are always provided with whatever you need
in such highly developed societies.
People don't need much;
they know what they need and mostly just the basics. The rest of the time they
spend leisurely developing their own talents, their own hobby or whatever field
they choose to develop. That's why the more they are free, the more they are
developed. They don't have to worry about the material necessities like in our
society. It's an entirely different system and people are happier like that.
Maybe in the future
our planet will be in such an environment, maybe in 3000 years (Master and everyone
laugh) when everyone is vegetarian and meat would be a kind of naughty,(Master
laughs) break where they have a restaurant very far in a remote corner of the
planet. You have to take an airplane to go there to eat a meal and come back.
(Laughter) If sometimes you want to be naughty. (Master laughs) Meat restaurants
will be rare like we have vegetarian restaurants right now. Right now it's the
opposite. In many of the planets, other systems, I've heard that they're more
ideal, more ideal than ours. Our system is very physical. Everything is concentrated
on survival, money, property, houses and all that. But in the other systems,
they don't need that; they are provided. Maybe you don't even need a car to
transport yourself around. Maybe you need just a safety belt, or a small apparatus,
a button, and you just put it on your body somewhere; you just click and then
you go anywhere you want. (Laughter)
Somewhere else you
don't even need that; you just ride on the clouds, or a lotus, a blade of grass
or whatever. That's more convenient, no pollution needed. (Master and everyone
laugh) Our society is very physical, very dense in thinking and in the way we
live, very dense. Other planets, their thinking is so noble, so light, if you
happen to go there and associate with them, you feel you have not a worry in
the world. You feel elated for no reason. You don't even need to meditate to
feel elated, you just feel like you're in samadhi all the time. Your mind, your
body is light like a cloud. Not that you become like an idiot or (Master laughs)
blank in your mind. It's just that everything becomes so simple, and easy. All
thinking is with no effort. Everything you do is just so natural, so spontaneous
and so loving, that you don't even feel you're doing it; and whatever you do
you get satisfaction out of doing it, because you do it with love.
Not like in our system
here, where we do it most of the time for survival. That's what makes the job
hard. Many people don't like computers but they have to do it, because maybe
that's the most available job at the moment, high paying and easy. Then once
they have trained in that direction, it's difficult for them to train in another
direction. They keep you eight, ten hours every day already; and once you go
home, you're exhausted. You have no other alternative. You have no energy to
want to change. On weekends you have to do shopping, cook, wash your clothes,
wash dishes or go out with your girlfriend.
Thus we ordinary people
meditate, so at least we can survive in this world. When you do whatever job
you do, at least you have more energy, more inspiration to do it. Otherwise,
it's even more boring if you don't meditate; more burdensome. Unless you're
totally materialistic. (Master laughs) You don't feel anything. Just go, come,
go, come, eight to five, and then you don't think, you don't feel any burden
or any suffering. It's work. Maybe sometimes like a machine. Yes! If we still
have some soul, a kind of remembrance of our origin, then working from eight
to five will kill us. Many times it kills people but they become dull, they
just accept it and they don't want to think anymore. They just go on; that's
why many people have to reincarnate -- because they can't think in this life
anymore, they've devoted more than half of their lifetime to working, earning,
survival, necessity. So they don't have time to think anymore. So they have
to be reborn again, to think. (Master laughs) And maybe they don't have time
to think again in that lifetime, so then they have to be reborn again, again
and again. Luckily we don't have to, because at least we have space and time
to think about ourselves.