Actually,
what I will show you is a self-teaching method. Your own Buddha will
get up and teach you. Your own God will get up and teach you. But
first I must show you how to wake up that God or that Buddha within
yourself, which is the greatest teacher. The Kingdom of God within
or the Buddha inside you, that is the greatest teacher, not I. But
I just know how to wake Hirm up and introduce you to Hirm, tell Hirm
to get up and do the work right. That's all my job is.
Spoken
By Supreme Master Ching Hai,
Sao Paulo, Brazil, November 11, 1989 (Originally in English)
Meditation
is a kind of education, a kind of learning process. It's just like
when you go to college, you ask your professor or teacher something,
and then you must sit quietly and listen to his/her instruction and
wisdom. If the student just goes to college and asks the professor
something, and then walks out immediately and does something else,
will he ever be wise? So even though the professor is in front of
him, he gets nothing, because he doesn't give him/her a chance to
speak.
Meditation
is like any other science in our lives. We must learn. We must be
willing to accept the wisdom that will be given to us. And like any
other science and study, we learn by listening and by practicing.
When we sit quietly in silence, there will be a lot of information,
blessing, love, and energies pouring into our being. We will feel
differently after meditation. And the longer the period and the longer
we meditate, the wiser, the more peaceful we become. This is how the
world will become peaceful.
Spoken
by Supreme Master Ching Hai,
Hsihu, Formosa, June 16, 1991 (Originally in Chinese)
Spiritual
practitioners are just in a different kind of school that is higher
than worldly universities. The learning of worldly knowledge ends
in the university. If we want to know about the greater or more mystical
things in the universe, we have to walk on the spiritual path. You
are also in a kind of school with me, a spiritual Master, but here,
you learn different knowledge that is higher than what we learn in
a university. Worldly knowledge cannot compare with spiritual knowledge,
because there are many mystical things that cannot be explained in
a worldly way. Of course, universities offer some benefits. They teach
numerous subjects. But, everything is taught here in our group; it
is taught inwardly. No worldly language is necessary. Therefore, our
school is a transcendental school.
