Master's Words

Selflessness and Innocence
Make Everything Wonderful

 

 

 

 

 

Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai,
Florida, USA, June 6, 2001 (Originally in English)
Videotape # 714

You just have to be sincere and then everything will turn out all right. And don't have expectations! You should do it because you love to do it for others, then it works wonders. Everything is like that, but people still haven't learned this, or at least many haven't. It's just the ego that stands in the way.

If you do everything like this without ego, with no strings attached, just unconditionally and for other people's benefit, not for yourself and not even in the hope that Master will come, not in the hope of getting merit or getting a blessing from God—not for anything at all—then it's wonderful. It feels very good to join this kind of group and to help or interact with these kinds of people. I like that very much.

I wish all of us could become like that. The same is true when different people ask the same thing. Sometimes I feel very irritated by one person but not another, even though they ask the same question. It's the selflessness, the innocence that makes everything good. Even though it may be the same question, it's the different motive or inner purity that makes people feel good or not. The same is true of actions, whether they make people feel positive or not about joining, helping or even watching. We all know that, but not all of us can practice it.

That's the problem: the ego, which always wants to do things for profit, for fame, for fortune, for whatever, even for blessings from Heaven! That's also not the right way to do things. We have to do things because we like to do them, to share goodness with people and make others happy just as we are. If we benefit from something, we want to give it to others, and that's the only motive we should have.

But unfortunately, some of us haven't learned this, even those who are long-time practitioners. On the other hand, some people are new but they're quick. Perhaps because they've practiced in many lifetimes before, they're very natural, pure and selfless.