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Contributing to This World

No. CD-EG745

Date: 2002.07.21, 26, 08.11

Place: Los Angeles, Houston & Singapore (Videoconference)

Language: English


Highlights

Q:....You have been helping me all this while, for once, please let me know how I can be of any help to you?

M: Thank you, thank you for your concern. Meditation is all you need to do, and you could help your brother and sister if they need it. Yeah, or spread the news wherever you can, just to help the whole planet to elevate the atmosphere of our planet, so that we will have more peace, more happiness and more prosperity, more progress in all aspects, so that our life and the life of others and of our children's will be more and more comfortable every day and we are nearer to God every day. And that's how you can help and I thank you in advance, I thank you all of you that help in this way.

Q: Many times we experienced so-called good and bad in our reality, is it actually an illusion? Is it a level of awareness? Is it true that so-called evil and good do not actually exist, do we create it? And if we do, how can we go above them?

M: Do not create anymore, and try to look upon the world as transient as the movie as the videotape and try to concentrate on the Five Holy Names and on your wisdom eye whenever you can, and remember the teachings of all the masters instead of looking at the bad or the good of the world. It's difficult, but with practice you can do it, it is just a habit, just a habit. Every habit needs a few weeks to change. If you try to do that, and in duration of 3 week, then you will be able to break the habit of always noticing the negative or the positive, the duality of human existence. But it still exists, but it doesn't matter, Ok! Next time, just try to look at the good and ignore the bad, which will be already very good. Whenever you can, not like you do it 100%, it is ok.

Q: Master, how do we communicate with our inner Master, some of us still have feelings of loneliness and emptiness. Is it because we have not achieved the deep communion with our own inner Master whom is too far to be reached?

M: No, no, we do. We do. But sometimes the world overwhelms us with its activities, attractions and some negativities that it makes us feel as if we are not connected with our inner Self, and that's why we have to mediate every day to strengthen this knowledge of connectiveness; and it doesn't happen overnight, to some people, it takes years long of practice and the ironies is this, the more people we know, the lonelier we feel. If we were to live somewhere alone, after a while, we will not feel as lonely. But we live in a city, or within the environment of a lot of people, of a big population and we know many people. And sometimes people make us feel disappointed and feel, how to say, sad or heart broken, and these events do really make us feel lonely; otherwise, within yourself if we concentrate more on our Self, on what we are doing and every moment of our life, then we will not feel as lonely. Just we are expecting things from people and people let us down, sometimes people break our heart, and that's why we end up feeling lonely. And it is just an emotion level, do not, do not confuse the emotion state of feeling with the spiritual level of practice, all right, but nevertheless, the higher you go, the less loneliness you feel. But only if you can let go of the expectation of other people, otherwise you will always feel lonely, if you look upon other people, look around on other people instead of trying to be independent, be within yourself, then you will be lonely, so try to be yourself, try to be within yourself, try to concentrate within, try to be independent of other people's help, or judgment, or expectation, or your own expectation of other people, then you all don't feel lonely at all.

Is that not right I am talking about? You understand what I said, right? You have the experience, right? Yes, very true. Sometimes we know a lot of people, a lot of friends and they make us very lonely. It is very ironic, but it is like that. (Fellow Initiate: And that's why so many people want to go and live in a cave, and be a nun, so they no longer lonely, right?) Yeah, Yeah, right. But then the habit brings you back to the city, then we continue to rely on other people for our happiness, and for our company. And that's the wrong notion. But it is just the habit, habit, don't worry, just the habit of the mind that we are in the company of others, and we cannot be alone, so you have to take it, take the price of having company, take the price of friendship, yeah, the price. In this world, anything apart from physical things, any thing material, even something non-material, such as friendship, and personal affection between human beings, do sometimes bring the adverse affects, like loneliness, disappointment, unhappiness. Yes, this is the price we have to pay for having the company of others, and the opinion of others, etc., etc., ok, so you take it both sides, or else you don't have any friends, or you don't have any people around you. If you can bear that, it is fine. If you can't, then we know that there is nothing ying without yang. Ok.

Q: Master used to say, in the future, human being can communicate without verbal language, my question is: Is there anyway to direct the disciples to use our power from spiritual practice to lift our world to that level in order to reduce misunderstanding, even wars among each other?

M: Oh sure, sure, you mediate more, you turn yourself more inward; it's not possible that everyone attain the same level at the same time, and hence the misunderstanding we will always have. No matter how good intention that person may have or how much, I mean, how much sincerity he wants to serve everyone else, his level might not be, you know, up to your level, or your level might not be up to her level; and therefore, we have a little bit of misunderstanding. And besides, human, human faculty, you know, has always flaws, you said something, and somebody else went out and repeated, it would be a different one, different story, and then another person repeated after that person, that would be even further from the original version, and that's why we should refrain from worship, or judgment, in case we misunderstood the event. Anyway, meanwhile, before we reach this level of complete telepathic communication from inside level, we have to endure it, bear each other and remember that we love each other and that is the main thing. You know, we might be upset or angry at each other at one time or another, but love always prevail, then we will always come back together as a family.

Q: Dear Master, there has been more wars, fighting, and nature disasters in the world, I am very sad and worried, what should we do other than mediating more? I love you very very much, please take care of yourself.

M: I love you too. More, I love you more. And please take care of yourself too. Love is the only solution, but most of people, they conceal their love inside their hearts for fear of getting hurt or fear of the past experience that they had in encountering other people or other beings. So they withdraw their love, otherwise all of us were born with love. Love is the essence of our being, but then when we are having collision, or collision, collision, Yeah, with other beings in this physical planet or universe, we became hurt or we became injured either emotionally, or physically or mentally, and then we keep remembering all these bad experiences, we harbor this kind of, you know, negative experience, so we find it hard to open our love again to the world, because we worried we get hurt, or let down and things like that. The reason we had wars and troubles with each other is because we always live in the past, we should live like the animal, they live at the present time, they are always at present, for example like the dog, you just scold him, maybe you maybe smack his bottom or something, or a kid also, then you call him back and love him, the dog comes wailing his tail, or the kid comes running to you right away. They will not remember what you did to him like a minute ago. So this is what we should actually live our life with each other, but sadly we mostly live in the past, you know with the memory. The past is always a past and we bring it always into the present and the present in turn will influence our future, because the present will become the past again and then we always remember these unpleasant events, and we find it's hard to be happy in the happiness at the present moment. Similarly, without practice, you know we are like most of the people, they live in the past all the time. You know Jesus, this Buddha, that these saints, they forget to become a saint, or to become children of Jesus to be on his level again, so we have to, the world, the world has to forget the past all the time, forget all the past hurt, forget all the bad events and learn from them, and grow from them, like a flower grows from bad, foul, smelly and filthy fertilizer, but blooms into a beautiful presentation for everyone to enjoy. And this is how we can stop wars and fighting, and struggle and troubles. But you know, we are still in this world, we can speak like that and we can maybe act like that among ourselves, because we are practitioners of peace, we can enjoy peace and we know how to get in touch with peace at any moment of trouble or sadness, but most of the people of the world, they cannot do that, therefore, even though we practice well, we still have to share the sorrow, the misunderstanding, the war and the troubles of the world at large. We just have to practice harder so that we have more influence, you know, more noble atmosphere to generate outside to the world, and people, maybe more and more people will follow us and then we have less and less war. That's the only solution. Thanks for questioning. It's a good question.




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