Contributing to This World
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No. CD-EG745
Date: 2002.07.21, 26, 08.11
Place: Los Angeles,
Houston & Singapore (Videoconference)
Language: English
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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