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Spiritual Progress is Reflected in Daily Life

No. 778
Date: 2006.11.30
Place: Pattaya, Thailand
Occasion: International 5-Day
Retreat (Special Seminar)
Language: English

Subtitles: Aulacese, Bulgarian, Chinese-S, Chinese-T, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungalian, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Italian, Malay, Mongolian, Nepali, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovene, Spanish, Thai. (25)

Highlights

In this question and answer session between Supreme Master Ching Hai and disciples, many practical truths about spiritual practice are revealed. Master encourages everyone to avoid the distractions of daily life and lead a more spiritual lifestyle.

Ok, when you sit or you meditate, whenever you can concentrate you concentrate. If you cannot, then well, wait until you can, ok? Keep trying, trying just like when you practice riding the bicycle, ok? Nobody is successful so quick, yeah? All of you, as a general guide, if you don’t see much light, if you don’t hear much sound, it’s because of a lack of concentration, that’s number one, but nevertheless, if your heart is still sincere and you just sit there, even then you cannot concentrate, it counts, okay? It counts. And even if you don’t see much experience because of whatever, yeah karma, concentration and influence from the environment, or stress from job, yeah, emotional problem, it doesn’t matter, as long as your life changed, yeah? You feel more peace, more calm, more loving. That is the progress.
It is your great Self awakened, and knowing that it's good. Okay?Don't worry about the ego, it will go with time, and it will be the last one to go. Because also, without ego, you wouldn't want to, even live in this world, you know, or do anything at all. So in a way, he just, he's pushing also. But never try to listen to him for credit or for fame and glory or all those kind of things. Whenever you can concentrate, you concentrate. You feel more peaceful, more calm, more loving, that is the progress, and that is more valuable than even the Light and the Sound.