"Any
time you want to ask yourself a question, you should first ask the
question, 'Why am I asking this question?' and 'What's the need
for the question?' Anything that you can not solve you should try
to change; that's all. You have all the power, all the ability and
all the assistance from heaven, the angels and the masters in the
ten directions to help you. There is nothing you can not do, so
just make up your mind and say that you want to follow through with
the hardship, with the course, with the crazy plan that you have
laid down as God but you have to take care of as a human being.
That's
the difference between when you were God and you didn't know what
it was like to be a human being. You had never been a human being
before you came here. So you laid down all kinds of complicated
patterns, all kinds of strategies and projects and you thought you
could follow through with them. Of course you are God so you can
do anything you want. But once you come down, you become a commoner,
a human being and you have to take all of God's plan and that's
why you cry. So just in case you think you can not do it, then just
leave it. Don't hold on to your pride. Make a new plan, something
easier, and then follow through with it.
Sometimes
we are not successful in some endeavor, and we blame God or blame
the Master power, blame our neighbor, blame the boss, but first
we have to think what the problem is with us. If you lose your job,
you have to think about why it happened; maybe because unconsciously
you didn't want that job anymore. If you lose your wife, or if you're
unhappy in marriage or your marriage goes on the rocks, you must
check inside whether lately you have been neglecting your spousal
duties or unconsciously you want to change partners, you wish that
your neighbor's wife would become yours, that the two women would
exchange houses.
Subconsciously
you will manifest this kind of situation for yourself, that maybe
suddenly your wife becomes cold, or she becomes more agitated, aggressive
and makes much trouble in your marriage. Then if she walks out or
if she makes more trouble than you can bear, then you must remember
that maybe it's you. If it's not you, then it might be her. There
is no God in there. God doesn't care so much what you're doing but
Hes stands by. The God power always stands by in case we want to
change our plan, in case we want to have Hiers assistance because
our plan has become too complicated, too troublesome to take care
of.
That's
why every time we call out for help, help will be there. But help
will not come the way you wanted sometimes because the way you wanted
is not always good. So it just comes, whatever it is. Normally a
sincere prayer is always answered; it never goes unheard and unnoticed.
So if you lose your job suddenly or your boss is nasty to you, check
whether lately you have grown very tired of this job, or unappreciative
and wish that you had an easier life, an easier job - the boss is
lousy, the job is too much, or anything like that.
You
lose it and then you feel, 'Oh, it wasn't that bad. I was just complaining
a little bit inside.' But actually our thoughts, our speech and
our actions are very powerful. Especially for the Quan Yin practitioner
because you're already reconnected with your own Godly power. So
whatever you think, whatever you wish, whatever you say will eventually
come into being, come to pass. So please take care that what you
think is only truly what you want. Don't always think nonsense and
then later regret it because you're God. You create everything with
your thinking.
That's
why the Buddhist scriptures say: Everything is created by
the mind. It's truly like that. So try to create a favorable
environment for yourself if you don't want to be uncomfortable.
Try to create friendliness, peace, harmony and everything smooth
for your life with your precepts, with your pure thinking, with
your positive desire. So even if it becomes difficult, you will
feel more comfortable.
Most
people speak in a very habitual manner like: Someone is clever,
if we love him, we might say: 'Oh, he's a little devil,' and we
say things like, 'Oh, hell!'; 'What the hell, she's a beautiful
girl!' or 'Oh, my life is damn fortunate.' So we always connect
damnation with our luck, our beauty and our happiness, and this
is not good for us. It would be more proper if we counted our blessings
and blessed every situation that we happened to be in, have left
behind, or encountered. Even if it was a thing we didn't like, we
should just say: 'Bless you! God bless You!' and then go somewhere
else. If a plan is not good then you should just leave it. Realize
your mistake and make another plan. Because you are God, you are
Buddha, you can create anything you want, absolutely anything, but
you must believe it.
The
trouble is we've lived in the negative power world too long and
our faith has become very thin, worn out with bad experiences that
we've created for ourselves. Actually we create all the bad experiences
and all the negative effects for ourselves so that we can struggle.
That's the game. But then after some time we get too tired and it's
time to pray. Then we get the Quan Yin Method and go home. Even
then, after we practice the Quan Yin Method maybe, we still encounter
problems because our mind very habitually creates new problems again.
It will say things like: 'What a hell of a woman!' you know, 'What
a beautiful woman!' In Au Lac we say things like that too: 'Oh,
she is terribly beautiful!' or 'Oh, he is awfully nice!' That's
the English saying, 'Awfully nice!', or 'She was terribly beautiful!'
or 'He is a hell of a guest!' or host. Oh, it's terrible.
Why
not just say 'He is a wonderful fellow' or 'She is such a blessedly
beautiful women' or 'This kid is terrifically intelligent,' not
'He's a devil, or He's a little devil.' Because he is very clever,
we call him a little devil or say, 'Oh, he's a clever devil.' These
are just some examples of our habits, and so we damn every situation
that we encounter, even the happiness and the good fortune that
we get. It's no wonder that our life is always a kind of mixed salad.
We have a little happiness, and we also have a hell of a lot of
problems. Wow, there are a lot of bad words we learn from some of
the media, we watch it and think it's so funny. We don't think there's
any harm in it, we repeat the same thing and we imitate them. It's
just done in a very innocent spirit. But because we are God originally,
everything we think, every word we add we must be careful about,
because it's powerful. If it's just idle thinking, then maybe it
doesn't take effect so much. But if it's really serious , sincere
thinking and a deep rooted desire, then it will come true.
Just
because it doesn't come true right away after you wish for a wish,
you think it comes from nowhere or it's just like a very coincidental
fortune or misfortune. But actually you have created it somehow,
somewhere, sometime before or just now and you have forgotten it.
I have had experiences like this. So try always to think good so
that everything that comes to you is good, favorable. Even if it
isn't good, at least you are always thinking of good, and that's
clean and you will feel good that you think good thoughts. At least
you don't feel responsible for the bad things that happen to you
or to someone else."
From "Everything Is Created By The Mind"
News 97, Master Says
Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai
Raising Center, Cambodia • July 23, 1996
(originally in English)
"There
was an Indian master. Once when he was crossing a river on a boat,
he saw a scorpion - this is Indian folklore. The scorpion was drowning
in the river. He extended his hand and tried to take the scorpion
into the boat for safety. The scorpion stung him and he dropped
it, crying: 'Ah! Ah, ah!' (Laughter) After a while, the master put
his hand back into the water and tried to rescue the poor drowning
scorpion. But the scorpion stung him once more and he cried, 'Ah!
Ah!' After a while, he extended his hand again into the water and
tried to pick the scorpion up onto the boat for safety. Before he
reached the scorpion, his disciple stopped him. 'Don't do that,
master.'
The
master said, 'Why, I want to rescue it.'
The
disciple said, 'It will sting you again, won't it?' The master said,
'Yes, it will.' The disciple said, 'So why are you rescuing it?
You will only suffer again.' The master said, 'The habit of the
scorpion is to sting anything that touches it. It cannot change
that. And my habit is to help anyone who comes in contact with me.
I also cannot change that.' (Applause)
So
make a habit of always extending your loving kindness, doesn't matter
how people treat you. You may be firm sometimes. Some people stubbornly
disturb you sometimes with their misunderstanding, even though you
have tried your best to explain. Nevertheless, never forget your
loving kindness inside. And whatever way you can, and whenever possible,
always extend this loving kindness from inside, because that is
you, that's the real you, the unlimited love which is Godly. Because
of the situation of the world, because of the hardships of life,
of the trials and tribulations that we encounter daily, we tend
to withdraw within ourselves and shield the love that we once had
in abundance and lock it away somewhere.
From
today, from the day of initiation, from any day, we must open that
lock and let the love free. That is the only way to make your life
happy. That's the only solution. If you ask me how to be happy,
that's the only solution, unlocking the love within you and let
everyone share it. It doesn't matter if he still locks his, she
still locks hers, you open yours first and later, they will open
theirs. No one is really a hard nut to crack. No one is truly very,
very difficult and unrelenting inside. They just get 'stung' by
the poison of life, so-called contact with the difficult-to-exist
world and they just close themselves and defend themselves all the
time."
From "Let The Love Free"
News 79, Master Says
Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai
Group Meditation in Los Angeles Center, California, USA •
December 30, 1996
(originally in English)
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