"Q:
If you want to progress faster, and doing more meditation will help
that, how much more do you really have to do to progress?
M:
You should feel how much you can take, or how much you want to do.
Also, it's not only the meditation; it's the heart, the commitment.
It's the devotion inside that says, "Oh! I really only want
this." You long for it inside yourself, and that is a meditation.
It's not just the sitting.
Q:
In daily life, how you deal with things and how you feel, can that
help as well?
M:
Yes, yes, yes: how you look at things, and how you let them go.
We can talk forever, but each one has his or her own way of going
to God. Faster or slower, it's their own choice. You can't dictate
to your heart what to do; neither can I. You just have it or don't
have it. One day you are tired, weary of the world, of the fakeness
and the illusion. Then you just commit inside. And it doesn't matter
how long you sit, you are committed. You are with God all the time,
inside your heart. That is true meditation. And that becomes very
comfortable for you. Then you know it; you know that you are devoted.
Otherwise before, you try very hard to be devoted, but you're just
trying. That's the difference!"
From "Devotion Springs from the Heart"
News 122, Spiritual Information Desk
Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai
London, UK • March 10, 1998
(originally in English)
"Everything
serves something. We are here for something; we are what we are,
because we want to be that way, because God wants us to be that
way. But we have to have nutrition to exist the way we want to be,
the way we should be. The body needs nourishment to exist, in most
cases, not all. The soul, the beautiful true being that we are,
needs something else to survive, to glow, to bloom, to decorate
our life, to fulfill our purpose in this existence or in the whole
universal existence. We have to tune into the vast reservoir of
energy in order to nourish ourselves, to do what we do, to be what
we want to be. Just like the rose needs some fertilizer, good soil,
and good care, so it can bloom better, become a nicer flower, fresh,
and with a beautiful color, pleasing to the eyes of whomever looks
at it. Similarly, we need nutrition for the spirit so that we can
bloom in full, so everyone around us feels happy and we feel happy.
That's
why we need to practice the Quan Yin Method. It's just a name for
tuning in with the nourishing power, so that we can exist 100% and
flourish as a great being, as a human being. (Applause) Otherwise,
we don't exist completely and that's why we are miserable. Same
with the roses. If the rose doesn't have what it needs, it'll probably
bloom only half or smaller, with the color so miserable, or some
worms will eat her. Then it looks so handicapped, so bad, so miserable,
not the way that they look right here. These are the cultivated,
the cared-for, the fully nourished flowers here. So they give their
best, and that's the way we should be. As the great human beings
that we are, we have to bloom in full, with the spirit, with the
mind power, and with the body -- with the three parts of the body,
of which is said, "the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost."
Missing any of that, we are not fully developed human beings, and
we will never be happy and peaceful. It doesn't matter how much
peace and happiness we want, doesn't matter how many meetings we
arrange with each other to talk about peace, we won't have it."
From "Create A Loving And Peaceful Planet"
News 95, Master Says
Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai
Youngdong Center, Korea • May 17, 1998
(originally in English)
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