News Magazine #43

Sometimes we are too worried about our problem we forget to meditate. Try to remember next time, because if we want to really solve the problem or get out of the problem, we meditate. Then we are strengthened by the original power. And then suddenly we know what to do and how to solve the problem, or at least just to forget it, just feel different. Suddenly we feel like it's nothing! And before meditation we feel, oh, the problem just weighting on us or suppressing us, and we feel very bad.
Or sometimes before if we don't meditate, we think some, we want to solve the problem in the different way. But after meditation, we feel very clear that this is no good, we have to change it into another way. So that's the key of success. The key of success it's not always to think of the problem, but to forget it. And then suddenly it becomes very clear, because the more we submerge in the problem, the less we understand it.

By the Supreme Master Ching Hai during the group meditation in Korea
April 15, 1994 (Originally in English)

Why is this world always changing? It is for us to learn the lesson of always being prepared, of being on the alert. Do you know this? So, the world is neither good nor bad; it only depends on how we use it. Good or bad depends on how we use the situation to learn our lessons well. So, you understand now! You should be learning every moment. Spiritual practice goes on round the clock.

By the Supreme Master Ching Hai during the international seven-day retreat, Formosa.
May 24, 1994 (Originally in Chinese)

To God, to the Buddha, we should have the spirit of total concentration. Do not be influenced by this world or any temptation, or let our mind be diverted from our goal. Only in this way can we receive God's grace. If all we think of is God, only God is in our mind, then we are one with Him. We do not even need to pray or ask, begging anything from God, because all is created by the mind. If all we have in our mind is God, then we are God.

By the Supreme Master Ching Hai, Hsihu, Formosa.
December 30, 1994 (Originally in Chinese)

Some people praise me that I work very hard, I can do it because I am a Buddha. I say maybe I am a Buddha but my body is still human. So if I succeed, it's only because I am always trying, trying and nonstop trying. I never give up to my body's tiredness, or the mood of my mind. So its' a nonstop trying. Every woman, every woman can do what I do. I mean physically if they want to.

By The Supreme Master Ching Hai during a group meditation in Korea.
April 15, 1994 (Originally In English)