Q: When I saw the light, the light was so big. And then I
stopped to say, "Not yet, not yet." And I came back.
 (Master says lovingly) Stupid, you will come
back in time, don't resist. Just take you up for a while and bring you back again. If
you resist, you never go up.
Q: I didn't want to go after to you. I'm afraid a lot.
You must. You should go high and come back. It
takes only a few minutes or half an hour to come back again. But everyone's afraid like
that. They want to go to heaven, but they say, "Oh, no, no, I'm afraid, nothing
there." They are afraid to die. And when the light takes them up, they
say, "No, no, no, not yet! I am not a saint." You never know if you
will die tomorrow and no chance. Yeah, we always have the big ego to
resist the Master's instruction and help. That always makes our
progress very slow. That's true. If you always let go, you become
Buddha in no time. When you go with the light or sound, you will come
back. You die only for a little while.
Q: But I don't have that elvation.
It's your ego who talks. How do you know better
than I? If the Master thinks you are not worthy, then the Master will not take you. Okay?
Let your inner Master decide. Why argue? If you think a Master is good for you,
then you just have to listen. Okay?
 Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai At A Group Meditation In Hawaii U.S.A.
Sep 4, 1994
(Originally in English)
Q: Dear Master, do You think that there will ever be a day when
we could all just go back home and not have to deal with these earthly issues
and matters?
Oh! definitely, we'll go home.
Q: I mean all of us!
All of us! No one will be left behind. No second
coming for you. (Master and everyone laugh). Unless you want it so badly beause a
beautiful woman is left behind or something like that. Because this
time is a very bad period for our world and so the Master's power
decides that we suffer enough. So, if we just make a little effort,
just a little sincerity and the Master will embrace us and disregard
everything. Because you can't. (Master sighs) To be honest, you can't
meditate in this world. (Master and everyone laugh) You really can't.
So whatever we can meditate, or whatever the
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outcome, truly comes
from the grace of the Master, I mean the Master power, I don't mean
this person. So anyhow, during the night, the Master will take us to
different levels where it's safer and better. In the day, we are too
busy. Our mind is running against it, the spiritual power, so we have
to do it quickly this time. If you keep to the precepts and meditate
and do group meditation you'll see yourself improve so fast that you
could not imagine. When you look back at yourself it's like somebody
else behind there, yes! Really, and they'll tell you that... the
people who experience that. I don't tell this because I know it from
books, but it's from experience myself and the living examples of
your brothers and sisters. It's nice to see your family members
(fellow initiates) once a week, no? It's good, but not many people
can keep up, but it is very beneficial to them, and if you could not
go to group meditation or if you don't want to, for any reason,
please meditate at home. And there's no must for anything, it's just
that it's beneficial to you. Whatever I tell you is good for you only.
No forbidden items! You keep it, it's good for you. Or if you don't
keep it, well, you'll experience some setbacks or some obstructions
and then you know why.
Q: Master, I was thinking. Because how you
said don't kill sentient beings, does that include pests, bugs,
termites and mosquitoes?
Well, we have to do what we need for the
environmental care. But then, we have to pay for that. But they are
small bugs. They are not so big, bigger of life, then we meditate for
them, and they will be all right. The important thing is not the act
of killing. The most important thing is that the violence in your
heart that must be terminated, you know what I mean? Some people, they
don't kill actually with their hands but they kill with their
thoughts. That is more important than even the act of killing. So what
we try to minimize is the violence in our heart, the tendency to want
to destroy other beings. But if we have to do it for environmental
hygiene, we must do it. And pray for these in our meditation. But it is
best when we avoid it. Like we keep our place very clean, so that the
ants and other insects won't come around. And if you spray around so
that they will leave, they will not die. There are some ways to avoid
not to kill. You have to take care of that. The less killing, the
better, even the small insects! But sometimes they are too harmful for
the children and babies, then the mother has to do it. Because after
all, human beings... human life is more precious. We don't do it
because we are bad or we are malicious. It's just the situation.
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