Selected Questions & Answers

Q: Sometimes when I am meditating on the light, I get like an energy surge; and it just sort of rocks me one way and the other, various different ways. What is this?

M: It's okay. Sometimes the negative and the positive are trying to battle with each other. As we are not yet so completely stable and a hundred percent pure, it's like that. Later it will become stable. Don't worry. Don't have to go with the feeling, or just let it go. That's why we have to keep ourselves pure with precepts and all kinds of things, so that we can receive this kind of pure and tremendously strong energy. Try to take care that your food, speech, actions and thoughts are pure. The problem will become even better or disappear altogether.

Sometimes, if you are trembling too much, sit on the floor. Don't sit too high, in case you fall down. (Laughter) I'm not kidding. Or, try to sit on a wooden board, wooden floor; it'll absorb some of the energy for you. Then you won't feel so badly shaken. Sometimes when you do the Quan Yin, it feels like a burning sensation. It feels like you can't bear it anymore. Then you sit in another place. You don't sit on a cushion. Find a wooden, cool floor to sit on. Put your feet on a wooden board or maybe on the earth. It will neutralize some of the strong effect of the vibration while you're not able to withstand it. Only in that case, but continue to meditate on the sound. The sound is particularly strong.

If you are not pure sometimes -- you have had contact with people -- not necessarily our own karma. So, don't blame yourself all the time for whatever happens. Sometimes we contact with people, and their impurity and their karma also affect us. Sometimes we eat food that we don't know is impure; it also happens. So whatever leads you to this, meditate more.

If you sit on cushion and you don't feel comfortable, it could be it is too heated for you; sit on a wooden floor or on the naked earth, soil. Put up your feet and meditate or sit on the floor; with tatami mat is all right. It is more airy, more cool for you; because sometimes the cushion we sit on, it's made with plastic foam, and it doesn't absorb the heat. It gives us trouble -- irritating, especially when you do the Quan Yin.

Try to change the position, maybe change the place, or change the sitting cushion, then it will be better for you.