Find A Way To Survive

Spoken By Supreme Master Ching Hai At Raising Center, Cambodia
July 19, 1996
(Originally In Chinese)

No matter what kind of life we live, we have to find a way to survive. We can do it! God will arrange it, but only if we find our own God within. Then Hes will take care of us. When we work for the worldly boss in this world, he pays us a salary. At least it provides us with food to eat, a place to live, and gives us clothes to wear, not to mention working for God. How could Hes not take care of us? Besides, we are God! (Audience applauds.) So when we encounter difficulties or unpleasant situations, talking to ourselves (Higher-Self) is good enough. At this time, our wisdom will automatically emerge to handle the matter. If Hes really doesn't handle it, then that means that our time is up (Master and audience laugh) and we have to leave! If we have to leave, then we leave! Haven't we said that we are already fed up with this world? Even so, we don't ask for death day and night. We used to demand to live longer, but now we don't ask for death day in and day out. Let it be natural. In any circumstances, we have to try to make things better. If the circumstances aren't very good, then we think of a better way to improve them.

There must be a way. When meditating, we think about the problem, and then the answer and suggestion will naturally come. At that moment, that is our inner Master answering us. If by any chance our inner ear is deaf (Master and audience laugh), Hes will try to think of another way to tell us, such as letting us accidentally hear someone singing a song that happens to teach us how to do it. But if you hear that Hes says "go die," you had better not follow it. (Master and audience laugh.) Sometimes they sing nonsense like, "If you leave me, I will die." Then don't listen to it. (Master and audience laugh.) Even if you are lovesick, it is not such a big deal, no need to die because of that. There are still a lot of other people in this entire world. Dying for one person is too senseless! (Master laughs.) A lot of situations are created by yourselves, maybe you wanted to do these in your last life.

If we practice well, we will communicate easily with our inner Master and will do things smoothly. Our thinking will be exactly the same as Master's. In this case, I will be very happy and you will feel happy and at ease, too. You won't know why but you will be very relaxed and feel that you are doing the right thing. In doing anything, you will feel completely satisfied, even without anyone praising you. We will still know that we are doing the right thing, because we communicate inside. If we do not communicate inside, our ego, our desires for fame and gain will be overwhelming, then whatever we do is wrong. If we are stubborn and arrogant about what we are doing, then we will mess everything up, whether it is a big matter or a minor thing. So we should practice more to cut our ego. Otherwise you can sit there for a hundred years and still just be rotten eggs. And you blame God, blame the Buddhas that they don't take care of us. We are Buddhas and God, too! Who do we need to take care of us? Right? (A: Yes!)

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