Master Says

Actuaclly, each one of us is a Buddha, a God, at least part of God, part from the whole. Anything that is a part from the whole means it has the same quality anyhow. So, we are the mini Gods, and we are the Master. Each one of you is a Master, the Supreme Master at that.

The Plan To Return To The Kingdom

But because you have created your own situations and circumstances in which you can thrive and you can recognize your own mastership, that's why you suffer a lot and you have to undergo a lot of unGodly situations and qualities -- kind of carrying around unGodly qualities and doing many so-called unGodly things. When we descend into this world, we forget we relinquished our right as a God, as a Buddha, as a master so that we can undergo the journey that we have planned to undergo. We can call upon ourselves misery, disaster, darkness, so that we can experience the opposite of God-like character. So that we can reclaim ourselves with all right and glory that, "I am God and there is nothing better than Me because I have tried them."

I have told you already. And that is why I also told you that we cannot force people into returning to Godhood if they don't want to, because they have laid down their own plan of enlightenment, their own project of returning to the Kingdom. Nevertheless, as a God, of course we can always call it quits. Normally we don't, because also as God, we stick to our own project and we even ever create anew. So, if we are clever, we can also create new situations and don't stick to the old one, or create extra situations so that even though we stick to the old one, we are more comfortable when we have a new plan also. From the new plan will spring new opportunities and new situations so that we can return to the Kingdom of God quicker than others.

A King Relinquished His Throne

But normally it's difficult, once we relinquished our power and come into the dark region of creation, very difficult to reclaim the light again. It takes a lot of effort.

For example, if a king relinquished his kingdom to someone and gives his throne, temporarily even, to someone. Oh! It's difficult to come back after ten or twenty years and say, "Hey, you know. It used to belong to me, now step down." After twenty years, maybe no one remembers that you were king even. And how can you get near the kingdom without passport? Talk about that first, or visa? Then who will let you go near to the palace, not to talk about stepping to the throne and saying to the king at the present time, "Get down, you." Before you could approach the king, you'd already be in jail, and you'd be in more trouble than not. And maybe you lost all your money while you were on the journey, and then you could not even get back to your country, not to talk about going to the throne and reclaiming your own glory and power.

Of course, in the Kingdom of God no one is sitting there on your throne, claiming it, and not giving it back to you. It's just that the situation gets worse and worse along the road, if you do not try to remember who you are. And even if you try, it's difficult. How can you remember God when everyday your wife and kids want bread and water to survive; and you yourself need the minimum to survive even. In some of the situations, it's really desperate. You can't remember God if your stomach keeps howling inside. It's saying, "Oooooh! I'm hungry! I want something."

Yes, the voice in our stomach will be louder than the voice of God, even the Quan Yin sound. So, it's very difficult for us once we've left the Kingdom of God to remember it again. Nevertheless, masters will be sent. The masters are those who already have undergone the journey, know every trick and trade in the business, and then can help us with a hand and bring us back. It's better that way. But eventually any soul will return to its own glory in time; takes longer or shorter depends on its desire. Some souls can desire to come earlier. But some souls decide to stay longer, despite the suffering and the hardship, so that they can create more and learn more about the opposite direction and qualities of God. So when they return they will feel more secure, more confident about what they are.

The Suffering Souls Need A Most Special Master

These are greater masters even, with a lot more experience, a lot more power, a lot more talent, and a lot more of the know-how technique, how to deal with every and each situation in this world.

Sometimes, these kinds of masters have already mastered their own destiny and reclaimed their own kingdom and power, but they still decide to come back again and again into the physical world in order to help other souls who need more help than ordinary souls. Some souls are more clever or they laid down an easy plan for themselves to walk, so they can go quicker, or they don't suffer so much. Some souls laid down hardship for themselves. Well, no one can choose the same path all the time. The souls will not choose the copy cat way to walk their journey. So sometimes they choose a very, very delicate and very difficult and intriguing path to walk; and they encounter a lot of trouble, a lot of misery, a lot of hardship, a lot of suffering and an insurmountable task sometimes. They need a really special master, if there is one, if there is such a master available or willing to sacrifice their bliss and happiness in order to come down to share the journey and the suffering with these kinds of souls.

Sometimes it's too hard for the soul to bear, then it will cry out, "Help! Help, helllllppppp." (Master and audience laugh.) Even a very, very faint sound from the soul will be heard by the master. If it cries from its heart, then the master will come, without initiation even. Even if the soul's time has not come and can not meet the master in the physical body, the master would appear invisibly, in a dream or in a vision to help that soul; because every soul needs help when they undergo this kind of journey into this terrible domain of darkness. Not that darkness presides over this world or the nether world in that matter. It's just that we called upon ourselves darkness, so that it covers our soul, covers our entire journey, or some part of our journey. So that we can not see the light even though it is right in front of us.

So the soul, in desperate situations, calls out for help and the master or the Godhead is always in the near. Never any soul walks the lonely path alone. There's always assistance of the so-called guardian angels, the masters of higher order. Depends on how difficult the situation the soul gets himself into, the higher or the lower order of help will be despatched. Normal situations, maybe just angels or guardian spirits. In the more difficult situations, the desperate situations, the master must come. The master of the highest order must come in the most emergency cases. Never a soul walks lonely in darkness.

No Eternal Hell

But sometimes, if the soul created too much difficulty for itself ... I mean, before it got into this world until it got into the difficulty, it has already mired itself into darkness, into misery already, and separated too long. Because it created so much trouble, or so much misery for other souls as well by doing so, by trying to deny its Godliness, it created so much misery, so much so-called sin already, then it would feel it does not deserve help. Therefore it could not even call out for help. Therefore, there is such a thing as hell, but not permanent. There is no such permanent hell. But for us, for a miserable and lonely soul at that time, hell is eternal. Every misery second is eternal to any soul who suffers that kind of situation.

Any long period of happiness is seconds to us. It never lasts so long; it seems like a flash, and it's gone. Suddenly, sit here and lecture ends already? (Master and audience laugh.) The barbecue finished? Come on, I have just sat down. (Laughter) I have just eaten about twenty chapatis, twenty hams (laughter) or sausages and vegetarian chickens, not much. (Master and all laugh.) Such happiness, hours we spent together, or days even seem so fast.

But miserable time, wow, it lasts like eternity, and that's why we call it eternal hell. There's no such thing as permanent hell, or eternal suffering, eternal damnation. Don't you ever believe in this. It is in a sense because suffering lasts so long, and it's terrible. Whenever you get hurt, or when the doctor has to operate on you or something, oh my God! It seems like you want to run out of it any second if you can. When you are bandaged all over and your hands are tied on the bed, or tied with a serum bottle, blood bottle or the blood-squeezing bottle hanging all over your body because they want to take the extra blood from the wound, so that it runs out and doesn't clog your system. Hanging all over, my God! You feel like you are suffocating!

It happened to me two weeks ago, I know what it is. It's still fresh in my mind. I said, "I never ever want to see a doctor again. Never ever. I'd rather die!"

Nevertheless, in any situation, doesn't matter how bad the soul has created circumstances for itself, each soul is a master, is God, is a Buddha. Never make any mistake about this. It's just that it takes a longer time to realize Buddhahood. If we find ourselves in an undeserving situation and deny ourselves the right even to pray for help, at that time, we suffer terribly. We suffer so great a loneliness that is equal to the worst hell that you can imagine. We feel like we're the most terrible being, and we suffer. Whatever we did to others, we suffer the same, same feeling; and that's what is called hell.

That's why we, as a practitioner, since we already know the way of God, should never ever create new situations again in which we have to suffer the same consequences that we created. That's why we must keep the precepts, keep our mind, speech and actions pure. Not because I say so, not because God will punish us; but because we will suffer, we will get very far away from Godhood, and we will feel very miserable and unworthy indeed. That's why we must recite the five names all the time, because those are God's qualities that you are reciting. It's not the names, and also it is the names, the holy names of the five Buddhas, five Gods in the five levels of consciousness. They represent the God qualities in the different levels. It's just like I say, "My foot, my knee, my solar plexus, my heart, my chest, my neck, my mouth, my eyes, my forehead; they're all mine even though they have different functions, different levels. No one would like to look at my feet all the time, but nevertheless, they are my feet. It's okay. Once you've touched my feet, it's my body too.

Create The Condition, Then Overcome It

Why does the soul create for itself difficulty instead of choosing God level? I told you yesterday already. You have to create situations so that you can recognize your power of overcoming it, of winning all these that are not yourself, winning the opposite to your power. In order to win the opposite of your power, you have to create it, and then show your strength. Otherwise, what is the God there for? Okay, now fancy God sitting there all the time and saying, "I'm God, I'm God, I'm God. Everything is beautiful," And Hes eats, Hes couldn't even eat. Hes is a God, Hes doesn't need food. And Hes says, okay Hes would dress up. What for does Hes dress up, if Hes is already a God. No one sees Hirm. Hes is a God, one and only. What should Hes do then? Hes just says Hes is a God, almighty, all pervading and nothing else. Then there'd be just like a foggy or brilliant light all over the place, and that'd be it; no me, no you, no flowers, no trees, nothing.

So, in order to enjoy it more also, to prove that Hes is a God Hes has to create something. If Hes creates another God, what is the use? Two God sitting, facing each other (laughter) and saying, "What now, my love?" So, Hes has to create something to play with, to prove the power, or just to be God. God is creative. Oh, putting it that way, maybe that's Hiers job, Hes has to create. And in order to create a lot of things, Hes has to set Hirmself apart and each one is assigned a different function, just like a theater. Hes cannot play alone, even though Hes is the director. Hes has to assign Steven one role and the other one must be the bad guy. If everyone is a good guy in the movie, how can you play it? Now you got it? As actors and actresses, you'd be assigned different roles, and you wouldn't mind. You'd play the bad guy or you'd play the good guy, the money is all good. (Laughter) The fame is still good all the same.

Similarly, as God or as part of God, we did not have any fear to undertake anything before we came into this world. We just said "Okay!" to any role that was assigned to us. As a God, how would you fear anything. So, in order to make it more abundant then each God has to create situations for Hirmself, and no copy cats.

God's Creation Is Abundant

How can a God copy another. (Master and audience laugh.) Hes has to make it more dramatic, more creative. Whatever Hes creates is fine. Hes can create good, Hes can create evil, Hes can create bad, Hes can create favorable situations. Whatever it is, it's God. I mean God doesn't care. How can a God care, "Oh, that's scary. I don't want to go in there." (Master and audience laugh.) Or, "Oh, no, no. That's a bad role. I don't want to play that. It is bad for my reputation." As God, you would never ever think anything like that. In fact you don't think; just automatically create.

Now that's the danger. When we come into this world, we have already forgotten our power and our glory, and we create always a new thing. That's why we become more and more complicated each day. Then one day we will suffer a lot and called out, "Help!" Because at that time...sometimes we have forgotten also that we're God, and with the mind trying to create also something. The effect of this creation and that creation matched together make a third creation. The third creation breeds another fourth creation, and the second and fourth mixed together make it become seven other creations, all different characters. Even have a little bit diluted of this kind of character of the first creation but not the same.

That's why all persons do not look alike. And your children, doesn't matter how much they look like you, they still don't look like you that much. They look like the cross between you two or not at all.

As a God, even if God is divided into different parts, God cannot tell God, "Don't create this or don't create that." God is always ever free. There is no evil in God's terminology, but that doesn't mean evil doesn't exist, please, please. There's no evil in God's plan. They are just different creations so that things become more complicated, more colorful and more exciting, like a thriller or spy movie. Like Arnold Schwartzenegger ... if he's the one who plays a good guy, and no other character accompanies him who plays the bad guy, how can he destroy the enemy? How can he blast the bomb into their camp, or how can he become a hero (in the film) of his country if there is nothing else for him to play with. Other actors and actresses, doesn't matter how bad the role, they play; because the director already assigned Arnold the good role. You cannot two play together the same role.

Never, even in a family; because in the family there's only one boss, and normally it's your wife. (Master and audience laugh.) There's no need for you, not necessary at all, to play that role. So just keep aside and be the deputy, okay? Someone has to do something else, right? You be the good guy and play the second part.

Similarly, before the creation began each of us wanted to do something; or, God, the God of all Gods, of all of us, or the main part of the whole, told us, "Okay. Let's do something. We are all sitting here together in one and as one, and all is nothing. It's all boring, so we'll divide. Each will go a different direction or do different things, okay or not?"

They said, "All right!" (Master and audience laugh.) Then each one does something. Why not, huh?

So, now if I say to my feet, "Please walk!"

Would my feet say, "Come on, me? Why? Why do I have to walk everyday? I'm so tired of it already. I want to do something else!" (Laughter)

What can the feet do now? Can they eat something? (Laughter) No, not at all. The feet can only walk. If the feet refused to walk, then the whole thing would be in trouble. Could not exist, could not function. The feet or the hands, it's just like if the hands complained, "Oh, I work all the time. I work everyday just to feed him, the mouth." (Laughter)

"And I have to walk," the feet said. "Yeah, me too. I have to walk miles, or have to carry the whole body so that he can eat. No, we won't work anymore." Now the feet and the hands went on strike. Ah, the mouth has nothing to eat. (Laughter)

Okay, that's good for a while, and they feel good, the hands and the feet. But after a while, what happens then? The heart slows down, the liver complains, the gastric system goes berserk, producing gas all the time, but nothing to digest. After that, the feet and the hands also become instant noodles in hot water. The way you cook it, you soak it (laughter), and nothing functions, they get tired. So, they decided to work again. Same with us. Sometimes we suffer because we have forgotten that it's our assigned job, and we complain and we don't want to do it anymore. We die, we commit suicide, things like that. But we have to come back again and finish the job, because the whole creation depends on each one of us to function. Think of it, how important you are in this universe. You're not just a nobody, even if you're not enlightened, even if you're not a Quan Yin practitioner, even if you're very lowly; anyone is a part of the whole. That's why I told you never to mistreat others, never to complain about others, never criticize them. Whatever you can change, change. Whatever you feel uncomfortable about others, you tell them of course, but not in a bad spirit. Tell them and change it. If they cannot, then avoid it. I never tell you to "love thy neighbor, the tiger". If it's a tiger next door, don't love it. (Master and audience laugh.) Don't go and find a tiger, hug it, and say, "I am proving my love to all creation equally." It's not possible to do that. Avoid, if you can, whatever situations you cannot change. You can just drop them. Create new situations, and enjoy anew. But the best thing for us is we always have to create something so that we can always remind ourselves as God and try to also create situations so that other people will be reminded -- freely, willingly, who they are, if we can. That's our duty, but not forced upon by tricks. Just logically let them understand, let them remember, because the soul understands logic and reason and that's the only tool we can use in this world to help the souls return to the Kingdom of God. That's the agreement between each of the souls before they descended into this world -- that other souls could help them to quicken the journey, but not magic, not any miracle thing like those that they do in the inner world, in the secret between the veil.

Behind The Secret Curtain

Between the curtain of darkness is light, is the inner world of peace, harmony, miracle, fulfillment, contentment and love. Behind that curtain is our private household. Anyone with Quan Yin power can enter behind the curtain and have a private meeting with the master, with all the master souls to get help, and come out again to survive in this world. That's why mostly you pray to the master, you see only the master inside helping you. No one else knows about it. Even the passenger next to you often doesn't see the master. Sometimes they do, but only rarely. You understand what I mean? Every miracle, every help must be rendered in secret, because that is the agreement between the souls.

You know why we can do that? Because at that time, the soul is allowed to step back into the Kingdom of God for a while, into this five spiritual worlds instead of remaining in the physical world. So whenever we want to get help, if we cannot bear this world and if we've forgotten our wisdom, we've forgotten our Buddha Nature, we must step inside that curtain where our private house is, where we regain part or the whole of our Buddha Nature again. We step back into the kingdom, into the circle of sainthood and there we can have a secret meeting and say, "Oh God, really my job is difficult. (Laughter) Give me some tips quickly." (Master and audience laugh.)

Of course, as master souls together, we're allowed to discuss as adults, as masters together already; but when you step back out of that black curtain again, back into the darkness, into the physical world, you're not allowed to be a master anymore. You forget immediately what you are, just like the day you descended on Earth. That is part of the agreement. That's a part of the game of the universe. So, if you understand all this, suffering is not real suffering anymore. It doesn't mean it won't hurt you if someone stabbed you on the leg, shot you, cursed you, humiliated you, or tried to do something harmful to you. It hurts still; but over all, this wisdom helps us to sustain our peace. Only the physical body suffers, the brain suffers; but we have, somehow, this basic peacefulness within us most of the time. So, even if we suffered for a while, we regain our smile immediately, almost, or very quickly. That's the good thing about remembering who you are and regaining the Godhood.

Each soul is already a Buddha, so he can anytime, try to create something new for himself if he doesn't like the thing that he created. He can either walk the whole journey or he can create something aside so that there's another effect that comes out of it. Then he continues that way and he doesn't have to continue this way, too. Once you walk into the master's circle, you can forsake whatever plan you have still in front of you, whatever effect or extra plan, the branches of the plan that you made before or created out of the karmic connection with the old pattern of life and the old creation that you made. Can create new or walk right here. Then the path is still there but unwalked, left; and grass, mud, everything will cover it and nothing more. That's how karma can be acquitted, can be left, can be burnt away, can be erased, no problem.

Why Master Cannot Deliver All Sentient Beings

The master can do that, just drag you to another direction: "Come here, you!" (Master and audience laugh.) Because at that time, the soul wanted it. If the soul didn't consent, then it would not be possible; because soul is a Buddha (God). How dare you! No one dare do anything to a Buddha or try to influence a Buddha, and the master soul knows this, too. Even though he, at that time, doesn't remember he's a Buddha. But the Buddha must respect the Buddha all the same, because the master knows. The sentient being doesn't' know, or the disciple doesn't know, but the master knows it. He is the Buddha soul, so if he says "no" then it's "no". Ah, that's why you always ask me, "Why does the Buddha or the master not just drag him, blind him into love (Master and audience laugh), turn his heart and his mind, use miracles?" No! Can't. No can do. (Master and audience laugh.) If can do, then no need Buddha, no need Lao-Tze, no need Jesus even. Others already would have done it before Him. Or, if no one else came before Jesus, then at least Jesus would have been enough. One! The one and only son of God, He did it, enough. He would have turned all the world into angels. You and I would already be sitting up there and drinking tea by now. (Laughter) No need to work so hard, see what I mean honey?

Yes, that's why I never am in a hurry to try to force anyone into the Quan Yin Method, so you don't worry. See, you have printed a lot, millions and millions of copies of sample booklets in all the different languages, how many souls come here to me? Every month you have how many new brothers and sisters born? Your mother is really slow. (Master and audience laugh.) It's not my fault, because the soul sometimes decides that it doesn't want to go back to the Kingdom so soon. It likes to create even more situations. Normally the soul would try to create the quickest, possible situation for itself so that it can go back to the Kingdom of God. But because the creation is not always fixed, so whatever you created sometimes breeds another creation, another situation, and so and so and so.

God is free. God is not predictable. God is not the one who predicts the future and says, "I'll create this, and it will become that. Then I will get that and I will get this." Ah, then it's no fun anymore. But even if God knows that, our physical brain, and body functions don't know. Therefore we still suffer, there's still fun, because we have forgotten what we are doing and what we have done. Even consciously we create new situations everyday, but we also sometimes don't know it, and we blame the neighbors, blame the hardship, blame the suffering, or blame God for this. Actually, it's all our own doing. But I tell you what, there is no such thing as a theater drama plan like God already created everything, assigned someone a role, and the role remains like that. You know what I mean? Maybe he's a bad guy, okay, but eventually he will become good. That's not predictable. Each soul must create his own creation and journey, and therefore you see each one will beget something that he has created and that makes life different everywhere, every time for everyone.

The soul can be tired after playing too long and now it wants to rest. Then it calls out and the master soul, who has already finished or who is willing to come and help such a soul, will come to it. Or will be born in its vicinity and then meet it, born in its world and create something so that they both will meet. But that soul must be really yearning, must really want to go home. Otherwise everyone is free. You go, you stay, who cares. Each soul is the creator itself and makes its real creations for itself.Actually, each one of us is a Buddha, a God, at least part of God, part from the whole. Anything that is a part from the whole means it has the same quality anyhow. So, we are the mini Gods, and we are the master. Each one of you is a master, the supreme master at that.กน