Enlightenment is the tool for everything
Georgetown University,Washington D.C. U.S.A. Apr.14, 1993.
Page 5Q. My mind ishard to quiet for meditation, it's like a monkey who wants torun and play but not sit quietly. How does your meditation helpquiet the mind to realize the true self?
M. I just put the mind to sleep (laughter)by the light and the sound. The music will nurse him to sleep.The light will comfort him, and then he is fast asleep. Only thesoul is awakened. But nevertheless, continue with your meditationif you don't want to join us and you will get used to it a littlebit more. But the thing is, if you sit in meditation, you useall your effort, concentrate on the breath, on the heart chakra,or whatever chakra, all over chakra, and you get nothing in return;then of course the mind would get bored. He will say, "Hey,what you're doing? You make me sit here for what? I want to seecinema. It's even better than this. I want to go and drink coffeeand talk with friends. It's better." You see what I mean?I had a fellow practitioner, she is pretty old, about sixty. Oh,no, fifty something . And before she met me, she had many othermasters and they taught her many methods -- continue with thebreath, sit in Zen for fifteen hours a day, and all that. Eatone meal. And she said she sat and sat until she can't sit nomore and she can get nothing. Therefore she can't bear it. Andafter she got enlightenment, she said, "Oh, sometimes shesat for four hours." And she was so happy, tremendously happy.Because of her happiness, her whole family of eight members areall happy, and they told me this. Even though they were not initiated.And they tell me how beneficial it is, my work. So they encourageme to continue. The non-initiates.
Q. Why is beinga vegetarian so important to enlightenment?
M. It is important to you, hum? You canget enlightenment also without being a vegetarian because I don'trequire you to be vegetarian before initiation but after only.You get enlightened all the same through the grace of the Master.But we have to keep a loving attitude towards all beings, becausethey are ourselves. If you eat all your body's members, afterwardsyou realize you have nothing left, understand, yeah? And alsowe should not be so sinking into the material taste, but to beemerged in the bliss of heaven.Every being deserves life. Therefore we grant them the happinessof survival.
Q. I believeI could achieve closer relationship to God, if I could erase theidea of God in the sense of being a person. Will Quan Yin helpme in this regard?
M. Oh, yes, yes, yes. That is what itis for. We erase completely the separation, the individual self,and then we don't do but God does through us.
Q. I can notbelieve that intelligence exists on this planet alone. Do you?
M. Yes, true. It doesn't. It does existin all planets . More or less degree different to the location;it depends on the location. There are some other planets moreintelligent than us. There are some other planets less intelligentthan us.
Q. How am I toknow my mission in life?
M. Oh, I suggest you get enlightenedfirst and then you can see better.
Q. Do you workwith the white brotherhood or the universal brotherhood?
M. Yes, I also work with the "black"brotherhood. (Laughter & applause) We don't discriminate.Of course he meant the white brotherhood. It is the title forthose enlightened beings who help the whole universe. It was justa joke only. There was no black or white over there. (Master andall laugh.)
Q. When one becomesa Master, will he or she ever have fear, doubt or anger? We callJesus a Master, however, according to the Bible, Jesus was frightenedthe night before he was crucified. And before his death, Jesuscried, "Why God deserted me?" Please explain, if Jesushad fear and doubt, how can we have no fear and doubt?
M. Yeah, they probably would have fearand doubt, but that fear and doubt is not deep rooted like us,you understand? If Jesus had no fear of the crucifixion, thenhis sacrifice was not so great. He had fear, but he accepted,understand? Whereby we have fear and we run away and we try toblame it on others or we try to escape, we try to put that crosson someone else. That is the difference. We might have fear. Wemight have emotion, but we can withdraw it anytime or we can makeuse of the fear or emotion to the benefit of other beings. Afterenlightenment, all the feelings, all the emotions are still there,because we are made to have these in order to use them to understandother brothers and sisters. If you have no feeling, no emotion,how can you understand human beings? How can you help them; understand?But the fears of the Master are different. The fears of the Mastersometimes are also affected by the fear of the disciples. He takesthe fear from the disciples so the disciples are fearless butthe Master will take some degree of that fear. But that is onlyvery shallow and not deep rooted. It's only illusionary. And theMaster on one hand has the fear but on the other hand definitelyhas no fear, you understand what I mean? He knows he has to havefear but he doesn't fear the fear.
Q. What doesQuan Yin really mean? Please explain.
M. Quan Yin in our group means the observationof the inner word, inner teaching, inner music, heavenly music.
Q. Can love betruly unconditional? If God loves those who don't sin and lovesand forgives those who do, why are we spending our life tryingto avoid sin?
M. Because it hurts us, not because ithurts God. Whenever we do something that we know is sinful ornot correct, we hurt ourselves. Our conscience will scold us,make us trouble. (Master and all laugh.) Therefore we try to avoidit . God loves all alike. Therefore the sun shines on all. Therain doesn't detest those poor or sick or sinful . It's just weourselves are responsible for the feeling of separation betweenus and God if we do something unrighteous. Therefore we shouldavoid it. Also it is a duty of ourselves when we live within thisworld. We have interrelationship between each other; we have tokeep an orderly society, okay?
Q. The beingsthat live on other planets or those that come in UFO's, do theyshare the same fate as human beings, the same vulnerability tosuffering, the same need to reach enlightenment?
M. Yes, some, to some degree. But lessso, less than our earthly earthians because they are more advanced.They are more close to the Father, they have more light, morewisdom.
Q. Once one becomesinitiated, does one need to denounce one's religion?
M. No, no, no. Please not. We say thatwithin initiation, you don't need to change your profession, youdon't need to change your way of life, you don't have to changeyour religion, No problem, don't change anything. Just eat vegetarian,that's all.
Q. Will we meetour beloved pets and animal friends in heaven after our life'sjourney is over?
M. Yes, if you want them. (Master and all laugh.) If you wantthem and if you are enlightened, you can take them along . Butif you are not, you have no force to bring them. You have no power. You couldn't evenbring you yourself to where you want, let alone your pets.
Q. What's thepurpose of epidemic diseases such as malaria, AIDS, etc. Are humansinterfering with the natural process by trying to find cures forthese diseases?
M. You find some of this and other diseasewill breed itself out. Only when man realizes that he should surrenderto God, to the Almighty power which is within ourselves. Onlywhen man realizes that in him there is a great healing power ofall diseases and he should rely on that power alone, then allthe diseases will cease. All these are warnings, warnings to tellthat we should return to God.
Q. How long doesit take to become enlightened to reach the highest level or Godrealization?
M. It depends on you. How diligent youare, how much you want it, and also it depends on the Master.Is the Master powerful enough to take you through these levelsof consciousness and lead you to where you want to be?
Q. How many kindsof Samadhi levels are there?
M. Wow... Many, many. There are manylevels of consciousness, hence also many levels of samadhi. Butthe last one is the non-Samadhi Samadhi. It means you carry onworking in the world just like an ordinary person, but at thesame time, you are always in Samadhi, and that doesn't smell,(Master and all laugh) doesn't give out any odor that you cansmell, the person is in Samadhi. That is the highest Samadhi.
Q. Can one separatereligions and science successfully and believe in both? I meanby this, can I believe in God and evolution at the same time?
M. Sure, sure, sure. The evolutionarytheory supports the spiritual progress of mankind. It is the same;very similar in science and religious theories. The only differenceis that sometimes science reaches only a certain height and stopsthere and religion is further and broader.
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