We Are Stepping Into The Golden Age
Portland, Oregon, USA. December4, 1993.
Page 5Transmigration is nothingvery difficult to understand. For example, we live day to day.Yesterday you wanted to do something and you could not or youdidn't finished it. So today, you wake up, you try to finish itor try to find a way to do it again. Anything we have not finishedin our life, and at the time of leaving this mundane world westill desire, we want to do it, and we feel very sorry that wehave not finished it, then surely this desire is the powerfulforce that will give us another chance to do it again. So, wewill be again and again given the physical instrument to do, toexercise our God-power in this world, to manifest our wisdom intothis world until one day we finish our desires, and we are donewith all our jobs. Then, we'll go back home.
That is the situationof the people who desire enlightenment. They feel they have nothingmore that they want to do in this world. Maybe their mission isfinished. It has Just naturally push them into the position orinto the state of mind of wanting to go home. They don't knowwhere home is and what that is, but they want to return to thesource. That is when people want enlightenment.
Therefore, people say,"When the student is ready, the Master will appear."You can't force enlightenment upon people. Therefore, Jesus couldn'tforce. Buddha couldn't force it. Not all the people in India wereenlightened at the time the Master was alive. Not all the Jewishpeople were enlightened at the time Jesus was there. So transmigrationstops when we feel that we want to go home - nothing in this worldinterests us anymore.
As long as we stillfeel interested in something, and we couldn't finish all thisin one lifetime, that means we still want to stay in this world.It's just a compelling force that we cannot help. Therefore, enlightenedand unenlightened persons are all alike. But the enlightened personlives a better life, smoother, more wisdom. He can do many things withless effort.
Many people ask me,"How can You be a master -You go around the world, lecture,and take care of disciples in different countries, and still paint,compose music, sing songs, make songs, and all that?"
I say, "Why, it'seasy. It didn't take much time to paint. A few hours to composemusic - I composed twelve songs in four days. No big deal! Writepoems and anything. When you're truly inspired and have time,you just do it very fast. To design clothes, this didn't takeme ten minutes, no problem."
But before I was a littlebit enlightened, everything was difficult. I didn't even havean idea to paint. When I painted in my high school class or somewhere,I can't remember, I liked to paint a horse and it looked likea turkey. (Master and audience laugh.) So, my teacher said don'tbother wasting the paint, I'll just give you the mark (laughter),something like that.
Q.Is our subconscious mind a link to infinite intelligence?
M. The subconscious mind is akind of bridge. It's not the real Self yet. It's a bridge to theinfinite intelligence. That is correct.
Q.How do we face problems and suffering in front of us?
M. Whatever we can eliminate,try to eliminate. If we cannot, then pray to God to help us overcomeor for that person to overcome the suffering. Get enlightenment,above all. It's easier to digest all this suffering and easierto think of the way to help, when we are enlightened.
Q.Do you believe that God guides us all the way since we were born?
M. Yes, but do we heed Hirm? Dowe ever hear Hirm? If we did, many of us wouldn't have run intodifficulty, and our world wouldn't have been the way it has beenor the way it is now. So, we have to open first our power of understanding.We have to reconnect ourselves with God in order to hear Hirm,to know what Hes wants us to do, to know the correct way.
That's why we offerthe connection with God again. That's called enlightenment, findingthe Kingdom of God, or whatever you want to name it. We can'tjust list the whole list of terminologies enlightenment, get backto your Buddha Nature, become Buddha, go back to the Kingdom ofGod, know yourself, know God, God-realization, self-realization,etc., so we say enlightenment and immediate.
Q.Jesus said He is the only way If He was open-minded, He wouldhave said, "Well, lam the way Buddha is, so too, Krishna."
Audience answers:I just think that Jesus or that "I"they were talking about was omnipresence and omnipotence.
(Master: Yes, yes.)Therefore, it boils down to His love and wisdom. So, Jesus said that "I",meaning "love and wisdom, omnipresence, the God-power"is the way.
M. It's just like, for example,Krishna, said: Love Me alone, and "Me" is capitalized.Follow Me alone. Surrender all unto Me, then your life will becomebetter etceteras. Buddha said the same thing: Follow theBuddha, and don't follow anyone else. He means the real Self,the omnipresent, the Almighty Power which at that time probablymanifested mostly in that "electric pole" (means inBuddha Himself). (Master laughs.)
Just like the electricpower is brightest in this light at this moment, and all the otherlights are a little bit dim. It means, you have to havefaith in that electricity, but not necessarily in the light. Becausethe light was very bright, electricity was most at that time.You go near the light, so you can read, you can see all the things,and recognize yourself in the mirror if you want to make-up, forexample. It doesn't mean you have to believe in this light, butin the electricity that houses that light.
So, every living masterthat houses the power of God, God can use any, anytime becauseGod is not so limited. Hes is not so poor to have only one son.Please! Hes has so many ways and means to bring Hiers childreninto Hirmself. Don't you think? (A: Yes.)
I wish to send you allthe love I can just to help you to open up. But if we do not yethave good affinity, then you can wait. Meanwhile, study the Bible,believe in God, believe in Jesus. It's good for you. Study theBible doesn't mean you know the words only, but put that intoaction. For example, the Ten Commandments, we should try to abideby them.That is the good way of a Christian.
Before I got enlightenment,I slept with the Bible every night. I looked at it every timeI was in trouble. Without the Bible, I couldn't sleep. Sometimes,I alternated. In the morning, I would read the Buddhist scripturesthat comforted me and sometimes lifted me up into some kind ofvery blissful state. It helped also. If you truly revere the Bible,you deeply believe in it, and study it very sincerely, it helpsyou immensely.
We are just talkinganother alternative way should you be interested. If not, pleasejust believe in the Bible and try to keep the Commandments. Putall the loving things that God teaches you into action. That'sall.
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