understanding BAD TIMES

Changeor not change, they are all in the universal consciousness. Sowe just eat them all and digest them, or we make chapatis outof them. "Therefore, be forever unchanged and balanced inthe face of changes, upheavals, sorrow, or happiness."

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Don'tbe so frustrated, just live every moment with all your heart.Whatever you have to do, do it with total devotion. Have faithin God and the grand plan of the entire universe.

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Welive through many changes, upheavals, all the time. But even changesare just small things in the universe, in the whole cosmic consciousnessof God or of our Real Self. Just like here, the light, the fan,the umbrella, me, you, everyone, are all sitting in this room.Whoever comes here, whatever it is, is all in this room.

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Sometimes,we experience suffering, illness and trouble, we think all theseare karma. However, we should realize that they are blessingsin disguise too.

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Evenif you lose all things, so what? You came to the world with nothing,you have not lost anything. You have gained so much since youhave come to this world. You brought nothing into the world butyou have gain all things, you have grown up a big person, yougain from the world, you take many things from the world. So evenif we lose everything, it belongs to the world anyhow, it originallydid not belong to us.

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The world is full of suffering, it is not God's making.It is not the law of karma that makes trouble, as we have learnedto know. It is not the law of cause and retribution that makesus reap what we sow. It is our own ignorance of the real worldthat brings us all kinds of unhappiness. We keep chasing the shadowand wanting it to be straight, to be more full, to be more beautiful,to be more proportionate, but it is only a shadow! If we get toknow the real person, we care not what the shadow looks like.Similarly, if we know the real world, how beautiful, how eternal,how free it is of every disaster and suffering, we care not whetherthis ephemeral drama is going on, because we know this is a distortedpicture being projected of the real and beautiful world. Therefore,whatever it looks like, it doesn't concern us that much. L.A. USA in English Apr. 3 1993.

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Welive in this world for many, many, many, many thousands of lifetimes,and we collect a lot of enemies. Sometimes we make mistakes andwe disturb other people, we make other people suffer, or we killother people. So, this life it comes back. If this time we don'tprotect ourselves with the power of God, then everything can harmus because millions of billions of troubles are waiting for us.

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Sufferingis not created by circumstances; poverty does not make us feelpained. It is because we do not know that we are God that we areaffected.

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Wemake ourselves suffer because we identify ourselves with our mistakes,our successes, our failures, our this, that and the other, andthe circumstances that affect us.

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Maybein the last life we have not learn well the compassionate lesson.Maybe we have not been sympathetic to our fellow beings. So, thislife we have to suffer a little in order to know what the sufferingmeans. Okay? It's very seldom that we have compassion withoutsuffering. If without personal suffering we already feel greatsympathy to other fellow beings, then we're fortunate. And then,our life would be spared a lot of suffering.

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Successor failure in this world is not the important objective. Sometimesfailure is success and success is just failure. We need the wisdomeye to judge.

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Sometimesin some circumstances we are able to control ourselves, but withsome great effort, and some other times we don't want to controlourselves or we can't control ourselves. In either way you justdo what is good for you at that moment. Okay? Don't worry muchabout the emotion. It is only the waves on the surface of theocean. It is not the ocean's fault. It is the wind. It is therotation of the earth that makes the waves. So the ocean cannotblame itself all the time, and says that he makes waves, he makestroubles for the boats and he makes trouble for the people, etc.He cannot help himself. The ocean cannot help herself or himself.Is it him ocean or she ocean?

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Godonly arranges situations that will benefit us. Sometimes, we blameGod for doing something wrong, but the fact is it's we who areignorant of the truth. We do not know the correctness of God.We see only the outside and not the inside.

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Whyis it that life is not very good for most of the people in thisworld? It is because they do not have any ideas or their ideasare not right. Some want to be a boss, but they don't know howto be one so their business is not good. It is all because theydo not know how to make decisions. Some people do not like todecide for themselves. They don't trust themselves. All throughtheir lives they depend on other people. Neither of these casesis good. Do you understand? We have to find a solution. If thesituation is like this, we shall change it whenever we can thinkof a way. If we have tried our best and still cannot change it,then we shall see. We still need to put in our best effort. Otherwise,this world will become worse and worse.

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