international seminar the higher dutyof enlightened masters december 15, 2008france lovely time. wow. wonderful weather. you enjoy this sunny weather, no? you look beautiful.(i do?) yes! especially high heels. whoever invented the high heel,
they should be awardedthe nobel peace prize, especially in this kind of weather, when the water is about 3, 4 inchesand when your high heel is 5, okay, you win! gorgeous.be veg, go green, 2 save the planet. you okay? all of you? (yes.) they cried like babies last time, “we don't want to go home!we don't want to go home!†i said, “i don't want you to go homebut you have to go home.
your family wants you to go home, your governmentwants you to go home, and your karmawants you to go home.†crying to me, what's the use? whatever we have created,we live in it, right? if you have enough strong power,then you can overcome it, but if not yet,then just have to accept it. you know, right? yes.
in this world,because we don't have god connection so we love this and that and stuff. and once we have god connectionwe still love this and that and others, but we can have it or not have it. the aulacese (vietnamese) are here? how many aulacese (vietnamese),raise your hand. last week wasall aulacese (vietnamese), this week was all chinese. the week before was european, yes.
oh, mexicans, i don't forget you. they’re lovely people,they’re really lovely. the mexicans are very, very sincere. i'm surprised;i don't even speak their language. the first time i came to mexico, i felt their overwhelming affectionimmediately. and every time i go there,it’s the same; and the costa ricans also. now, i’ll tell you some story.
the story, it says, “now that i am dead†–the master, you know? this is in the book of sufism. they talk between master and disciples. the master saidto some of his disciples, “now that i'm dead, you may read somethingof the truth of the sufi. had this information been given to youdirectly or indirectly when i was perceptibly among you,â€means when he was still alive,
“you would all, except for a few,have fed your acquisitiveness and love of wonder alone from it.†probably this is a letter he wrote before he had goneto nirvana (the highest paradise). this is a muslim master,i'm sure he went to nirvana. and the buddha went to heaven; they exchange places sometimes.why not? “know then thatwhat the sufi master is doing for the world and for its people,
great and small, is often not seen by the observer.†“seeing you seebut you do not perceive. hearing you hearbut you do not understand,†you got me? “a sufi teacher uses his powersto teach, to heal, to make man happy and so on. according to the best reasonsfor using the powers, if he shows you no miracles,
this does not mean thathe is not doing them. if he declines to benefit youthe way you wish, it is not because he cannot. he benefits youin accordance with your merit, not in response to a demand by you. he has a higher duty,this is what he is fulfilling.†the high duty, not your every whim. all of you look a little bit differentthan what i saw before. yes, look good anyway.
okay, let’s go back to master here. he continues in the letter, “many among you havehad your lives transformed, have been rescued from perils, have been given chances, none of whichyou have recognized as benefits.†“but you have had these benefitsjust the same.†yes, it’s like master helps you invisiblybut you don’t know it, right? remember the joke i read to youon supreme master television?
there was a guy who was in a hurryfor a business appointment and he couldn’t find a parking place,remember? (yes.) and he kept praying to god,“oh please, please, i’m in a hurry, i don’t have time. please,if you just find me a parking place, i will go to the churchevery day of my life!†and then suddenly a parking placeis right there and he said, “oh, never mind, lord, i found it. i found one myself.â€
and there is another story. there was a devout christian priestwho went into a restaurant. and it’s friday and you’re not supposed to eat meat,supposed to for christians; most christian people believe that. well, at least in jesus’ timethey already have a system, like, at least one day a weeknot to eat meat. and in the buddha’s time, they already tell peopleto eat like twice a month,
four times a month vegetarianor ten days a month. it depends on how much you want togo deep in your devotion for the love of animalsand also environment. at that time already, they have. all the masters have this system. that’s what it is,about not eating meat on friday - once a week, at least, vegetarian. vegetarianism in religion the bahai faith
“regarding the eating of animal fleshand abstinence there from, know thou of a certainty that,in the beginning of creation, god determined the foodof every living being, and to eat contrary to that determinationis not approved.†~ selections from the bahã¡â€™ã writings on some aspectsof health and healing buddhism … all meats eatenby living beings are of their own relatives.
~ lankavatara sutra “also, after the birth of the baby care must be exercisednot to kill any animal in order to feed the motherwith meaty delicacies and not to assemble many relativesto drink liquor or to eat meat… because at the difficult time of birth there are innumerable evil demons,monsters and goblins who want toconsume the smelly blood… by ignorantly and adversely resortingto the killing of animals
for consumption… they bring down cursesupon themselves, which are detrimentalto both the mother and the baby.†~ ksitigarbha sutra “be careful during the daysimmediately after someone’s death, not killing or destroyingor creating evil karma by worshipping or offering sacrificeto demons and deities… because such killingand slaughtering committed or such worship performedor such sacrifice offered
would not haveeven an iota of force to benefit the dead, but would entwineeven more sinful karma into previous karma, making it even deeperand more serious. … thus, delay his rebirthto a good state.†karma means retribution. cao äã€i “... the most important thing isto stop killing...
because animals also have soulsand understand like humans... if we kill and eat them, then we owe thema blood debt. ~ teachings of the saints christianity meats for the belly,and the belly for meats: but god shall destroy both it and them. ~ holy bible “and while the flesh was yetbetween their teeth,
ere it was chewed, the wrath of the lord was kindledagainst the people, and the lord smote the peoplewith a very great plague.†confucianism “all men have a mind which cannot bear to seethe sufferings of others. the superior man, having seen the animals alive,cannot bear to see them die; having heard their dying cries,
he cannot bear toeat their fleshâ€. ~ mencius essenes i am come to end the sacrificesand feasts of blood, and if ye cease not offeringand eating of flesh and blood, the wrath of godshall not cease from you. ~ gospel of the holy twelve hinduism
since you cannot bring killed animalsback to life, you are responsible for killing them. therefore you are going to hell;there is no way for your deliverance.†~ adi-lila “he who desires toaugment his own flesh by eating the flesh of other creatures lives in misery in whatever specieshe may take his birth.†~ mahabharata, anu islam
allah will not give mercy to anyone, except those who give mercyto other creatures. hadith do not allow your stomachsto become graveyards of animals! jainism a true monk should not acceptsuch food and drink as has been especially prepared for him involving the slaughterof living beings. ~ sutrakritanga
judaism and whatsoever man there beof the house of israel, or of the strangersthat sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood*; i will even set my faceagainst that soul that eateth blood*, and will cut him offfrom among his people. ~ holy bible*blood: meaning “flesh†sikhism
those mortals who consume marijuana,flesh and wine – no matter what pilgrimages, fastsand rituals they follow, they will all go to hell. ~ guru granth sahib taoism do not go into the mountainto catch birds in nets, nor to the waterto poison fishes and minnows. do not butcher the oxthat plows your field. ~ tract of the quiet way
tibetan buddhism the offering to the deities of meatobtained by killing animate beings is like offering a motherthe flesh of her own child; and this is a grievous failure. ~ the supreme path of discipleship zoroastrianism “those plants, i, ahura mazda (god),rain down upon the earth, to bring food to the faithful,and fodder to the beneficent cow.†~ avesta
everybody knows thatvegetarian diet is good for health and to save the planet. they will be awakeningtheir own great, compassionate, loving, self-nature. and then their level of consciousnesswill rise up automatically. and they will understand morethan they ever did. and they will be closer to heaventhan what they are right now. now we continue. “many of you, though you are lookingfor a fuller life…â€
means a better life, “… would have no life at all were it not for the effortsof the community of the friends.†he meansthe fellow practitioners community, because they write special here,with capital. “many of you who are poorwould be cursed if you were rich. many of you are still rich because of the presenceof a man of wisdom. many of youwho have been at my school
think that you have been taught by me. in actuality, you have beenphysically present in our assemblies while you were being taughtin another assembly. all these things are so foreignto your customary thoughts that you are not yet in a positionto recognize them. my task has been to benefit you. the task of making that benefitperceptible to you is that of others. your tragedy is that
while waiting for meto guarantee miracles and make perceptible changes in you, you have invented miracleswhich i did not perform and have developed a loyalty to mewhich is of no value at all. and you have imagined changesand help and lessons which have not taken place. the changes, the help, the lessons,however, are there. now, find out what they really are. if you go on thinking and doingwhat i told you to do and think,
you are workingwith yesterday’s materials which have already been used,should be discarded.†that is the whole letter. now we’re going to operate on it,one by one. the first stanza… sometimes it’s betterto read the whole thing in order to really understandwhat he’s driving at, otherwise you just guess at itand later say, “oops, i'm sorry. it wasn't like that.â€
now we go one by one, or did you understand everythingalready? it's not that difficultto understand, is it? just maybe some catchhere and there that needs to be clarified. now, “now that i'm dead when i was perceptibly among you, you would all, except for a few, have fed your acquisitivenessand love for wonder alone from it.â€
what he means is, when he was aliveif he told them all this, they probably were just thinking“oh, wow!†just perceive it like something newbecause he hasn't told them before. so they would just receive itlike just nosiness, there's not much deep meaning to it. just like kids listen to a story but do not perceivethe real deep meaning, as a kid.
like jesus told parables,there was some meaning behind it, and some fairytales have some meaningbehind it that the writers or the inventors want totell you. like “beauty and the beast,†for example, it’snot about a beautiful girl and a beast; it is about our self and the true self.see what i mean? or maybe some storylike a frog prince or frog princess, those things is not truly thatyou kiss the frog and the frog becomes a prince.
it might be, but mostly it means thatat the touch of the enlightened person, you’re transformed, you become your true self again because you have been bewitchedwith the illusionary world and your self has not recognizedyour great self, your true beautiful self. and it needs some real friendto re-awaken your memory that you are the prince, that you are a heavenly prince.
before he died, he wrote this letter, the whole truth about things, the truth apart from all the politeness and all the delusions of the disciples who were thinking that they understand and who were thinking thatthey were devoted, who were thinking that they arepracticing what the master is teaching. later on we will know. further down he mentioned it also.
so when he told them something,everybody said, “oh, yes, yes,†but they didn’t truly understand and then they wouldnot even practice it. that is the thing, you see? they would not practicewhat the master said, not all of them. so he said, all except for a few would have justsatisfied their own acquisitiveness only but not truly understoodor not truly appreciate
the value of the lessonthat he wanted to deliver. now, “know then that what the sufi master is doingfor the world and for its people, yes, mostly it’s like that. when jesusor prophet muhammad was alive or buddha was alive, many things they did werejust behind the scenes. most people didn’t even see it,
and if they saw it,just a fraction of it. so the rest, they just made it up. “a sufi teacher uses his powersto teach, to heal, to make man happy and so on, according to the best reasonsfor using the powers. if he shows you no miracles, this does not mean thathe’s not doing them. it is not because he cannot†–fulfill your wish, that’s what he means.
“he benefits youin accordance with your merit, he has a higher duty,this is what he’s fulfilling.†he’s fulfilling the higher duty,not your every little whim. yes, that’s what it is. because this master musthave had it also. and during his lifetimehe kept telling people, but they didn’t listen. they hear differentlyand they repeat it differently and they understood differently.
so, that’s why i said the person who gets initiationhas to be in a sound mind, they have to understandthe purpose of my teaching and has to want god, want to know your great self. you can’t just give anything. medicines are for different people. if you have a headache,then you take headache medicine. if you have stomachache,you take different medicine.
you can’t just say,“oh, i love him so much, i have headache medicineand i should also give him. we share. such a good one,if i take it, my headache has gone away. so he can take it in advance,in case he has headache later on.†it doesn’t work like that. so the master says here that he does whatever he doesaccording to the proper situation and the proper handlingof the universal law,
and depends on that person’s sincerityand merit. he doesn’t do it for show. he doesn’t do it on your whim,on your demand so that he can prove to you thathe really has a miracle. you see? so, this master must have had it alsowhen he was alive; many disciples come to himand ask for miracles all the time. we have miracles, we use it. there’s no need to ask master.
you can ask - ask inside. pray. and if you get it, you get it; if you don’t get it, you…(don’t get it.) you don’t get it! very smart! very, very smart. this is what he’s fulfilling, he’s fulfilling a higher duty,higher purpose in his life.
not come here just to pleaseevery little desire of yours, according toyour lowly understanding even. some desires are not very fitting and some desires are more noble. and also have to workaccording to your merit. for example, you meditate a lot,and you ask the master to help you, and then because you meditate a lot, like you’ve been a good boy,you go a little bit higher level where you can receivethe master’s blessing.
because if you are stillin the lower level, the higher blessingeven cannot come to you or you cannot receive. like when you’re a baby, your mother had tochew the food for you, and not the very rich food; has to be mild, simple food because if they give you immediatelysuch very concentrated things, very rich food, cakes and all that,
you can’t digest, coffee and all that, “i like coffee, i give to my kid.†no, it’s not possible yet. so when you grow up, all this is available to youaccording to your age as well. and even though you havemany, many cars in your garage, you cannot let your baby drive it, even the smallest car.
no matter how much you loveyour baby, it’s not safe for himto drive one of your cars. even though you have many and he could have even two, three of it.but why? he’s not up to it yet. so here, the master explained very well. he must have beena very, very enlightened master. check who is this –mirza abdul-hadi khan of bukhara. wow! very enlightened master.
in every tradition, in every age,there are enlightened masters. maybe not all enlightenedin the same degree. but they are enlightened masters. and also accordingto your ability to digest, the loweror the master will come to you. the university professor isnot of much use to kindergarten or primary school student,is there? ( no.) except he is a very exceptional one, some genius -sometimes it happens, but rare.
but in that case, that student becomesa university student. he already understood all that,so he will go to college anyway. there are some geniuses,very young, but go to college, that is okay, too. it’s just like you. maybe you look like everybody elsebut your understanding is heightened, your perceptions are illuminated, yes? your intelligence is raised up, everything about you is differentfrom before initiation.
before, you did not understandwhat you understand right now. and before, you see things differently, you see life differently, you perceive everything differently. of course, you’renot completely enlightened or completely understood everything, but you understand differentthan before, much better than before. therefore, you are more tolerant,
you are more loving, more enduring even, more patient. before, in similar situation,maybe you could not bear it, you would even break down; but after initiation, even though you still knowit’s suffering, it’s the same, but you can bear it, and you can go on because you have some enduring powerawakened within you.
somehow it’s different, isn’t it? and you like yourself better now, right? yes! good. so, the conclusionfor the second stanza is that we must meditate. no matter what we want,we work for it. so, do not alwayspraise the master alone, or do not alwaysblame the master alone.
we are a team, the so-called masterand the so-called disciple, we are friends,we are a corporate; we must work together. have you ever seen a company where a chairman, president, a treasurer, secretary,a board of trustee, everything alone, one person? and he makes anything out of it? (no.)
no! even in the worldly sense,if you form a company, you must have some partners at least,some associates. work or not work together,don’t know yet, but must haveat least some associate names on it for the company’s sake. now you know that. so we are a corporate,you and the master, whoever that might be.
it doesn’t have to be master ching hai. it could be mastermirza abdul-hadi khan of bukhara. sounds like a very nice name though,very crispy name. i like those names very much,some things sound very nice – khan, mohammed, something “khan khan,†muhammad,jesus christ, shakyamuni buddha. some languages are very nice. and as i told you,all of you are supreme master,
just you haven’t got there yet.that’s all. like a professor in the university, you learn well, you’re diligent,and then you can become professor. so, what is the higher dutythat the master is fulfilling? what is he talking about here? the master says thathe’s here for a higher duty, not just to please you. save our souls? save your souls?
to awaken us. awaken you? what else? meditation. meditation, yes. love. love. correct. consciousness. consciousness. yes, yes. elevate our consciousness, okay.
save the world. to recognize god. remember god,that's right, that’s right. so the higher duty of a master isnot to come here… okay, he makes you happy and all that, he fulfills your wishes, but that is not the main purposeof him coming to this world. yeah? the main purpose is…?(take you home.) yes, to take you home
and to awaken consciousness and to elevate people’s levelof spiritual recognition because to please you here and there isjust the physical things, “oh, master, i don't have a car. i need a car, my neighbor has one,â€for example. okay, why not? if you really need it,if you really earn it, the master will make it happen. but beware of what you're asking for.
without a car you’ll probablynever have a car accident, but with a car there is a risk also. and nowadaysthe petrol price is very high. and not only high, we are shortening the petrol quantityin the whole world. for example like that. so maybe the masterdoesn’t give you a car, he gives you a bicycle instead. it’s more green.
or maybe, it’s saferfor you to have a tricycle. remember the jokethat i told you a long time ago? there was a manwho was speeding on the highway and the patrol police stopped him and then gave him a ticket. and the driver said,“what for? i don't need that.†so the officer said,“never mind, keep it. after you get another three of them,you’ll have a bicycle.†it’s a very, very funny police.
i like that very much. i like that very much also. you can't drive no more -four times and then you’re gone. so, the master’s purposeis not what we think it is. some people come to a master just because they heard thathe heals the sick, cures the blind, and makes the disabled walkand all that. these are just mundane stuff. it's nice, maybe, you have that,
but it doesn't prove anythingand it doesn't benefit you much if you don't try to seekthe source of all miracles yourself. these are just small things. even if the master does that, it is accordingto the level of your practice. so when somebody touchedjesus’ garment and she was healed and she thanked him, praised him,he said, “your faith has healed you.†well, such a master is very humble,
but no doubt he is aware at all timesof his mighty power. not that he wears it on his sleeveor writes it in the front – be veg, go green, stuff like this - but the thing is, he is aware of it; he cannot be not aware. even though not aware, like, “okay, i healed that person. i made that person walk,i cured that blind person.†it's not like that,so black and white like that,
but he's aware thathe is mighty now, he's different. he has accessto the store of power of the universe and he can use it at will but also in accordancewith heavenly will. it is just like a president -he's elected president. for example, president-elect obama; he's even not in office yet, but he's elected and he knows; he's already slowly getting usedto his power now.
and he knows he’s powerful now; president of the most powerful countryin the world. you cannot be ignorantof your power. even though he’snot consciously always thinking, “i’m powerful, i’m powerful. i can do this. i can do that.i know that.†he knows itbut he doesn't know it, because power is not something you can grab likeyou can touch like a flower,
you can wear iton your finger like a ring. but he knows it. and the more he’sin the presidential office, the more he exercises his power, the more he’s awareof what he has. it's nothing black and white,but he knows it. nevertheless,no matter how powerful he is, he works also accordingto the national law and international law.
he cannot say, “oh, i am the presidentof the most powerful country, i do what i want.†there are limits to what he can do. and even a president has tobe more careful about the power that he uses because sometimes it can be troubleand later regretful; it’s too late. similarly, a spiritual practitioner, even the master must be awareof the cooperation in the cosmos and not overdo it.
mostly the master is aware of that, so that's why he said that the master cannot just be responsiblefor every whim of yours but has to work accordingto your merit as well. so if we want a more comfortable life, more miracles, more merit, more fulfillment of our desire even in this world, then we must work for it,
must be diligentin going in to our store of merit and take it out to use. like you have money in the bankbut you’re lazy, you sit at homeand keep calling the bank teller, “bring money to me,bring money to me.†she won't bring it. if you are very powerful, she will.yes, it happens. if you have a lot of money in the bank, the manager will even come,
help you to bring the check to youor bring money to you, and then you sign in your home. that's possible. but that isthe position of the master, you see? the master can do anything at will -everything comes at his beck and call; but he doesn't abuse it, you see? he doesn't abuse it. now, we continue. none of which you have recognizedas benefits,
but you have had these benefitsjust the same.†yes, it's just like the guywho asked for the parking space, “never mind, lord.i have found one myself.†just a second ago there was noneand he prayed and he got it, but “never mind, i found it.†you see? that is a very spiritual joke, you know. many of the jokes i told,when you think about it, it appliesto your spiritual understanding… if you think about it a little bit,
it's not just for ha-ha. we are like that. sometimes the masteror god or angel works for our benefit, but we forget to thank them because we don't see itwith our mortal eyes. we think it's us who did this,who did that, or it’s just chances, or it’s just coincidences. nothing is coincidencein this world, truly.
so, the master said here that many of you haveyour lives transformed, have been rescued from perils,from dangerous situations, none of which you have recognizedas benefits. but nevertheless, you still have it. you recognize it or not,the benefit has been made for you. so what the master meant is that some of you comeand ask for miracles and all that stuff, and say, “master doesn’t help me,â€and all that,
but the master helps just the same. the master is not just a bodythat sits there and responds to you and says,“okay, i will do that. i will fix your broken ceiling for you. i will stop the carin the swerving situation for you.†but the master still does it. you know or not know, he still does it. now, that is the thing with humans. we humans,not only we are blind, deaf,
we also are not always grateful. not always, like, you are very gratefulfor every little thing and recognize it, which is good for you. the master doesn’t need gratificationfrom you, like gratefulness from you or anythingor thank you or all that. my god, so many people,if everybody comes thank you, just to listen to all that,you’ll waste all your day already. so what he means is:
whatever, you recognizeor not recognize, the master always worksfor your benefit. if that benefit is good for you,the master will do it. but the human braindoesn’t always recognize it. the mind doesn’t recognize it. they don’t know. some people say, “oh, i’ve been practicing a long time,i don’t see much.†but rarely… this is,fortunately, rarely the case. the opposite is more oftenhere in our group.
always come and say, “oh, master, thank you for this,thank you for that.†no need to thank the master; they don’t need “thank you.†it’s just that as long as you recognize, that means at least your consciousnessis elevated to the point that you recognize the subtle workingof the universal miracles. you feel it or you see it –even better you see it. some are too obviousyou cannot not see, right?
last group, the woman said that three times at least, when the car was in dangerand sliding on top of the ice in winter, and she could not brake it. the brake just didn’t work. and she just cried,“master, stop the car!†and then the car stopped. i said, “who was driving?†the license should be mine.
then, of course, she knows. one time, maybe doesn’t know. two times, three times,then have to know. these are too obvious. and we got that plenty among us. not the same,but these obvious miracles we do have. so we say, “okay, thank you, master,â€and all that. just because you calledthe name of the master; if you didn’t call,probably master would also do it.
but then you think,“oh, i just stopped the car, thank you.†like the master stops the carand the car stops, suddenly the brake works and you say, “never mind, master.i braked the car already.†probably some other would say,“master, if you stop the car, i’ll go to group meditation every week. i will do some charity for christmas,â€and all this. and then suddenly the car stops, say, “oh, never mind,the brakes work, master.
the brakes work already.†no, it’s just joking. i am glad thatyou guys recognize these miracles. the more grateful you are,the more miracles you will see. it’s just like begets like. and the more you recognizethe working power of the master or the universe, the more you will see of it. it’s just you trigger the chain reaction.
so the more you recognize it,the more you get. and the more you get,the more you recognize, the more you recognize,the more you get. it triggers these kindsof positive responses within yourself, or within the universal self -because you are in the universe. you are onewith all things in the universe. so you got it now? i’m glad you are grateful folks, because being a grateful personis also very, very elegant,
very high class, very worthy. if we are ungrateful,we are not very good. we don’t have a good qualityin any case. so gratefulness is a very good quality which we, if we have it,it’s very good for us. if not, we should alsotry to cultivate it because it’s good for us. feel good when you are grateful. yes, yes, feel good.
and when you are not,you feel real bad. yes, you feel bad also.you feel like you’re not worth it. and your conscience is bugging you,waking up and keep knocking at your heart,“hey, guy! be grateful.†now, the master doesn’t careif you’re grateful or not, because if you’re grateful or not, the master power is still workingfor you in any case. it’s just it’s betterwhen you are grateful. not because you’re gratefuland the master is happy,
but when you’re grateful,it means you’re high, your consciousness is high - means you can see it,you can know it, you can feel it. that’s good.that is progress in spiritual practice. now we continue, “many of you, though you are lookingfor a fuller life, would have no life at all if it were not for the effortsof the community of the friends.†what is the community of the friends?
i told you already:practitioners, the group. you are together,you help each other also. not only helping the world,but helping each other. sometimes you have a little problem, and you can’t even talkto your family member - you go to group meditation,you talk to each other and that person has a good idea for you and it solves your problem,gives you a brighter direction. that’s why they saytwo heads are better than one.
but it depends on what kind of head,of course. if it’s a big head, then rather without! in that case,no heads are better than two. remember the joke i read to you also? the father was trying to explainto the child about his homework and afterward he lost his patience, he said, “do you understand, you idiot? suppose your mother and i and you,how many is that, idiot? how many, idiot?â€
he says, “three idiots.†“three idiots.†but you know that joke already, no? on supreme master television. every time i hear a joke… because i told youand i forgot what day, what joke, because they have a collectionand they just take one at a time. so i have to go and listenand i laugh again. jokes are good for you –jokes, poetry, music.
i mean good ones, good quality ones. even if a sad song but good quality,it’s also very soothing. even happy songs, some are lousy;you can’t bear it, you plug your ears. so what he meant is the community of the friendsis very important. that’s why i told you,“go to group meditation.†that is the timeyou recharge yourself among friends. i mean, true friends,
friends who really wouldunconditionally help you if he can, and you just be there,you feel supported. you feel oneness and the group,like a unity of the same ideal, same noble goal, and you feel good. you understand each other,you love each other, you feel affection among each other. that is the purposeof group meditation.
not to go therelooking for handsome boys and beautiful girls. the thing is,sometimes you think you fall in love, but it’s not it. so just take time. take it easy, check it out first, if it’s loveor if it is something else. mostly it’s something else. the “love at first sightâ€doesn’t always last.
first would be last;it won’t stay long. and sometimesyou feel the physical attraction but it’s not always compatiblein all levels, so just check it out. maybe talking and all thatand find out what’s what. mostly it lasts a few weeks. and the fire dies downand then there will be other trouble. in ã‚u lạc (vietnam),if you want to marry a girl, they make you stay in their housefor three years.
very, very wise. it’s like dating nowadays, make sure you know what you want. the week before, we had an aulacese (vietnamese)northern opera, remember? the boy wentand asked for the hands of the girl and then they seemed happy together, but then how can such a lovebe even broken because of suspicion? how can a husband be so stupid?
if they were so happy together like that, how can he doubt her heart, and not even asking her the reason why,you see? and even maybe askingand don’t even believe. i’m telling you, love in this world isnot always that deep, is it? they’re supposed to beliving happily ever after even they’re happy together even,but still, it doesn’t amount to nothing. just one little incident like that,he divorced her
and the whole family blamed her. so much for love. so we have to take time with romance. sometimes, after a few talks you feel like, “this is not it,â€so you still have time to back off. but if you already go in too deepand sign a contract and all that, god help you. and one contract leadsto another contract and the house contractand car contract,
and security contract,insurance contract and then later, babies contract. children contract and baby contractlasts 25 years - a quarter of a lifetime at least. if you’re lucky. if not, it continues the whole life until you’re oldand maybe you went into the grave, then you finish your duty; otherwise continue.
sometimes they’re married,they still come back; you’ve got to babysit for them. and if they have trouble, they divorce, then you have to take the girl backor the boy back and together with the few more mouthsto feed. oh god, no end! many of youwho have been at my school think that you have been taught by me. while you were being taughtin another assembly.†you see?many things we don’t perceive.
for example,some of his disciples had been poor and then suddenly they became rich for some miracleor something happened, and supposeif it had not been for the master or the blessing of the master, then that person would have beenin trouble. cursed not always meansbeing cursed by people but maybe some bad things wouldhave befallen them. and also some are still richbecause of the man of wisdom –
means the master. so what he means is that the poor guysometimes became rich overnight but has no trouble with his new status- no jealousy and no troublewith other neighbors or government because the richnesscame securely and safely into his hand. in the old times,it’s different than now even. you cannot be rich overnight. and then some are still richbecause of the man of wisdom.
i guess what he meant is thatif you have been rich and if it has not beenfor the blessing of the master, probably you wouldhave lost all your property and your earnings. if the masterhas not advised you wisely or if the master has not made youwalk the way of righteousness, therefore, you protect your propertyand continue being rich, or if the master had not been thereand protected you, you would have lost it to thievesor any other mishap.
what he meant ishe lists all kinds of situations which people do not understand thatthey have been blessed because they think, “how come master doesn’t makeany miracles for me to see?†yes, it’s not always obvious,the miracles that the master performs. not like “stop the car, master!†or find the parking placeand things like that. and also, even he said that “many of youwho have been in my school,
and then you thoughtyou’ve been taught by me but, actually, you’ve been taughtsomewhere else.†what does that mean? the higher teachingin the higher realms. when the master teaches us it’s beyond the physicalin the higher dimension. another life? you come to the masterto study with the master but you still bring with you
all the previous teachingsfrom other masters. that’s correct. that’s correct. most people come into the presence of the master but they don't try to listen wellto what the master is saying and they do not try to assimilatewhat the master wants to deliver. they want to hold on to their opinion, to their old brainwashing systemelsewhere and still say that“i learn with the master†and use the master’s namejust to deliver his own opinion
or something elsethat he learned somewhere else and say “master said that,†confusing the newcomer or confusing the fellow practitioner. it happens also. so we have to be carefulabout what we learn, what we digest and what we offer to other people. so, it's very seldom thatyou truly understand. that's what he meant, okay?
and he meant that it's seldom we truly devotedour attention to master’s teaching and assimilate it and practice it. so, it's very difficultto control the mind. we have been brainwashed too longwith too many systems, too many controlled ways of thinking,set patterns of the society’s behavior and all that – so very difficult for us to change. but we still can change,it takes time, but we will.
it's a habit;we can replace it with another one. next one. “all these things are so foreign to you,to your customary thoughts, that you are not yet in a positionto recognize them. my task has been to benefit you, the task of making that benefitperceptible to you is that of others.†anybody understand this? i believe that he says that
“my task is to do itbut not to show you, somebody else’s task is to show you.†might explain it to you. yes, very good. anybody else has different idea? or you accept his opinion then? yes, i think that's what it is, you see? sometimes, it is true also. sometimes, the master doesn’t carewhether you praise him or not.
in this letter, what he means,he just makes you happy. he just does what he can to help you. understand or not,he doesn’t care to explain it to you but maybe other people willpoint it out to you and say, “look,if it's not for the master, you see, she did that to me also and that is how it happensand the result is fantastic.†so, the same in your case,for example, or sometimes in the whole family,
the non-initiates are the oneswho saw the master doing miracles and tell the initiated. it happens. and sometimesyour friend outside there who only knows of master’s name, doesn’t even know the photo evenand say, “oh, i saw that and that person comeand help you yesterday when she came.†and then when he describes it
you say, “oh, that's my master.how do you know her?†and he will say, “i don't know,i just saw it. you didn't see it?†“no, i didn't.†you know what i mean?(it happens.) it happens, yes. you all know that very well, right? at least, many of you know. or sometimes your child,4 or 5 years old, tells you, “master’s coming,master’s coming, mum!â€
“where? where’s the master?†“there! she is standing theresmiling at you!†“really? really? where, where?†it happens, right? i heard that all the time, yes. or sometimes a visitor comes and then you go on and onabout your master, how miraculous the master is and how she canappear anywhere, anytime,
master is omnipresent and all that. and then your friend just fixesin one corner and keeps looking and you say,“what are you looking at?†and he says, “your master is here." the friend, pure hearted,just saw it immediately. sometimes, a friend or acquaintanceor children have a vision to tell you something because the mind is too hard
so somebody else has tobe a messenger. never mind, it's okay.it's fun also, by the way, for that personto also believe in master as well. so, it's one task,but two jobs done. all right, because he says, “these things are too foreignto your customary thought.†yes. so, you don't know much about itso you don't recognize it. of course, in this world, everything done,we have to see with our own eyes,
then we know it's doneand that that person did it. if you ask the electricianto come fix your light bulb and it’s bright again,you say, “oh, yes, he fixed it.†and if your car breaks down and the mechanic comes and fixes itand your car runs again, then you say, “oh, the mechanic fixed it.†then it's obvious and has proof. but the master does many thingswithout proof, you see? and if you don't have your wisdom eyevery wide open,
it’s difficult to recognize, because it's not the samelike the doing of this world, not all the time. if you ask the master to stop the carwhile it is sliding toward the pit and it stops right away,then maybe you understand it; because it hasn't been able tostop before and the brake doesn't work and the ice is so slippery that you are going to fall into the pitif the car doesn't stop.
and if you ask the master to stopand it stops, then you believe a little. and after 3 or 4 times,then you believe a little more. and then, if many other things happenalso in your life, then you begin to believe morein the master who takes care of you; but not everything isas obvious as that. the master even does many thingswithout you asking – changes your life, makes you more comfortable,and helps you in many ways,
but doesn't take account for itand nobody sees it. and not even you see it. so that's what he meant. it's good i have chosen this. i haven't read the whole story. i just opened oneand i see “now that i am dead,†i thought, “interesting. so okay, let’s read it.†so, i am also the first time reading it,
just like youthe first ones hearing it, and it turns outit's a very interesting story. you know, it’s a storythat we could identify with because we havesimilar experience, right? all right, the last stanza. the translation’s too late. i remember when we hada bigger meditation place like formosa (taiwan) or koreaor somewhere bigger, and there was laughter like waves –
the english person laughs firstand then the koreans, and then the chinese,then the aulacese (vietnamese), and the mexicans,and the spanish, whatever – because it dependson how fast the translation is. and they were just laughingone after the other like this. it's cute. because someof the language translation - very long-winded sentences. like in some language,one word’s good enough, but in other languages
maybe you have touse three, four, or five words for that. what is your language? spanish. well, spanish is already simple. some languages are very long. for example,one time i was in hungary and whenever i’d go outand if i needed translation, i waited forever for one sentence! i said so short -why it took so long to translate?
not only the sentence’s translationis long, the words are long also. in english, maybe some words areonly written with one syllable or two syllables, and for the same word in hungarian,it’s written in like ten syllables! the whole word is long also. yes, all the languages. and remember the jokewe had before? japanese translation? (yes.)
there was a foreignerwho was speaking something and then there is the translation,the tour guide. and then after the guest spoke a lot,a lot, the whole story, and other people laughed already, so the japanese said to them,“the guest just told some jokes, so now please clap your handsand laugh.†“lost in translation,â€remember that film? it is truly like that sometimes. remember in the film“lost in translation,â€
the guy talks a lot, a lot, a lotand the translator just says, “more intensity,just look more intense.†okay, now we go to the last stanza: “your tragedy is that while waiting for me to secure miraclesand make perceptible changes in you, and have developed a loyalty to mewhich is of no value at all.†anybody? yes, for some disciples,they expect something from the master. and for so long, and they begin tosee “illusion miracle,â€
and then they use that and then say,“oh, this is what master do.†for example, sometimes they say,“the inner master tells me this.†they invented it. and they say inner master, or master tells me thatyou have to do this. yes, it's true. because they want master to do that and the master did not do itbecause it’s not proper, but they desire to control others or to show that master did thatto please his own ego,
and he told people, “you know,i had a vision that you must do this. the inner master told meyou must do that, you must do this.†and forces others, in confusion,to do what he pleases to please his ego and also to let people know thathe is something, he has inner master connection,which he did not. most often the peoplewho are in a lower level invent this kind of story. and how about,
“… and have developed a loyalty to mewhich is of no value at all� that is just a hypocrite. just like, for example, seeing master and wanting to show that“i am very faithful to master,†doing all kinds of thing but maybe that is not valuablebecause it’s not helpful at all. not true devotion. not true devotion, yes.yes, yes. just want to show people thathe is very devoted
so that he earns more respect and trustfrom other disciples or even more followers even. “oh, that person,he must be one with the master because look at how he looks at master. he always tries to sit in the frontto see master and always runs where master goes.†the people who runin genuine devotion, that’s different. but some people don't havethat genuine devotion
within themselves and they just do it - do even morethan the real devoted disciple to catch attention, to be better than, more devoted,than anybody else so that everybody thinks,“oh, he’s really a real practitioner. he's a real devoted person. i can trust that guybecause he loves master so much.†that is a hypocrite, correct. why?
because he knows thatanybody who loves master loves the person alsowho loves the master. so, if you profess or you showlike you love master so much, then you endear yourselfto another person who truly loves the master because she or he thinks,“he’s the same. he also loves master so much,so i love him so much.†he’s a trustworthy person,he’s truly a “master’s discipleâ€
because the real devoted discipleis really devoted and loves master, so he respects and loves anybodywho is like him or her because he’s so innocent. he really loves the master and so benefits from it,from the love for the master, and feels good about it. so if he sees another one,same like him or her, he endears himself to her because he’s so pure,he thinks that person’s the same –
so devoted and so good. that is some hypocrite, yes. my god, the master knows everything. he knows everything. you know all that. it’s a pity. that’s why i have told you,if you go to group meditation, it is because it’s important to bein the company of like-minded saints. you have support,you have affection,
you have true love and you have true devotionto higher ideals together. and for that reason,we can work miracles – we can even change the world. we can ask people to be vegetarianand all that, because we work together in uniform,you see? united, strong;we will be strong. true devotion is very elevating,very soothing for both: for the master and for the disciples,
but the fake devotion or the low motive,lowly motivated devotion is very terrible,it’s suffocating, it’s very, very burdensome. make sure your heart is pureand your devotion is genuine. you don’t have to be devoted but if you are, be genuine. and if you’re not devoted, try to learn. try to learn to be more humble,
more spiritually motivated. it would be better for you and the benefit would be longer lasting. now, we continue, “and you have imagined changesand help and lessons which have not taken place; the changes, the help, the lessons,however are there. if you go on thinking and doingwhat i told you to do and what i told you to think,
then you are workingwith yesterday’s materials, which have already been used.†what does that mean again,wise buddha? because if you follow a master and you thinkshe tells you to do something, you begin to use your mind,you begin to compare, you are not 100% following it. yes, because once you useyesterday’s material, which means already digestedfrom somebody else,
not new now. when you listen to the master, it should be in the presentand do thing at the present. at that time you are innocent,you learn directly. but if you already usewhatever was digested yesterday, it’s useless. it’s difficult to explain this i know. you see, all this is fake, due to the personnot diligently practicing
to connectwith their own inner supreme master and just trying to follow theory and sometimes it’s very tiresome,i’m telling you, truly. because the way you interpretwhat the master said, sometimes it’s all wrong because you like to interpret that way. could be maybe thatthe situation this way changed. (yes.) so, if a master came,and the master says something, people still do it many years ago,many years following.
the situation is very different.(different now also.) and they keep on doing the old way. i rememberonce you say that muhammad… prophet muhammad, yes. say, “okay, you can havemore than one wife,†the situation was that way. yes, yes. and we are still doing thatbut the situation is different. yes, you are muslim by the way?(no.)
no? how do you know all that? you told me. well, you look like a muslim also. if you are muslims,you understood this. when the prophet was alive,they were persecuted. and many men, because in defenseof their family and children or brother and sister initiates, have perished. so, many widows were leftwith many children without a father.
so the prophet said,“take them in under your protection. love themjust like you love your wife.†so not necessarily thatyou take in the wife and the family and you treat her as a wife. but take in just like another wife, but maybe don’t haveany physical relationship with her even, not necessarily like that. or, maybe you have, but it depends - not because you take her injust because she’s pretty
or because you lust after herand you need another wife. it’s not like that. it’s just because she’s a widowand nobody takes care of her. and in the muslim society,most women don’t work, right? any muslim here?tell me if it’s correct. no, they don’t. yes. so, the thing is, because many widows are left after the man has lost his lifeto defend you.
in the time of prophet muhammad,it's different. you knowhow they have been persecuted. many masters have been persecuted, life after life like that,any country. so the prophet always has to run, even,everywhere, and hiding, and his disciples also. sometimes they cannot even cookin the daytime; they have to cook only at nightand all that. yes, it could be because at that time,during the festival –
ramadan means the birthday of rama, perhaps the prophet muhammadhas learned with rama at that time; he's a big master, rama. and on his birthday,thousands of people gather to celebrate. and then, of course, in such a big gathering,they have to hide. they cannot openly cookin the daytime and go shopping and all that, and spread everything out like this.
so only eat at night. at night is safer,and all day they can meditate or listen to discourses in quietness. but if they cook,the smoke comes out, you see? you cannot hide the smoke. maybe you can hide people in cavesand all that, if you're quiet. but when you cook,thousands of people like that, the prophet was alive, maybe tens of thousandsof people came
to celebrate the birthdayof the grand master. rama was oneof the indian greatest masters. so when the prophet was alive, many men lost their life,sacrificed to protect the master - not that the master asked,but in the run. they probably have to stand behindto stop the enemy or something and they perished. or they just stand behind voluntarily to protect other brothers and sisterswho run before them,
and somebody stayed behindand that's how they lost their life. and mostly men stayed outand risked their life for the group and for the master also. prophet muhammad never told themto go out and fight anyone. never. but he said thatif you die for the just cause to protectthe true dharma (true teaching), then you go straight to heaven.that's correct. if you happened to die – he didn't mean you go out and dieand then you go to heaven,
or go out and even kill others and then you dieand then you go to heaven. it's not like that. that's quite a misunderstanding of a real, gentle, loving,compassionate master. you see, just like many people who just clingto the past teaching of the master, just one or two sentences,they don't even read the whole story or the whole bibleor the whole sutra even.
it's just one or two sentencesand keep arguing all the time. “jesus eats fish,†for example. the word, it can betranslated differently, of course, “fish†or “condiments,†accompaniment with bread, maybe even grapes or raisins.grapes. but they insist that it’s fish, and the other meaning – don't care. if the word has two meanings,at least you have to consider,
maybe fish, maybe not, you see? maybe the accompaniment – when you eat bread,you eat with something else, dates or something like thatin the desert. the arabian people,they eat bread with dates. maybe like that – accompaniment. but no, has to be fish! even if the word means two. so you see, you just interpretedthe word of the master
or even the action of the master the way you wanted, just to suit yourself, and use the name of jesus,buddha, muhammad, whatever, to oppress everybody elsewho doesn’t listen to you. and that's how fanaticismhas been born. and then from that,holy war has been waged. innocent people have died, suffered, and the by-standers also suffer,
and the one who has been influencedby your misinterpretation also suffer and have to carrytheir bad karma with it. master, i learn so muchfrom you just now because i came from a muslim family and for the longest time, i didn't knowramadan was the birthday of rama. “dan†means birthday. and we have 40 days of fastingand we eat at night. and we eat nothing during the day.(of course.)
all day long. (yes.) i didn't know that. and i think the important thingthat you just taught us is the misinterpretation because i came from a familythat didn't like hinduism. and so for them, they think ramadan cannot beassociated with a hindu god which they think rama was. (right.) so that’s so trueabout the misinterpretation. (yes.)
all my life i thought that,until this moment. oh, i'm glad. now i learned. now i know it's not.thank you, master. i'm glad thati answered your question unknowingly! i'm just telling this muslim! he looks like a muslim,that guy there. so i just tell him. and luckily, by the way,you understood.
it is possible thatprophet muhammad learned with rama the master at that time. of course, many masters went to indiaand learned from there. i also went to india to take the key. jesus also went there during the missing 13-year gapin his life. and later they have proven itsomewhere in the other book that he has gone to india and learned. but never mind,even if you don't understand,
it's okay too. it's just…know that i don't teach anythingdifferent from prophet muhammad and i don't ever teach youanything extreme or anything harmfulto yourself or anybody and that should be sufficient also. there is so much to explainfrom the past masters, i would never be finished. it's just by the way,now and again, if we have a chance,
then i tell you. many things we misunderstand because we were not there,number 1. number 2, we are not his level, we don't understand what he's doing. you see, he listened to the sound. he went into the cave and the angel gabriel came to him,you know that? he sat there and listened to the sound;
of course he saw visions and all that. same for every master. you see, during the timeof prophet muhammad, of course he was such a humble master, so he would just celebratehis master’s birthday since he learned in india. he would not stay in india but he came home,maybe at his master’s behest to go home and spread the teaching
and teach his brothers and sisters. or maybe he just went home because he went there and studiedand he couldn’t stay forever and he went home. just like you come here, visit me,and then you go home. and then after you meditatefor a long time, even though you have not seenthe master but you contact insidebecause of your purity, and then the master comesand tells you.
but maybe he could not say that“my master comes and tell me.†or maybe master sendsthe angel gabriel. it’s also correct,everything’s correct. to tell him that,“okay, it’s time for you to go out now and don’t sit in the cave forever. you have to go out and help your brothers and sistersto become enlightened. it’s okay, you have my permission.†and it’s such a long distancebetween maybe iran and india.
you cannot just keep comingback and forth all the time. and if the master told him,“spread the teaching in iran,†then that’s where he would spreadthe teaching, despite all the danger surrounding him. every time a master comes out,it’s danger, no matter what age. it’s somethingpeople feel like strange, because there are alwaysestablished religions. you see? when prophet muhammad was alive,they chased him everywhere.
they persecuted his followerswho had done nothing wrong but to worship in purityand learn righteousness, even as a human being. they never did nothing wrong;they persecuted them everywhere. and then they have tohide everywhere - don’t even have a home and all that. and nowadays,big mosques everywhere. millions of people come,look at the wall. and when the prophet was alive,
it’s very difficult for themto even come to see him - once in a lifetime. that’s why they say once a lifetimeyou must go to mecca. mecca is when the master establishedfinally at that time, maybe he has not been able tostay long; later had to move to medinaand so on and so forth, and persecuted all the time. even baha’i,the master of baha’i? also had been persecuted
and put in prisonand all that, etc., etc. it’s not safe everywhere. if you want to gatherin such a big gathering, the master, of course,would not celebrate his birthday. in the muslim tradition, you don’t mentionthe prophet’s birthday and celebrate his birthday, but ramadan, yes. why? because when the master was alivehe was so humble.
his master was probably still alive. or even after his master died, he still celebratedhis master’s birthday. that is a tradition in hinduism also. if a person comes out, or the master just diedand he becomes a successor, normally he would just always say, “my master said that,my master said this. my master was great.â€
just like milarepa, you remember? that is the tradition,the humility of the master. or he would say, if the master is not there or it’s not convenientto mention the master, or the master maybenot as high as yourself, then you would probably say“god†or “heaven†or “divine blessing,â€something like that. rarely you mention it’s yourself,
but unless among disciples and when the disciples aska direct question, “master you stopped my car,â€and all that, then maybe you say, “oh!â€and we make fun out of it. but it’s not like the master always feelsso proud and greatness within himself or declaring it, not in such a pompous manner,anything like that. now you understand, yes? so he celebrated ramadanbecause that’s his master.
this is wonderful. “dan†is a word in hindu,in sanskrit, for “birthday.†we have “buddhadan†also. and when it is translatedinto aulacese (vietnamese), it becomes “äản.†“äản sanh†meansthe birthday of the buddha, “bhuddadanâ€! rama was a great masterin the hindu tradition. he is not even hindu;of course, he is universal.
can you imagine?it’s such a great celebration! of course, tens of thousands of peoplecome to see him and he doesn’t have a roomto house all that, so maybe they have to be somewherein the desert. it’s also difficult to hide, so they can’t just cook here, a stove and there’s smoke, and there’s smoke,smoke everywhere and then the government will know thatthere is a big gathering. even if they are in the forest,there’s no such jungle in iran.
no thick forest, so, even thin forest,if you cook in the night time, nobody sees. anything the master says, and you imagine the lessonsthat master did not even impart to you, and you imagine changesand all that stuff. you imagine it in your headand you wanted it to happen and you tell everybody else, and if you’re strong willed enough and your ego is big enough,ambitious enough,
you will have a bunch of followers. and then from that bunch of followers,they lead another ignorant bunch and then that ignorant bunch collectsanother bunch, just to make it big. and the more followers, the better, and they just want toenlarge themselves in ego. but they want this glory. they see, “oh, the master isbeing worshipped by everybody and loved by the multitude.â€
but they don’t see the master power, they just see,“oh, that’s just a person sitting there.†they talk and interpret the book,“i can do that.†he seems to even have more eloquence,in a way. and of course the ignorant peoplelistened to him and understood him. and they all don’t understand, also; okay with them too, they don’t care! how many people understandthe real teaching of jesus and prophet muhammad
or buddha or mahavira,for example? how many? many followers,but not many people understand. that’s the thing! when buddha was even still alive,another one competed with him. his cousin, because he was jealous of his fameand admiration from his followers, so he wanted to do the same. and he had a big following too! in any age,there’s always somebody like that.
these people, not only don’t practice,don’t develop; also stop somebody else to come! like they just go in there,just to stir up trouble. and then later they don’t practice and they just interpret somethingand they always say, “oh, i already became buddha,master told me.†if the master told you thatyou have become buddha, why do you stop others to come?for example. if you are the buddha,then master told you,
then you must workwith the buddha, right? work with the master,not against master. so you can see that. but still some people listen! because the same peopledon’t practice also: just want to join infor master’s miracles, expecting this and that, and when it doesn’t happen,they invent some. they say,“the inner master told me this.
i have visions, this and that...†it’s all nonsense. what a pity. anyway, sometimesthe master says something and the people interpret itinto something else and continue do thatand don’t follow the next steps. maybe master says that to that person and only that person truly understood,because that’s just for him. and then everybody else triesto get some glimpse of it
and interpret it in all different ways and then it’s different. that’s why in one religion,so many branches even. they all think they are right. that is not correct. even when the master was alive,his disciples only defended themselves. not to go out and provoke warwith other people, especially in the same family. suppose they kill some of the enemies,that was their situation: they had to.
nowadays, it is so free,you can belong to any order. nobody says anything. why you need toeven fight with each other and kill each other,kill innocent people! nobody goes to heaven this way, i tell you honestly,in the name of god: nobody just goes out,kills innocent people at random and goes to heaven.in the name of what? don’t care;
in the name of godor the name of the devil, nobody goes to heaven this way. no prophet ever preached that. have you ever seen thatin the qu’ran? no! the prophet only said,“okay, if you happen to die in the courseof protecting the true teaching or protecting your brother and sister then you go straight to heaven; and that is correct!
just because it happened thatpeople persecuted them! and if he put his hand out to stop themfor the others to run quick, then he dies, then in that case,he goes to heaven, of course. but he’s not to go out and try to killthe non-believers outside. they don’t do thatunder the prophet muhammad’s time. no, they don’t do that.they just defend themselves. and in the course of defense,maybe they die or maybe they unintentionally hurtthe enemies by it.
for example, if he puts a rockto cover himself and then maybe the enemy still wants tochase and kill him and maybe he drops the rockon the enemy and the enemy dies:he did not have the intention. or maybe he just uses some stickto defend himself and then the enemy maybefalls onto the stick and dies. that is not like he intended to kill him. the muslims under the prophetnever went out to kill anybody and the prophet, least of all,told them to do that.
he never did. i watched one of the muslim dramas and it’s supposed to be from history. they made, every time at ramadan, they made the drama similarall the time. and in that drama, one of the master’s disciples,the prophet’s disciples, said to the others, “the prophet told usnot to kill anybody, not to make war, so we just don’t do anything.
we’ll just stay hereand see how to stop them.†that’s it. or, just “we don’t go outand provoke and fight with them because the prophet says “noâ€.†in the drama, i heard that.they replay it, just like every christmasthey replay the manger drama, they play again and againevery christmas. so there must have been history,you see? even nowadays they play that,
they still say that “the prophet didnot tell us to go and fight, so we just keep quietand try to avoid the enemies.†that’s what they say in the drama. i did not have timeto see the whole thing, but i saw most of it. in this trend, of peace,the prophet has taught them; even under extreme persecutionlike that. so even jesus,people harassed him all the time and he had so many disciples,he could have started a revolution
and people would listen to him. with all the miracles that he did,everyone would listen to him and he could overcome the government,at least the local one, easily. he could even fight and run, protect his life, but he didn’t. all the masters are peaceful like that. so it’s the same. when you see that,you know master jesus is a great man. and when you know that,
you know muhammad isa great prophet. no master ever wants his disciples togo out to kill even the enemy. no. it says it all over in the qu’ran. we collected them,all the sayings of the different prophets and we put them onblack and white there for everybody to see. i hope this helps to enlighten the peopleof different faiths. that’s why i told them to do it.
it’s worth it! instead of using the air timefor advertisement and making money, we use the air timejust to benefit all faiths, all the people, hoping that they make peacewith each other. and it’s working! do you knowthere was a king of arabia, the king of saudi arabia, he organized, many times,interfaith conferences,
remember? (yes.) blessed be his soul. he must be a very enlightened kingand very kind person, and he helps many countries,many people. not just his people,but other countries as well. this is a true muslim. this is the true spirit of muslim; peace and coordination. all right. i have done my job,
now you’re going to do yours -you digest it, and you go home,you dissipate it to other people and make it your treasure. yes. it was a very good letter of the master, thanks be to him,peace be upon him. mirza abdul hadi khan of bukhara. very beautiful name. i don’t understand all of thembut it sounds very nice. and where he is,also very nice - bukhara.
beautiful! the arab language is very nice. the name of the citysounds very nice also, like kandahar, it sounds so nice! it’s all because ofmisunderstanding of religions. if the people truly studytheir religious scripture very well, there would be no warbetween religions, let alone within one religion, you see? it has to stop.
humanity has to have really enoughone day, of madness. but i tell you what, even so much war,the people die of hunger even more. the climate refugees are25 million now and the whole world refugees aresixty-something million. one third of it is climate refugees,which are not recognized. the other 40 million are recognized,some yes and some no, but at least they havethe status of refugees. but the climate refugees,nobody cares.
and they’re living, dying,nobody cares. they have no rights at all, of any convention,to protect them, you see? they are left aloneto fight for themselves and for their children. these are the really true refugees, and i truly don’t knowwhere and how to help them. they’re scattered everywhere. they have no voice even, no voice.
many island countries sunk and then they have togo to the neighbor island, and the neighbor islandalso begins sinking. and they move again and again. how can you live like that? how can you settle down like that? how can you earn any livingfor your family in this situation; that you have no home,no status, no nation, and nobody cares, no rights?
they’re like,living on the edge of society. they’re the third kind of people,not even war refugees. and that is just from last year alone. i don’t know how many moreright now. and they predicted that in 2010,just 2 more years or another year and a halfor something, there will be 50 million;double of that right now, and that is just an estimate. it could be more than that.
i really have no more words to talk about this raceof what we call ‘humans’. some don’t really live as a human; they live like in hell,suffering no end. i just really pray that one day everybody will changeand live like a true human, with compassion and love,which we have. all of humanity has loveand compassion in them. they have it!
they just choose not to recognize it,choose not to exercise it. so i just hope one day,we’re all awakened and remember that because that’s the only lifethat’s worth living: with love and compassion. without love and compassion,what are we? if we only love our own familyand relatives, the animals also do the same. why do we proclaim thatwe are better than animals and then we can even eat them?
do you see what i mean? because we are one, you know?we are one. even with strangers. that’s why when i go outside, i don’t feelanybody is a stranger to me at all, ever. that’s why i trust them.i love them just like i love you. i never felt like,“oh, this is a stranger, beware.†i don’t feel distance between meand them at all, ever! none of them. no matter who.
maybe it’s a homelessor a salesman or a clerk or a bank teller, whatever,i feel like they are just like you; very trustworthy, very close, very intimate, very bloodline-bonded. together, like a family. it’s a very nice feeling though. you feel at home, like with everybody. even if i don’t speak the language,it’s of no matter to me.
i immediately feel the link. if i see anybody,i feel “they are my people!â€, yes. we can talk forever…you meditate, okay? okay, lovely people,i see you later perhaps. thank you, master! thank you so much. you’re welcome. you’re very welcome. thank you, master.
thank you for the blessings.