"The
suffering of this world is not due to only the war. The war is not
the catastrophe. It's not the lack of food and all these, but the
suffering of this world comes from ignorance. Because we don't know
our mission, our purpose, we mistaken the playground for home and
overstay our due and sometimes suffer the cold, danger outside the
house.
But
even then the Buddhas, God Almighty always try to look for us, for
the lost children, for the ones who love to play and forget to go
home. Therefore the Buddha sometimes come down and endure the suffering
of the human existence, endure the humiliation of the petty physical
life in order to find the lost children, to bring them back to safety
before it's too late. Because any house, doesn't matter how solid
it built, one day it must be demolished by itself or by some other
elements or some causes or have to rebuild a new one because it's
too old. This world is a big house, very beautiful, very solid house,
but it's not a permanent house.
That's why the Buddhas, the Saints, like Jesus, Mohammed, etc.,
they came down to us, extend their blessing to us. We walk one step,
they walk hundred thousand steps to receive us and forgive our mistakes,
cleanse our past unwholesome actions, and teach us the new kind
of life, new beginning, or better speaking, and lead us back to
the original way of life, the way we must live, the way we should
carry out our life."
From "Enlightenment Awakens The Positive
Power"
News 44, Master Says
Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai
Singapore • January 10, 1995
(originally in English)