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News 149, Master’s Words

To Know God is to Know Ourselves Completely

Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai
Lisbon, Portugal
May 7, 1999
(originally in English) Videotape No. 645

Generally speaking, the students of any Master enjoy happiness, luck and the fulfillment of any desire they ever have in life – be it physical, mental, emotional or, of course, spiritual. And the day they leave the physical body, they go directly to Heaven. There’s no doubt about that.

So in order to even be happy in this physical life – not to mention Heaven – to be happy here, to live a pleasant life here and to be a more intelligent person here, we should meditate. We’re already very intelligent, but we don’t use enough of our brainpower. Even though we use only five to ten percent, we’re already very clever and invent many things. Suppose you meditate and use more of your brainpower: Of course you’ll be more intelligent!

The average person uses only up to ten percent of his or her brainpower. That’s a fact known to every one of us; it’s been scientifically proven. So where do we put the other eighty or ninety percent? It’s wasted. And that’s why we’re not complete beings. We don’t feel complete; we feel frustrated and weak because we haven’t used our complete power.

So meditation, we can also say it in another way, makes use of our complete power. That’s what meditation is for, or that’s what meditation means: harnessing our complete might so that we become almighty just like God, or at least like the children of God. Otherwise, we sometimes don’t even have enough energy to take care of small problems or small things, and we don’t always do things completely to our satisfaction because we lack power and wisdom.

So to know God is to know ourselves completely. And when we know ourselves completely, we know God. Then because we’re one with God, we’re just like Hirm in the way Hes made us because God made humans in Hiers own image.

The Best Way to Worship is to Master Ourselves

Most Masters are very humble; they don’t desire any kind of physical or mental worship. They just want to make you a Master too. They just want to make you realize that you yourself are a child of God, that you yourself are great. They want to make you as great as you should be. Because no Master ever thinks that He or She is better than anyone else. They know that everyone is equal – equal in every sense of the word, here and in Heaven.

But it’s human nature that if someone teaches others something so blissful and rare as Heaven on Earth, of course they mostly worship that person. We can do this if we still feel we need to worship a Master, but the best form of worship is to become a master yourself. By this I mean a master of your own life, a master of your own wisdom, a master of your own destiny and a master of your own sincerity, being true to yourself in every way. We can only do this when we know ourselves completely for who we really are. Then we can be truthful, and can live our lives in a masterful way.

Become a Saint and Glorify God

It’s not that we have to forsake the world to know God. No, no! God made everything for us to enjoy. Hes makes a beautiful woman to be your wife so that you can love her, gives you beautiful, wonderful children so that you know how to love them, protect them and sacrifice for them and thus know what unconditional love is.

All of this God wants you to have. But if we have only the world and don’t have God, we have only half of it. We don’t even have half of it; we have only a little bit because we’ll lose it all. But once we have God, we have everything. Seek you first the Kingdom of God, and everything else will come to you. That’s the promise God made to us before we were even born, but we forget it. And that’s a pity for us. We should reclaim our right, reclaim our glory, reclaim everything that we have because we own the whole universe.

Be a saint, and enjoy the world at the same time. Be a rich, beautiful saint. When I was just a little bit enlightened, I followed in the footsteps of many ancient Saints and renounced everything. I didn’t care about anything; I didn’t want anything; it didn’t appeal to me anymore. But then God said to me, “You must have everything. I’m going to give you everything, more than you could ever want or need. You have to show the world that I’m the Father and that I can give you anything and everything, as well as spiritual awakening. You don’t have to forsake anything in order to love Me because I love you, whatever you are.”

Hes told me I have to do this; I have to do it the glorious way. So I said, “All right, Father, whatever You want.” I would rather be simpler; it’s less work. But Hes likes it this way. Fine! Besides, you like me beautiful, no? It looks more pleasant to the eyes.

So I said to Hirm, “But Father, ancient Saints like Buddha and Jesus walked barefoot. They wore simple clothes and went begging for food. Why do You want me to have all these things? How will that work?” Because most people in this world expect or are used to Saints Who renounce everything, Who don’t have anything, Who look poor and Who walk barefoot.

Hes said, “No! It’s a different time. Modernize! You have to be up-to-date, in step with the times.”

So I have all these things that I don’t even care for. If you saw me on the street, you’d see me as very simple. But I’d have a walkie-talkie, telephone, fax, e-mail – all kinds of “spiritual equipment.” I have a lot of spiritual weapons that I have to use: One hand has a phone and another a fax, an e-mail and so on. Otherwise, I can’t do this job the way Hes wants.

   

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