If you are working very well, diligently at home, and taking care of yourself and your family well, I also am very, very, very grateful, because that means I don’t have to worry about you. That means society has better helpers, to make it more beautiful, livable, and ..(more)
In the old times, they don’t have these kinds of industrialized animal farms. They don’t confine them into little cages until they could move no more and all that. And still the Buddha said, “No.” Not to talk about nowadays, they just abuse them and force them until ..(more)
The precepts are very important, not only for nuns and monks, but for you as well, if you want to be liberated while you are taking care of your duties in the world according to your karma. Not everyone can be nuns and monks, of course. It's a very difficult ..(more)
If we have some reverent beings, we have to treat them nicely. You must know. I always tell you, a long time already, so you do always the same. The monks and nuns sit somewhere separate, as separate as possible. We have to protect them, protect their purity, for you. ..(more)
Thanks to Heaven’s grace and Supreme Master Ching Hai’s profound love, at the end of 2018, tens of thousands of our Association members had the opportunity to gather at the New Land in Taiwan (Formosa) for a meditation retreat and Christmas celebration. One of the ..(more)
So, when you practice the Tao, or the Truth, or the Dharma, the Way, you will encounter ten kinds of samadhic experiences from inside. And then you may mistake these for some ultimate enlightenment. And thus, some of the demons who are correspondent to your state of ..(more)
I know you love me, you say that all the time. But I don’t know when you’ll ever turn around and walk somewhere else. It’s OK, it doesn’t matter as long as you already have the basics: vegetarian, meditation, fearing the law of karma, and good moral standard, good ..(more)
So there were many kinds of ghosts that you have heard from the Buddha. They might appear to look holy and they may repeat some of the Buddha’s sutras. Especially in those times, it was not easy to get the real teaching from the Buddha. Then you just rely on whoever ..(more)
This person would like to even live, maybe not in the physical form, but in a subtle form, maybe an astral form. And even then , it’s not just making mistakes by wanting to be immortal, but he could be deluded into believing in the demon’s promise, and then later could ..(more)
But the person who reached this state of extreme self-satisfaction, he thinks he is above everything. But this is just one state, which is called “viewing oneself as supreme, but lacking wisdom to save oneself” even. You can’t even save yourself, not to talk about ..(more)
You can see many different religious orders, people copy the Masters and do all kinds of rituals and all kinds of ways, just to entrap people in there and make them busy with just rituals; useless, all kinds of useless things, wasting their time and obstructing them ..(more)
Master, about this place that You created, where is it, exactly? It is between the 11th Level and the Ihôs Kư, in that buffer zone. And because the created soul, even though my so-called disciples, cannot go and stay in the Original Universe, because they have nothing ..(more)
Now I live on a small island over here. I’ve been busy taking care of the new place and dealing with many other things. So I thought of you and felt sorry for you. Maybe you are also busy like this every day. Today I thought, no matter what the situation is, I’m still ..(more)
Therefore, don’t buy products that contain honey for me. It’s not that I’m not appreciative. I appreciate you try to take care of me, even on minor details. It’s just that I don’t want to hurt others because of taking care of myself. In this way, we have real ..(more)
Lunar New Year is one of the most important holidays in many Asian countries. On this auspicious occasion, our Association members from around the world gathered in Hsihu, Taiwan, also known as Formosa, to celebrate with our beloved Supreme Master Ching Hai and to ..(more)