The more you know that God, the more you feel secure, loved, protected, and even your family, your friends will be also, by the way, protected. Even the one who is already dead a hundred years ago that you don't even know of, five generations behind you are also protected and uplifted to Heaven due to the power of your awakening.(Can you be initiated if you are already initiated by another master, like Bhagwan?)Well, if you think that past initiation is enough for you and if that way of life suits you, and you believe in that, then you continue. If you think it's not enough, you don't feel satisfied somehow, something missing, then you know you should seek this one. In your heart, you must know. You talk to God, you pray to Hirm; and if Hes has guided you here, maybe Hes wants you to be here.(Are there different levels of enlightenment?) Yes, definitely. Just like there are different spiritual teachers in this world. You might have been initiated, so-called initiated by another master, as you’ve asked me, but your master has taught you the best that he knows, but there might be something else you should know. Even within high school or college there are different classes, yes, and if you feel you have not learnt enough from one method, then you should move on to the higher one. And if you are not sure, then you wait. You go home and pray more to God, and pray, pray, until you intuitively know what is good for you.(Does wearing leather or having leather furniture affect a person's karma [retribution]?)It does. Every time I sit on a leather chair in a car, I feel very, very sleepy. But people have different sensitivity levels. Sometimes people don't feel it. Everything in this world affects us, not just leather. Sometimes, you see some violent film, you go home, you feel uncomfortable, you feel pain. Sometimes you see a sad film, you go home and are in a bad mood. Sometimes you see a pornographic film, you go home, toss and turn and feeling trouble in your chakra, lower chakra, for example. Sometimes, you sit next to a person whose energy is a little heavy, then you also feel affected in some way. That's why we need spiritual power reawakened to protect us, to lift us out of this gross, coarse level of existence. Otherwise, Heaven is right in front of us, and we could not see. (Please clarify the effect on a person's karma [retribution], when he is ending a sick or diseased patient.)When he’s tending sick or diseased patients. (Yes. Or ending an animal’s life, like a vet.) Yes. Yes. It is very clear, it’s just when you read it, I cannot understand. I’m sorry. When a person is tending a sick… (Ending.) tending… Oh, ending. (Ending.) Oh! Ending. Meaning he has to put to death a dog or something like that.Well, if he does it as a request from someone else, he is not responsible. It just affects his heart; he will not like that. And of course, if he does it too often, he will feel very sad because of the compassion he feels for the animal or the sick person. And in that way, it's already affected him. It's similar with soldiers; they are ordered to kill, so they are not responsible. But that is if he is compulsed to go into the army. If he volunteers to go into the army...Well, it's very difficult to explain. For example, he has been in the army with the intention of protecting his country, and then he was under the command of a higher officer, but during the war, he was ordered to kill, and it wasn't his intention. It wasn't his hatred that he kills the other person, then he is not responsible.(I am sometimes afraid of discovering myself. What can I do? Thank You!) Then don't discover yourself. You should be afraid of hell, not yourself. There are worse things than discovering yourself.(Can the meditation You offer protect me or anyone not to be affected by negative forces from outside or within us?) Of course, of course. Definitely. Of course. You see... Can I explain a little further about that? It's not the meditation that protects you, it is the awakening of your own power within yourself that will protect you. It is the knowing that you are God that will protect you. The Bible says that God lives within you. I am just going to show you how to find that God, then Hes will protect you. But the meditation just means that you calm yourself down, so that you can communicate with each other, with that God within you. The more you know that God, the more you feel secure, loved, protected, and even your family, your friends will be also, by the way, protected. Even the one who is already dead a hundred years ago that you don't even know of, five generations behind you are also protected and uplifted to Heaven due to the power of your awakening. (Dear Master Ching Hai, it is well known that in 1999, August, there will be a big disaster in the world. Is that a disaster in humans' hearts or in the new world?) Or in what? (Or in the new world.) In the new world? (Yes.)The world is old, why new? Disaster always happens; don't wait until August '99. If we go out there and we don't drive carefully, have an accident, disaster is already there for you. What is the use, if the world is still there and you get into disaster yourself? So, do not wait for the world's disaster. Protect yourself from today.Don't ask me to predict the future, because there is no such thing as fixed future for mankind or any “kind.” If there is really a fixed future for any “kind,” then Jesus cannot do anything, Buddha did not have to come, and we don't have to meditate. We don't even have to pray. What is the use, right? The negative power wants you to believe that there will be a disaster of this and that and the other.I want you to know that God's grace is greater than any negative power in any disaster or any prediction. So, we have to get in touch with God's grace and then we are protected. Thank you. Shall I read the question for you? (Please, write your questions clearly.)(Can You open us all to come in contact with God?) Only the one who really wants it in his heart, will be opened. When you want to be open that means it will be opened. I can do everything, but you are God, you have to allow me. So, if you want to, you can go outside and put your name down, and tell us that you want to learn about the method, and later we’ll call you. And I will teach the ones who want to learn. You can go now already and when I finish this, I’ll show you. Go quietly so you don’t disturb the neighbors. And you can ask more questions later on. If you leave now, you can ask more questions later.(Can I get initiation alone? Or can we get it all together?) You can get it alone, but then I have to stay here three years to finish one by one. There is no secret between us. We can share it with everyone else if they want the same thing.

We can help by sincere prayer, but we must be enlightened, we must be connected with this God power first, and then whatever we think will come true, whatever we want will come true.(How do we reconnect with the sound of God inside, and how to do that?) I will show you later.(Is the future of our Earth fixed?) No, it's not. We can make it better, we can make it worse, because we have the power to change – but only if we know how to get that power. If everyone does not do anything about our inner power and just stays the way they are, then the future of the world is fixed. But if some of us try to do it better, try to know the secret of the universe, and try to make use of the God power within us, then we can change the future of the planet. (Very often I hear God speak, but sometimes I doubt if it is God's voice. Sometimes I get visions as answers for my questions. How can she know if it is God's voice?) That's why I will show you how to verify it. You see, that's why I ask that you get the proper instruction, so that you will not be lost in the spiritual world, in spiritual adventure, because in the spiritual world there are also dangers. At the time of transmission, God power will protect you from that day on, so nothing can happen to you and all the experiences will be very clear to you. And we will tell you how to identify whether it's God or whether it's from the negative power. That's why it takes like one or two hours. Otherwise, enlightenment is like this. Enlightenment is just a second, but because you have to continue your process of knowing your complete Self every day, little by little every day, so we have to tell you about the many tricks and traps, and give advice on the spiritual journey so that you can help yourself at home, alone, and you don't need to always ask me.But of course, you can always ask me later if you are not clear yet. Because in the beginning, maybe you have a few questions. It will be clear to you later, after some time of practice. In the beginning, if you want to ask me questions, you can write or you can come see me sometimes, because sometimes we make a gathering; everyone who has questions can come see me and then I answer all of them, individually, one by one. At that time, only you can come; nobody else can. That’s why we will give you an ID card, and only you can come to talk to me individually. If we don’t know your ID card, you cannot come there. Not for me, because of the guards and all the people.Because spiritual business is only between two of us. Not concerning other people. So, you will come alone and ask me yourself. Next one, please.But it costs nothing, costs nothing. All the questions now, from today, anything I teach you, anything I do for you, all free, free. But you have to pay for your ticket though. Sometimes I pay. Some people don’t have money; I pay for them, too, if they really need it. Sometimes we do. But most of the time, after initiation, everybody becomes so intelligent; they work well, they earn more money, and everybody takes care of themselves wonderfully.(Do You expect the future coming of Christ as many of us do?) No, I don't. I know He came already. The same, you ask the same question like the Jews asked themselves when Jesus was alive. They were waiting for the Messiah and killed the one that already came. Don’t do the same again. (How can we help our brothers and sisters in the Balkans, in the war with Kosovo?) In the what? (In the war.) The war? (War in Kosovo. How can we help our brothers and sisters?) In Yugoslavia? (Yes.)There are many ways you can help. If you believe that one side is bad, then you join the other side and kill them? Then his brother and sister or son will come and kill you, your brother and sister, and his son kills your son… blah blah.And there’s another way to help, is that You see whoever suffers, the refugees, you contribute some money for them, help their lives become better. And we do that. We don't join either side and don't kill anybody. We just help when the situation is already so bad, and we just make it a little better if we can. The best way to help is to get yourself enlightened; otherwise, it might be your turn next. Once you are enlightened, if you have relatives and friends, you can even pray for them better because you can tell God what you want. Now God also knows what you want but you don't know what God wants. That's the problem. That's why many prayers are not answered. Because God answers, but we don't hear. Because God talks in a subtle language, we have to quiet down in order to receive it. And we call this meditation, contemplation, or quiet prayer – whatever. But we have to open our contact with God first. We have to plug back in, reconnect the telephone, and then we can talk to Hirm and we can receive the answer. Now God tells us to do one thing, and we do another because we are not connected; that's the problem in this world. If the people fighting in Yugoslavia can contact directly to God, they would not start the war at all. God won't tell them to do that. So, since it's started, it has to continue to some point. Just like the engine of the car has started and it's downhill, it has to run its course and then it will stop.We can help by giving our loving thoughts and loving power. But our prayers must be powerful. And at the moment, our prayers don't have power because we are not connected with the power inside. That's why Jesus did not waste His time trying to go around stopping any wars, and Buddha did not go around trying to make peace between countries. They were busy teaching people to get enlightenment because They knew that's the only solution to any problem on this planet and any other planet in the universe. We can help by sincere prayer, but we must be enlightened, we must be connected with this God power first, and then whatever we think will come true, whatever we want will come true. At the moment, we want something but we don't have anything to back it up. Just like we want to buy a dress, we want to buy shoes, but we don't have money in the bank. Have money in the bank first, then anything else you want, you can buy. Thank you. I can see that talking about money, you like it. It is very practical. Everybody understands the language.(How do you deal with an enemy’s attacks on a person?) How do I heal? (How do you deal with the attacks of people?) How do I deal with the attacks of people? (Yes.) You mean me personally or generally? (How does one?) How does one deal? Again, we have to be enlightened. And then you will know how because every situation is different. I cannot tell you a general guide of what to do, but mostly, we have to do it lovingly. But because many people in this world are also not enlightened, therefore, they sometimes tend to be violent. So, even if you try to be gentle, it doesn't always work. Yes, that's why we still have war, and that's why everybody must be enlightened. As long as there are ignorant people on this planet, we still have the threat to peace. Threat to peace. If there are ignorant people, then… Thank God you understand English. What’s next?(What about the Mother of the World? What about the heart? What about love and wisdom? This is the middle path of the Buddha. What about the expansion of consciousness? Is this a process?) Yes, I am trying to expand your consciousness. I am here to help you to expand your consciousness; and you can have loving power, you can be more intelligent, happiness – whatever you want, you have. We are talking in the same language, except I know how and you don't. We all talk about the flowers, except I have it here and you don't. Nice, yes.(Are You a saint?) What do you think? Do I look like a saint to you? No. I don’t, huh? Thanks God. If I look like a saint, I will be in more trouble. I already have enough trouble without looking like a saint. It's not important that I am a saint or not. It's important that you will be a saint. And I guarantee you will become a saint, if I teach you. Yes, in the name of God, I promise.

You will become the Master! You must become a Master. Even if you think I am a Master, you’ll become one like me, and you bless yourself and bless everybody else. It is better that way than to go begging for spiritual blessing. You are God's children. I can make your heavenly dream come true, but you must do everything yourself. I can show you how to make your dreams come true and you do the rest.OK? Oh my God! Wow, wow, wow. (If I miss something, you will take it, OK?) (Yes.) Wow! Can you imagine what a difficult job it is! All you have to do is concentrate. (Yes.) Close your eyes (All right.) and think of your wisdom center here. Don’t look at people. Don’t hear them. Don’t look at me. Don’t hear me. I mean, you hear inside and then you will not miss one word. Try. Like this is… it’s fun but I forgot also. Wait for me, I’m coming. I mean, wait for us. I mean, I have no problem, but they have problem. You see, that’s the problem when they are not open.That’s why. You see that? Just translate a little bit, a few sentences. And English, my English is very simple. It’s first class, meaning I attended the first class of English. Very simple, and three persons already having trouble. It doesn’t sound like what I said. (All right.) Even though I don’t understand Holländische (Dutch) but it did not sound very much. OK. All right then, all right. Most of you understand English. (Yes.) Yes.So please do forgive our best-intentioned translators. It’s easy to sit there and criticize. It’s difficult to do. When you sit there, you are more relaxed because it’s not your job. Once you come here and try to do God’s job, the power is so strong, you get nervous, you forgot. Translate. (I translate this?) All right. Also, try to make it fast. Try to translate fast so we don’t lose so much time. (OK.) Because people like to go home after also. We have like transmission later for people who like it, so we better make it fast. Please. Translate. You should translate. It’s OK? (Yes.) You can hear? (Yes.) From behind, yes? (Yes.) It’s clear? Oh, wonderful! Wonderful! Yes. (Thank You.) OK. You’re doing a good job, continue.So, the process of enlightenment, there is no process at all. The moment you want it and then when we sit together, I just tell you what to do, and then you get it. It's that simple, so we don't need too much translation.You have to speak word by word clearly, not like you talk with friends, because the people are not used to your accent yet. I mean, we are strangers here. (We are all families.) Huh? (We are all families.) I know that. But I mean it takes long time to get used to somebody’s way of speaking, so we have to speak clearly. That’s why I speak the way I do – one, two, three. Normally, I speak softly like you, very soft and beautiful like you. I think all of you understood what I wanted to say, and we can just stop right here and if you have any more questions, I can answer you one by one.And if you think somebody else translates better, (you’re) welcome to try. Yes. We have many talents in Holland, and that is very good. (Can everybody hear me?) Sure. (So, I’ll give it a try, OK?) OK. If you want… If you have any questions, because of technical problems, you please write it down and hand it to our people. And then he can read it and I’ll answer right away. I will answer any question. Any question. Yes? Anybody wants to…(Do we have to be open to…) You write it down. Other people, please write it down quick. Yes.(Do we have to be open to receive enlightenment?）No, no. You are not open, that's why you need to be open. You don't need to be opened – we will help you to open. If you're already open, you don't need me. (Yes, that's what I mean.）All you need is to just to want to know yourself. (Thank You.) Actually, we don't have to do anything to receive the grace of God because the Kingdom of God is within us. It is that you just don't know how. So, when at the time of transmission, we just sit quietly and God does the rest. (Yes, I have a question, too.) Where are you? (Here.) Yes. Because of too much trouble with the microphone, so please, the other people write down meanwhile and we read it immediately. Yes. (Yes.)(I would like to ask: If you see God, you say that you don't see God as a man or as a woman, it appears to you, but do you visualize God as a human being or...?) No, you don't visualize. Hes comes the way Hes wants. You need to wait for me. (OK, sorry.) You don't have to visualize because God is God. You cannot visualize Hirm. Hes comes the way Hes wants.(The question: How does the transmission take place?) You will know it later. If you want to know, you stay behind, and after the conference we'll show you. I cannot explain it. It is in silence. It’s just the power of God is doing; there is no talk, no language to describe that. That's why it needs a living transmission pole. Otherwise, all the Bibles would be writing about how to do it a long time already and we would have been able to do it ourselves already. It needs a living transmission. And in every era of the planet, God chose at least one or two, or three, as the way Hes wanted to transmit this power to Hiers children, whoever wants to go back to the Kingdom of God.(Another question: How to reconnect…) Can you please read in Holländisch first and then you read English? (OK.) (So, in English, how to reconnect with the sound of God inside and to heal in that? I am open for this to happen.) Yes, you stay behind and I’ll show you how. I’ve told you many times. After this, if you are in a hurry, you can go out and tell my people that you want it and put your name down, and later we’ll call you. Only for the ones who want it; other people who don’t want, we don’t teach you. You have to want it yourself, of course. You don’t translate what I said? (You speak too quick.) Brother, can you understand me better? You try, (You try again.) and you speak faster. (OK.) You can stay there also and remind him if he forgets something. And you speak fast and speak in the microphone, please.(How to see You face to face, on behalf of the whole family in China, who are all Your honest students. Could You make my dream come true?) What kind of dream do you want to come true? If you want your dreams to come true, you have to walk the way I walk. There is no way to go back to the Kingdom of God except you walk yourself. I cannot go everywhere presenting myself to you as a Master who knows everything, who can do everything. And then you always stay like a weak person, always have to beg me for things. You will become the Master! You must become a Master. Even if you think I am a Master, you’ll become one like me, and you bless yourself and bless everybody else. It is better that way than to go begging for spiritual blessing. You are God's children. I can make your heavenly dream come true, but you must do everything yourself. I can show you how to make your dreams come true and you do the rest. I cannot tell you lie. Everyone must enlighten himself and bless himself with everything he wants to have in this life and the next life – I mean, in Heaven. Jesus has said that, "No one comes to the Father except through me." That means He will show you the way. He is the only one at that time who could show you the way, and then you will see the Father. If you try to do it by yourself, you don't know how, you don't have guidance, then you cannot do it.(Why can one not talk about his experience with others?) You can, but they don’t understand. They might laugh at you and think that you are boasting, you are blasphemous, and you are an atheist, and whatever.

If we will be transmitted this God power or we get rekindled this existing power within us again, then we can also experience Heaven, while we are living on this planet. We can also have the healing power, we can also have the blessing from God, so we can share it with others, we can also be successful in spiritual life as well as material life at the same time. We can have both Heaven and Earth at the same time and enjoy both.Because God is nameless, God is invisible in some way, so it is difficult for us to know Hirm. But if Hes has chosen someone to transmit this power from Hirm, then it's easier for us to relate, and then we can assimilate this gradually, until we become one with God, until we know God completely, and that is the process of complete enlightenment.The person who is chosen to be a transmitting pole for God power is no better than anybody else on this planet. It's just that in order to light a torch, another torch has to be alighted, and then you use that torch to light another and then light another and light another. So, in order to light many torches, one torch, one fire, must be made in the beginning, and that is just a chosen pole. Someone has to begin first, and everything else comes from there. So, in my experience that God has shown me, there is no mystery about how to know God. It's very, very simple; even children can have the experience of God, exactly the experience that is written in the Bible. Like, if Moses has seen God as a big bush of flames, if other saints have heard God like the sound of many waters, we can experience exactly the same like that, and more.That's why Jesus has told us that whatever He can do, we can do also. Because it's not Him that was doing, it was the Father. Similar to us, if we will be transmitted this God power or we get rekindled this existing power within us again, then we can also experience Heaven, while we are living on this planet. We can also have the healing power, we can also have the blessing from God, so we can share it with others, we can also be successful in spiritual life as well as material life at the same time. We can have both Heaven and Earth at the same time and enjoy both. Because most of us enjoy only the world and do not know there is another world that exists, that is, Heaven. We've heard that Heaven exists and we can see it after we die, but it is not so: we can see it right now.We can see it in two ways. One way is more materialized, like after the process of transmission, we become happier, we become more intelligent, more quick reacting, more tolerant, more loving, and more successful in many ways. And sometimes we can even see the future and the past, and we can know how to solve the present problems, etc. And all the people around us, family and friends, become better and better also. And that is one materialized way of the grace of God.It’s enough? You don’t… Is that enough? No, I ask there. So, you don’t remind him anything? (He tried to put the essence in.) OK, the essence. All right. I hope you’re satisfied.But there is another way that we can see Heaven truly, with our heavenly eye, and that is, literally speaking, we can enter Heaven as a place. And we enter it not by the physical body, but by a spiritual body, and then we can come back again to the physical body and continue our daily activities – and nobody ever suspects that we are a saint. That saves a lot of problems. People don't come and flock to our house and start worshipping the dirt at our feet and make our home become a free “kostenlos” hotel. Because you know very well, throughout history, any saint who became well-known, then he is finished. He has no privacy, no time for himself, no home, no rest, no anonymity – nothing. He has become a servant of the public.You see, in the old times, if you read the Bible, any Bible, even the Qur’an, the Christian, the Buddhist, they stated, some saints in the past, the way they see Heaven – they come up to Heaven and they hear the trumpet and they see the flame of God – you know, it's God – and they hear God speaking and all that. Just a few experiences, and they have been so famous, that even it's written in the record of the Bible. And we can have all this experience, but we keep quiet; nobody knows. It's better. Yes, we can see angels, we can see all the saints in the past and present and the future. We can talk to God also, in one way or another, in heavenly language or even in human language – in Portuguese, in Dutch, in Deutsch, in French – in every language you can communicate with God directly – and still no one will know anything about your inner development.Since ancient times, if we become well-known for some reason, or maybe it's God's will that we become well-known as a spiritual guide, then there is a lot of unpleasantness that surrounds us. Sometimes the spiritual teacher has been also persecuted by the people who do not understand, by the fanatics, by the governments, or by some religious frenzies. OK. You understand the rest. So, it is better for us, and it is advisable also, that we keep our spiritual experience within ourselves, within the circle of our people, because we understand each other and we know that we're having the same experience. There is nothing strange, nothing mysterious, nothing blasphemous about it, because we all have similar experiences and we know very, very well. But outside people, sometimes they do not understand. They would think that we are making up stories, and that's the reason why many of the saints in the past have been persecuted. But nowadays, the freedom of religions is greater, and human rights have been more respected, and so we have more opportunity to know spiritual practice. We can do it more openly. But even then, the spiritual experience, the heavenly blessing that we know from God, is always advisable to keep for ourselves alone.And there is a way to get to such a state of living in Heaven while working on Earth. There is a way to do that, because Heaven is already within us. Heaven exists all the time. We do not need to beg for it, we do not need to do penance for it, we do not have to pray all day for it. We just have to know where to get it again. Because we are the children of God, we don't need to beg for anything. We are princes of Heaven, princes and princesses, sorry.Because we always talk about God in terms of the masculine, I also go with that way, but God has no specialty. I have seen Hirm, and Hes has no differences like we have, like you and I. It's different. Very, very beautiful. Hes is sexless. Hes has no man or woman quality the way we think. Sometimes, for the sake of contacting with us, Hes can appear as a woman – woman saint or woman angel inside – to tell us advice and to share with us secrets of the universe. Sometimes God appears as a man also, to talk “small talk” with us or to tell us the wise way to live our lives and to take us up to Heaven; but that is up to us. Sometimes we human beings love to see a woman's appearance, love to see a man's appearance, so accordingly, Hes will fulfill our wish and appear as man or woman.Just similarly, I asked God why most of the ancient Masters were men, "Why do You tell me to do this difficult job now?" Hes said, "We surprise humankind." Because I told Hirm, “I am a woman. I like to have time, I like to look beautiful, and I like to walk slow and gracefully. I don't want to do a man's job, always rushing, rushing!” Because this is a very big job and it's strenuous, and demands a lot of energy, a lot of stamina, and I thought a man is better, suitable. But God said, "Never mind. I will empower you. You can do everything." Hes thinks that we need a change.You feel better, that you’ve been better than him? Go ahead. Go ahead, go ahead. Translate what I just said. (I didn’t hear Your last sentence, sorry. )That’s the problem. I also forgot what I said. (So did I.) Humans need a change. Can you hear her? (Yes.) Behind, can you hear? (Not well.) No. You speak louder, please. (Yes. OK.) Speak loud like me, scream. What’s the problem? Why do you keep changing translator? He was tired? (He told a whole different story than You were telling.) Oh, yeah? (He did, yes.) Oh really! (So, it became too… it became too bad.) OK. Try to speak louder then, if you know better. All right. Oh, my goodness! Shall we start all over again? OK.I’ll tell you what. There is one solution for this problem: it is that you get enlightened. I can show you – it takes only a minute. That’s why… Yes. OK? OK, behind there? Can you hear? (Yes.) OK, good. And then all the answers will come to you automatically because you are the Master. Then you can communicate directly with God in whatever language you want; no need translation. There are two ways, I told you: one way is the human language, another way is spiritual language. Mostly, God communicates through spiritual language and we understand as well.

There are two ways to live in this world. One way is the normal way that we accept everything that happens to us as destiny. And there is another way, that we know God's grace and we can live a much happier, a much smoother, and more peaceful life. Once we know the grace of God, life begins to change. Life begins to be the way it should be. Life begins to be like Heaven. I would like to share some very good, important news to the Holland brothers and sisters. Because there is not much else I can bring to offer your great country, since your country is already very, very great, very prosperous and very intelligent in many ways. So, since I am invited here I think the only thing that maybe I could offer is the thing that I know of, the thing that I have; that is, spiritual knowledge. There are two ways that we can live our life in this world, and you all know that.Can you hear clearly, his beautiful voice? Is it… Can you hear? Can you speak in the microphone? Don’t look at me, don’t smile at me. Speak right here. I think I’ll take the microphone in my hand so I don’t miss it.There are two ways to live in this world. One way is the normal way that we accept everything that happens to us as destiny. Can you hear now? (Yes.) It’s OK? (No, no good.) No good? Yes or no? Please take care that you speak louder. Can you take the microphone and stand up straight? Please. Because I can hear you, it’s just they cannot. (Yes.) All right, that’s it. Now you look like a movie star. (Yes. Yes. It’s…) When you stand straight, it’s better for you.And there is another way, that we know God's grace and we can live a much happier, a much smoother, and more peaceful life. OK? Ah! They like you now. (Yes.) Most of the people in the world, we choose to live the first way of life because we do not know the second way. We would like to know the second way, but it is, most of the time, hidden from us even though it is very, very simple, as if taking something out of your pocket. We just don't know how, so we live a mostly unfulfilled, most of the time very frustrated, unhappy lives. Once we know the grace of God, life begins to change. Life begins to be the way it should be. Life begins to be like Heaven. Translate OK? No? Yes? You translate better, you come up. You better make it better. All right. I’m sorry. OK. OK. (OK.) OK. Yes. You better be good. (I’ll try.) All right. It is easier down there but when you stand up here... He is a little nervous, that’s why. OK, we begin anew.So today, we will talk about the second way of living, which will bring us happiness, which will bring us Heaven, which will bring us peace inside and outside. I like that. The way to contact with the grace of God, people call that the way of enlightenment, the way of Jesus, the way of Buddha, the way of Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him), the way of those great Masters in the ancient times and in the present and in the future. I am not trying to say the way of religions, because religion has two essences. One is the theory that we read the Bible, we become pious, we keep the commandments of God, and we fast or we be a good person, we help one another. That is one way. And there is another way, the spiritual way; it’s much, much deeper. The spiritual way is the way we can contact directly to God and tell Hirm everything that we want to tell, and Hes will tell us how we are going to solve the problems, or Hes is going to bless us, so that our lives will become exactly the way we want to live. He’s still good? OK. Stay there. Because in the Bibles or in many of the spiritual, religious scriptures, they don't mention how to contact God. They just mention that in the ancient times, like Saint John, or whomever had contacted God, or Moses had seen God, and then He got blessed and then He had wisdom, etc., etc., but the Bible or the scriptures do not tell us how to get the wisdom the way Moses did. Jesus had meditated in the desert for 40 days, similar with Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) and similar with the Buddha, etc., etc. There are endless Masters since ancient times, I cannot mention Them all, but They all had to go through a process of contemplating for a long time and every day in life, in order to contact this God, contact God inside of us. So if we want to…Oh, sorry. OK, go ahead. Is that it? So short! Is that OK? You standby and you remind him when he forgets something. This is fun. Normally, a real translator, they note down some main points while listening and then they translate from that. It’s safer. You want it? (No, it’s all right. I’ll try to follow You.) Can you note a little bit and… yes. (OK.)It reminds me of a Japanese joke. It is a little bit out of the theme, but you want to hear? (Yes.) OK. Just to brighten it up because we are in spring and flowers everywhere. OK. There was a Chinese tour guide. He took a bunch of Japanese tourists to go around Amsterdam and looking everywhere, and then they went into a comedy club. And then the comedian was standing on the stage and talked and made a lot, a lot of gestures, a lot of things and everybody laughed. All the Hollanders laughed, laughed, laughed, and all the Japanese tour group kept waiting for the guide to translate. And after the comedian had finished and everybody had laughed already, they said, "What, what? What was it?" And then the guide told them, "The comedian has just told a great joke, so now please clap your hands and laugh." Then suddenly all the Japanese laughed. And the comedian said, "Why I talked so long and you talked only one sentence and they laugh?" Yes, yes. I think he is trying to do the same job. OK. Please try. (OK.)Now in ancient times, the communication system was not very efficient, the transportation system was almost non-existent. So, to find someone who could show us the way to achieve the grace of God or the way to return to our Kingdom of God within ourselves was almost impossible. And that's why most of the scriptures of the religions mention about these spiritual subjects in a very precious way, in a very mysterious way, in a very, kind of, very hard to find subject, and very hard to achieve. And they don't even write down the method for us. But nowadays, because of all the convenience of scientific discovery, we can share with each other anything that we know in a matter of hours or minutes. Anytime that we can see each other, anytime we want to see each other or want to see someone who knows the way, we can always fly over there or go by car, by bus. It's just a matter of a few hours or a few days, then we can know whatever we want to know about spiritual practice. And even if we could not see the person who knows it, we can see the person who is delegated from this so-called spiritual guide or spiritual friend, and we waste no time; we can always learn anywhere in the world. And this is very lucky for us.I did not know that. I thought I had to go to the Himalayas; but that was my destiny. I had to go there in order to come back and tell you that you don't have to go there. So, it wasn't a waste of time; it was the way of the working of God. But it's not the Himalayas that makes us enlightened; it is a spiritual power that is transmitted to us through a living, chosen station, a living chosen kind of like, spiritual pole, yes. If God has chosen you as an electric pole, Hes will transmit the power through you and then to another person. That’s very simple.

After seeing a video – Master spoke about the (inner Heavenly) Light, yes, the Light – and from that moment on, I knew that all of my questions would be answered. I also knew that this was, for me, the way to go, the right way.(Welcome dear [Supreme] Master Ching Hai. Welcome to Holland.) Oh, please sit down. Please sit down. (Are You tired?) I just rushed because the taxi brought me and we went a little wrong way. (OK. We are lucky that You are here, and if You agree, we can have the flower offering for You?) Have they bought the flowers already? We have enough… You have already many but... OK, why not? (I think there are people who are loving to give You some flowers.) All right. Thank you. (I think.) Since they have bought it. (Is there anyone who’d like to give?)Have they got flowers really? (Oh, there is one.) Thank you. I have requested that, no, not too much, not too much celebration. Please, please. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Please, please. Leave it. Wow, my goodness. Are you going to make a Keukenhof here? Yes, just anywhere. Thank you. (It took a little time but now it comes quickly.) Yes, just tell them to lay it out. Please, please. (Please lay them in front of Master Ching Hai.) Thank you. You talk in Holländisch. (OK.) (Please put the flowers for Master Ching Hai on the podium.) No, tell them to make it quickly. (She cannot take everything.) Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Please. Please, I am very embarrassed. Oh, my goodness. I am very shy. Please make it quick.(Master Ching Hai, in Holland, this day we call “Mother’s Day,” and we hope that You feel very happy on Mother’s Day in Holland. This is for us a very special day.) Thank you! (So, it means double that You are here, Mother of the Earth.) Thank you. Is the translation OK? Yes. (Yes, it’s OK.) No wonder he doesn’t speak Holländisch. I thought you need to translate. This is very fast. Thank you. Thank you. I wish to make a very special, precious, loving, how to say, prayer to all the mothers in the Netherlands. And thank you for coming. Please.You don’t need to translate. Oh, I forgot. Can I sit down? Would you please distribute these to all the mothers later? They have translation? (No.) No? (No, I don’t translate in Dutch immediately.) But how is this? What is this? (That is for Aulacese [Vietnamese] and Chinese.) Don’t they make trouble. From the other countries, right? (Yes.) I see. But the Aulacese (Vietnamese) and the Chinese in Holland they all speak Dutch very well.Now I am going to shock you – I am going to speak Dutch. How are you? That's all. Did you transfer my wish of Mother's Day to all the mothers in the hall? I forgot that today is Mother's Day. Traveling too much, I forgot the time. But it is very nice that we have such a celebration so we can remember our mothers sometimes. Yes, poor mothers. So, how are you? Are you comfortable in your chairs? I think my brother and sister have introduced to you somewhat about the meditation way that we can share with you, so I am just kind of explaining a little further, in case you would like to know and want to hear my beautiful voice. That’s what they say. And when they say something about beautiful, like I am beautiful, I have a beautiful voice, I want to believe it very much.

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