Well, I’m sorry that you have to sit on the floor. Should we finish now because we’ve already been talking for so long? There are still questions. Two more. (Master, may I ask for Your permission? I’m from Âu Lạc [Vietnam] and I don’t know German, is that alright?) OK. Go ahead and speak. (Yes, Master.) She is very old. She can speak Aulacese (Vietnamese). (Because I’ve always had the heart to practice spiritually, I usually recite “Namo Amitābha Buddha.” Whenever I remember, I recite it. So now that I’ve received the initiation from Master, what should I recite and visualize? Should I recite “Namo Supreme Master Ching Hai” or “Namo Amitābha Buddha”?) Recite the Five (Holy) Names. Recite the Five Buddhas from yesterday. (Yes, thank You, Master.) It’s not that important. She said that she used to recite one name, one Buddha. And now she’s already initiated, what should she do? Should she repeat my name or what? I said, “Repeat those Five (Holy) Names.” That is all.
(Dear Master Ching Hai, I have a friend and...) Why are you being so polite? “Dear Master Ching Hai...” (I have a friend and her husband works in a restaurant. She is a housewife.) Housewife. (And receives no money from the social welfare office or employment office.) Yes. (Can she live off her husband’s money, or should she...?) Her husband works in a restaurant? (Restaurant. Yes.) Yes, she can because she is his wife. (But if…) Because she also works for him at home. And she gets paid like an... (Employee.) employee. No problem. (Yes, thank You.)
Please. (Please, where do I learn the practices so that later on I will also have the ability to appear to someone like Saint Francis of Assisi, who was seen in different places at the same time, or like You appear to Your parents now? Do you learn this on your own through inspiration, once you have reached a certain level or maturity?) You want to be everywhere at the same time? Why? (For example, that is one possibility.) I see. (Impossible.) (There are many things.) This is when... (Do you learn all this from yourself?) You will achieve this later. (Yes. Nobody has to teach you that, one can find it out for oneself, how that happens?) Everything you do on purpose is only from the ego. Everything that comes naturally is from God, so just leave it at that.
I had no intention of becoming a Master. It makes me so tired and I have to give a lot of answers (to questions) that I don’t like, but I have to be patient now. So. My temper always gets hurt. It’s always hurt. Because in the past I used to be a very introverted person. I didn’t have many friends, not even a so-called very close friend, or very deeply connected friends, I had none. And I was always alone at home, reading books, praying to the Buddha and meditating. Before I got to know this (inner Heavenly) Sound and Light meditation, I was already meditating, and eating vegetarian and all that. And I was always alone, a “very alone” woman. And when I was married to my husband, I couldn’t talk with him much either. Sometimes I saw him talking to many other people for a long time, and I always wondered and thought, if I could only have half of that conversation with him, that would be nice, but I couldn’t speak, spoke not at all. But now I have to talk so much, so I don’t like this business at all.
And when you reach that stage where you become a Master, then you already know that you are starting to have problems. Better not wish for that. It’s better this way. Let it come naturally. When you reach the Master level, you can be everywhere, omnipresent. And that works, but not before. Maybe, maybe you sometimes appear here and there, once or twice, but you don’t need to know that. And, there are also people who go out of the body and appear in another place, but only in one. And that is the astral body. It is not the complete power of omnipresence. It is something else. And this you do with consciousness, but with the omnipresence you have to cut away the consciousness as well, because it is also about the ego. What we can grasp physically and with the brain is not yet quite high. For example, the Sun does not feel itself, does not feel that it gives sunshine, that it gifts us all warmth or helps all beings to grow. When you dispense as naturally as the Sun, then you are already the Master. You are everywhere, you do a thousand and one things, but you don’t need to know that at all. Because if you know that, then the ego will expand, and then you will get into trouble and immediately fall down in this physical world.
(I would like to thank You very much, I am very happy that You exist and I love You very much.) Thank you very much. I can see it. Is there anything else? I am glad that you are happy. Those who are very honestly seeking God – they are very happy. They know immediately what they get now. They know immediately who I am. There is nothing more to say, no explanations are necessary, and you don’t need so much time to talk. I don’t need to say anything. We understand each other very well, and then that makes very pleasant feelings between us. We understand that very well; it is very pleasant. A Master is happy when He/She gets a few such so-called disciples. In India, it is said that a Master is very happy when He/She gets only one successor, just one. Who is a true seeker, who is purely there for God, and has no desires for any other material fulfillments. It is very rare. Therefore, we do see that so many people meditate or so many people practice, but there is only one (Lord) Jesus and only one Buddha. We do have a few Masters at the moment. There are three, three or four; that is a lot already. Otherwise, there was only one Master. Or two. Two was the highest in the old days, as far as I know. In earlier times, the maximum was two, otherwise there was only one for the whole world.
OK, let’s go. What else? (Dear Master, I am from Âu Lạc [Vietnam]. I would like to ask Master a few things. My child happens to work as a waiter in a restaurant, but now that he has received the initiation, he wants to follow the spiritual path to attain liberation. He realizes that Your spiritual path is the true and right one, so he wishes to follow Master to practice. Since he works at the restaurant by mistake, will Master allow him to continue temporarily until he finds another job?) What? I don’t understand. What did he do by mistake? (My son happened to work as a waiter in a restaurant.) I see. (And now he wants to change his job.) I see. (Can he take some time to change job?) Yes, he can. (So You allow him, Master?) Yes, yes. (Thank You, Master.) There was someone like that yesterday too. (I didn’t hear that.) It’s fine. OK. (Thank You very much, Master.) No more? I’m just afraid you sit very long, and you feel very tired.
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