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Words of Wisdom / Supreme Master Ching Hai's Lectures

Knowing God is the Highest Virtue, Part 10 of 11: Questions and Answers, May 20, 1999, Athens, Greece

2022-08-18
Language:English,Greek (ελληνικά)
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After the reawakening of God inside, then God will know that God is God. You will not identify yourself with this weak body, with this prison of the flesh anymore. You stay too long in this “house,” you think you are the “house.” Once you open the “door” and walk outside, you will know you are not the “house.” Doesn't matter how bad the “house” looks, how damaged, how terrible the condition of the “house,” it's not you.

(How can man overcome his human existence, his humanity, which has within it so many frailties and so many fears? And how can he then feel as a God? Perhaps, that would be hubris.) Hypocrite? (Not hypocrisy, it’s hubris: it's daring to feel that you are God.)

Yes. Yes. Of course, we dare not now because we are not yet. We have forgotten. After the reawakening of God inside, then God will know that God is God. You will not identify yourself with this weak body, with this prison of the flesh anymore. You stay too long in this “house,” you think you are the “house.” Once you open the “door” and walk outside, you will know you are not the “house.” Doesn't matter how bad the “house” looks, how damaged, how terrible the condition of the “house,” it's not you.

Inside this “house,” there is the computer system which we call “brain,” and it is the brain that tells you that you're weak, you are mistaken, you are trouble, you are stupid, you're ignorant, and so on and so forth. Because the brain records all the data every day, what you're doing and how you react and how you feel and all that. And then records it in here, and every time it keeps playing it out again and makes you feel that you are that. After awakening, we can every day, at least temporarily for some time, detach our Self from the physical body and the physical brain and know our true Self, which is all perfect, all glory, all love, all wisdom.

This is all talk - you have to experience it. Talking about cake doesn’t make you taste anything. You should come in and eat the cake yourself, and then you know what it is.

(Do You believe the anti-Christ, i.e., the devil exists, and generally, evil spirits?) Yes, he exists all the time – before Christ, during Christ, and after Christ. Every time a human being does something against God, against loving kindness, he is an anti-Christ. There is no need looking elsewhere; look into our hearts. If we do something in God's name, in God's quality, in love, in good will, then we're walking the way of love, the way of Jesus. If we do anything contrary to that, we are the anti-Christ.

(What role do dreams play in our life? Are there prophetic dreams? In our dreams, is there communication with people that have already died?) Sometimes it happens. Most of the time dreams are just nonsense, just an overflow of our recording everyday stuff here and there. But sometimes dreams are the forewarning of future events. Sometimes a dream is when our soul leaves the body and communicates with another world. In that case, we can speak with the deceased person. If we get up from a dream and remember every vivid detail, and it’s very logical, then the dream may be true; otherwise, it's not. Just a general guide.

(What does the Quan Yin symbolize in the Taoist pantheon or to Buddhism? Do You now follow the Taoist tradition or the Buddhist one?) I follow all of them, or, they all follow me. I told you, it’s just names. "Quan Yin" actually is the Chinese term I started in Taiwan (Formosa), so they always use that. It's just too late to change now.

"Quan Yin" means listening to the voice of God, which is the "Word" in the Bible. And "Taoism" means “the people who practice the Way.” "Tao" means "the Way" in Chinese, “the Path.” Just like Jesus said, "I am the Way; “follow me” when He was alive. And then, if people choose the Way instead of Christ, they would make it become “Wayism” or Taoism. If they choose the Christ's name, they become “Christianism” or Christianity.

The real essence of all good religions points to one God. I mean, the real teaching. So, in a way, every religion is Taoism, every religion is Buddhism or Christianity. After Buddha died, they called themselves “Buddhists.” After Christ died, they called themselves “Christians.” After the Master who taught the Way died, they called themselves “Wayism” or “Taoism.” You can see that. Since we are all one, we have no need to discuss over terminologies.

There is only one Creator, and we all know that. But there is an essence. The essence of all religions is not written in the scriptures because God cannot be written in human language, except just the name G-O-D. And the real essence has to be known by our soul only. That's why we need the transmission from soul to soul. Just like the candle that is already lit, can light another candle. But the word “candle” alone, the word "light" alone doesn't give us any light. And love is something felt between lovers; it cannot be written. The word "love" doesn't imply any feeling of love. You cannot feel love by reading the word "love." Love has to be imparted from heart to heart between the persons who love each other.

(People who are of a higher spirituality or sainthood have the capacity to distinguish in the aura of the people around them whether they are kind or not, or even if they have progressed in the spiritual path.) They can see the aura or not, right? (And they can explain why people who are handicapped and ill are born.) Of course, the people who practice spiritually can see the auras of the other people, but that is only the aura of the astral. But most of the spiritual, the highly evolved beings, they just look at the soul of that person, even with or without aura. And the soul is always perfect, brighter than millions of suns put together. It's just covered sometimes.

And concerning the disabled people, it is because they have chosen to be such. I have explained about the soul’s choice of reincarnation before. They chose like that to serve their purpose of evolution in spiritual progress. Every soul chooses their path themselves privately, in their own way, to progress spiritually.

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