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Start Now to Implement Life-sustaining Solutions for the Planet

I watched on one of the British channels before, there was a very scary documentary. They said that along with the global warming, the sun is also getting cooler somehow. So warming and cold: it's too warm in some parts, and then some parts will be too cold. Or after the warm will be cold, and if it's too warm then the ice will melt and then we'll have floods. And if after that there's no ice left to balance the things anyway, either the planet will become very heated or it could be very cold, because of too much cover or the ozone layer being broken.

So, many things can happen, and they could happen soon. Several decades are not long. So right now it's time that all the people of every country should get together and think of the solutions quick, like biofuel or something with sustainable energy like solar power or wind power. You can install it in your home if you can afford it. Or, you can put money together and install one home at a time, OK! For instance, two of you could pitch money together and install it in your home. Draw a lotto to see who's house gets installed first, so it's fair. And then next time, pitch money together and install it in her home. When I lived in the, in the cave in the mountains I lived only with solar energy. I charge my phone with solar energy. I watched TV with solar energy. My fridge ran on solar energy. It's a little complicated but you can learn. To save lives, we must learn. To save the planet, it's worth it. It's complicated but it's not un-doable, you know. It's simple enough to do it. You have to capture the solar energy into some batteries, and then you connect with those batteries to use it to run your household. At least you can save energy, and you save money in long run anyway. You can even sell it back to the government. In Spain it's like that.

There's wind power also; it might be difficult, but you can install a small wind mill. (D: A turbine, or wind mill.) A wind mill, the old fashioned way, it also does work. The turbine takes a longer time and a lot of money and maybe it's not so 'in' yet, so you can't get it so easily. But you can do that. Do what you can, OK? And go together in one car to work or go shop together, in one car. It saves money and saves energy. And if you can, buy a hybrid car,. They're not that expensive. I got one; maybe it costs you in the beginning, but later it saves you a lot. It saves your life, too, and saves the life of everybody else! But you can check on the Internet to see which car is cheaper and more convenient for you. And soon in the future we will run it on biodiesel and biofuels like corn fuel, sugar cane or garbage. We can recycle garbage. And maybe we don't even have to do that if they push the wave energy program! A long time ago in Norway they began that program, to use ocean waves as energy. That would be limitless. You can use it forever, just like the sun.

Energy is free everywhere actually. You can even harness power from thunder and so on. And that would be limitless, limitless! There would be no cost for anybody. It should be free for everyone, the basic things in life, like water and electricity - should be free actually, yeah! And it soon will be free. All this money that's put into war, my God we could build a paradise on Earth! It's about time everyone should know about this. So if you know of any of government important persons, you can remind them by writing or doing something. Do something in your power. Or, if you know how and where, just write. Write to the government. Remind them; help them; support them. Support their idea of environmental protection.

If we don't act now, we won't have any Earth left to even fight over with each other: no land to possess, no land to put the guns on or to install the cannons. It's about time; my God, it's the 21st Century already and we so called civilized humans are still fighting. I cannot believe it! Sometimes when I sit down, I don't know how it's possible. It's not possible that we live in an era in which humans kill humans. How can we do that? How do you train such a beautiful, pure, handsome, strong, heroic young man to go into battle and just shoot someone like that? There was no quarrelling and no cause before, except the 'big one' somewhere behind telling him to go and do it: "That guy is an enemy; you go and shoot him for me." That's it.

War Is Never a Solution

This is wasting human resource also. These soldiers are the most brilliant generation of our time! They're there to pass down better DNA for the new generation. They're not to go there; they're not born to die. I don't care if it's to die a hero or die a what; it's the same. It's a waste of resource! Do you know how much money it costs to grow a man like that? At least a million dollars until he grows into maturity. Growing men is not like growing trees: it's not cheap. And he has so much love from the family, so much friendship from companions, so much teaching from the teacher and the school - so much affection going on around him. He's not just 'nobody' - he is somebody. He has family; he might even be married and have children already. But he is forced to go out there and shoot someone he doesn't even have any enmity with. Isn't that ridiculous? This is crazy, and we live in it!

My God, what kind of the world is this? It's about time they stop all this - just stop it! We cannot tolerate this. It's incredible that humans can kill humans! Even animals don't do that. They might kill one for some reason, but they don't go out and kill a whole mass like that. For the sake of whatever, I don't care. I don't care who is right, who is wrong; it's all wrong.

For example, even now, I read in the media or saw on television that the number of deaths of American soldiers is exceeding the number of victims from 9-11. And that's not counting the other people: the women and the children, the victims of war, the innocent bystanders. So war is never a solution. The more war, the more death; the more death, the more enemies; the more enemies, the more war, and so on. It's a vicious circle, and there is no end to it. So we just have to stop. We just have to shake hands and forgive each other and then let's go on with our lives, because there are so many pressing matters now. With all the money that's spent on war, can you imagine? Africa would become like Europe if they used all that money on Africa, on one continent alone. And with all the money that's still going into the war, we could build space ships. We could have more time, more energy and recruit more talent. Instead of all these young men dying, they would become living bodies of the future, building houses for the needy.

Let There Be Soldiers of Peace

If all the soldiers changed their jobs, we'd have soldiers of peace: buildings soldiers who bring medicine to the sick and build homes for the homeless. They are able-bodied, intelligent, strong and handsome. They are beautiful beings; it is a waste that that they go there and just die like that. Just one bullet like this. (Master gestures to show the small size of a bullet) Can you imagine? It can go anywhere from anywhere and kill one handsome, beautiful, aspiring, pure, energetic, young human being - just like that. Can you imagine? And it costs millions of dollars even, to raise him, and so much love from the family and friends so that he grows up like that. We cannot teach him hatred when he grows out of love. You cannot change that into hatred; this is not right.

You should continue to nurture the love that he has in him, the trust that he has with his family and friends, and with the nation that he's born into. You cannot change that love into hatred and tell a young man who has been loved all his life until now, to come out and turn into a hateful person - and then use a gun to kill another person who has also grown out from the love of a mother and father somewhere, and who has somehow has been nourished and nurtured all this time like a beautiful flower in the garden with all love and care, attention and hope for the future. And then - boom, just like that - with one bullet, finished. Such a beautiful dream is gone, collapsed.

How many more generations until we can cultivate many young beautiful men like that? They are at their prime, and they are so inspired by heroism. We cannot use that to turn it into hatred for any reason at all, because it is wrong; it's wrong. You who have children, you know that! You nurture your children up, not to just to die like that. Can you imagine all these mothers, all the fathers and all the loved ones, all his friends, even his neighbors - it's terrible! It's time we have to stop all this nonsense. Anyone with intelligence cannot tolerate this, cannot continue to support this kind of world, can we? (Audience: No) One doesn't have to be a Quan Yin practitioner or a Zen monk to understand this. It's just common for a human being to have this knowledge, this understanding that humans are born to live.

There's nothing worth dying for. Nothing! God doesn't give birth to you so that you have to die for something. Except to find God, there is nothing really worth dying for. People should be given hope, inspiration to live, not to die. Remember in one of my poems, I said that I don't ever want to grow up to be a hero, to keep the war and die? It's not my job, is it? It's nobody's job. You're not born to grow up just to keep a war and then die for it. Isn't that ridiculous? We should never have a war anyway; we're so backward. If it hadn't been for you, the Quan Yin practitioners who grace this Earth, who bless the atmosphere with love and universal energy, this Earth would soon be 'kaput' (meaning "ended") already. So, we're just holding it and waiting for humankind to wake up more and do something. If not, it has to go. We can leave it sooner or later anyway; we don't care. But it's such a negative way.

Suppose the Earth became kaput now, we could go up to a higher level. We are already there and we already have our 'security card,' but the people out there, if they die like that, they will be living in shock in such a state of stupor, for a long, long time - thousands of years - before they wake up. And then their atmosphere will manifest in another kind of world again, and they'll war with each other again, because they haven't finished their thinking process. They haven't gotten to the understanding about peace and "Love thy neighbor." They haven't done that. So if they wake up again from their stupor after thousands of years, they'll do the same thing again.

Peace Costs Far Less than War

I therefore really hope that this is the time they understand this very simple concept. Even a child understands peace at all costs. But peace doesn't cost anything: that is the thing. Only war costs something. War costs human resource, war costs emotional upheaval, war costs tremendous financial resource and every other resource of humankind. All this equipment they build for war could be used to build houses, to build railways for the tram, to build underground train stations or build bridges for the poor countries.

And all this money - billions of dollars - something like $7 million per day or week in Iraq, for example, and how many weeks or years have already gone by? Do you understand how much that is? You don't because it's too much. It's too much for us to even want to think about. It's just too ridiculous when people are hungry or starving and don't even have the basic things like clean water to drink. And we spend tons of money and tons of human resources, tons of world metal resources or any resource just to build a killing weapon. This is beyond imagination! No wonder our world is lagging behind, compared to all others in the galaxy.

But mind you, be happy. Our Earth is getting better of course, number one. Number two, our Earth is still better than many other planets. There are worse planets. There are planets whose people are evil, just pure evil. And they will harass you day and night. Some of the warlords have been born there; I don't know how much longer; I don't want to see. It's terrible. Even if they repent, they don't even have time to pray. Can you understand that? That's why they have to stay there forever, because they don't have time for anything. They're just running and running, running and hiding, running and hiding, all day long, with no time. It's such mental torment that hell even sounds better. So at least we're born on this planet, where it's half-and-half, and we're pushed to go nearer to God. But even then I don't know if I could ever get used to the kind of people who go out and kill each other like that. I mean, if you want to be a soldier, you have to have instilled in you the hatred; otherwise how can you kill? Just killing at random like that, killing as ordered. There's no turning back. If you turn back, then you are killed too, by your own people for betraying your country.

Use Earthly Resources to Build and Help Others

We should use all this money and intelligence and time and resource to train people to love and to build. This makes more sense, yes? We should use it for a peaceful purpose. The soldiers are so strong and healthy and in the prime of their life, and they also very idealistic. When we are young, we are very idealistic; we are heroes. We want to do good for the world. So this good and pure energy and enthusiasm has to be used for a peaceful purpose, for building the world and for helping the needy. That is the kind of heroism that the young people love to spend their energy on; they will love it. Suppose any government tells the soldiers, "Look here: no more war, you go out and build houses," they'd be very, very happy. They would be relieved. They would feel that this is really what they want. I bet you that's what would happen. Any soldier - you ask them - they would want to do that.

We can retrain them. There's still time. Because they are young, they can learn fast. What I mean is that their youthful inspiration and heroism and idealism should not be misused. It's a waste. The young people are the best. You tell them what to do, and they will do it. They are so eager to serve, they're eager to learn, they're eager to do something good because they're full of energy. If they are used for war, it is a pity. It's a misuse of their purity and their idealism. So it's better to use the soldiers for peaceful purposes. We can keep the army. Keep it and use it to build things up. In the Philippines, they are trying to do that. That is a very good idea, and I hope they will. Maybe the Filipino soldiers should do that first, and everyone else will follow. We have to start somewhere.

Our world would have been a paradise a long time ago if we did not have so much war going on, which is wasting a lot of the energy, finances and resources of the Earth. There's no need to believe me; you know it yourself. This is terrible; so now I hope that all signs of peace are coming our way. It is coming, and I hope more will come. The true peace really must come, because that's the only way to survive on this planet, my God. We must use our time now, to change the course of history; otherwise we'll all die together. The good and the bad, the powerful nations and the weak nations, will all be gone.

Being gone is no problem; the problem is that not all of the people on the planet are ready to integrate into paradise. After they're gone they'll still stay in shock or in misery. And that state of mind will keep them for a long time in a hellish existence, worse than this planet's. They'll be warring with each other in that kind of existence and then wake up and become human again, warring with each other again. Have you heard of those stories that in some of the big major battlefields, sometimes those who have psychic power can see that the soldiers in their astral forms are walking around and trying to fight each other still? Or, looking for the fighting or thinking that the war is still going on, because if you're not enlightened now, you won't ever be. Not after you die; you just suffer more, because you can see more. With a body you can shield yourself from some of the emotional distress, and recover or don't see the suffering. But without the body you'll see more; you'll see the naked misery in hell and you will suffer more and more. And this is terrible.

Making a Model for the World  >>

So the question is not whether I care that the planet is still alive or not, it's just for the people who live in it. They have to know this concept; they have to awaken to this peaceful solution, to the real human purpose, to build up the peaceful atmosphere, to find God or to remember God at least, and to be at peace with each other, just like God wants us to be, like one time paradise. Otherwise if they die like this, they will suffer more than what they do now. You understand me? That is the reason why they have to stop the war and begin to build peace now. Otherwise if they die, it would be terrible: more terrible than being alive, more terrible than the war in Iraq, more terrible than 9-11, more terrible than any terrorism can ever cause you to feel.

So that's the reason we practice hard, we really pray for peace in our way, and we're pushing for it inside our hearts. And then peace has to come; people have to stop. Just stop like that! Just shake hands, with no conditions. There shouldn't be any condition for peace at all because both sides will gain. Maybe you lose one piece of land but who cares? If Noah and the flood ever co