從愛心出發

人生最重要的事就是找到自己內在的智慧，不必在那裡討論上帝是這樣、是那樣。我們談論上帝越多，離上帝就越遠。所以不論你了解多少都好，但不要張揚出來，因為也許明天你了解的又不一樣了。所以，好好享受自己所發現的事物就好了。

上帝沒有固定的定義，根本不需要去討論祂。即使在更高的境界中，我也不知道到底有誰能真正解釋上帝，所以何必費心去管祂老人家呢？我們現在已經夠滿足了！（大眾笑）誰管祂存不存在？我們來這裡有加持物吃，睡得好，有時又有表演節目可以欣賞，這樣就很好了，不是嗎？既然上帝無所不在，那何必擔心我們會死在哪裡，什麼時候死，或死後會去哪裡、會做什麼？魚會擔心自己跳出海洋嗎？牠會擔心游錯方向或游錯水域嗎？不會，因為牠本來就已經在大海裡面了！

沒問題，我們大家都很安全！打坐、思索只是為了讓我們記得自己很安全，因為我們忘了，才會擔心說：「喔！天啊！上帝在哪裡？」「死了以後我會去哪裡？上帝會來看我，還是我上去天堂看祂？」這都是因為我們不知道自己已經與上帝同在的緣故。

不論我們做什麼或身在何處，上帝都與我們同在。都是因為我們太在意世俗的職務，才會感到害怕，才會受到物質力量的壓迫，而使自己精疲力竭。所以我們才必須再把注意力往內，打坐想想並記得自己真正在哪裡，這樣才不會害怕，才會再度感到安全。

就像魚一樣，只要牠冷靜一下，就會記起：「喔！沒錯，我還在海裡面，沒游到別的地方，也沒迷路。海洋一直都圍繞著我，我永遠不會與它失去聯繫，它就在我的裡面、外面和四周。它就是我！我從海洋裡出生，也許看起來不同，但我的確來自海洋，住在海裡。如果我離開海洋，仍會再回到海洋，也許外形會有所不同，不過還是來自海洋，並住在海洋中。」這樣想想，魚兒就會覺得很高興。這也是打坐的目的，為了要知道自己是魚！ 

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Meditate and Feel Secure  

in God’s Presence

Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai,
Four-day Retreat in Florida, USA, February 15, 1999
(Originally in English) Videotape #635 (Part I)

The most important thing in life is that you find wisdom within yourself. There’s no need to sit around and talk about “God this and that and the other” because the more we talk, the farther we are from God. So, whatever you can understand is good, but keep it to yourself since maybe tomorrow you’ll understand differently. Therefore, just discover things for yourself and enjoy them.

There is no one definition of God, and there’s nothing we should say about God. I don’t know if anyone has ever been able to explain God, even in a higher dimension. Why should we bother about that old Guy? We’re OK! (Audience laughs) Whether Hes exists or not, who cares? We come here, we have blessed food, we sleep and we have a performance now and again. We’re all right, aren’t we? And since God is everywhere anyhow, who cares where we die, when we die, where we go or what we do? Does a fish worry about whether he tumbles out of the ocean somewhere? Does a fish worry that he might run out of water or swim in the wrong direction into the wrong water? No, he doesn’t. He is already in the ocean.

It’s OK. We’re very secure. To meditate and think and so on is just to remember that we’re already very secure because we forget. And then we worry, thinking, “Oh, my God! Where is God?” And, “Where am I going after this? Will Hes come to see me or will I go to Heaven to see Hirm?” Because we don’t realize that we are already in the presence of God.

Whatever we do and wherever we are, it’s in God’s presence. It’s just that we become too busy with our material occupations, and then we get scared and threatened by the physical power. By that time we’re exhausted, so we have to go within again and meditate and think and remember where we are. And then we are not afraid; we are secure again.

It’s just like a fish; he has to still himself for a while and then he will remember: “Oh, that’s right. I’m still in the ocean. I haven’t gone anywhere. I haven’t gotten lost anywhere. The ocean is surrounding me all the time. I can never lose touch with it. It’s in me, it’s outside of me and it surrounds me. It is me! I’m born from the ocean. Even though I might look different, I came from the ocean. I live in the ocean, and if I go from the ocean, I will come back to the ocean, probably in another form. But I will also be from the ocean, inside the ocean.” And then the fish feels good. So, that’s the purpose of meditation: know that you are the fish!

Master’s Words