清海無上師以英文講於新加坡 1992.03.03（影帶編號#223）
如果每個人都能在生活中實踐聖經的教誨，都能看到內在的上帝、看到上帝的光、看到天國，都能聽到內在的音流、聽到上帝的聲音或佛性，那麼世界就變成天堂了。因為這個光和音流會變我們成聖人、成佛菩薩，而佛菩薩所在的境界就是涅槃，聖人所住的地方就是天堂、天國。
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與上帝的力量溝通
許多其他的星球都有這種天堂般的氣氛，因為那兒的眾生都有修行，與上帝的力量溝通，而能夠心想事成，充分掌握力量，他們內在非常平靜，周遭也充滿祥和的氣氛。那些星球上的任何事物都是美好的，而沒有像我們地球上的否定品質。地球並非銀河系中唯一的星球，宇宙中還有許多類似的星球，有些比較文明，有些比較落後。我們沒有時間詳細討論這些星球，但是可以先談一下我們的地球，這是最實際又最切要的。
有一點大氣物理常識的人都知道，任何物質的東西，輕的會往上升，例如熱氣之類的東西，會飄在比較上層的空氣中；而重的、冷的東西，由於地心引力的緣故，則會沉在下層的空氣裡。
保持高等的振動頻率
同樣，「善」多少會停留在「惡」的上方。在我們的世界，善惡摻雜。雖然善在惡之上，但並不表示我們能倖免於惡；在我們的周遭，在那些比較低的意識層次裡，「惡」總是如影隨形。而有一些世界只有「善」，那就是所謂的天堂或天國。只要我們跟這些世界的眾生有同樣的品質、同樣的振動頻率，就可以達到他們的境界，現在也可以去拜訪他們。
所以修行達到天國、涅槃的境界，並不是什麼神祕的事，而是一種很明確、很科學的生活方式。要過這種生活並不難，這只是一種生活方式的選擇而已。
每天創造暫時的天堂
地球的貧窮不是上帝給的，地獄也不是上帝造的，而是我們自己造成的，我們做不對的事，與眾生之間有不好的互動，在決定的一剎那，選擇了錯誤的反應，因而製造了地獄。現在該是我們好好反省，並創造天堂的時候了。即使是暫時的天堂也好，至少可以讓我們喘口氣，暫時卸下世俗的重擔，考慮下一步要怎麼做，例如是要再回來地球，或是繼續追求最高等的天堂？這個我們可以自己決定。我們可以藉由做善事、相信上帝、禱告、誠心懺悔過錯、儘量時時做最利益社會及自己的事，以及儘可能吃素，來成就暫時的天堂。我勸大家時常以豆腐來替代肉類，因為豆腐便宜、容易消化，又少罪惡感、少業障。業障就是因果，也就是「你怎麼栽就怎麼收穫」。這就是你們此刻可以為自己創造的暫時天堂。
吃素確實可以拯救世界
我們要儘量吃素，因為吃素不僅是宗教的行為而已，更是拯救世界饑荒與貧窮的方法，有許多研究皆可證明。人類為了養牛、養豬，浪費了許多地球上的物產和資源。為了養一頭豬，人們投注好幾年的時間，浪費許多藥品、蛋白質、豆類以及各種蔬菜，然後一下子就把牠吃掉了，慢的話五分鐘、快的話一分鐘就解決了。
因此，吃素不只是因為宗教信仰，而是真的可以拯救世界。在地球上，有一些地方一直處於貧窮與饑荒之中，就是因為我們沒有團結起來互相協助。當然，人們有進行了許多所謂的慈善工作和救濟服務，但這些都只是治標而沒有治本。食物短缺的根源不在非洲，也不在亞洲某些國家，而在於肉食。因為有那麼多的能源、技術、研究活動，都投注在肉品製造上，而沒有用來研究如何對人類更有貢獻、如何讓人類獲得更好的營養。
各位應該都知道，科學家已經證明素食有益健康。各地的醫院都是為誰蓋的？為吃肉的人！大部分去那裡的病人都不是吃素的。人類自己先把毒吃下去，然後才藉由醫療設備來治療，那等於是給自己製造雙重的麻煩！
藉由聖潔的生活方式締造黃金時代
所以我們必須從根治起，而不是從枝葉。進行救濟工作、布施食物給窮人，這些都不是解決世界饑荒的良方。根本之道在於我們自己，我們每個人都必須幫忙，必須保留一些能源和資源給我們的兄弟姊妹們。比方說，低度開發國家把他們的蛋白質產品賣給已開發國家養牛，然後自己才來鬧饑荒。我們不要這樣子，我們要分享、要互相幫助。
當然，我並不是政治家，所以只能盡個人微薄之力，用自己的方式呼籲大家一起來幫忙。各國領導者如果真正關心全世界的福祉，而不是只想到自己國家利益的話，就必須攜手合作。不過，能照顧好自己的國家也算不錯了。每當看到一個國家繁榮、乾淨、聖潔，並與鄰國和睦相處時，我總是充滿感激、萬分高興。新加坡就是這樣！
黃金時代還會再來，只要我們大家遵循真正的基督徒、佛教徒、印度教徒等等的生活方式，照顧好自己的道德責任，儘量幫助鄰居，布施個人的一些財富，犧牲一點口腹之欲，以促進世界的發展，協助貧困的兄弟姊妹們。
造福後代子孫
這就是我們貢獻一己之力，為後代子孫建設一個更美好世界的方法。我們不會虧本的；我們的子子孫孫、兄弟姊妹們的小孩都將受益，我們的努力不會白費。我們不能只照顧自己這一代，也不要想說：「將來世界變得更好，不過我遲早會死，也得不到什麼利益。」我們的小孩會受到利益！即使自己沒有小孩，想法也不該如此狹隘。應該為後代的幸福著想，他們能生活在一個祥和、和諧、富饒的世界，這就足夠讓我們感到高興，足夠當我們的報酬了，根本不需要任何物質的報酬。這才是君子的作風，才是老子、孔子、佛陀、耶穌幾千年來努力教導我們的。
我今天所告訴你們的，都不是什麼新鮮的事，只不過你們遺忘了，有些人也不曾嘗試過這種生活方式，所以才不知道該怎麼做。不過我們現在就可以開始，明天就可以開始嘗試，看看會有什麼改變，看看生活改善了多少，看看這麼做會如何利益國家及整個世界！
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Create The Permanent Heaven
For Ourselves And Later Generations
Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai, Singapore, March 3, 1992,
(Originally in English) Videotape #223
If everyone lives according to what the Bible stated, and everyone sees God within, sees the light of God, the Kingdom of God, hears the Sound, the Word of God or the Buddha Nature, then our world becomes a paradise; because this Light and this Sound make us become Saints, make us become Buddhas. And the worlds where the Buddhas live are Nirvana. The worlds where the Saints live are Heavens, or the Kingdom of God.
Tuning in with God Power
Many other planets have this kind of heavenly atmosphere because all the beings on those planets practice tuning in with God power and have all their desires fulfilled, all the power in their hands and all the peace within themselves and within their neighborhood. On those planets only goodness is generated, with no negativity like on our earth. Our earth is not the only planet in this universal galactic system. There are many other planets similar to ours. Some are more civilized, while some are less developed. We don’t have time to talk about all these; we can talk about our earth first. That’s the most practical and necessary.
If you understand the atmosphere, when anything in the material sense is light, then it rises up. It goes more to the upper atmosphere, like the heat or things like that. And whatever is heavy or cold stays a little bit lower in the atmosphere, or is lower due to gravity.
Maintain a High Vibratory Frequency
Similarly, goodness will stay more or less above negativity. In our world of goodness and badness together, goodness is of course above. But it’s not that we are free from negativity. We have it attached to our neighborhood or to our lower state. The other worlds have only goodness. These places are called Heaven or the Kingdom of God. We can attain these planets or we can visit them now if we have the same quality or are in the same vibratory frequencies as the beings on these planets.
So, to practice in the Kingdom of God or to attain Nirvana is no mythical story, but it is a very clear-sighted and very scientific way of life. Should we want to live that way, it’s not difficult. It’s just the way of life that we choose.
Achieve Temporary Heaven Every Day
God doesn’t give poverty to this earth. God doesn’t create hell. It is we - by our mistakes, by inter-reactions between each other, by choosing the wrong action at that decisive moment - we create hell. So now we can think it over and create Heaven, at least temporary Heaven, so we can rest for a while. Then we are free from the burdens of this world for a while, and we can think of what we want to do next, whether we want to return to Earth again or pursue the highest stage of Heaven; we can decide. So the temporary Heaven can be achieved by doing good deeds, by believing in God, by prayers, by sincere repentance of our mistakes, by trying to do always what is best for the society and for ourselves and by trying to be vegetarian as much as possible. I can offer you the replacement of a piece of tofu now and again. It’s cheaper, easier to digest and has less guilt, less sin and less karma. Karma means, as you sow, so shall you reap, or the law of cause and retribution. So this is the kind of temporary Heaven that you will create for yourself now.
Being Vegetarian Is Truly to Save the World
We try to be vegetarian as much as possible. Being vegetarian is not a religious way of life only, but it is a way to save the world from starvation and poverty. We have much research to prove that. We waste a lot of human’s and earth’s products and resources in order to feed cows and pigs - many years, a lot of quantities of medicines, proteins, beans and all kinds of vegetables in order to raise one pig. And we eat it in only a very fast time: five minutes, if you eat that slowly. Someone might make it in one minute!
Therefore, if we are vegetarian, it is not only because we are religious people, but it’s truly to save the world. Our world has been in poverty, in some parts of the world, and has been in starvation because we do not work with each other to save each other. There are many so-called charitable works and relief services; that’s no doubt. But that’ is not the root of the problem. The food deficit is not rooted in Africa only, or in some of the Asian countries. It is rooted in the meat-eating diet, in all the energies, all the technologies and many other intelligent activities that are poured into raising meat, instead of analyzing a better contribution to the world population or better nutrition for all the people.
As you know yourself by now, scientists have proven that the vegetarian diet is very healthy. All the hospitals are built for whom? Meat eaters! Most of the people there are non-vegetarians. So if we feed ourselves with the poison, then we have to cure ourselves with the hospital equipment. We make double-trouble for ourselves.
Create the Golden Age by Living a Saintly Way of Life
It’s the root we have to cure, not the branches. To help with relief work or to donate some food for the poor is not the solution to the starvation problem of the world. The root lies in each of us, that we must help; we must save some of our energies and world resources for our brothers and sisters. The under-developed country might sell its protein products to the developed country, which feeds them to its cows, for example, but then the under-developed country starves. Instead, we have to share; we have to help each other.
Of course, I am not a politician. I can only try to tell you to help in my way, in my own small capacity. The world leaders have to work together if they are interested in the well-being of all nations, not only of our nation. But it is good enough that we take care of our nation already. I am always grateful and boundlessly happy when I see any nations prosper, living in cleanliness, saintliness and in harmony with each other: for example, like Singapore.
We could make it into a Golden Age again by living the way of the Christian, the way of the Buddhist or the way of the true Hindu, etc. Take care of our moral responsibilities, help our neighbors as much as we can, sacrifice some of our wealth and our desires of the palate in order to help in developing the world, and help the other needy brothers and sisters.
Building for Future Generations
In this way, we contribute our efforts to build a better nation for the future generations to come. It is not a loss. It will be to the benefit of our children, grandchildren, nephews and our brothers’ and sisters’ children. It will not be lost. We’ve no need to take care of the present generation alone, and we’ve no need to think that “the world is better, but we will die and we cannot benefit from it.” Our children will! Even if we don’t have children, we should not think in such small terms, but think of the joy of other people who are born after us, who will live in such peaceful harmony and a plentiful world. That should give us enough joy, enough reward, without any material gain. And this is the way of the gentleman: this is the way that Lao Tzu, Confucius, Buddha and Christ have endeavored to teach human beings since many thousands of years.
What I am telling you is not new. It is just that we have forgotten and that some of us have not tried to live that kind of life, so we do not know how to go about it. But we can try it now; we can try tomorrow and see how things go, see how much better we feel, see how beneficial it is for our nation and for the world at large. 
Master Says
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