從愛心出發

從高境界往下望低一點的境界，你看哪一個靈魂可以選，而且你又喜歡，就問那個靈魂是否想上來當你的小孩。如果他願意，你只要坐在那裡，那個小孩就會上來找你--從光的中心出現。你們全家坐在一起，集中注意力，中間會有光，而小孩就從光中誕生，他就這樣在即刻之間來到你們家。有些光可能看起來像朵蓮花，而小孩就從蓮花中誕生，馬上成為你的家人，而且靈性等級也立刻提昇。就好像你被貴族家庭或總統收養，不管你的出生或背景為何，你就順理成章地成為總統的小孩，成為「第一家庭的小孩」。是，就像這樣！

不是結婚證書重要，而是新生靈魂重要

不過在我們的世界裡，一個人有可能未婚懷孕或被丈夫遺棄了，她一定要有結婚證書，否則就不能稱那個人為丈夫。如果他不願意，那麼很多人就會嘲笑她之類的。但是不應該如此！這個世界就是這樣，人們存有競爭的心態，並以物質和批判的角度來看待事情。世人太在乎無聊的名聲和名譽，那些都是空洞不實的，所以不應如此。但我們的世界還在很低的等級，無法接受沒有婚約的愛或未婚生子之類的事，還不能，還有很多地方的人不能接受；有些地方確實已能接受，這樣很好。單親媽媽撫養小孩也許比較難，不過也沒問題，名譽不會比已婚婦女差，依我看不會！不過依照許多人的看法也許會，真是遺憾！

我們應該以全然的愛、榮耀、關注和喜悅來歡迎一個新生的靈魂，這樣那個靈魂才能發展成有用的人，成為靈性的眾生，那才真的是他出生為人的用意。我們的世界有許多不正確、先入為主的偏見，這些偏見對我們及相關的人傷害很大。如果我們批評遭遇那種情況的人，就表示我們的靈性層次還很低，因為無論發生什麼事，都是上帝的旨意。如果上帝要給這個靈魂一個機會做人，尤其是成為修行家庭的小孩，也許就會這樣安排。他的誕生不是任何人的錯，就算那個跑掉的人也沒錯，他只是一個工具、一個後門，好讓這個靈魂可以悄悄進入一個靈性提昇且開悟的家庭，如此他才有機會遇見師父，成為靈性解脫的眾生。

無數靈魂正在等待

很多靈魂在無形的境界徘徊、等待，他們渴望下來成為修行人，誕生在修行家庭，成為修行家庭的一分子，這樣他才能馬上見到師父，不用再去尋找，不用被責任、阻礙或各種麻煩困擾！假如你是出生在一個修行家庭，當然你就會成為修行人，在出生前已經是胎裡素了，年紀一到就隨時準備好要印心。因此有無數的靈魂在徘徊，等待降生到你們家庭。有時他們可以正大光明、榮耀十足地進來，但有時卻必須趁你不注意時，悄悄地從後門利用不同的方法潛進來。

所以不要鄙視這些眾生，不要瞧不起將他們帶到世上給我們的工具。其實以靈性的觀點來看，婚姻的意義應該就像這樣：每當你們以肉體的方式表達對彼此的愛時，應該也要記得：「這是一個自我奉獻的機會，我可以提供自己的身體當作廟宇，讓一個新生命降臨，並讓在世明師帶他解脫。我願意給那些渴望來到這個世界的兄弟姊妹們見到在世明師的機會。」

讓靈魂有投胎的機會

靈魂並非都能遇見在世明師，因為如果他們的時間到了，就得很快投胎到別處去；而在那裡，在那個國家或那個時代，他們不一定能遇到明師。所以每當有明師駐世，靈魂就會十分渴望，祈求能夠下來。但是許多靈修者到後來卻不想再給其他眾生有此機會，他們採取避孕措施，只享受肉體之愛，卻捨棄那連帶的高雅目的，也就是提供其他眾生投胎到靈修家庭的機會。

當然，我不是在告訴任何人該怎麼做，而只是在說你們想要聽的，或某些人想要聽的，萬一你們看到一些類似的情況，比方說我們同修有人有了小孩，卻沒有那張正式的證書--上面蓋一個戳印，證明雙方結為夫妻，或誰是親生父親之類的。每個人都是上帝的子女，不管是誰帶他們來到這個物質世界，都只是一個工具而已，只是使那個靈魂能降生此地、遇見在世明師，並得到解脫的工具。

這種機會百千萬年難遭遇，你們可以看得出來那是多麼地困難。即使任何明師來了，有多少人要跟隨修行？然後有多少人會持續留下來？就算留下來，又有多少人真正在修行？非常少！每天有多少新靈魂來到這個世界？可是卻沒有很多新同修加入我們的大家庭。所以任何直接降生到你們修行家庭的新生靈魂，只有這個目的，就是為了要修行，因此他才來，不必懷疑，也不用再考慮。所以任何時候同修有了小孩，都要歡迎他，並儘量幫助他！ 

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Children Are Always a Gift from God

Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai,
Florida Center, USA, June 7, 2001
(Originally in English) DVD #718

If you happen to have a kid, don’t worry. It’s God’s gift to you for some reason. In the high spiritual realms, if you want a child, it’s no problem! You don’t need a husband, like you do here. And no one laughs at you if you don’t have a husband. You just produce kids by yourself. It’s very simple! You can sit there and say, “I want a kid.” And you look down into the lower realms, because mostly if you want a kid, you adopt from a lower realm so that he can be elevated. Just like here, we go to the orphanage and adopt a child so that he can have a better life with us in the family. Of course, you can also adopt kids from a mother who doesn’t want to take care of them or who is not able to because of her situation or inconvenience, or because of reputation or whatever. So then you just adopt them.

From the higher realms, you look down into a little bit lower realm. You see which soul is available and which one you like, and then you ask that soul whether he would like to come up and be your child. And if he’s OK, you just sit there and the kid will come up to you - in the center of the Light. All your family members sit together and concentrate. There has to be the Light in the middle, and the kid will be born in that Light; he will come to your family just like that. Immediately! Probably some Light will look like a lotus, and the kid will be born out of it. And then he becomes your family member immediately, and his spiritual status is immediately also elevated. It’s just like being adopted by a noble family or by a president. Then you become the president’s kid. You become the “First Kid,” no matter where you came from or what kind of background you had. Yes, it’s like that.

It’s Not the Certificate, It’s the Newborn Soul that Matters

But in our world, a person may be pregnant and has no husband, or the husband deserted her. She has to have a certificate; otherwise you can’t call that person “husband”. And if he doesn’t want it, then a lot of people laugh at her or something like that. But it should not be this way. This is the way of the world. It’s the way of people who have competition and the way of people who look at things physically and critically in a world where they care so much about stupid name and reputation, which is all empty. So it should not be that way. But our world is still very low-level. It cannot accept free love or free kids, free born, free birth or things like that. It still cannot, or too many places cannot. Some places do accept already, and this is good. Being a single parent is maybe more difficult in raising the kid, but it’s OK. It’s no worse reputation than that of a married woman, in my opinion! But in many people’s opinion, maybe yes. And that is a pity.

A newborn soul should be welcomed with all love and glory and attention and gladness, so that the soul can develop into the useful person and spiritual being that he really is to begin with. Our world has many incorrect, preconceived ideas, which are very harmful to ourselves and to whomever concerned. If we criticize other people in that case, we are very undeveloped spiritually, because whatever happens is also God’s will. If God meant to give this soul a chance to be a human being, and especially to be a spiritual family’s child, then so be it. It’s no one’s fault that he is there, not even the person who ran away. He is just a vehicle, just a back door so this soul can sneak in, into a family that is spiritually elevated and enlightened. So, he can have a chance to meet the Master and become a spiritually liberated being.

Countless Souls Are Waiting

Many souls are wandering around in the invisible realms, waiting; they’re dying to come down to be a spiritual person, to be born into and become a member of a spiritual family, so that he or she can see the Master immediately, without going through searching, without going through obligation, obstruction or trouble of any kind. If you are born into a spiritual family, of course you become a spiritual practitioner. Before being born, you are already vegetarian. You are ready to get initiation any time after you are old enough. So there are countless souls hovering around, waiting to be born into your family. Sometimes he or she can go in the front door with full-flying colors and all glory. But sometimes he has to sneak in the back door when you are not aware, using a different means to come in.

So do not despise these beings or the vehicle that carries the being until he comes out to us. In fact, marriage in a spiritual sense should be like this: Whenever you express your feelings of love for each other, physically or sexually, you should also remember: “This is a chance that I can offer myself; I can offer my body as a temple for a new being to come, to be liberated by a living Master. This is the chance I am willing to give to my other brothers or sisters who are so much longing to come to this world to meet the living Master.”

Giving a Soul a Chance to Be Born

The souls don’t always meet a living Master, because if their time comes, they will have to incarnate quickly somewhere else. And it’s not necessarily over there that they could meet the Master in that country or in that time. So whenever the Master is somewhere, living and moving around, the souls are dying to come down; they are praying for it. But many spiritual practitioners, afterwards, do not want to give this chance to other beings anymore. They take contraception or something and just enjoy the expression of physical love, but they forsake the noble purpose that goes along with it, which is to offer a chance for another being to be born into a spiritual-ready family.

Of course, I am not telling anyone what to do. I am just saying to you what you want to hear, or what some of you want to hear, in case you see some cases like this. For instance, some of our sisters or brothers have kids without getting a proper certificate - a “stamp” to be husband and wife, or to have a real father or whatever. All are God’s children. Whoever brought him or her into the physical world is only a vehicle, only the means for that soul to come here and meet the living Teaching and become liberated.

This kind of chance, you don’t have in billions or trillions of years, because you can see how difficult it is. Even if any Master comes, how many people want to follow? And then, how many people want to stay after following? And how many people truly practice, even staying? Very few! Every day, how many new souls come into the world? But not too many new initiates come into our family. So any newly born soul who comes directly into your spiritual family, that is the purpose for that one. He is there to practice. That’s why he came. There is no question, no second thought about that guy. So any time, if our spiritual person has a kid, welcome him and help him or help her, in any way you can.

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