從愛心出發

祝大家萬事如意，恭喜發財！還有最重要的是，有個和平的一年！為了慶祝快樂的新年，我改寫了一些歌詞來應景，我們用「生日快樂歌」的曲調來唱：

新年快樂，天上

新年快樂，天下

新年快樂，你和我

新年快樂，平和

記得了沒？好，我們一起唱（師父和大家一起唱）。很好！我們祝福世界和平：天上和平，天下也和平，人人和平，所有眾生都和平，至少在這一年和平！如果我們很誠心祝福，很可能就會實現。

依目前各種新聞來看，我們很快就會享有和平。雖然各地還有一些小衝突，這是因為雙方前世是仇敵，現在他們正在解決問題，不過看起來比以前和平多了，不是這樣嗎？（大眾答：是）是！

我們將會越來越和平。如果人類想要繼續生存下去，就應該要和平相處，因為我們已經對這個美麗的大地母親造成很多傷害，希望我們還有足夠的時間來彌補、矯正和修復。

所以和平必須降臨，因為只有在和平之中，我們才能重整家邦；只有在和平的時候，才能重建人類的關係；只有在和平的情況下，我們才能達到天國的境界。我們除了和平共存之外，別無他法。大家都知道，世上還有比拿槍射殺別人更重要的事；這種壞事應該拋諸腦後，在我們的一生當中甚至連想都不該想！

我們的兄弟姊妹們對「和平」這個很緊急、很重要又勢在必行的目標有些覺醒了，每個人都在談論和平，但我們必須採取行動來促進和平：要敦親睦鄰，任何事情我們認為不對、知道是錯的，都不要再做；任何不對的事，立刻停止；任何正確的事，馬上去做。

這是非常簡單的生活方式，我們不需要四處尋求天堂，只要能夠與鄰居和平共處，並找到內在的和平，那就是天堂了。我已跟大家說過很多次，年輕人應該在雙親的愛護中長大，從一出生就受到關愛，在出生前後，都是在愛中茁壯成長，生活在父母、親朋好友、另一半和孩子的愛當中。

他們就是應該這樣成長，生活在愛與和平當中。世上不應有任何人將愛轉變成仇恨，教唆人們去某某地方破壞這種愛，破壞別人的愛，而這個人根本沒對他做什麼。這是錯誤的！絕對是錯的！即使在人類的眼中就已經錯了，更不用提在上帝的眼裡如何。在我們開始做正確的事及和平相處之前，無須高談上帝。

我們有許多緊急的事要做：有饑荒的問題要解決，小孩快餓死了，老人無依無靠，動物被漠視並受到虐待，到處都有各種大大小小的問題必須照顧處理，才能讓地球上的生活更加美好。

我們沒有多餘的精力、時間和金錢可以浪費在殺戮上面，而必須把時間和精力用在互愛與建立和平上。大家都知道，如果不立刻停止戰爭，就沒有時間進行其他的事，如果地球毀滅，很可能戰爭還沒結束，作戰雙方就已經同歸於盡了。這一點我跟大家講過很多次了，不需在這裡重複。

不過有一點，我要感謝各位世界會的同修們，這麼多年來，尤其是最近幾年，世界各地天災人禍頻仍，你們大家一直都非常有愛心，不辭辛勞地幫助需要援助的兄弟姊妹們，我十分感謝你們！你們讓我非常引以為榮！

我們應該要世界和平，因為如果繼續打仗下去的話，我們就沒有時間可以修補我們美麗的世界，然後我們的小孩、我們的後代就沒有地方住了，整個世界也許會一起毀滅。我們觀音修行者毀滅是沒關係，因為我們自己已經找到上帝、有保險了，不過我們還是要保留這個世界，為了等待我們的兄弟姊妹跟著提昇上來。因為人們如果死得那麼慘、那麼突然，靈魂會比較難醒過來、比較難解脫，所以我們一直在等待。

在這個等待的期間，我們能修補什麼地方，我們就修補，特別我們自己應該先做。比方說哪裡能省能源，我們就省：師父常常告訴你們應該用那種節能燈泡，我們有做了；現在如果能買到那種沒有毒氣的車子，就買啦！如果能一起坐車上班、一起坐車去買菜、一起坐車帶小孩上學等等，那就一起用車子，這樣省能源並減少毒氣。

在家裡的時候，能回收哪樣東西就回收：比方說省水，用水本來是自由的，不過我們應該用電力才能夠供應水到我們的家裡，所以水也是用很多能量，電也是用很多能量。能省什麼地方，我們就省，不是為了錢的問題而已，也是為了補救這個世界。不要等隔壁做，我們能做就先做。

我坐計程車回來西湖時，計程車司機一直問我問題，我也跟他解釋：我自己有節省能源，比方說我用那種沒有排放毒氣出來的車，那是新的發明；我自己也吃素，現在聯合國已經公佈出來了，說製造最多毒氣出來的就是從養動物而來；我們自己已經吃素了。所以我跟他說，我吃素首先就是為了愛心。

他說：「那你一個人吃素，我們十個人吃肉，有什麼用呢？」我說：「我只能先管自己。每個人如果都像你這樣子想的話，我等你、你等我，什麼時候能做得到呢？我看哪個事情對、哪個東西適當，我自己就先做。如果我的隔壁覺得我做得對，也跟著做的話，那就太好了！如果他們不能的話，至少我做自己的本分。如果我看什麼對的事情卻不做，而每個人也都這樣想的話，那沒有人做對的事情了。許多人看到對的東西卻不做，看到事情是適當的也都不做，只因為覺得：『只有我一個人做，有十個人不做，有什麼用呢？』」有用嗎？（大眾答：有）有！

然後我就跟他說：「比方說在一個黑暗的廣場裡面有兩、三盞燈，總比沒有好。有時候一個很暗黑、很大的房子，你一進來，點一根蠟燭而已，不是就可以看到很多東西了嗎？一個很大的房子即使已經很黑、很暗幾千百年了，也無所謂，你進來點一根蠟燭，就可以看到四周圍。然後另外一個人跟著來，看到你點蠟燭可以看到東西，他也跟著點一根蠟燭，那就多一根蠟燭，多亮出來了。我們就是這樣子一個一個、一步一步地影響大家，根本也不用講話。事實上，有時候我們講話多，沒有人聽，有時候別人聽不清楚，有時候很少人聽。」

你們現在製作「無上師電視台」有放映師父好久以前的講經錄影帶，我也有觀賞，我說：「那個人講得滿好，不過她講給誰聽啊？為什麼她到處講的那些事情好像很少人在乎？」不過我們自己要在乎，因為我們還在這個世界嘛！我們還在這個世界的時候，就要儘量保護這個世界和所有在這個世界上的眾生。我們上天堂的時候，那根本不用再說了，不過我們還在這裡的時候，我們要修補、要保護這個世界。

同樣，如果你的房子已經賣給人家了，你沒辦法做什麼，不過你還住在那個房子的時候，當然要修補、要保養，為了自己安全，也為了朋友安全。你請人家來，但是你的房子卻破破爛爛，等一下倒下來，那不對啦！不是我們管物質的方面，而是我們在哪裡，就修補那裡嘛！不是只為了自己一個人，也是為了整個世界。事實上，這些物質的方面對我們沒有那麼重要，因為我們已經知道回家的路了，就算我們沒有這個世界，也有百千萬個世界可以去，這個我們自己知道，不過很多人不知道，所以我們沒有權利破壞這個世界，是嗎？（大眾答：是） 

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On February 18, Golden Year 4 (2007), Supreme Master Ching Hai, Association members and other guests in Hsihu, Formosa, rang in the Chinese New Year with an important message of peace, love and preservation of our beautiful planet, mother Earth. A delightful song composed by Supreme Master Ching Hai permeated the atmosphere of this festive occasion and filled everyone’s hearts with love, compassion and peace.

The Immense Blessing of a New Year’s Wish

Wishing you all good fortune, a prosperous year, and most importantly, a peaceful year! I have changed the lyrics a little to suit the occasion of Happy New Year. And we shall sing it like the “Happy Birthday” tune:

Happy New Year, Heaven.

Happy New Year on Earth.

Happy New Year, all beings.

Happy Peaceful New Year.

Can you remember already? OK. Let’s sing together. (Master and everyone sing.) Very good! We wish the world can be in peace: peace in Heaven, peace on Earth, peace for everyone and all beings. At least this year! If our wish is sincere, it might come true.

It seems like we are going to have peace, and pretty soon, according to all the news that we have nowadays. Even though we still have a little friction here and there between some previous-life incarnation enemies, they are ironing out their problems. But it looks like we have more peace now than ever. Is that not so? (Audience: Yes.) Yes!

We are going to have more and more peace. That’s the way it has to be, if humans are to survive, because we have already done a lot of damage to this beautiful being called Mother Earth. And I hope that we still have enough time to redress it, to correct it, to repair it somehow.

So peace must be, because in peace, we can rebuild countries. In peace only, we can rebuild human relationships. In peace only, we can attain Heaven. There’s no other way we can ever live with each other, except in peace. There are more important things to do in the world - everyone knows that - than to take up a gun and shoot someone. This is the least thing we could even think of. We should never even think of anything like that in all our whole lifetime!

But our brothers and sisters have kind of awakened somehow to this urgent, important and ‘must-be’ cause, the cause of peace. Everyone talks about peace, but we must do something to contribute to it: by loving our neighbors, by stopping from doing anything that we think and know is wrong. Anything that is wrong, we stop right away. Anything that is right, we do it right away.

This is a very simple kind of living. There is no need to look anywhere else for Heaven unless we are at peace with our neighbors and within ourselves. As I’ve told you many times, a young man and a young woman grow up from the love of their parents. They have been loved since they were born, before they were born, after they were born and as they are growing up, they are thriving and growing in the love of the parents, dear friends, their beloved spouse and children.

That’s the way they should grow up and live their lives, in love and then in peace. There’s no one on earth who should turn that love into hatred and make people go out somewhere to destroy that love and to destroy someone else’s love, who has done nothing to him personally. That is wrong! That is absolutely wrong, even in the eyes of human beings, not to talk about in the eyes of God. We have no need to bring God into any discussion before we start doing something right and living peacefully among each other.

We have many urgent things to do: We have hunger to resolve; we have children who have been starved to death; we have elderly people without care; we have animals who have been neglected and abused. We have all kinds of little problems here and there, and big problems here and there that we should take care of, so that life on this planet will be more beautiful.

We cannot afford to waste our energy, time and money in killing. We have to spend our time and energy in love and in building peace. Because if we don’t stop the war right now, everyone knows we have no time for anything else. Maybe the winners in war and the losers in war may die sooner than the war ends, if our planet ends. I’ve told you many times already, so there’s no need to repeat here anymore.

Be the First to Protect the Earth

But there is one thing: I have to thank you, our Association members, over all these years, especially these years when we have had lots of man-made and natural disasters around the world. You have been very, very compassionate and very diligent in helping your brothers and sisters in need. So I have to thank you very much, and I’m very, very proud of you.

We should seek world peace. If we continue to have war, then we will not have time to fix our beautiful world. Our children, our future generations, will not have a place to live. The whole world may be destroyed. Its destruction may cause no harm for us Quan Yin Method practitioners, for we have found God and are secured. However, we should preserve this world in order for our brothers and sisters to be elevated as well. If one suffers a tragic and sudden death, it is more difficult for one’s soul to wake up and be liberated. So we have been waiting.

While we are waiting, we should fix anything we can repair. We, in particular, should be the first to do so. For example, we will try to conserve energy wherever we can. I have often asked you to use energy-saving light bulbs and we have done that. Now, if cars with no hazardous gas emissions are available, then buy one. If you can form a car pool for work, grocery shopping, taking kids to school, etc., by all means travel in one car. In this way, we can conserve energy and reduce hazardous gas emissions.

At home, try to recycle everything that can be reused. For example, try water conservation. Water may be readily available, but we need electricity to bring water to the house. Therefore, supplying water to the house consumes a lot of energy. So does supplying electricity. We should save energy wherever we can. This is not just a money problem. It is to save this world as well. Don’t wait for your neighbors to do it first. We do whatever we can do first.

I came back to Hsihu in a taxi. The taxi driver asked me many questions and I gave him my explanations. I told him how I conserve energy, like using cars that do not emit any hazardous gas, which are an innovation. I said that I am a vegetarian. Now the United Nations has announced that animal husbandry causes the most hazardous emissions, so it is good that we are already vegetarian. I told the driver that love is the primary reason why I am a vegetarian.

He said, “What good will it serve if you are the only one eating vegetarian and ten others are eating meat?” I said to him, “I can only take care of myself first. If everyone thinks the way you do - each one waiting for the other to take the first step - then when could we reach the goal? I see what is right and what is proper to do; then I do it first. If my neighbor agrees with me and follows my example, it’s great. If not, at least I have done my share and fulfilled my obligations. If I don’t do what I think is right, and everyone else thinks the same way, then no one does what is right. Many people do not do what is right and what is proper, because they wonder what purpose it will serve if they are the only ones doing it and ten other people are not.” Will it serve any purpose? (Audience: Yes.) Yes.

I said to the taxi driver, “For example, it is better to have two or three lights in a dark plaza than to have none at all. When you enter a big, dark house, and you light a candle, aren’t you able to see many things then? It doesn’t matter if the big house has been very dark for thousands of years. Once you come in and light a candle, you can see the surroundings. Then, when another person comes in and sees how the candle has lit up the surroundings, he or she follows suit and lights another candle. Then it will be even brighter with two candles. That’s what we do. One after another, step by step, we influence others. We don’t have to say anything. In fact, sometimes we talk a lot, yet no one listens. Sometimes people don’t understand clearly, and sometimes few people listen.”

Now you produce the Supreme Master Television, which broadcasts videos of my lectures dating back a long time. I have watched some of the programs. “That person speaks quite well,” I said. “But who is She speaking to? Why is She traveling everywhere and speaking about things that few people seem to care about?” However, we have to care, because we are still in this world. When we’re still in this world, we must try our best to protect this world and all sentient beings of the world. When we ascend to Heaven, then it won’t be necessary to speak about this again. However, while we are still here, we have to fix and protect the world.

Similarly, if you have sold your house to someone else, then there is nothing you can do. But while you are still in your house, surely you have to repair and maintain it, not just for your own but for your friends’ safety as well. It’s not right to invite guests to a house that is broken and may collapse at any moment. It’s not that we care so much about the physical things. But wherever we are, we try to fix the place, not only for our own sake, but for the whole world as well. Actually, this physical world is not so important to us, because we already know the way Home. Even if this world did not exist, we would know there are billions of other worlds we could go to. But a lot of people don’t know that. So we have no right to destroy this world. Right? (Audience: Yes.)

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