從愛心出發

我不希望你們心存幻想，認為打坐以後就會事事順心如意。確實有這樣的事，但有時你想要的東西不見得好，它就不會發生。有時上帝會給我們一些很不尋常的處境，若是我們不打坐，就無法了解；我們會感到悲傷，因為事情不順心。所以並非打坐之後所有的事都會順利，未必如此，不過我們可以一笑置之，不必為這些事懊惱。遇到困難時，我們總有辦法可想，因為開悟以後，我們就能發揮內在潛藏的智慧。

所以許多人才崇拜聖人、神職人員、出家人等等。人們崇拜那些真正的出家人或神職人員，崇拜那些內邊真正開悟的人，因為他們總是快樂、滿足、值得信賴。許多人跟隨他們，雖然他們並不追求名利，不需要人崇拜，可是大家還是喜歡接近他們，跟這些聖人做朋友 。而那些修行人通常都很有福報。

一般來說，明師的徒弟都很快樂、幸運，無論是在物質上、精神上或是感情上，都能夠心想事成，當然在靈性方面更是如此。當他們往生離開肉體時，就直接上天堂，這是毋庸置疑的。所以若想要在世生活過得快樂，我們先不談天堂，單是為了在這裡過得快樂、做個更聰明的人，我們就應該要打坐。希望我沒有冒犯你們。我們也許已經很聰明，不過我們還沒充分運用我們的腦力。我們只用了百分之五到十的腦力，就已經這麼聰明，發明了很多東西，如果打坐運用更多的腦力，那必然會更聰明。

一般人最多只用了百分之十的腦力，這是眾所皆知的事實，科學上已有證明，那其餘的百分之八十、九十到哪裡去了呢？都浪費掉了！所以我們還不是完整的人，我們覺得少了什麼，覺得沮喪、軟弱，因為我們還沒有完全發揮我們的能力。所以打坐也可以說是一種讓我們完全發揮自己能力的方法，這就是打坐的目的。打坐的意義就是運用我們全部的力量，讓我們變得像上帝一樣全能，或至少像上帝的子女，否則有時我們沒有足夠的精力去應付那些煩瑣的事情和問題，而且我們常常無法把事情做得圓滿，因為我們缺乏力量和智慧。所以了解上帝其實就是完全了解自己。當我們完全了解自己時，就能了解上帝，因為那時我們與上帝同一體，我們就像祂一樣，也就是祂原來創造我們的那樣，因為上帝依祂自己的形象造人。 

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Spiritual Practice Restores
the Soul’s Complete Wisdom

Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai, Lisbon, Portugal,
May 7, 1999 (Originally in English) DVD #645

It’s not that after meditation, a hundred times out of a hundred, we always get everything we want, because that’s not the case. The point is that whether we get what we want or not, we’re still happy. And then we find a way to get something else instead. Instead of standing there and stamping our feet and feeling miserable about the things that we lost, or the things we could not get, we become more clever, more flexible, and then we try many, many ways to get other things and just enjoy the process. That’s the good thing about meditation. We will be almost always happy.

I just don’t want you to have an illusion that when you meditate, everything will just come your way. It does come. But sometimes things are not so good; they don’t come. And sometimes God gives you some very unusual situation, and if we do not meditate, we will not understand the situation. We begin to feel miserable if it doesn’t go our way. So it’s not that if we meditate, everything will always go smoothly. It’s not always like that, but we can always laugh at the situation instead of cry about it. There is always something we can do if we encounter obstructions when we have the stored-up wisdom inside after we have gained it through enlightenment.

That’s why most people worship saints, renunciates, priests and monks, etc. People worship those who really are monks or priests, who are really enlightened inside, because of their consistency in happiness, in contentment and in reliability. And a lot of people follow them, even though sometimes those people don’t seek out the fame, or the fortune, or the followers. But people like to come and befriend them, these saintly people. And most of the time those who practice spiritually are always in luck.

Generally speaking, the students of any Master enjoy happiness, luck and fulfillment of any desire they ever have in life - be it physical, mental or emotional and, of course, spiritual. And on the day they leave the physical body, they go directly to Heaven. There is no doubt about that. So in order to even to be happy in this physical life, not to talk about Heaven yet, in order to be happy here, to live a pleasant life here and to be a more intelligent person here, we should meditate. I hope I do not offend you. We may be very intelligent already, but we have not used enough of our brain power. We use only 5% or 10%, and we are already so clever! We invent so many things. So suppose you meditate and use more of your brainpower; of course you will be more intelligent.

The average person uses only up to 10% of his or her brainpower. That is a fact known to every one of us; it’s scientifically proven. So where do we put the other 80% or 90%? It’s wasted. That’s why we are not complete beings. We don’t feel complete. We feel frustrated and we feel weak because we haven’t used our complete power. So meditation - we can also say it another way - is to make use of our complete power. That is what meditation is for. That’s what the meaning of meditation is: to harness our complete might, so that we become Almighty, just like God, or at least like the children of God. Otherwise, we don’t have enough energy to sometimes take care of the small problems or small things, and we do not always do things completely to our satisfaction because we lack power or lack wisdom. So to know God is to know ourselves completely, and when we know ourselves completely, we know God. Then, because we are one with God, we are just like Hirm the way Hes made us, because God made humans in Hiers own image.

Master’s Words