Love God 
Wholeheartedly

Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai, 
Ljubljana, Slovenia, 
May 26, 1999 
(Originally in English) 
Videotape #660

Q: Would You please explain the effect of meditation while continuing a meat diet and smoking? Can meditation still affect my life?

M: No, it won’t have much effect because you have to also purify the body in order to receive the Light. We can still see the Light if we eat meat and smoke and so on, but after a while if we want to go to the higher dimensions we have to take less luggage or garbage; we have to clear the body and refrain from those poisons that cloud the mind.

Q: Will meditation affect my way of thinking if I eventually change diets myself?

M: Now you’re bargaining! You must remember that we have to love God with all our heart and soul. Once we decide to put God first and the world later, why not just go quickly? Because if we continue the way we did before, like taking in the animal energies that are of a very low vibration, it will pull us down and then it’s very difficult for us to get up.

It’s just that God is love and so if we want to be near God we should also be near love and be an example of love ourselves. We’re even very reluctant to take vegetables and fruit, but they have very little consciousness. Also, if you cut one branch of a vegetable, it will grow three more. But if you cut the head of a pig, it won’t grow three more.

It’s not that God cares about what you eat or that God is strict with us; it’s just that this is the way we should walk in our life if we want to be near God. But you choose the way you walk. I’m just telling you what’s necessary. You can decide whether you want it now or if you want it in another life or at another time.