(What is the role of discipline in one’s life?) It makes you disciplined. What else? Don’t you think so? (Yes.) Thanks.
(For many years, eight years, I meditated two to three hours per day, even more sometimes. I fasted, etc... Then I became very sick and couldn’t meditate, and I was scared that I couldn’t sit up to meditate. So, I tried to chant and think about God and read scripture. Now it has been eight years, and I am better, but not very strong and still with much physical pain. I can’t meditate every day for two and a half hours. It is very difficult. What do You suggest, please?)
Why must you sit in order to meditate? You can lie down and meditate, stand and meditate, stand on one leg if you want. Meditate in your mind, not in your body. Concentrate on the Kingdom of God. When you chant, you also meditate, but it’s a noisy meditation. So, make it a quiet one. Just lie down and meditate the way you did. Meditation doesn’t come with the lotus posture. It comes with the concentration of your attention. Try it. It’s the same. You can be in samadhi lying, sitting, or standing.
(How does one recognize his or her Master? Can an individual have more than one living Master to follow?)
I think one is enough. One is enough. If you learn with one Master, you already have a lot to learn. How would you learn with two or three? You couldn’t even catch up. Never mind learning with two.
Originally, there is one Master on Earth. I mean you have different degrees of Masters. But you must know and pray for the highest, the best, that you get liberated in one lifetime. Otherwise, it takes a long time. You can make it in two, three lives or two, three thousand years. So, pray for the best and get only the best. That would be the best. And if you’re sincere in your prayer, God will send you the best.
Ask for the best, that “I only want to know God in this lifetime. So, please send me someone who makes me know God, who can help me to know God.” And Hes will send the best. Otherwise, Hes will send you someone who can take you to some Heavens or can give you some magical powers or kind of fancy stuff. But if you pray to know God and God alone in one lifetime, Hes will send the best, the fastest, the most powerful.
(Is meditation the fastest way to enlightenment?) Yes. But it depends on what kind of meditation. Our (Quan Yin) meditation (method), yes. Instant. Instantly, you will know something about God. It’s like in the Bible, it is said, “In the beginning was the Word” – Vibration – “And the Word was God. The Word was with God.” If you practice with our method, you will hear that Word, which is God. And you’ll know God. But at first, probably you will not be very sure. And after some repeated meditation on the Word, on God, you will know for sure – that is God. And you will know that you and God are one.
(The next question was what is the Quan Yin Method?) That is the one that helps you to recognize instantly the Word of God or the Word which is God. OK? (Yes.)
(By the way, that Method will be taught in an initiation that will follow the Question-and-Answer period, right here.) Do they want initiation? Nobody raised hands? (We don’t know yet.) (OK.) (And those that would like it, there is a registration desk outside.) OK. Later.
(Satan seems to be personalized evil, but is there an actualized evil being, or demons, that roam this world? Or are they within us?)
The world within is also the world without, so we couldn’t really separate them. Whatever is in our mind would normally manifest outwardly. Therefore, you see two persons who stay in the same room will have different perceptions of the surroundings and the atmosphere surrounding them. It could be that one is miserable to death, and the other one is joyfully in Heaven every day, or at least at that moment.
So, we cannot say that evil is within or without us; it’s both. Just like God is within and without us and is everywhere. It depends on our perception. Our perception is what makes God or evil appear. It’s our conception and perception. We have to change the conception. If we think in a Godly way, practice the way of God, then we’re always in God’s presence. If we practice the way of evil, think of evil, then we’re always in the presence of satan.
Satan is not a person, is not a personality, it’s not a character. It is a force which is released out of our negative thinking, actions, and speech. It exists all over places. But we don’t need to know him if we turn ourselves into the Kingdom of God.
We tune into the Kingdom of God, then we are in the Kingdom of God. We tune into the kingdom of evil, then we are in the kingdom of darkness. OK? (Yes.) It all depends on our conception and tune-in ability. So, when we meditate, and we know the technique to tune into the Kingdom of God, we’re always in the Kingdom of God. Understand? (Yes.) It’s the only difference. Just like your radio. Your radio, you can turn it to different channels. (Yes.)
(What is the Spirit? Does it manifest Itself only at moments or can it be recognized constantly?)
It can be recognized constantly by constant awareness. By meditation, by repeatedly being aware of the Spirit, of the Holy Spirit, we will be making a kind of habit to be aware of the Spirit all the time. And then later, it’ll become like an automatic process. Then we’re always in It. Doesn’t matter where we are or what we do. Understand? (Yes.) Like in Zen, they say “Eating, sleeping, walking – it’s all Zen.” Like that.
(This person wants to know how to meditate.) How to meditate? Simple. Just turn your attention to where you should – to God, instead of to money and other things. You already have meditation ability. Otherwise, you couldn’t do your business, couldn’t take care of the children if you had no attention there. So, just turn the attention to the Kingdom of God.
But I will teach you more precisely with time, in about a few hours. It’s not that the enlightenment takes that long. Just all the procedures – the before, between, and after initiation, we should tell you. And the way from here to Heaven, going through which planes or what kind of levels of consciousness, we must tell you. Therefore, it takes a longer time. Otherwise, you just close your eyes and get enlightened instantly.
(Could You speak on [vegan] eating and how that can contribute towards World Peace?) Yes. I have spoken in some detail already. But I’ll say more if you wish.
You see, most of the wars which happen in this world are due to economic reasons. Let’s face it. And economic reasons come more urgently through hunger and through lack of food in different countries, through lack of equal distribution of food.
Now, if you care to read magazines and research about the vegan diet, you would know very well that to raise cow-people and other animal-people for meat causes our economic bankruptcy in all aspects, causes hunger of the world, at least in the Third World. And it’s not me who says this. It’s you, the American citizens who made this kind of research and wrote these books.
You can go in any book shop and read vegan research. Read about food process research. You can read, “Diet for a New America” from John Robbins. He’s the very famous ice cream hero. Ice cream millionaire. And he gave it all up in order to be a vegan and write a vegan book against his family’s tradition and business. It could mean loss of money, prestige, and business to him. But he did it for the sake of truth. That book is very good. But there are many other books and magazines which give you a lot of information and facts about the vegan diet that could contribute to World Peace.
You see, we bankrupt our Earth’s materials for food by feeding cow-people. You know how much protein, medicine, water supplies, manpower, cars, trucks, made roads, and how many hundreds of thousands of acres of land have been wasted before a cow-person is good enough for one meal? (Yes.) And all these things could be distributed equally to all kinds of underdeveloped countries. Then we save the hunger problem. And if a country is in need of food, he probably will invade another country just to save his own people. But in the long run, it creates bad cause and retribution. “As you sow, so shall you reap.” If we kill someone for food, we will get killed for food later in some other form, in the next time, next generation.
It’s a pity that we are so intelligent, so civilized, and yet most of us do not know the cause of our neighboring countries’ suffering. That is through our palate, through our taste, through our stomach. In order to feed and nourish just one body, we kill so many beings, and we starve so many fellow beings, fellow human beings. Don’t talk about animal(-people) yet. And this guilt, consciously or unconsciously, will weigh down in our conscience; that makes us suffer – cancers, tuberculosis, other kinds of incurable diseases, including AIDS. Ask yourselves, why our country, the Americans, suffer the most, the highest rate of cancers in the world. Because we eat a lot of cow-people meat. We eat more (animal-people) meat than any other countries. And ask yourself why the Chinese or the communist countries don’t have that higher rate of cancers. You understand? (Yes.) That is what the researchers say, not I say, so, don’t blame me.
(Is fish[-people] alright to eat?) If you want to eat vegan, a fish(-person) is not a vegetable.
Photo Caption: Not Letting Darkness Reign, Bring in the Light
