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If we find God, everything is all right, even if we have to leave the physical body, which everyone does in one way or another. Even if we have to forsake our possessions, God is always there, and God is our only possession, and God is the only security, and God is the only thing that we should always remember and look for in any circumstance. (If we can fix it, right away. There are people waiting downstairs. Of course, if you leave beforehand, She will come afterwards, Hallo, do you have a place?) That’s better, give her the chair. You can sit here. What did you say? You threw them out or something? (They said only five or seven minutes.) Oh, don’t worry, it’s OK. (Oh, OK.) It’s OK. I’m in Turkey already, where can... ...how much they make me work. We were just talking nicely and now I have work to do. Yes? (Do you have any questions, friends?) Hallo! I didn’t know you were there. They told me nobody came. (Is there is any, our friend can help you from over there.) Translate, every time. (Or if you will ask in English, go ahead.) Yes, yes.(These meetings and the teachings that You have delivered, do they work? Regarding the 21st) Century. (century, is there something specific? Are they looking for some stronghold that they can hold on to? How exactly is Your teaching related to the century?) They should look upon God for any stronghold anytime, not 21st century, 22nd century. Any day, every minute, every second, we should always look upon God only. God is the only source of our strength and wisdom. (You say that it is not a religion,) Yes, it is not. (then what is it?)God is the only religion. We just now have talked about a lot of people want to get the answer from God, so I say pray deeper! I have just told one of our sisters here, she asked me why did I come here. I said I go wherever God sends me to. And each one of us has a different job to do, like you are a journalist, I am coming here just to deliver the message that we are all brothers and sisters. And... (So,) Yeah? (it is not a religion, that we believe in God are our feelings? Can we say that?) Right, right, right. And she was just asking a very good question, Just like Prophet Muhammad Peace Be Upon Him, even He is a Prophet, Peace Be Upon Him, first He has to go in a quiet place and still Himself, still His mind, and then the angel can give the message through. God always can give us messages through an angel at least, but we are too busy in the mind to listen, so people sometimes wonder whether there is really God. There is! Just we have to calm down. So she asked how to do that. I said, “Oh yes, that's why I am here to offer a way.” There is a way to calm down the mind. There are many ways. (So, You see Yourself as a Messenger of God?) All of us are Messengers of God. We do different things. It's just my job is just to offer people how to calm the mind, so they can directly talk to the angel from God, from the Messenger of God, the direct one. Yes? It's very easy. Just like if you want to be a journalist, you learn in the school how to deal with people, how to ask questions and whom to ask and how to open the door. So, if we want to have contact with angels, the Messenger of God, we have the way to do it. We must know the way. So, I have tried, and it worked. So, I share the knowledge with the people. Just like you know many things, the way you go and ask, like, the president, you ask him questions and he answers you, and you come back and write an article, you share it with your people, or the world people. Our job is the same. That’s it. Yes, translate. Thank you. I am only teaching this. (Sorry, can I ask something? A Muslim believes that the inside voice or connection with God is found with Islam. If you ask a Christian, they believe it is found with Christian rules. If you ask a Jew, he/she believes it is found with Jewish laws. You ask a Buddhist; he finds it that way. What is the method of this Lady? Is it something above all this? Is it something different? Is it something that pushes all of this aside? Is it something that includes them all, what is it? Can you ask that?) (In all religions, if you address the people of a specific religion, they will say, Muslims will say, “If I read my book, the Qur’an, then I have access to this Voice of the Creator.”) That is good, then it’s good. (And all religions will say the same thing about their books and their messages.) If they do, it's good.(So what is so specific about Yours? Is it above all these disciplines and religions?) No. (Does it all embrace them all?) Yes. (What exactly?) Yes. The question answers itself. Do they really hear the Voice of God like the Prophet (Peace be upon Him) did? Like Jesus did? Like Prophet Muhammad Peace Be Upon Him did? Do they really, do they talk to God? That's the question. If they do, it is good, yes. If they cannot still their mind enough, and contact directly to the Messenger of God, then I can help them to still the mind. I am here only for the people who cannot hear the Voice of God. For the people who can hear, I come learn with them too. Every religion says the same. It's correct, too, because we have only one God, one Father. Yes. Should we have a Muslim God, a Christian God, a Buddhist God, do you think? No, we have only one God. (I think there is need to talk about Her personal story a bit. When, I mean… In a way You are being called Supreme Master, being called Guru…. A bit earlier, She said She had heard the voice of God. She should tell about that changing point in Her life. Maybe also when She heard the voice of God…) (We want to find out how You came to call Yourself “The Supreme Master”? How You first heard the Voice or?) I don’t call myself that. It is the title, the title that is given to me. (At least the thoughts intended for those in Istanbul. Are there any messages She wants to deliver to them? Because there are obvious problems in Turkey, In the last few days people have been dealing with overwhelming problems. Regarding all this, does She have any information, will there be any suggestions? Would She summarize these shortly?) (Do You have some specific message to the people of Istanbul? You know there are specific disasters, people are going through suffering and all that. Do You have something specific to tell these people?) Yes. This is the first question I asked when I arrived in Istanbul. I asked my driver, "Are the victims of the earthquake, are they better now? Better improved?" And he said it's not in the capital, it is in the countryside. So, it's the first question I asked. And of course, my message is the same, like everyone else who is concerned about our own brothers and sisters, is that my message is the same with your message. It's a message of love, and we cannot express enough in the human language about this love that resides within us, which is God's love. We all have this, and we all have love for each other. And I can only know from what God has told me that disasters to the body are nothing compared to the disaster of the soul. If we find God, everything is all right, even if we have to leave the physical body, which everyone does in one way or another. Even if we have to forsake our possessions, God is always there, and God is our only possession, and God is the only security, and God is the only thing that we should always remember and look for in any circumstance. Whatever God takes away, Hes gives in another form. Sometimes Hes takes away physical things, Hes gives back spiritual comfort. And we should always remember God and pray to God all the time. Like the Muslims do, five times a day. Five times a day. Are you happy? Ask them (Yes.) are they happy? (Excuse me. Could you ask your questions? So You came not to perform miracles but to remind us? You didn’t come to act miracles but You came to remind?) Yes, yes. That’s right. I came to remind people of God. Only God can make miracle. Miracle is not necessary. God does everything correctly already. Even disaster is correct. Just we have to see it correctly. We have to know why it is correct. Thank you so much for coming. Please translate. Thank you so much. (Their friend.) Please take some fruits and something with you. There are fruit, candy, whatever over there too. Please bring them outside so they can grab with their hand when they go out.

There are many mansions in the house of God, yes? Many mansions. So the UFO people are also the creation from God. They are just different beings. They live in another dimension. And sometimes they visit us so that we know there are other beings. We are not the only ones. And that we know that God is mighty, Hes creates all kinds of things and all kinds of beings. (The people who are initiated by You, Master, are they protected against the abduction of UFOs and everything?) Yes. Protected from all the negative things. (You said some still bring messages from God. Who are these? How do they deliver these messages?) That, you know when you talk to them. Because to everyone, they deliver different messages according to your question. These are the beings who are much, much higher developed than ourselves and they live in the world with God. They don't live in a physical body like us, and so if we want to contact them, we have to also leave this physical dimension, in a way of speaking, then contact them, then they will tell you whatever you want to know. Next one. Next one, please.（Please explain “returning Home.” Where is our Mother?）Returning Home what? Where? （Returning Home. Please explain what is “returning Home” and where is our Mother?）Where is our Mother? (Yes.) Our mother is where we left Her. Returning Home means not here. Back to where we came from. Back to where we came from, before this physical body. (What do You think about UFOs and extraterrestrial connection for now and for the future of our world?) Collection? (Connection.) Ah, connection. What do you want me to think? There are many mansions in the house of God, yes? Many mansions. So the UFO people are also the creation from God. They are just different beings. They live in another dimension. And sometimes they visit us so that we know there are other beings. We are not the only ones. And that we know that God is mighty, Hes creates all kinds of things and all kinds of beings. (I'm afraid that we are running out of time.) Yes, yes. (And we have to come to a close with the question part.) So if you would like to learn the way that I want to show you, please put your name down there, and then we.... They have another room, OK? And I'll see you in that room. Thank you so much! I’ll see you. Allah bless you. Oh, thank you. Oh, my God! Thank you. What is this? Oh, you draw something? Thank you. Can I give you a hug? Hold it. Wait, wait. Thank you. Thank you. Wait. Thank you. Thank you. Give you a hug. OK, I give you something else. This is special. Very funny. (Thank You very much.) Yes. I know, I know. Same, same. (Thank You.) Thank you. See you. (Thank You.) Thank you. Yes. (I want to learn that.) Yes, I’ll see you. Hold, hold, hold. Hey. Hey, guys! (More here.) Hey! (Left, right.) (Can I touch Your hand? Can I touch Your hand?) OK. (Thank You.) All these are yours! (I love You very much. You are beautiful.) Thank you. This is yours. OK? All is yours. OK? Everything is yours. Tell them. Tell them come and take it. Thank you. Thank you. Allah bless you. See you in another room. OK? This is yours. Yes. (Yes. The fruits, flowers, everything is ours. Please come and help yourselves.) (Thank You much.) Thank you for coming! Take some fruit please. (Hallo.) Hallo. (I have the benefits to see You.) Tell me now, quick. Yeah, what is it? (What do You think about telepathy?) Telepathy? Oh, yeah, yeah. I know. Because when in deep concentration, you can see the other mind, just like a telephone. It’s OK. Did they tell (about) the fruit? Did anybody announce the fruit and everybody take some for refreshment? Please go to the stage and take some fruit for your refreshment. They are yours. We bought them for you. Allah bless you again, again. I’ll see you. (Allah bless You also.) Bless you more. You’re so good. (Can I see You again?) (Can I ask Your birthday?) Yes, yes. My birthday? (Yes.) Everybody knows. What it is. (No, it’s not in the book.) Oh, I’m a lady. Don’t ask me how old I am. (Thank You.) No, no. They are not perfect. (The other guy.) They are just what they are. (Yes.) Yeah. They express different way only. (Yes.) Just be patient. They have so many things they want to say and grasp, but they express differently. I don’t feel offended. No! I feel loved! By your people. (Hallo.) Hallo. Yeah. I am not ready yet. (Yeah, OK.) (Yes.) Not ready yet. See you around. Hallo. Thank you. Thank you for coming. Thank you for your love. (Hallo, Ching Hai!) Hallo! Yeah. Hallo! Yes. How to say “Thank you” in Turkish? (I don’t know,) Oh, you don’t know. (but in Finnish it’s “Thank you.”) Finnish. I know you’re from Finland, but they want Turkish. How do you say “Thank You” in Turkish? (“Thank you.”) Wow, that’s a long... OK. See you.

When we are in very, very deep, deep, deep contemplation on God, we will see that God and us are one. We are nothing but offspring of God. We're one with God, we are Hiers offspring, we are Hiers own Self.(How do I become Your disciple?) My what? (Disciple.) No, you don't become my disciple. You are God! You are God's disciple! I show you how to become God's disciple, real one. (Is this meditation technique the same as the other ones? What is different when compared with the others?) I just say about ours, OK? Quan Yin is a Chinese name for contemplating on the Word of God - means direct contact with God. It's just because I started in Taiwan (Formosa) and so they just use “Quan Yin” all the time, and it's become a habit; otherwise, it's the Word of God. This is the name, this is the meaning of it. We contact directly with this Word, like it says, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." And this is the Word that the Prophets contact with and we can hear that too. (Is love in religion or religion within love?) Love is the only religion. (I speak to God every moment. I think of God every moment. Still I cannot meditate, as if hindered miraculously. How do I transcend this?) I'll show you. Just stay a little while. After I answer everybody, I will show you. We have to know how to calm the mind; otherwise, even if not five times praying, five hundred times still cannot, cannot hear God. We pray to God, but our mind makes trouble, our mind keeps thinking about money, business, everything, and then when God wants to talk, we cannot hear. For example, I am talking to the translator right now and if you tell me something, I cannot hear you. Even though you talk to me, I don't know that you're talking. I cannot hear you because I'm talking and thinking of this and translating and all that. (Is there something God cannot do? If no, can He or She create another God of Him or Herself?) Yes, there is nothing God cannot do. But what for we need two Gods? We already have too many - Christian God, Muslim God, Buddhist God. If we create another one, we'll be in trouble. God is constantly creating. Hes makes different Gods all the time. (There’s only one God.) Yes. Hes makes out of Hirmself many Gods. Look at yourself. God is with you. I have explained to you already about the circle of God, and we are in it, we are part of God. (How should a person experience him or herself? How should?) By calming his mind. After he calms the mind, the God-self will reveal, because nothing else but God. When we don't calm our mind, we identify this body as me, this thinking, talking mind all the time, ‘wanting things’ mind, this is me; it's not! “Me” is different. “Me” is one with God, “Me” is a child of God. When we are in very, very deep, deep, deep contemplation on God, we will see that God and us are one. We are nothing but offspring of God. We're one with God, we are Hiers offspring, we are Hiers own Self. We don't see the body anymore. During a deep contemplation the body disappears completely, the whole world disappears, only God exists. Only God exists! Nobody, nobody, not even the president of the United States, not even anybody, not even yourself is there. Then you’ll know. Only one God. At that time, you really have calmed your mind. (If Creator is single, aren't we also within it? Why then there is a separation of you and I?) We are like a fish in the sea all the time. We never leave the sea. Never! Likewise, God is all over us. We are swimming in God, we're eating in God, we're sleeping in God, we're thinking in God, we're nowhere except inside God. It's just we don't see because we're too busy. That's why the Prophet, Peace Be Upon Him tells us, "Don't kill another person, don't do bad to your brothers and sisters." Because why? God is always there. Hes sees everything! You think we can do it in the dark and God doesn’t see? We're always in God! But in order to see God we have to forsake everything - I mean, in spirit, not like you leave your family, or not like you give your possession to me. No, no, no, no. You have to really disconnect your Self, your inside soul with this physical world, then you can see God. Actually, you should not ask me anymore questions. The Qur’an said everything already. God is always here. For example, just to clarify the statement I have just said. God has said to us, "Be a good guest in this Earth." Guest only! We are guests here. It's not real! Be a guest, that means what? OK, you borrow the cup, you borrow the house, you borrow the car, you borrow a wife, you borrow a kid, you borrow a husband - just borrow. Because everything is not real here. Our real home is Heaven. That's why God said, “Be a good guest on Earth,” but live a rich life, live a fulfilled life, in order to live a really rich life, not money rich, rich in knowledge of God, rich in knowing we are God's children. That's what the Qur’an told you to do, and I am just here to show you how to realize that in real, not just by words, but in real! See God! See God, and then you can have a rich life. Even if you don't have money, you feel rich because you have God and see God so that you know that we are only guests here, and then we'll be nice to each other. Doesn't matter what religion, what nationality, we can only be a good guest here when we know God. We can only live a rich life when we know God. In that sentence is enough already. Like you have to really disconnect yourself with the world, have to realize that we are guests only, so we don't attach to money, fame, profit, whatever because we are only guests here. Disconnect yourselves with the world, calmly, calm down, then contact Heaven. But it's difficult to disconnect. You forget how. I am here to remind you how, then you’ll remember. Quick, like this. (Is the meditation the way to get to God or not?) Yes, yes! This way. Just to calm the mind. But you have to know the correct way; otherwise, you cannot calm the mind. Meditation just means calm the mind. That's it. Calm the mind. You have a word for that in Turkish? (About the calming?) Contemplation? (Contemplation, yes. Deep thought.) Yeah, deep thought! Yes! Deep thought about God that you don't think of anything else, just one thought, God. Then you see. (There are two questions here. What do You mean by going and coming back from Heaven? What is meditation?) Yes, OK. “Going” because in a human language, if we see something else, that means we're going. For example, if I am not in America, and I am in Turkey, means I've gone to Turkey. And if I go back to America, I am going back to America. So in order to make it clear, I have to use the same language. Otherwise, if you know Heaven, you don't need me talking. So, going to Heaven and coming back means, “OK now, we are here,” right? We are here, we don't see any Heaven. Even though Heaven is always here, we don't see. So, in order to tell you we can see Heaven, OK, we leave the physical world and enter Heaven. And then when we leave Heaven, we enter the body and the physical world again, we don't see Heaven again. So that means going, coming, going, coming - just human language. This is just the beginning, actually, this state. Later on, you'll see Heaven anywhere, even when you're driving a taxi You can hear God even when you wash your dishes. You remember again how to contact God, then it becomes easy. Some of our brothers, he drives a car, he also can experience the (inner Heavenly) Light of God. And some are housewives, she washes dishes, she can experience the (inner Heavenly) Light of God, too. But be careful, maybe sometimes you drop it. Too happy and then drop the dishes.

God is the (inner Heavenly) Light, God is the Love that we feel. God is the (inner Heavenly) Music of Heaven.(Could You identify more clearly whom You call our single Father?) Identify Hirm? This is your job. How can I tell you what it tastes like, what I drink? If I drink, I can tell you,“OK, it’s sweet.” But you don't know. You just think that it's sweet, but you don't taste it. I cannot describe to you, but I can show you, then you can identify yourself. I can give you the cup and the same juice inside, then you'll know, "Ah, yes, I know it's orange juice. OK, it's sweet." So I invite youto stay and “drink” after. Or you can go out and tell my people outside, write your name down so later they can gather you and then we’ll show you. It’s fast. After I explain to you how to still your mind, you'll see the Father, I promise. The Father, OK, can be a Mother too, can be. You can even see Prophet Muhammad, Peace Be Upon Him, and then ask Him directly what the Father is a She or a He, or is Hes Muslim, or is Hes Christian? And He will tell you, better than I do. Because when you are in His level, in the spirit level, you understand better than in human language. When we are in human form, we are limited. We are limited by the brain, by the ears, by the physical eyes. But when we are in the spirit, we are one with God, and we understand everything, no need anybody to explain. When the Prophet Muhammad, Peace Be Upon Him sat in the cave, what did He experience? You tell me, what? Anybody remember? Yes? (We couldn’t understand the question. We couldn’t understand the question! Not Muhammad, Peace Be Upon Him… Moses… He went to the mountain.) Yes? OK, OK. What’s the answer? (Well, he said that Moses went to the cave too. He mixed Them; two, into each other.) He mixed what? (Moses and Muhammad, (Peace Be Upon Him). He said, “Moses went to the cave too.” Not only…) Yes, yes, I know that. (Yes.) I know that. I’m just speaking here in terms that the Turkish people more identify themselves with. Jesus also went into the desert. It doesn’t have to be a cave. It can be in your room also. I’m trying to explain to people what God is like, so I asked this question. If you answer me, I will explain. What did Prophet Muhammad, Peace Be Upon Him, see? Or what did Moses see? (An angel.) Angel! And then what did He hear? (Read.) What? (Hes told him to read.) Read what? (The words of God.) Yes. Yes? Not only read. (Yes.) Read, act, transfer the messages of God. (Yes.) In the name of God, whatever you do, you have to say in Turkish or in Muslim, In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Or in Christian, It’s the same. In the name of God. Yes, in the name of God. (Right.) Act in the name of God. (Yes. Right.) Say it in the name of God, (Right.) whatever you do. (Yes.) So this you can hear too. All right? You can also see the angel, after I show you. But you must also do your work, like, sincere, really want. So, what did Moses see when He was in the mountain? What did He see? What did He hear? OK, OK. It's all right. It's all right. Yes, so what did he say? (Well, he said that He went up and He wrote something to stop the evil. And he's saying that He didn't write it by Himself, it was God who wanted Him…) That’s God wanted Him to write. That's correct. That's correct. That's just a different expression. God wrote...Apart from that, Moses also saw God as a bush of flame, also heard the voice of God like thunder voice, right? Right. After that God told Him to write that. Yes. Yes. Yes, you. (Well. He's saying that Moses wanted to see God, and He said to God, "Let me see You.") Yes. (And Hes said that, "You cannot see me, but if you want so much…" Hes showed Hirmself on the mountain bush (as a (inner Heavenly) Light). Yes, yes, yes, that's right. That's right. That’s right.Because God is not the way we imagine, OK, here comes God with a head and a nose or things like that. God is the (inner Heavenly) Light, God is the Love that we feel. God is the (inner Heavenly) Music of Heaven. Hes can manifest Hirmself in different ways like Moses and the Voice of thunder, the (inner Heavenly) Sound of many waters, the (inner Heavenly) Sound of the trumpet, and all through the Voice of the angel as our Prophet, Peace Be Upon Him has heard it or in the bush of flame - big, big, big (inner Heavenly) Light. These things you can also experience. That I can promise. This is God who manifests in this kind of way. Yes. Because God is not a person like this or like that, but God can also make Himself or Herself into a person like in the form of a Prophet to talk to us. Yes. (He says that, to see angels, You must be a friend of God.) Yes. Yes. Yes! We are Hiers children, not just friends. We will show you how. Yes, yes. (Isn't meditation a kind of ritual?) Oh, no, no. It's a natural thing to do. Because every day we are very busy thinking of different things, so when we sit down and calm our mind so that we can contact God, it's not a ritual. Because most ritual is physical, this one is nothing physical. Just calm the mind, that's all. And there is a way to calm the mind quick, that's all, OK? Thank you. Thank you so much. We will answer all the questions, but have to respect order, like first question first, second question second. Please forgive me. (Next question.) Yes. (Will everyone easily practice the path You will teach?) Yes. Even we have children like six years old, they can also do it. Because God is within us, so it's easy. We just forget. Need a little reminding, you'll remember right away. Next one. (Where will you go after death? What will happen?) We go where we want to go. If we want to go back to God, then we prepare the road to go there. If we don't want to go back to God, then we do many different things that prepare the road not to go back to God. So, it depends on what you want. If you want to go back to God, practice now. Now! You pray five times a day, that is preparing to go back to God. And God will even tell you what day you die. If you calm your mind during these five times of praying you will hear God, you will hear the angel of God at least, and you’ll know when you’ll leave the world, when you’ll die and what’ll happen. You’ll already see it before you die. But if you don't calm your mind enough, you cannot hear. So, if you can calm your mind, it's good. If you cannot, I'll show you how to calm your mind. It's very simple.

We are always with God. We are never away from God. It's just sometimes we are too distracted by physical survival. We lost contact. That's all.(Questions.) Yes, please. (How do I concentrate completely in meditation?) That I will show you. I’ll show you later. We have to sit still together. I'll show you how to be still first, OK? Once you still your constantly chatting mind, everything else God takes care. But there is a way to still the mind. There is a way. God exists so that we can know Hirm. There is a way to know, we just forget. If we exist, it’s because we have a father, a physical father, and it's good that we know who our father is, no? We want to know. (Shall I ask another question?) Yes, yes. Anytime, continue. Yes. (What is the shortest way to meet with the Creator?) Yes, I've found it. That's what I want to tell you. After, after. (There is another question here: How did You meet first?) I went to the Himalayas and met a person who had known this way and He showed me and then I could show you. (In no religion, they forbid eating meat. Does that not oppose Your teaching?) In which religion? (In no religion.) Oh. Yes, You read the Qur’an again. It says you don't eat meat, yes. (Should I pass?) Yes, please. (How can You say “Father”? Isn't that blasphemy?) How can you? Say “Father” to God? Oh. OK, then I say “Mother,” all right? Well, in our human language we have two sexes, female and male. And most religions address Father, God, as a male, so I go along. I don't want to contradict you. But it's not a He, it's not a She. It's a God. God can be a He, God can be a She - God is everything. According to what Hes shows me, Hes is everything. Thank you, thank you. (How can the soul after death relive in another person? How can you tell who he/she was before?) Yes. Sometimes when we were very young, like from the age of... when we were first born until the age of three or four, sometimes we remember the past existence. And that's the only way you can tell yourself if you remember. Nobody else can prove it to you. If you don't remember, it's OK. No need, because God says take care of today is enough, no need to worry about the past and the future. Sometimes we, as a part of God, come down to this world again and again to have different things to do, different experience, and this is all right. Because God can do everything, God can send back again, or God doesn't send again, so when we are sent back again for a special purpose, we say that we come back. But actually, there is no such thing as coming back because we never go anywhere. We are always with God. We are never away from God. It's just sometimes we are too distracted by physical survival. We lost contact. That's all. So whenever we say we reincarnate, that doesn't mean really reincarnation. It's just a different jump in a long, long eternal life process to have a different experience in a different department of God's creation. Just like we go from Europe to Asia, we go from Turkey to Egypt, from Egypt to Israel, Israel to South Africa. Our life is a constant change, constant re-experience and recreating what we want to know. And the soul doesn’t reincarnate in a body. The soul covers a body or envelops a body, or embraces a body or a physical anything, being, in order to experience in a different dimension. So, when we leave one physical being or one pole and go to another, we call that "death" or "reincarnation." Actually, it's not. The soul is always free. And the soul can go from one place to another, one body to another - anytime. So, the soul is not inside the body actually. That's why all the Bibles told us that we are part of God because we are never apart from God. We just choose to cling to one subject or another in order to have a different identification, a different experience that we call this is Mr. So-and-So, Mrs. Ching Hai, Mrs. Smith, Mr. John. You see, can you... Did I make myself clear? Oh, OK, I’ll explain again. It's difficult, but it's also easy. Look. For example, OK, just an example, suppose God is a big, big, big whole being like this, big one, and in this God whole being Hes encompasses everything, all the things that Hes created or not yet created. Hes is everything compacted in there. That is God, OK? Right.And then within this, there are different things that Hes created already. So now, in order to be individualized, one part of God occupies this, another part occupies that, another part occupies this, OK? So, the part of God that is surrounding this yellow paper calls himself a yellow paper, and the part of God that is in the vicinity of this red pen calls himself a red pen.All right, you understand? But all is enveloped inside God, all is God, nothing else, including… oh, sorry, love, including the devil that you have asked me (about). Yes. He is there to tell us, "Don't do this, do this." He's there to make you strong. By resisting him, you're strong. If you listen to him, you have to try again. So you sit there. God envelops you. You are Mr. John. I sit here. I am all God-enveloped myself, too, and call myself Mr. Whatever, Mrs. Whatever, for example. All right?So that's why all the religions told us that we are one, we are an essence of God, we are part of God. We are God! Yes, easy. So, this thing comes and goes, destroyed, but the God is the same all the time. This thing is red, this thing is yellow, but the God - all the same, this one is always the same. All right? Did I make myself understood? Thank you, thank you, thank you. OK, so the reincarnation never really occurs. Never. Just, you see, the God Almighty power always exists, never dies, but this thing may die, may kaput, damaged, and then, so the God here is empty, and then he probably moves around within this God, and then occupies this one and becomes yellow paper. Yes, OK, thank you. (Every day You see our Father?) Oh, yes. (You can?) Every day. You can. A lot of people who I show them how to do it, they see, too. The Father is always there, why don't we see Hirm? (I don’t know.) OK, you don’t see, but if you sit there, can I see you if I look at you? Of course, I can see you. But if I look over there, of course, I don't see you. We don't look, that's why. We look in a different direction. I’ll tell you where to look and you'll see God. Very simple.

So, if you think you have not heard God, and you are not satisfied that the angel has come visit you, or the messenger from God, from Heaven has talked to you, then maybe I can help you. There is a way to still the mind, then you can contact the messenger of God directly, the Supreme Master, whoever that is, OK?Many of you, some of you, when you pray very hard, you also have an experience of Heaven. But some of you have not been able to calm the mind, to still the mind, so maybe you have not heard the angel speak or the messenger of God speak. So, if you think you have not heard God, and you are not satisfied that the angel has come visit you, or the messenger from God, from Heaven has talked to you, then maybe I can help you. There is a way to still the mind, then you can contact the messenger of God directly, the Supreme Master, whoever that is, OK? Yes, I'm speaking on behalf of the Supreme Master Ching Hai. In fact, it's not me who speaks. Some people ask me what's the name of the “Supreme Master Ching Hai.” It's the Chinese name for the Father, our God. “Ching Hai” means the ocean of Love, means God. Just we call Hirm differently. Just like when you love your woman, or you love your husband, you call him “honey,” “sweetheart,” “sugar pie,” “apple pie,” or “my loved one,” “my own,” “my self,” “my other half,” “my better half.” It's just the same one person.And that's why sometimes the religious people misunderstand each other because one call Hirm "Allah," the other call Hirm "Almighty," and the other call Hirm "the real Buddha," the Zen call Hirm "the real face," "the real Father." Everyone calls his beloved in a different name, and that is all right. We have only one Father, one God. I have a joke for you. Sometimes in some countries they have a racist problem, like OK, the black men are allergic to the white men, the white men are allergic to the black men. So, there was a black man who was looking for an apartment and he liked one apartment very much. He's desperate for one but he couldn't go there because all the white people, they don't let him in. So he prayed to God, said, "Please, help me, I want to get an apartment over there, but they are racist, they don't let me in, all the white people." So God said, "Oh, forget it, forget it, my love, if I go there, I couldn't go in myself." So the black man was very surprised, said, "Why? God, You are almighty. You can go anywhere. Why couldn't You go there?" Please laugh after I finish the joke, OK? So you know what God said? Any guess? (Because I’m black.) No, Hes didn't say that. Yes, maybe, maybe Hes is black, but I don't think so. Hes is all colors. That's why we're all colors, come from Hirm. God said that, "Oh, I cannot go there, because if I go there, they will check my religious record and they will ask me what religion I belong to and I don't know what to say." Suppose God comes here, it's true like that, it's a joke but it could be true. Suppose God appears in front of us right now, shall we call Hirm Muslim or call Hirm Catholic, or shall we call Hirm Buddhist, or shall we call Hirm Christian ... what? So, in my knowledge, we have only one Father, and that's enough already. And in order to know our own Father we must still the mind. We must calm down and we must find time to contact Hirm. And at least to contact Hiers representative, Hiers angels, and then we can pose direct questions to Hirm and get direct answers. If we couldn't find the answer today, we find it tomorrow. If not tomorrow, the next day. And if you have found the answer already, congratulations! If you have not found the direct contact with God's kingdom, I have learned a way and I could share it with you without any obligation, without any cost, without any string at all. You can always be welcome and try. And it works immediately. (It is very difficult.) It's not difficult, madam. You see, I can do it, you can do it. OK, I guess you want to ask me a lot of questions, so should I just be quiet now, and then you ask me, then I can explain more of what you think you want to know. And then after that, if you want to, if YOU want to, we can show you. Thank you. Do you have any question yet? It's not difficult, right? For some. Yes. You should write it down please, because we have microphone, (but) technically it’s impossible. Yes. (He asks You what You think about the devil. He makes us do something quite bad, what do You think about it? He's asking.) Yes, we should not listen to him, that's what I think. You are the Master. You should not listen to the devil. Make him listen to you. (We believe only God,) Yes. (but Buddhist people believe only five heads, like that five heads, like that three-headed stone. Why? Can You explain?) Three hand like this? I don’t understand. (Three-headed stone Buddha, everybody worships that.) Oh, you mean the statue. Yes. (Yes. Buddhist people, why don't they believe God?) Well, everybody believes God in their own way that they think is the best. But sometimes what they think is the best is not always the best. So that's why I'm trying to help them to see a better way if they want to. If they don't want to, that's also their right. We are desperate in this world. We suffer so much, we are so far away from God's connection, so we grab on anything, anything - a stone, a statue, a cross, a whatever - to hope that God will answer our questions. But there is a better way. It's a direct way and people don't know. But still, when people pray to a statue, or pray to a stone, God knows also. And that's why God sends other prophets or Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) to tell people that, “This is the way. Don't do that, don't do this. Do this.” The Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him) came to show an example, like, “OK, you have to still your mind, you sit quiet, alone.” Don't have to go in the cave, but in your small “cave-room,” and make it a cave, make it a complete recluse for yourself, and then you pray. Truly God will hear and you will hear God. God always hears, just we don't hear. So now it's our problem to still our mind, to discard all the nonsensical thinking all the time in the mind so that we can hear the voice of the messenger of God, like the Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him) did. He came to do that. He was a Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him). He didn't have to do that, but He did that to make an example that, to contact God, we have to still the mind. That's why in the Qur’an it is said that all religions belong to God anyhow. Yes, the first page. Because why? Because when people pray sincerely to God - doesn't matter in which name - Hes knows that is prayed to Hirm because Hes is God. Hes doesn’t discriminate, “Why don't you call my name Mr. So-and-So? You have to call my name this.” No, Hes is God. Hes is the Father. If you call Hirm “Almighty,” it's good; if you call Hirm “Allah,” Hes is happy, because “Allah” means also almighty in English. And Buddha means enlightened, it means God in English. Just we did not translate and we make so much trouble. “Christ” means the power of God, same thing. Right, I guess we should have only one language.

I greet you in the name of the Prophet Muhammad, Peace Be Upon Him, and God Hirmself, our Father. May God bless you so much to heal whatever sorrow that’s still felt while we are in this physical existence.(I wish you all a good evening. I leave the speech to Supreme Master Ching Hai.) (Good night to you all. I leave the microphone to Master Ching Hai.) How do you say "good evening" in Turkish? （İyi akşamlar (good evening).） İyi akşamlar? （Yes.）Oh, very easy. I greet you in the name of the Prophet Muhammad, Peace Be Upon Him, and God Hirmself, our Father. May God bless you so much to heal whatever sorrow that’s still felt while we are in this physical existence. We also share with you the suffering of thousands of people in the recent disaster. Our hearts are with you. We prayed for you. We did pray for you in a very far land, in every land apart from Turkey, away from Turkey. We did pray for you and for the whole world, too, including Turkey. We have also sent comfort in the form of material assistance, but we pray more so that God will send the real comfort in spirit to your country and your people, my people too. I am very excited to be in your country because this is my first time and your country is so beautiful, so beautiful. When I was in Germany I knew a lot, a lot of Turkish people who lived there, who worked there. And they are all so very, very generous, very hospitable to me. But I only knew the humble, humble class people, and they work very humbly, and they're very humble and they trust God; they are not the arrogant kind. And because of their humble position and in a strange land - not only in Germany, I know them in France and in England, and even in Holland - and because of their humble position, they are far away from home, and they have to work in a strange land, and sometimes the language is not their basic skill, and they have sometimes hardship. And so people, because they are so humble, so humble. I think the Turkish people are humble because they fear God, not because they fear any other people in that land. But they have been sometimes misunderstood because they are very humble people. They're humble because they pray five times a day. They just remember God. They forget to be so fierce in this competitive world so they did not give an impression of very aggressive people, But I know them through friendship, and I know that they are really great, and they are so generous and so hospitable. Whatever they have, they share with you. But because they're so humble, sometimes some of the native people do not give them due respect because they don't know they have come from such a great country, such a great history, great culture. Before I came here, I also did not know that. I did not have enough time to study your history. I just know it recently, and I also did not know that my friends, the Turkish people that I knew came from such a great heritage. You have two of the seven wonders in the world. You have so many other famous things that people don’t even know, including myself. I did not know. I wanted to say that the people who went out of Turkey and work in the foreign land, they did not represent a complete picture of your culture as a Turkish race, as a great historical race. So, I was so surprised when I landed in your capital and went around a little and see all these great things that are still left over in your country. It's sad. But it's OK. The joy is more, doubled because I am surprised. Similarly, we are the children of God, the Qur’an told us that, the Bible, every bible told us that, every religious bible told us that we are children of God. But we don't really have a good impression by being here. Because we are too busy for survival, we have forgotten our great Home. Only some lucky people truly can have direct contact with our original Heaven. Many people still have lost the connection with our Father. And we look upon each other as just a mere mortal, a mere human being, and we have forgotten that we are brothers and sisters, and we are truly heavenly beings. But in some moment of our deep prayers - I mean really real prayers, not mechanical prayers - we do have glimpses of Heaven. And that's when we know God really exists, Heaven really exists, and we feel so blessed, so happy that we could not even talk in human language about this happiness. Just like I heard people talked about Turkey and I know Turkish people, but I didn't imagine your country is so beautiful. And when you come here, you feel different, you feel the excitement, the newness of discovery. But when you are in America or Germany, you heard of Turkey, maybe you don't even want to go. Similarly, we heard of Heaven, we heard of God, we heard of the angels, but we thought we normal people cannot see them, only the Prophet or the disciples of the Prophet can see them. But we can see them. (Why?) Why? Because we can. There is a way. There is a way to ascend to Heaven while living. Just like everything else, like I come to Turkey, I take an airplane and later, I finish, I go back home. If I have money, I have visa, I can come back to Turkey again, come back home again, come back to Turkey again if I like, go back home again. All I have to do is go to the airline, the correct airline, pay the correct money and go to Turkey. And if I don't do anything unlawful that breaks the law of your country, I could stay for a while and come back again and again. Similarly, we could go to Heaven, come back, go to Heaven, come back. But we don't go with the physical body; we go with the spirit. Just like when you sleep, you leave your body, you don't even know the body exists. Sometimes you have a dream, you think you go somewhere. Some people even sleepwalk. And similarly, we could consciously leave this physical temple for a while and go contact the spirit in a spiritual world with our same spirit like their spirit, and the angel will take us there, if we know how. The reason the Prophet, Peace Be Upon Him, told us to contemplate, to pray to God five times a day is that if you pray hard enough, long enough many times, there is a chance that you might have a glimpse of Heaven, that you might be calm enough to contact the angels or the messenger of God - the invisible one - and then they will take us to Heaven, they will show us the way, but we must calm the mind, we must forget the whole world while praying. That is the real, real prayers. That's what the Prophet Muhammad, Peace Be Upon Him, did in the cave. He calmed His mind, He forgot everything – His possession, His wife, His work, His success, His money - everything. He forgot His body. And that's how He can elevate Himself to the level of angels in spirit. And that's how He can contact the angel in spirit, and that's how He can get the message from God. The same, we have to do, we can do.

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