I never stop loving any of you, or even outside people – never! It doesn’t happen, that’s it! It just doesn’t work. It just doesn’t work that way at all, by me. So, never be worried about my love for you. Never, OK? Because it’s just programmed that way. There is no other alternative for this solution. And for love, I suffer a lot. For love, I do many things; for love, I spend whatever I earn. That is all for love. […]
Now, so in case I don’t take you for any reason, please don’t feel hurt, OK? (OK.) Don’t feel hurt. Maybe we’re not compatible. Maybe you should not be there. Maybe you should do something else either somewhere else, in society, or maybe your karma with your family is not yet erlöst (redeemed). How to say that? (Erased.) Not yet resolved. Not yet solved. Yes, sometimes like that.
Or sometimes you stay with me, and I tell you to go away, not because I don’t like you, but I want you to go because maybe you should go. Your time is up, or your family needs you; or somebody was calling you desperately and praying to me – one of your initiated brothers and sisters. Your brother and sister, and then I have to do anything possible to make you run. Because if I say, “Honey, you please go home,” you wouldn’t go! “Master, no! Why? No, I die here! I don’t want to go!” “I die with You!” Things like that. So, sometimes you need a little rough talk so that you feel it’s serious. You know, “Master doesn’t love me anymore, I’d better go.” Something like that, but it’s not like that.
I never stop loving any of you, or even outside people – never! It doesn’t happen, that’s it! It just doesn’t work. It just doesn’t work that way at all, by me. So, never be worried about my love for you. Never, OK? Because it’s just programmed that way. There is no other alternative for this solution. And for love, I suffer a lot. For love, I do many things; for love, I spend whatever I earn. That is all for love. So, it cannot be no love, because I’m still doing what I’m doing, and still serving you and other people, all the best I can. So, it cannot be that my love’s run out for anybody at all. Just like if you say to the Sun, “Don’t shine on that person! Just leave her alone there in that corner and shine on everybody else. In the whole crowd, you just shine, not on her.” Is it possible? (No.) OK, it’s like that. Love is like that. It’s not possible to exclude something. Even though in the mind, you might say, “Oh, I hate that person, I don’t like him,” but it’s not like that. Love is all-inclusive. It’s not possible to cut it just for one person.
You know, there was a joke in Chinese. It was very funny. There was a devotee of a Buddha. But there are many Buddhas in Buddhist scripture. You know that, right? There is Earth Store Bodhisattva, Quan Yin Bodhisattva is also a Buddha, and Shakyamuni Buddha. Each one has different merit and blessing. For example, the Medicine Buddha, if you’re sick and all that, then you pray to Him. Or if you don’t want to go to hell, then you pray to the Earth Store Bodhisattva who has been in hell and rescued people from hell. For example like that. So, this devotee liked the Earth Store Bodhisattva. So, she got a statue of the Earth Store Bodhisattva, she installed it in her altar. But it happened that it was in a temple – everybody else had their own favorite Buddha, so they were all put together. And then every day, she put incense in front of this Earth Store Bodhisattva, Buddha or Bodhisattva, to pray to Him alone. She ignored every other Buddha, fine! But then the incense was going everywhere to all the Buddhas. And she said, “It’s not possible! It’s only for Him!” So, she didn’t like that a bit.
So, she built a little wooden box to encase the Buddha in there, with only a little hole in front of His nose, and then she burned the incense only to go through to that nose, the hole to the nose. So, only the Earth Store Bodhisattva could smell her incense, and nobody else. Can you believe that? The poor Buddha, if He knew, if He was alive, He’d be encased in that wooden box with a little hole in front of the nose. So, love has many forms. Poor Buddha. And you’d think He’d be happy, no? He’d probably be touched by her devotion, but all the Buddhas and Himself would be laughing to death. What kind of mind that the human being has? Oh, dear God! But why do I tell you that? (We talked about love.) (So that we don’t get hurt if You don’t accept us, and we understand why You do that.) (Always have love.) Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah! So maybe I just put you in a box with a nose... open. Whoever’s my “favorite,” I put you in a box, and give you food every day, just for you. Nobody else can even look at your food!
Oh, it would be lovely to have all of you, but I’m not sure if it works. Let me think about it. I’ll go back very quick, check on all the problems, if we should risk it. I’m so tempted to take all of you, whoever wants to come with me. Because actually, it’s OK. We just need a shower and a bathroom. That’s it, right? The rest, you can just sit anywhere, and do some work and garden all day. And go home at night, just sit in a corner and sleep. That would be enough, then. That would be enough.
(But if some of us bring bad affinity to You, and therefore You have to suffer, then that’s not good.) Yeah, not good. (We don’t want that.) Yes, you don’t want that. And I don’t want that either, because... Not if I can help it! But sometimes I can’t, because I’m the only one that can help that person. So I have to help him to some degree, until he’s at least cleaned up to some extent so that he can bear it, so he doesn’t have to go back to hell again. Then, I still have to do it. Because some are so heavy, only I can do it. I have vowed to save the worst. Actually, I didn’t have to vow. I do that all the time. Never mind. I will see. But I’m sure you come with beautiful intention, and that’s very nice already. Very nice already. I know you’re all pure, and you just come because of the love of me, right?
But how about your girlfriend or boyfriend? Would you miss them sometimes? (No.) No. How about the physical pleasure, would you miss it? (No.) Not even in the... you know, like, before menopause? No? You’re already menopause? You’re safe! People say getting old is bad, but I think it’s really good. It calms you so much, right? No more hormones dragging through your veins, and make you do crazy things, and fall in love with the wrong guys and wrong girls and slaving for that, because of that – because of hormone problems. So, growing old is a blessing, I’m telling you. Look forward to it. You feel cleaner, fresher, easier on yourself and everybody else. You feel less desire; you feel more secure, more inside, more inward. Is that right? (Yes.) The ones who grow old beyond menopause consider themselves lucky. OK, I’ll see you later, guys.
It’s also my illusion, like we live together, it’s nice. You know, like that. That’s why I always accepted people. But many times, it’s really disappointing. Because you will be there, and then complaining about small things like the toilet is too little, very few bathrooms, and things like that. I don’t know if it’s really good for you, because you’re so used to being alone in your own comfortable apartment and doing what you want. But in a group, it might be different. You have to eat at a certain time. Otherwise, later, if you eat all day, we’re washing all day, and cracky-kong-kong all day.
In my home, we eat only twice a day. In the morning, you eat what you want. It’s all ready, you know like all the things ready. We have muesli and soy milk. And if lucky, we have Chinese (vegan) steamed buns, if somebody went to a Chinese shop. If not, it’s just cold stuff. Or toast; of course, I provide all the toast to every apartment possible. And of course, you have hot water, but... And then you have all the breakfast in your home, in your place where you stay.
The things that you like, you buy. Or you tell the shopper to buy it, and it’s in your home, and you eat what you want in the morning. In the evening, if we have time, we cook for everybody, and you have to eat at that time. And that certain food, it might not be to your liking, you see? And even a little thing like that, it could make you run and go home. Or you can’t have water at night because of the dog(-people). So, you have to be prepared for all that, if you come. Don’t be cheated by your mind, by your stupid ego and karma. I’ll check it out!
(Master.) Yes? (Sorry, I can’t come, but I’ll keep on doing Your job.) Yes, of course! (And do more from my house.) You don’t have to come! (Sorry.) These are “idiots”! They want it the hard way! But whatever you do, if you’re doing for a noble cause, wherever you are, it’s fantastic! You don’t have to be near me. It’s not the condition of love. No! No!
(Master,) Yes? (it’s not that I don’t do any work for You. I mean, I’m also involved in translation for Sinhalese.) I understand. So, you mean if you stay in my house, you can also translate. I understand that. (Yes, it’s just that sometimes… I’m also doing a full-time job, and it’s just that I have to cope with a lot of negativity sometimes, and it’s really very hard. And I mean...) To translate after. (Yes, yes!) OK, I understand! OK, OK! Let’s see, let’s see, alright? Of course, if you do translation, you still can do it in my home. It’s not that you cannot. You can do that. And if you don’t have money, then you can eat with me, it’s fine. If you have money, I’ll make you pay! The rent and the food! No, no. No, it’s not. It’s all free in my home. That is really free then.
But sometimes it’s too free. So, many people come, just stay with me and don’t pay anything, and they save their money in the bank, so in case… you know? In case they don’t want to stay, and then they run home, because they have security at home. They have their house, or they have their apartment already, and they have money in the bank. So, they’re not settled. So, in most of the old times, the people who left home should not have any possessions because of that. So, you were just determined, that’s it. You die there, or you live there. I never request like that, but that sometimes doesn’t help. You have a boyfriend still calling you or emailing you, and you have an apartment there empty, what a pity, or you rent it, so you still have money, and then you go back, “Ah, I’m sorry!” Some people come and want to stay with me forever, but later they say, “Sorry, Master, we have to go back.” “Why?” “I have to because of the rent. I have to go back, collect the rent, and do the tax because of the rental money.” Do you understand me? (Yes.)
All kinds of excuses that the mind makes – even just a bottle of water at night like that! He forsakes the room next to me in order to go to that house. The place is very big, from the guardian house to my house, it’s about 800 meters. (Wow.) But you don’t feel that far. You walk just a few minutes. And everybody has a bicycle, to exercise. So, do you understand? (Yes.) Just one bottle of mineral water, and you’d rather go somewhere, one kilometer away from me, than just to stay in front of my room. I thought everybody would be so happy to stay next to my room. I thought I give them a privilege even, because of being with me, because of being a good boy. But everybody’s looking is different. They look from a different angle. And the karma and the ego are really your enemies. Nobody else is your enemy. Even if a beast eats you up alive and you die, or somebody kills you, they are not your enemies. Your own ego is your enemy. It makes you do all kinds of stupid things. Ego! Ego!
Alright. I’ll see you in a bit. Meanwhile, you can meditate, pray, or go eat, whatever. What time is it? It’s time for meditation or eating or what? (Meditation.) You ate already, right? Time to meditate, right? (Yes.) OK. Come. I’ll go check out who can or not. Who I should suffer for or not. Bring it. Meditate, OK, guys?
Photo Caption: Different Outer Look, Same Inner Essence!
