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Q. Why and how are we separated from God?

M. Because we feel the separation. Because we think with the mind, we think we are separated. But never, ever we are separated. If you take the mind away, we are one with God. That's why I told you to meditate and go above this computer in order to be above the water and one with God again. As we always are and always will be and always have been. It's the cup (Master picked up the cup on the table) that separate the water inside and the river water. Even though you just take it from the river but it's inside the cup. And once you break the cup, you know the water is the same. Or you don't worry about the cup, you know, you go outside beyond the cup and you'll always the river water that has just been taken. But that's just an example. The cup has never existed. It's always illusion. And the illusion is the most terrible magic that control the three worlds. Let's why nobody can escape. Let's why I tell you don't bother to learn magic. It's magical enough in this world. Just look at yourself and you'll know what magic is like. All you have to learn is break away the spell, not to learn more garbage from magic.

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Why is there reincarnation? It is because we do not know the real Self and we chase after the container of the Self. Therefore we chase after one to another. For example, the water in the sea is all one. If we happened to put it in a cup, or we put a cup into the sea like this and then we seal it, then the water in the cup is separated from the ocean. But as soon as the cup is broken, it become one with the ocean again. And if the water inside the cup is attached to the container and then after it's broken, it goes to seek another cup. Then it will forever be separated with the ocean. Similarly, our real Self is not contained in this body, never! It's because it's all pervading, and this is just one of the station, one of the things, that contain a little bit of ourselves. Therefore, when we broke this limitation, we will be one with the whole. We don't have to break the body to go out, (Master laughs) there is a way to go out. For example, we don't need to break the cup to free the water in the cup; we can just, you know, where it is leaking or there is a hole somewhere, and so even the cup is still there and the water is still inside, but at the same time the water is in and out all the time and connected with the whole ocean.

Similarly, our cup here, the body, has a hole, and it is blocked. It's made blocked so as to keep the soul, the water of life inside, but we can open it. Similarly some of the cups, you know, are all made like this (Master picked up a cup). but there is a hole in the bottom and then they use a plastic cover to cover it, right? Or sometimes medicine bottle also. We just take a little cap, plastic cap or something, and then we can connect with the content inside. So there is a place where we can be connected with the whole Universe while still keeping this instrument, the body. That is the third eye center, the seat of wisdom, the seat of the soul. If it is opened, by any mean at all, by our own perseverance, power of desire for liberation or through a master, then we will be connected right away with the whole Universe, with the Most High, which is all over the places. The power of the Most High is not only contained in this body but it's in the air right now. It's everywhere. It's in every blade of grass and the leaves of the trees, in all Creation. It is easier to open it if we have an experienced guide, you know, who has already been connected with the whole Universal Power. Then he is very powerful because he doesn't use individual power anymore. He uses the whole Universal Power, because he is already connected. Just like the water in the cup, even though it's still in the cup but it's always connected with the ocean water through the hole; and there is always fresh water coming in and out, even though it is still contained in the cup. Therefore a master, or an enlightened person, is like that. The initiated person is the one who has this connection, has the button open, and the master is the one who realizes the Universal Power.