Q. Master, how long have human beings been on this earth?

M. Wow! I have to count with my fingers. (Laughter.) Do you know how long? What for do we know how long? It's enough to work everyday! It's been a long, long, long time. Some have reincarnated. Some have been liberated. Some come back again and again. So if you want to count this, it's difficult. You can say, aeons has past.

Q. For what purpose has mankind been created in this life form? Is there any human-like life in another planet in the universe?

M. Yes. There are human lives in other universe, in other planet. And for what purpose? I don't know. That you have to ask the Creator when you go up there. I never ask Him why, cause I don't ask many questions. I am kind of a quiet person. (Master laughs) Okay.

Q. How can we know our purpose, be sure what our purpose is? When others ask, can we help them know their purpose in life? What work are we personally meant to do here?

M. I have mentioned somewhere already that we are here to bless the world and to know our greatness. When we know our greatness, we are one with the whole universal cosmic power. And whoever comes in contact with us also has the blessing from this universal cosmic power. The earth will get more developed as more people like us practice and bless the world quietly with our spiritual merit and wisdom. That's our purpose. Otherwise, what else do you think? Are we here just to eat two or three meals a day, have a few children, and then kaput? That's not the true purpose anyhow! It would not be logical for God to take so much trouble to create us, then put us here for a few decades and let us die in misery, sometimes with cancer, agony, disasters, earthquakes, and so on. This is not logical.

So, the purpose of human life is to know God. Knowing God means knowing our own greatness, knowing the whole cosmic power of which we ourselves are a part. Even when we say a part, it's a whole, you see. For example, if my finger is cut off, then it's only one finger. But when it is attached to my body, it becomes one of the parts of my body, it belongs to my body. Even though I say it's a part of my body, actually it is also the whole of my body. Therefore, we are part of the cosmic power, but we're also the whole, if we are connected again. The little gap in between is reconnected at the time of initiation. We turn inward, we tune inward, we plug in, and then we are whole with the universe. Therefore, we bless anyone who comes around, without having to lay a hand on them or do anything to them. Anyone we sympathize with or share blood lines with, they are saved or are blessed in some form or another. It depends on their karma, and it depends on our love for them.

Q. Why are we born man or woman?

M. Why we are born as man or woman? Because we like it that way. Yeah, the men all like women. No? And the women all like men. No? That's why we have man and woman. It's to fulfill your desire. Okay? As long as you have no more desire for man and woman, you will be born in the land where there is no difference between man and woman. In the Kingdom of God there is no man, no woman. In the Buddhist scriptures it says also that in the western paradise, Amitabha Buddha (an enlightened being) has no men, no women. Okay, but we are happy with it. In this stage we couldn't imagine that. No man, no woman would be boring. No, no it's not boring. I shouldn't have told you this. No? You might not want to go there. Still want to go, to go back home? No man, no woman is okay? We have other happiness, other blissfulness. Yes. Because we do not know other kinds of bliss we think only man and woman can have happiness together. No, no, there are thousands of times more happiness than that. It's just like when we are a baby we can't think of anything better than milk. But when we grow up we have other things, nicer, tastier. We see things differently. We enjoy life in different ways. So to be enlightened is to grow up spiritually. We can see larger, longer distances. We know many more things. We enjoy different kinds of happiness.

Q. Is it possible to be fully divine and fully human at the same time?

M. Yes, a fully divine person is a fully human being. A fully human being is a fully divine person. Now we are only half human. We do things with hesitation, with ego, and do not believe that God arranged everything for our own enjoyment and experience. We separate sins and virtues. We make a big deal out of everything, and accordingly judge ourselves and other people, and accordingly suffer by our own limitation about what God should do.

Actually God is inside of us and we limit Him. We like to enjoy ourselves, but we don't know. We say to ourselves "I shouldn't do that," But why be vegetarian? Simply because the God inside us wants it. It is against our principle of not wanting to be killed. We ourselves do not want to be killed or have our property stolen. Now, if we do those things to other beings, it means that we go against ourselves, and this makes us suffer. You shouldn't beat yourself or starve yourself, for example. It is the same thing with killing. We shouldn't kill, because it is against the principle of life, and it makes us suffer, so we don't do it. It doesn't mean that we limit ourselves that way. It means that we expand our life to all kinds of lives, not just to human beings but also to animals. Our life won't be limited to this body but also extended to all the animals, and all kinds of beings. This will make us great and regain our grandeur.

Q. Master, You say we are all God's children and there is only one God. So why do we have different colors and different races? Every one is not equal, just like You and me.

M. Look at the flowers, you want them only one color? Pink, finish. Is that what you call beauty? Pink, one color, one and only. We have many colors, that's why it's fun, Okay? You like it. That's why you choose to be born in that color. But now you don't understand. Get enlightenment, and then you'll understand why. But you are also right. The question is also correct because the higher dimensions don't have difference, no difference between male and female, no different colors. There is only pure awareness, pure wisdom, not even such a visible form.

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.

Q. Why did a separation take place from God?

M. Yes, I have told you. It is because we are too busy. If someone is talking to you on the telephone, and the telephone keeps ringing, and you are cooking and busy chatting with other people, then that person cannot get in touch with you. Is that right? It's the same thing with God, God is telephoning every day, every minute, and you have no time for Him. You keep Him hanging on the line. That's how the separation takes place. Now if you want to be united with Him again, then take the time. Give Him one tenth of your daily time to communicate with Him. Surely you will get no more separation.

Q. Why were we all separated from the Word, or Nam, or Buddha, or God nature in the beginning?

M. I tell you we have never been separated. We are in there. We have it inside, outside, inside or upside down. We all have God and Buddha nature. It's just that we are too busy. We bind ourselves to worldly obligations and jobs, so we do not know where God is. For example, sometimes you have your glasses in your pocket, your eyeglasses, and then you go around looking for them. Is it not so? Yeah. Similarly like that, if we are too busy we forget many things, or sometimes we are too busy that even our loved ones come and we don't see them. Is it not so? And we have the television on, and then we are too busy. We are thinking of something else so we don't even see what they're acting, or we are talking to the next person and we don't know what the television show is all about. Is it not so? That is the truth. So, when we have God inside and we have no time for Him, then it's no doubt that we don't see Him. That's it! Now I can unite you again with this Word or with God. So, we don't need to ask why, but how to be united again.

Q. Why do we live in a time so full of disharmony and problems? What is mankind's future?

M. Why do we live in this time? Because we choose to live in this time, because we haven't corrected our way of life in the past. But we can correct it from today, and in the future we don't have to live in this kind of disharmonious world anymore. It is still not late, not yet the end of the world. If you believe in the end of the world then correct it quickly today, and then escape it. I have the way. I'll show you. I'll show you at the initiation, how to escape. We escape into the Kingdom of God. We don't need to move our house or move the body. We have a metaphysical way to move out of trouble, and it's very safe, very quick. Any instant, we can move in. I will show you!

Q. From the first being, the vegetable arose, then following, the first animal. They grew up separately. Do You think that one day we will go back to unite to the vegetables and animals in the future?

M. No! No! Our tendency is to go upward, back to the Kingdom of God where we came from in the first place. Yes, when we go upward sometimes we fall down. Maybe so, that we may become an animal again for one, two, three, four lives. But then later we go back up again. There is no union with vegetable life again. We might be, just for a short while, but not back forever in that stage. It is like when we climb up the hill, sometimes we miss our feet and roll down again for a while. But then we climb up again, because we want to go to the top. Okay?

Q. In the world now are five billion humans. Will all of us go back home, be saved one day?

M. Go back home, be saved one day? It will take a long time, take a long time. No one listens to the messenger of God. I mean a very, very few people do. Very few want to go home. They attach to this material world and the enjoyments of this illusion. They don't believe there is anything else besides this.

Q. What is the hope for mankind?

M. Enlightenment, this method. Back to union with God, united with God. Yeah, okay, that's the only hope for us. That's the only hope for us.