Enlightenment is the tool for everything
Georgetown University, Washington D.C. U.S.A. Apr.14, 1993.

Q. My mind is hard to quiet for meditation, it's like a monkey who wants to run and play but not sit quietly. How does your meditation help quiet the mind to realize the true self?

M. I just put the mind to sleep (laughter) by the light and the sound. The music will nurse him to sleep. The light will comfort him, and then he is fast asleep. Only the soul is awakened. But nevertheless, continue with your meditation if you don't want to join us and you will get used to it a little bit more. But the thing is, if you sit in meditation, you use all your effort, concentrate on the breath, on the heart chakra, or whatever chakra, all over chakra, and you get nothing in return; then of course the mind would get bored. He will say, "Hey, what you're doing? You make me sit here for what? I want to see cinema. It's even better than this. I want to go and drink coffee and talk with friends. It's better." You see what I mean? I had a fellow practitioner, she is pretty old, about sixty. Oh, no, fifty something . And before she met me, she had many other masters and they taught her many methods -- continue with the breath, sit in Zen for fifteen hours a day, and all that. Eat one meal. And she said she sat and sat until she can't sit no more and she can get nothing. Therefore she can't bear it. And after she got enlightenment, she said, "Oh, sometimes she sat for four hours." And she was so happy, tremendously happy. Because of her happiness, her whole family of eight members are all happy, and they told me this. Even though they were not initiated. And they tell me how beneficial it is, my work. So they encourage me to continue. The non-initiates.

Q. Why is being a vegetarian so important to enlightenment?

M. It is important to you, hum? You can get enlightenment also without being a vegetarian because I don't require you to be vegetarian before initiation but after only. You get enlightened all the same through the grace of the Master. But we have to keep a loving attitude towards all beings, because they are ourselves. If you eat all your body's members, afterwards you realize you have nothing left, understand, yeah? And also we should not be so sinking into the material taste, but to be emerged in the bliss of heaven. Every being deserves life. Therefore we grant them the happiness of survival.

Q. I believe I could achieve closer relationship to God, if I could erase the idea of God in the sense of being a person. Will Quan Yin help me in this regard?

M. Oh, yes, yes, yes. That is what it is for. We erase completely the separation, the individual self, and then we don't do but God does through us.

Q. I can not believe that intelligence exists on this planet alone. Do you?

M. Yes, true. It doesn't. It does exist in all planets . More or less degree different to the location; it depends on the location. There are some other planets more intelligent than us. There are some other planets less intelligent than us.

Q. How am I to know my mission in life?

M. Oh, I suggest you get enlightened first and then you can see better.

Q. Do you work with the white brotherhood or the universal brotherhood?

M. Yes, I also work with the "black" brotherhood. (Laughter & applause) We don't discriminate. Of course he meant the white brotherhood. It is the title for those enlightened beings who help the whole universe. It was just a joke only. There was no black or white over there. (Master and all laugh.)

Q. When one becomes a Master, will he or she ever have fear, doubt or anger? We call Jesus a Master, however, according to the Bible, Jesus was frightened the night before he was crucified. And before his death, Jesus cried, "Why God deserted me?" Please explain, if Jesus had fear and doubt, how can we have no fear and doubt?

M. Yeah, they probably would have fear and doubt, but that fear and doubt is not deep rooted like us, you understand? If Jesus had no fear of the crucifixion, then his sacrifice was not so great. He had fear, but he accepted, understand? Whereby we have fear and we run away and we try to blame it on others or we try to escape, we try to put that cross on someone else. That is the difference. We might have fear. We might have emotion, but we can withdraw it anytime or we can make use of the fear or emotion to the benefit of other beings. After enlightenment, all the feelings, all the emotions are still there, because we are made to have these in order to use them to understand other brothers and sisters. If you have no feeling, no emotion, how can you understand human beings? How can you help them; understand? But the fears of the Master are different. The fears of the Master sometimes are also affected by the fear of the disciples. He takes the fear from the disciples so the disciples are fearless but the Master will take some degree of that fear. But that is only very shallow and not deep rooted. It's only illusionary. And the Master on one hand has the fear but on the other hand definitely has no fear, you understand what I mean? He knows he has to have fear but he doesn't fear the fear.

Q. What does Quan Yin really mean? Please explain.

M. Quan Yin in our group means the observation of the inner word, inner teaching, inner music, heavenly music.

Q. Can love be truly unconditional? If God loves those who don't sin and loves and forgives those who do, why are we spending our life trying to avoid sin?

M. Because it hurts us, not because it hurts God. Whenever we do something that we know is sinful or not correct, we hurt ourselves. Our conscience will scold us, make us trouble. (Master and all laugh.) Therefore we try to avoid it . God loves all alike. Therefore the sun shines on all. The rain doesn't detest those poor or sick or sinful . It's just we ourselves are responsible for the feeling of separation between us and God if we do something unrighteous. Therefore we should avoid it. Also it is a duty of ourselves when we live within this world. We have interrelationship between each other; we have to keep an orderly society, okay?

Q. The beings that live on other planets or those that come in UFO's, do they share the same fate as human beings, the same vulnerability to suffering, the same need to reach enlightenment?

M. Yes, some, to some degree. But less so, less than our earthly earthians because they are more advanced. They are more close to the Father, they have more light, more wisdom.

Q. Once one becomes initiated, does one need to denounce one's religion?

M. No, no, no. Please not. We say that within initiation, you don't need to change your profession, you don't need to change your way of life, you don't have to change your religion, No problem, don't change anything. Just eat vegetarian, that's all.

Q. Will we meet our beloved pets and animal friends in heaven after our life's journey is over?

M. Yes, if you want them. (Master and all laugh.) If you want them and if you are enlightened, you can take them along . But if you are not, you have no force to bring them. You have no power. You couldn't even bring you yourself to where you want, let alone your pets.

Q. What's the purpose of epidemic diseases such as malaria, AIDS, etc. Are humans interfering with the natural process by trying to find cures for these diseases?

M. You find some of this and other disease will breed itself out. Only when man realizes that he should surrender to God, to the Almighty power which is within ourselves. Only when man realizes that in him there is a great healing power of all diseases and he should rely on that power alone, then all the diseases will cease. All these are warnings, warnings to tell that we should return to God.

Q. How long does it take to become enlightened to reach the highest level or God realization?

M. It depends on you. How diligent you are, how much you want it, and also it depends on the Master. Is the Master powerful enough to take you through these levels of consciousness and lead you to where you want to be?

Q. How many kinds of Samadhi levels are there?

M. Wow... Many, many. There are many levels of consciousness, hence also many levels of samadhi. But the last one is the non-Samadhi Samadhi. It means you carry on working in the world just like an ordinary person, but at the same time, you are always in Samadhi, and that doesn't smell, (Master and all laugh) doesn't give out any odor that you can smell, the person is in Samadhi. That is the highest Samadhi.

Q. Can one separate religions and science successfully and believe in both? I mean by this, can I believe in God and evolution at the same time?

M. Sure, sure, sure. The evolutionary theory supports the spiritual progress of mankind. It is the same; very similar in science and religious theories. The only difference is that sometimes science reaches only a certain height and stops there and religion is further and broader.