We Are Stepping Into The Golden Age
Portland, Oregon, USA. December 4, 1993.

Transmigration is nothing very difficult to understand. For example, we live day to day. Yesterday you wanted to do something and you could not or you didn't finished it. So today, you wake up, you try to finish it or try to find a way to do it again. Anything we have not finished in our life, and at the time of leaving this mundane world we still desire, we want to do it, and we feel very sorry that we have not finished it, then surely this desire is the powerful force that will give us another chance to do it again. So, we will be again and again given the physical instrument to do, to exercise our God-power in this world, to manifest our wisdom into this world until one day we finish our desires, and we are done with all our jobs. Then, we'll go back home.

That is the situation of the people who desire enlightenment. They feel they have nothing more that they want to do in this world. Maybe their mission is finished. It has Just naturally push them into the position or into the state of mind of wanting to go home. They don't know where home is and what that is, but they want to return to the source. That is when people want enlightenment.

Therefore, people say, "When the student is ready, the Master will appear." You can't force enlightenment upon people. Therefore, Jesus couldn't force. Buddha couldn't force it. Not all the people in India were enlightened at the time the Master was alive. Not all the Jewish people were enlightened at the time Jesus was there. So transmigration stops when we feel that we want to go home - nothing in this world interests us anymore.

As long as we still feel interested in something, and we couldn't finish all this in one lifetime, that means we still want to stay in this world. It's just a compelling force that we cannot help. Therefore, enlightened and unenlightened persons are all alike. But the enlightened person lives a better life, smoother, more wisdom. He can do many things with less effort.

Many people ask me, "How can You be a master -You go around the world, lecture, and take care of disciples in different countries, and still paint, compose music, sing songs, make songs, and all that?"

I say, "Why, it's easy. It didn't take much time to paint. A few hours to compose music - I composed twelve songs in four days. No big deal! Write poems and anything. When you're truly inspired and have time, you just do it very fast. To design clothes, this didn't take me ten minutes, no problem."

But before I was a little bit enlightened, everything was difficult. I didn't even have an idea to paint. When I painted in my high school class or somewhere, I can't remember, I liked to paint a horse and it looked like a turkey. (Master and audience laugh.) So, my teacher said don't bother wasting the paint, I'll just give you the mark (laughter), something like that.

Q. Is our subconscious mind a link to infinite intelligence?

M. The subconscious mind is a kind of bridge. It's not the real Self yet. It's a bridge to the infinite intelligence. That is correct.

Q. How do we face problems and suffering in front of us?

M. Whatever we can eliminate, try to eliminate. If we cannot, then pray to God to help us overcome or for that person to overcome the suffering. Get enlightenment, above all. It's easier to digest all this suffering and easier to think of the way to help, when we are enlightened.

Q. Do you believe that God guides us all the way since we were born?

M. Yes, but do we heed Hirm? Do we ever hear Hirm? If we did, many of us wouldn't have run into difficulty, and our world wouldn't have been the way it has been or the way it is now. So, we have to open first our power of understanding. We have to reconnect ourselves with God in order to hear Hirm, to know what Hes wants us to do, to know the correct way.

That's why we offer the connection with God again. That's called enlightenment, finding the Kingdom of God, or whatever you want to name it. We can't just list the whole list of terminologies enlightenment, get back to your Buddha Nature, become Buddha, go back to the Kingdom of God, know yourself, know God, God-realization, self-realization, etc., so we say enlightenment and immediate.

Q. Jesus said He is the only way If He was open-minded, He would have said, "Well, lam the way Buddha is, so too, Krishna."

Audience answers: I just think that Jesus or that "I" they were talking about was omnipresence and omnipotence.

(Master: Yes, yes.) Therefore, it boils down to His love and wisdom. So, Jesus said that "I", meaning "love and wisdom, omnipresence, the God-power" is the way.

M. It's just like, for example, Krishna, said: Love Me alone, and "Me" is capitalized. Follow Me alone. Surrender all unto Me, then your life will become better etceteras. Buddha said the same thing: Follow the Buddha, and don't follow anyone else. He means the real Self, the omnipresent, the Almighty Power which at that time probably manifested mostly in that "electric pole" (means in Buddha Himself). (Master laughs.)

Just like the electric power is brightest in this light at this moment, and all the other lights are a little bit dim. It means, you have to have faith in that electricity, but not necessarily in the light. Because the light was very bright, electricity was most at that time. You go near the light, so you can read, you can see all the things, and recognize yourself in the mirror if you want to make-up, for example. It doesn't mean you have to believe in this light, but in the electricity that houses that light.

So, every living master that houses the power of God, God can use any, anytime because God is not so limited. Hes is not so poor to have only one son. Please! Hes has so many ways and means to bring Hiers children into Hirmself. Don't you think? (A: Yes.)

I wish to send you all the love I can just to help you to open up. But if we do not yet have good affinity, then you can wait. Meanwhile, study the Bible, believe in God, believe in Jesus. It's good for you. Study the Bible doesn't mean you know the words only, but put that into action. For example, the Ten Commandments, we should try to abide by them. That is the good way of a Christian.

Before I got enlightenment, I slept with the Bible every night. I looked at it every time I was in trouble. Without the Bible, I couldn't sleep. Sometimes, I alternated. In the morning, I would read the Buddhist scriptures that comforted me and sometimes lifted me up into some kind of very blissful state. It helped also. If you truly revere the Bible, you deeply believe in it, and study it very sincerely, it helps you immensely.

We are just talking another alternative way should you be interested. If not, please just believe in the Bible and try to keep the Commandments. Put all the loving things that God teaches you into action. That's all.