# Questions et réponses choisies ## On ne peut pas faire l'expérience des visions intérieures sur demande ### Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai, Videoconference with initiates from San Francisco, California, Etats-Unis , August 25, 2002 (Originally in anglais ) Videotape #748 Q: Although I meditate diligently, I’ve only seen the Light once. If I wish to see the Light, then I'm attached to an outcome. But if I don't wish to see the Light, does that mean I won’t progress spiritually? M: No, you can wish to see the Light, but don’t demand it, saying, “I have to see it every day, I have to see it every time,” and so on. You’re doing very fine for a beginner. You're doing wonderfully. So just continue in a relaxed and loving manner. All of us would like to see the Light every day. But we’ve been conditioned not to be able to see God. A lot of people out there believe in God, but if God appeared to them in any form, they’d be startled or wouldn’t believe it or think it was a devil's trick or an illusion. So since our youth, we’ve been conditioned and brainwashed into believing that we can’t see God or that God is something we can never touch. We know God is there, but we believe that no one is able to see Hirm. So, when we meditate now—even though at the time of initiation we got immediate enlightenment, a glimpse of God in the form of Light or Sound or even some physical manifestation in the inner vision so that we can connect with God in the way we expect to—our mind still battles all the time, thinking, “It's not real.” And that’s the reason for our retarded progress. It's not that we aren’t diligent. It’s just that our brain has been too bombarded with fake, false, negative information. So now we have to do more meditation all the time in order to recondition our minds to accept it. And then the believing and non-believing energies won’t contradict each other so we’ll be more relaxed and enjoy visions of God more often. ## Les attentes entravent le progrès spirituel ### Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai, Videoconference with initiates from San Francisco, California, Etats-Unis , August 25, 2002 (Originally in anglais ) Videotape #748 Q: Is there no correlation between our spiritual level and the time we put into spiritual practice? Why don’t I experience the Light and Sound from a high spiritual level after having practiced for eleven years? Dear Master, would You please tell me what my problem is? Please advise me. Thank You, Master. M: I think you’re expecting all the time; that's why. You interfere with your spiritual practice through your intellectual attitude of expectation. For example, “OK, if I meditate for one year, I should go to the first level; if I meditate for two years, I’ll go to the second level; if I meditate for three years, I’ll go to the third level,” etc. It doesn’t work like that. God is not to be dictated to the way the mind wants. Because whatever you're thinking and comparing with right now is the mind working; it’s the working of the illusion of Maya, not the real God. So sometimes because you think too much with your mind, you hinder your own progress. Just be like a child. Don’t calculate too much; don’t do it like a business, like, “OK, I’ve meditated for ten years so I should get this and that.” We’re not in something like an enterprise. We should just do it like a child without expecting anything. The parent will know how to reward us. Relax, and then you’ll enjoy it more. (Applause) We’re so much in the habit of expecting things to go our way that in the family we ask the kids to do this and that according to our liking. And we ask our husband or wife to do this and that according to our opinion. And then we go outside and ask our friends and associates to do this and that according to our ideas. And if we’re supposed to be in a superior position, like a supervisor on the job, or a manager or a boss, then of course we’re used to telling everyone what to do. And that's why we think spiritual practice should go the same way, but it doesn’t. As long as we still work with our brain, calculating and doing things like that, it will never work. So relax, be like a kid; don't look forward to what will happen next; just don't know. And then it will come. (Applause) Kids never know what’s happening next. Their parents arrange everything for them. ## Recherchez d'abord la paix intérieure et la paix dans le monde suivra ### Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai, Videoconference with initiates from San Francisco, California, Etats-Unis , August 25, 2002 (Originally in anglais ) Videotape #748 Q: Master, on one occasion You said that we come here to bless and beautify the world. And on another occasion You mentioned that some of us come to this world to play an evil role for the purpose of knowing God. So my question is, as long as duality exists in this world, how can world peace be achieved? M: I don't know. You ask for world peace. That’s a very difficult question, of course. The people who haven’t been enlightened and who still play evil or ignorant roles are like that. They’re playing that part. And the people who came to enlightenment immediately were born and searched all their lives; and they came to see a Master to get enlightenment. These people, like the Masters and their highly enlightened disciples, came purposely into this life to bless the world. When I say “we,” I’d like to include myself with you and all the other Masters, enlightened beings, high level disciples and less high level disciples just because they aren’t yet very highly enlightened. I don't want to sit here and tell you, “Look, ‘I’ have come here to bless the world, and you’re unholy people,” or anything like that. So when I say we came here to play an evil role, I also include myself. And when I say we came here to bless the world, I also include myself because in the world of God, we’re all one. So if you’ve already become very highly enlightened in this lifetime, it means that maybe you took a vow in Heaven and came down here again for the purpose of blessing the world. So you came and got enlightened quickly, and other people who haven’t fulfilled their purposes yet still continue to wallow in ignorance because their role is not yet finished. Or that’s the vow they wanted to take. And because this world exists for that purpose, maybe world peace isn’t always complete. World peace exists within us, within saintly people all the time—within our group, for example. World peace doesn't have to be complete. World peace can be complete at one time or another, but because of the evolution of humankind, we’ll always have some friction between one group or another. And we’ll sometimes experience the peak of the Golden Age, and sometimes plunge down into a dark age again. This is the process of evolution. We’re reaching world peace by being peaceful within ourselves and within our world, and because of that the world also benefits. And the other people who are still wallowing in ignorance will wake up due to our up-pulling energy. That's how we’re going to have world peace, maybe in the year 3000, maybe in another thousand years. Maybe we’ll have it one day, but then again we don't always have to have it. And even if we don't have complete world peace in every corner, we have world peace in some corners or in part of the world, or in two thirds of the world. And that’s already wonderful, don't you think? (Q: Yes.) It’s better than hell, altogether better than hell. Actually, I’ll tell you the truth: World peace already exists. It’s just that people’s perceptions and concepts are different. For me, world peace exists. For you, world peace exists within you, in your family and your group. But many people in this world perceive it as hell. Q: Yes. So we have to do our own part. M: Yes, we do our own part. We each perceive the outside world differently according to our level. So some people are living in Heaven right now and others are living in hell right now in the same world. Some people have peace of mind in the same world and some people struggle every day with all kinds of negative thoughts in their heads. For these people, even if world peace exists, there are never any peaceful moments. ## Le meilleur moyen de protéger la Terre est l'éveil spirituel de l'humanité ### Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A., March 28, 1993, (Originally in anglais ) Videotape #343 Q: Dearest Master, some meditation practitioners claim they’ve seen a vision of a great disaster in which millions of people are killed. Master, is that real? M: It will be real if many of our world’s residents don’t wake up and make use of our own great saving power inside. It will be real. God has given us a lifesaving power, but most of us don’t use it. Of course, everything that’s been created will be destroyed in the proper time. If we don’t have enough creative power to preserve it or restore it, then it will be destroyed. Just like a house: It could be well-built but if we don’t maintain it, even if we have all the tools, all the paint and all the equipment to repair it, the house will come apart or become damaged by itself. Now, even if this does happen, we still have the emergency exits. But if we don’t know about them or if we don’t use them, of course we’ll be in danger. So I’d like to offer you this opportunity to at least save yourself should it come to that. But how many people hear me? It’s so simple and unconditional. You sit there and relax, just like you’re sleeping, and then all the power, all the knowledge of your past and all the skills of life come to you. It’s so easy, but how many people heed this message and instead keep asking me all the time about the end of the world? We’ll “end” anyhow when we die! So we might just as well save our souls. Then if we want to save the world, we can contribute the supreme power. We have to get it back and use it; otherwise, who else is there to do this? The angels have their world and their duties to do; Jesus is teaching somewhere that’s more advanced than our Earth, and Buddha has gone to the Buddha’s Land to do His things. Only we are here to rescue ourselves. So if you’re afraid of these disasters, get enlightenment. Repair the house, restore our world to a higher moral standard and enlighten our planet more. Then no disaster will befall us. Otherwise, even if I didn’t know anything about the future, I’d say, “Yes, anything could happen.” If the world were becoming so rotten a place that it wasn’t fit to live in, God would take it apart and create a new one. ## Accroître notre trésor spirituel chaque jour, à chaque instant ### Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai, Corée , March 22, 1992 (Originally in anglais ) Videotape #233 Q: In these modern times, we go to work every day and at work it's difficult to meditate. So can we meditate during work? Is there some good method for this? M: Yes; whenever you have time, close your eyes and concentrate on the wisdom eye. That's meditation. Every minute and every second adds to your treasure. You can even meditate when you’re in the bathroom, or when you sit on the train, on the bus, in an airplane, in the park, in your bedroom before you sleep and when you first wake up. Use your free time. Watch less television, spend less time on the telephone, look at fewer newspapers and you’ll have more time. And just do less talking. Sometimes we waste a lot of time drinking and talking nonsense with friends. If we recorded our conversations for a whole day, we’d see how useless they were: “The weather is fine; those clothes are beautiful; that car is the latest fashion.” These are all things that aren’t useful to developing our wisdom. We shouldn’t talk when it's not necessary; we shouldn’t see people when it's not necessary. Then we’ll have more time for our wisdom training, more time to go within and know who we are. ## Etre guéri par Maître est une bénédiction de Dieu ### Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai, Budapest, Hungary, May 24, 1999 (Originally in anglais ) Videotape #652 Q: I'd like to ask whether Master can heal sick people. M: I don’t do anything. I only let God do whatever Hes wants to whomever Hes chooses whenever Hes sees fit. There are people who claim to be healed by me, but the credit is God’s. I’m merely an instrument and God’s blessing flows through me to heal whomever Hes chooses to heal, but it happens. ## Chaque âme détermine son propre chemin ### Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai, Budapest, Hungary, May 24, 1999 (Originally in anglais ) Videotape #652 Q: What does it mean if a small baby dies after several minutes or several hours of life, or if a person is born mentally disabled? M: There are many ways a soul can choose to present itself in this world. God makes arrangements with that soul to do certain things, and we can’t understand them all. For example, in order to reach God a personalized soul sometimes chooses to be disabled. And sometimes to awaken love within the parents, a particular soul chooses to be born and to die shortly afterward. God's arrangements are impossible to explain or to count with our fingers. But everything is for the best with regard to our spiritual development. On ne peut pas faire l'expérience des visions intérieures sur demande | Les attentes entravent le progrès spirituel | Recherchez d'abord la paix intérieure et la paix dans le monde suivra | Le meilleur moyen de protéger la Terre est l'éveil spirituel de l'humanité | Accroître notre trésor spirituel chaque jour, à chaque instant | Etre guéri par Maître est une bénédiction de Dieu | Chaque âme détermine son propre chemin Sommaire