In the Buddha’s time, there was one man who already killed 999 persons. And he wanted to kill the Buddha to make it a thousand. Because his teacher asked him or something. So the Buddha or the Master doesn’t have to rely on anything because the initiation is inside. There are no words spoken. Only before the initiation, of course, you might have some questions. Or I or my representative monk might teach you that when you sit, you sit like this; and you have to do the gesture mudra, like this. And so on and so forth. So just to say that you can be enlightened alone without a Buddha, without a Master is something almost like impossible. Like you’re polishing a brick hoping to make it into a mirror. No, not at all. No good.
And even if you meet somebody, maybe a monk, a priest, a mullah, a maharaji, and you might think you found the right one, just after initiation – or in the beginning or before – you wake up from your samadhi at the initiation time, and you might see the Master become exhausted. And sometimes, if you have your third eye open or your clairvoyant ability with you, you can see the Master maybe being punished, being beaten up by those negative demons that jump out of your being and other initiates’ at the same time. And maybe the Master can get very sick, either immediately or a little while after, and then He/She needs to recover His/Her spiritual strength. So we really are indebted to all the Masters in the past and present for sacrificing Themselves to the utmost. Some disciples have very heavy karma. But the Master never asks what he did before or how he will repay His/Her Kindness. No, nothing – it’s all unconditional. It’s all Love, Guidance and truly Caring, in God’s Grace. You feel the Love.
If truly it’s a real Master, the moment you meet Them, you will feel something. They lift you up. Even if They just give you a test, like, “OK, close your eyes and recite this Buddha’s Name or your religious Founder’s name,” then you immediately will enter into samadhi, or before – He did not even need to tell you any instruction yet. Because the Master Power is beyond imagination. The stronger the Master, the more He/She can take more souls back to Heaven and make the disciples more comfortable in the physical life until then. Only the lucky ones in the world truly meet a good Master.
I look around, I don’t see a lot. Maybe, maybe. I truly don’t see any Fifth Level Master yet. Maybe I have to look longer and further. But up to date, I’ve been trying to look for one. I didn’t see any. We have many Masters, many Teachers from different lineages and different schools, and very well-established, but I don’t see any at Fifth Level yet. They could give you initiation relying on their past, already- ascended-to-Heavens Master, but they themselves have not reached their own goal, like being on the Fifth Level.
We have from the Astral Level to the House of the Master – it’s called “Real Sachkhand,” meaning Real Abode or Heavens or Real Name or Real Buddha’s Land. At least the Fifth Level, but I could hardly see any Masters. It’s not because they are not monks so they have not attained, they are not in the Fifth Level, or maybe even higher, if possible. But mostly from this Earth, a Master would be lifted up only to the Fifth Level, and only exceptional Ones can go beyond that. But the Fifth Level is incredibly beautiful and wonderful already; you would never want to leave. Even in the Astral Level – many people die temporarily and go to the Astral Level, and they never want to come back here. When they come back here, they keep crying for a long, long time because they feel so miserable and they feel so much longing to go back to where they were temporarily – left their body and went there with the soul. They call it a “near-death experience.”
So in order to be liberated and enlightened, you have to have a living Master. That is definite. Even Bodhidharma had to go all the way to China, bearing all suffering and hardship, even being misunderstood and almost lost His life because they didn’t care about India. They thought, “He’s not Chinese. What is He here for? Or does He want our money, our girls, or whatever He wants?” It was not complete trust in the beginning, until the day He left. There was still some lingering doubt about who He was. But then, He succeeded in teaching five disciples and found one successor before He left China. So that was His purpose. At that time, there was already some lineage of Buddhism in China, and they already had a monk order and all that. But still, maybe there was a lack of a real enlightened Master. So Bodhidharma had to go there to spread it, to infuse some spiritual energy into some of the Chinese monks, disciples, and some outsider disciples or non-disciples, to make China uplifted a little bit further from where it was.
A good, real Master could uplift many people in different countries at the same time, in one lifetime. If those people did not go to seek enlightenment with the Master, His/Her living Master Power/Energy still can infuse in them some of that. And then their level will become higher, and they will maybe come back and meet another Master, or maybe this same Master again, get more fully enlightened, and liberated.
Some people, if they learn the Quan Yin Method, of course, are liberated in one lifetime – but some bad ones or too slow, then maybe not liberated this lifetime, but next life. And some fall so deep, have so much doubt and slander the Master inside, outside, or stole the Master’s technique and teaching, which they are not supposed to disclose to other people, except only in the presence of the Master. But, of course, greed for fame and fortune blinds them, so they just do things because they think it’s so easy to teach people in order to have cash, to have respect, to have cars, to have beautiful clothes, all kinds of stuff.
They’re just being blinded by their own ambition, their own ulterior desire, so they just do things. But they don’t realize this is a great offense in the Universe, and their punishment is beyond horrible, beyond suffering. Oh God, you would never want to be in that situation. Please do not disclose what you learned to anybody, except for that person who comes and would like to have initiation for himself/herself. Don’t try so hard to recruit more disciples for me, make me look like a big and great successful Master – no, don’t. Because the more people come, maybe the more trouble I will have. If these people are not pure at heart and not sincerely longing for initiation to go Home, their real Home, then please don’t. It just makes more karma for me to bear, that’s all.
And also, funny that in Âu Lạc (Vietnam) we say, “Cứu vật vật trả ơn, cứu nhân nhân trả oán,” meaning if you rescue the animal-people, they will repay you with kindness and other help, but if you help humans, they will return badness to you. I just don’t know why. A few of the Aulacese (Vietnamese) refugees – who I worked so hard for, rescued them out of refugee camps and helped them in different ways, directly or indirectly – several of them turned against me even, saying bad things about my teachings, and even stole the way I teach and copied me in every way to be famous. And they don’t know what awaits them in hell, truly. You will not believe it.
If you can believe this world exists, then you should believe that hell exists. And hell is a horrible, cruel, painful place to be. Some hells, it’s just non-stop. We call it “relentless hell.” You stay forever in there and they never let you go. And no matter how much you’ve been beaten or cut or they chop your head off, it comes back again like brand new. Whatever is cut off from you, it will not give you any more benefit.
OK, if I have any other things to tell you, I think I’ll talk more later. It’s no rush. May God bestow upon you all the best. Not necessarily money or possessions, just the best. May you be well. May you be blessed. May you be loved, know it and feel it. Please do meditate well. Thank God, praise God, thank the Master, praise the Master and you will be graced with abundance, physically, emotionally and spiritually. Amen. So long.
Photo Caption: Winter of the Soul Is to Make Reunion With Spring More Rewarding!
