Questions And Answers

The Best Level

u Spoken By Suma Ching Hai To The Foreign Initiates, Hsihu Center, Formosa, July 9, 1995 (Originally In English)

Q: Master, You talk about dreams. Do we have to pay attention to our dreams? M: Yeah, you do, sometimes. If you feel that it is a kind of forewarning, then you take precaution accordingly. If not, just forget it.

Q: If we make some mistakes and we feel guilty in dreams... M: Sometimes whatever you think in the daytime you dream in the night, and that's Okay. Just very normal. Because you didn't wash yourself enough before you sleep by meditation. Also, sometimes you read newspaper or you hear something or you see something bad or hear some previous life experiences that are brought into your dream. So there are various kinds of dreams. The best thing is just you pray to the inner Master power to help you, whatever. If it is a bad dream, it'll protect you. And if it is a last impression from your last life, please help to clean it and meditate more. And if it is a good dream or good luck (Master laughs), wait for the bright future, if it ever comes. We meditate and we minimize a lot of bad things, bad influences for us. And sometimes in the dream we pay off karma, too. Say, for example, last life you killed somebody, and in this life you're supposed to get killed by him. But then because you meditate well and you keep your precepts, and then you are sincere, so the Master power within you will erase the bad effect of that karma and then make you die in the dream, only. Understand? So, many of them are experiences also, just like when you meditate you see visions.

Spoken By Suma Ching Hai To The Foreign Initiates, Hsihu Center, Formosa, July 13, 1995 (Originally In English)

Q: I'm wondering why sometimes it seems like I'd hear the sound appropriate for certain levels, and I'd see things appropriate for certain levels, but it's kind of intense light; I see light, and it would be bright, but it's not really like what Master said.

M: Whatever light it is you just look, alright? I wonder why you, at that moment, you're not in deep samadhi enough, you still wonder "What level am I at" and all that; you know what I mean? Don't wonder anything, just concentrate on that; it will do you lasting benefit. Levels won't help you; change in your heart will. Okay? What for do we need to know the levels, alright? Because actually there is no such thing as levels, you see what I mean? It's just for the mind to understand that, "Okay, I'm getting something." You know that we have such a business mind that the Master has to cut a deal with us, say, "Okay", like business, "you go up here and you have this, you go up there and you have that." But if we really are practitioners, we care for no levels. We just know that we are very sincere and we work for our improvements, so that we become a noble being, a real being. Because we need to be a noble and a real being, very good, loving, compassionate, and wise. That's what we need to be. And the more we work at our homework, the better and quicker we become that being, alright? That's all there is, Okay? Level and position are only for outside people. We have no need to worry about that. Maybe you haven't reached the home you wish to. So no need to rush, you have light better than darkness, Okay? Many people don't have. So it's already comforting to your soul. So these things are helping to encourage us to continue with our practice. It's not a course of pride and competition. And no eagerness to be a president or something like that. (Master laughs.) You will know what level you are at pretty soon, if you really concentrate and devote yourself to the life of practice, alright? And then soon, very, very soon later, you don't care about it, Okay? And that's the best level. You still continue to practice; your heart still very sincere, you still develop in all ways, but you don't care for nothing, not even Buddhahood; that's the best level. It doesn't mean you drop everything together, but you don't mind. You don't mind in which corner God will place you, in what low level God will place you in order to serve the universe, understand?

Aphorisms
u By Suma Ching Hai (Originally In English)

We have to study again and again. Make firm. Start again. Today I failed. I didn't meditate very well. Tomorrow, next day, I'll make more effort. Always try to strive for better will, so that we can progress in spirit. And we'll become a stronger and wiser person in heaven.

We don't learn for the other people to know. We learn so that we know and that we can bless the world silently by our inner glory and inner love.