Spoken By Suma Ching Hai To Foreign Practitioners On Jun. 12, 1995, Hsihu Center, Formosa (Originally In English)
Actually, whomever we love and feel very close to, we will be with that person after we die. Even ordinary people will have that experience. For example, when you die, and you don't practice the Quan Yin Method even, and if during life you don't do any bad things so as to agonize your conscience, then after you die you will see your relatives and friends. Those who are good, in good relation with and who are also good like you, may be with you for a short while and then each has to go back into life and finish their mission or fulfill the things that they have not finished or learn something new, accordingly. So, don't worry, if you really like me, we can be together. (Applause) And even if we have to come back again we can come back together, if you want. (Applause) In the late discovery there is a doctor, a psychologist. He wanted to cure a person so he used hypnotism to cure that person of some kind of illness and then accidentally he found out that as he regressed that person into past life, you know, he found out that most of the patients tell him the same thing, like they have regressed into the last life and then they came to the point where they died before and then they run through the tunnel and then they saw the light and then they saw the beams of light, and so on. And then like the judge, not really judging him, just telling him or her what he did wrong in their life and maybe he should correct it and mend their ways next time and things like that; and if they did something wrong in their life it must be a terrible experience like going through hell because they will experience the victim feeling at that time. That's what we call hell. When you are terrorized or agonized by another person that is terrible, so the one who causes such feeling to other people during a lifetime has to experience that victim's feeling after he leaves this life and he can not run away. You know. Those people who sit there, let him see it like in the movies but the feeling is very real. So it depends on how terrible the deeds we have done in this life, as to whether we will experience such a very, very terrible feeling at the time of dying. You're dead after leaving this life. There is always a period of rest in between.
And during this period we experience those agonizing feelings that we have caused to other people, and because this is so terrible and if we have done too much wrong and too many terrible deeds, then our suffering seems like it's going on forever, forever because the time of suffering is always long, and the time of happiness is always short. So during that intermediate period they suffer a lot if they do terrible things in life. That's what we call hell or punishment. And now that doctor found most of his patients, almost all of them, telling him the same thing like that. And even if the people do bad or good deeds they also will see their relatives and friends afterwards, who come and greet them in the same levels. And then after they have finished with their retribution or with their reflection upon what good deeds or bad things they have done in life, they finish with that judgment, their own judgment, really -- nobody judges them even though the three lovely beings sitting there, they just kind of guide them or teach them or are very understanding. It's just we, we judge ourselves because of our feelings, because whatever we do to others will come back to us in the same way, even more magnified; because it's we ourselves who know all that, who know in detail how we did it to other people, so the suffering is manyfold. So after going through all of this suffering or rewarding period between death and the afterlife they come back to this life again, doing something else or doing the same thing if they have not satisfactorily finished before they die. If they have, they learn different new things or they continue with their last preoccupation if they want to.
Mostly after that they will, mostly the relatives and friends, they get together and come back again. They try to arrange that, for example, mother and son come back again and stay together, or husband and wife, sister and brother, and so on, but in different roles, unfortunately or fortunately. That's why you've sometimes heard perhaps mother and son and sometimes as husband and wife even, because there is no such thing as bad things or good things in heaven. Everything is just a learning experience but, by the nature of the experiences there must be good and bad accordingly. Bad experiences give you a bad feeling, and good experiences give you a good feeling; otherwise there can be no experience; if every experience is the same, good or bad, flat, no feeling, no emotion, no suffering, nothing, then there is no distinction between the experiences, and therefore you can not grow by knowledge and knowing that this is bad, it hurts; this is good, it brings happiness. You understand what I mean? There is really no judgment. No pinpoint finger saying, “You bad person, you good person.” It's not like that. Just by the nature of your choice, the wisdom inside you tells you to select what is more beneficial, what is more happy for other people and yourself; and if you don't make a good judgment like that during your life, then you have to experience that the bad thing you have done is really hurtful, so you have to experience the hurtful feeling in order to know next time, don't do that again because that is a bad choice. You see? That's how we learn life after life to have good choices, to have a really wise selection of actions. Therefore reap the reward here and in the afterlife. Um? So if you are doing the good things that I have told you, then surely, we will be together again, because by nature of the experience and the choice, whatever is good will stick together. Things like that. You know what I mean? Okay. And if you make a good choice in this life I'm sure we'll be together. Um? Longer.
If you make a bad choice perhaps we'll have to be separated for some time until you truly realize that is a bad choice and you learn, you are finished with that experience, then you be allowed. And that has been proven, been proven by hypnotism from some of the doctors who have accidently found out this reincarnation stuff which many people do not believe, accept, or understand. Anyhow, for the initiated we don't have to be reincarnated like that and we don't have to rest in between and go through judgment and things like that if we have truly followed the precepts and instruction to try to meditate as best as we can, and try to be as good as we can, and make the right choice all the time, then of course we, even if we have to go through judgment, there is nothing to say, only good things. But we don't have to. The Master will take care of all this. Already it's a different section now. You see what I mean? (Applause) So I just tell you this to let you know that even ordinary people, we'll get together again. So how much more it would be for us the same brothers and sisters of blue blooded lineage. (Master laughs and audience applaud.) We're from noble, noble lineage. We, of course we will stay together.