Help. Refresh yourselves. Share. Everybody one is enough. One, refreshing. OK? Refreshing. Don’t be greedy. This is a treat, it’s a “re-treat.” You give the guy… What was that? What does that mean? Give it to the guy inside. He is doing this. Take one. Just one. You took too many! Taking too many will make you gain weight. (Suck in your stomach.) Here. Here. (Master.) (Divide it or else it’ll run out.) Yes. Nice, huh? (Yes, yes.) I had a very good joke. But I forgot already. Really. I did forget. Never mind.
Did you have a good meditation? I mean, (Yes.) it’s not so bad, is it? The way I saw it, it was… sleeping on each other’s shoulder, a lot of togetherness. Except when you’re working, everything else is together. Eating together and drinking together, sleeping together, even. You know, like, in samadhi together. At least you’re very united. Shoulder to shoulder, some of you. And to do Quan Yin (inner Heavenly Sound meditation), it doesn’t mean like this. I don’t know. Some people sit like this, and after a while like this. Where did you learn all these “techniques”? Incredible. It’s amazing how you still are here after all these years.
Any questions? No physical question, no material question, only spiritual questions, and no asking for somebody else like my dog(-person), my cat(-person). Just you yourself, then you’re welcome. Yeah. (If I am not meditating on the [inner Heavenly] Sound.) You don’t speak English? (No.) No? How long have you stayed here? (Not well.) OK. (If I am not meditating on the [inner Heavenly] Sound, but meditating on the [inner Heavenly] Light, sometimes I hear the [inner Heavenly] Sound, is it OK?) Probably not OK. What are you supposed to do? How do you block it? (Just sometimes. Once or twice in a while.) It’s OK. It’s OK. It’s OK. Nothing will happen. It’s OK. It’s supposed to be like that. But you still have to meditate on the (inner Heavenly) Sound.
Next one. (Master, I have a question.) OK. If you want to ask any questions, be prepared. If this guy finishes, you raise your hand. (Master, how to make a decision? Sometimes, when I want to decide on one thing, I pray to the inner Master and… sometimes there’s no answer. But sometimes, I can’t tell if the answer is from my mind or from my inner Master, how do I discern it? Sometimes I just… How to discern whether it’s from my mind or from the inner Master?) I know, I know. But I also don’t know. Besides, it’s your mind and not my mind. You can judge it like this: Is the answer logical in the current situation, does it conform with moral standards, and is it the option that you expected or preferred. Then of course you choose the one most logical. For example, you have a couple of questions, and you have a couple of answers popping up in your mind, then you choose the one you like most. You feel… You have intuition. We all have intuition. You choose what your intuition feels is best. Anyhow, our life is full of adventures. I cannot assure you by saying, “Just choose that one.” Make the choice and see. If it’s not correct, then you’ll know. (OK.) If it’s correct, you’ll know, too. Right? (OK. Thank You, Master.)
Over there first. You wait. No, because it’s near. (Hallo, Master.) Why are you all speaking Chinese? You cannot all speak English? (I’ve been speaking Chinese since childhood.) And I’ve been speaking English since childhood. I don’t understand these. (I don’t speak English well.) OK. Be quick. (When I meditate on the [inner Heavenly] Light, I see a dark spot which seems to be… Yes, in astronomy they call it a black hole, isn’t it? I don’t know. I’m not sure.) Black hole? How can a dark spot become a black hole? (It’s a dark spot. Sometimes there’s [inner Heavenly] Light, other times it’s a dark spot.) Never mind. You continue to look at it. (Thank You.) Continue to look at it. Later it will brighten up. It’ll open up like a door. (Yes, yes. Thank You, Master.)
(I have two questions. First, sometimes, if we practice well, Master will feel more comfortable and easier. But I think during this time, we have a human… like a lazy habit and we accumulate karma in the world, in the environment.) Yeah. (So, Master, can You suggest how do we try to overcome these kinds of things?) Continue meditation. And try your best to minimize the badness in you and maximize the goodness which you know is good according to your conscience and moral understanding. It’s good, then you continue to do it and make it more. And whatever is good for other people and good for you, at least that’s good, easy. And whatever is harmful for other people or even harmful for you, that is bad. So, you try to minimize whatever you think is bad. Whatever negative trace in you, minimize it. Always control yourself like, “Oh, this is no good. I would not do this. I should not, and I won’t.” You use your willpower to control your destiny. You walk on this way all the time; you don’t want to walk that way. The bad way you try to avoid; the good way you try to walk on. That’s how you minimize the karma and also help yourself. Of course, help whoever your Master is. Have to ask Her.
(Second question is very generic. During the [inner Heavenly] Sound meditation, we cover. Sometimes, in this weather, it’s kind of hot.) (Is there any way You suggest to make it better?) Just cover it better. (Cover is better? Yeah, I think so.) What I mean is, in such a well-guarded area where nobody will intrude suddenly, you don’t have to. Just do it when you suspect that somebody might just walk in at any time. That’s all. Like here, you don’t have to. Nobody tells you to cover anything here, did they? No? I didn’t see anybody cover. I just saw them like this. If they covered, how did I see? (I mean it’s protective, to cover somehow.) No. (Is it possible, our Center can find a very thin material cover and) Can, can. (the air can go through, so) Can. (it can get better in the hot weather?) Can, can, can. But don’t make it too transparent. Then you don’t need to cover at all. OK? (Thank You very much. Thank You, Master.) You’re welcome.
(When I’m doing the [inner Heavenly] Light, both sides of the head are very tight and a little bit hurt. Is that right?) Not really. You must do it casually, lovingly. Like you’re missing somebody, and it’s like you love somebody. For example, me, just a lovely person like me. Believe me. (Yes, You are.) Yeah, yeah. Don’t flatter my ego too much. You see, for example… The kids don’t know anything. Also clap. Don’t listen to your parents. You see, when we meditate, people tend to feel very serious, and force themselves too much, and you’re just kind of very tense, and force all the energy to concentrate on your forehead, and that’s why you feel tightness, and also pain sometimes. Should not do that. You see, the way you’re looking at me now, the way you looked at your boyfriend before, or husband, before he married you – after that, you don’t look, I know, but... (Long time ago.) Long time ago. Just remember that time when you looked at him adoringly, without effort, and all the love is pouring in through your eyes; that’s what you should do when you meditate. You imagine waiting for the Master, inner Master to appear, or whatever beautiful Heaven that is going to offer to you, so you just look with the Third Eye like that, just like you look at me with the physical eyes.
(You don’t have to concentrate [very hard].) Don’t, don’t, don’t frown your eyebrows like me, like this is no good. It makes you old even quicker, too. See the way I did? That’s why I get old so quickly. Yeah, relax. (Just try to relax.) You just… Don’t try to relax! Then you don’t relax. “Try to relax.” Just sit. Like this, nothing to do. Oh no, straight, OK. Like this, and then we forget all about the physical eyes and forget about the physical sensation, everything. Just use the Wisdom Eye to look in the front. That’s it. So simple. Even a kid can do it. (It has to be the rightest point or this whole area of the forehead?) Just here, about an inch on top, (Only this spot?) from the eyebrows up here. About that’s that. In front of, in the middle of the forehead here. (I try to…) One inch above. (I try to feel on the area above my eyes.) That’s true. (So, the whole area, not just one spot.) It’s a little bit too big to concentrate. It’s just one point like a needle, (OK.) right in the middle, and look through that. And then you will see a small point of (inner Heavenly) Light, like a needlepoint, or even sometimes small like the chopstick point, or needlepoint. Then just look through that. And then it will enlarge, like open up, and you’ll explore yourself. Not really physically, but then you go through. (OK.)
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