Selected Questions & Answers 問答精選 Spoken by Suma Ching Hai at a group meditation in Hawaii U.S.A. Sep 4, 1994 (Originally in English) Q: Dear Master, do You think that there will ever be a day when we could all just go back home and not have to deal with these earthly issues and matters? A:Oh! definitely, well go home. Q:I mean all of us! A: All of us! No one will be left behind. No second coming for you. (Master and everyone laugh). Unless you want it so badly beause a beautiful woman is left behind or something like that. Because this time is a very bad period for our world and so the Masters power decides that we suffer enough. So, if we just make a little effort, just a little sincerity and the Master will embrace us and disregard everything. Because you cant. (Master sighs) To be honest, you cant meditate in this world. (Master and everyone laugh) You really cant. So whatever we can meditate, or whatever the outcome, truly comes from the grace of the Master, I mean the Master power, I dont mean this person. So anyhow, during the night, the Master will take us to different levels where its safer and better. In the day, we are too busy. Our mind is running against it, the spiritual power, so we have to do it quickly this time. If you keep to the precepts and meditate and do group meditation youll see yourself improve so fast that you could not imagine. When you look back at yourself its like somebody else behind there, yes! Really, and theyll tell you that... the people who experience that. I dont tell this because I know it from books, but its from experience myself and the living examples of your brothers and sisters. Its nice to see your family members (fellow initiates) once a week, no? Its good, but not many people can keep up, but it is very beneficial to them, and if you could not go to group meditation or if you dont want to, for any reason, please meditate at home. And theres no must for anything, its just that its beneficial to you. Whatever I tell you is good for you only. No forbidden items! You keep it, its good for you. Or if you dont keep it, well, youll experience some setbacks or some obstructions and then you know why. Q: Master, I was thinking. Because how you said dont kill sentient beings, does that include pests, bugs, termites and mosquitoes? M: Well, we have to do what we need for the environmental care. But then, we have to pay for that. But they are small bugs. They are not so big, bigger of life, then we meditate for them, and they will be all right. The important thing is not the act of killing. The most important thing is that the violence in your heart that must be terminated, you know what I mean? Some people, they dont kill actually with their hands but they kill with their thoughts. That is more important than even the act of killing. So what we try to minimize is the violence in our heart, the tendency to want to destroy other beings. But if we have to do it for environmental hygiene, we must do it. And pray for these in our meditation. But it is best when we avoid it. Like we keep our place very clean, so that the ants and other insects wont come around. And if you spray around so that they will leave, they will not die. There are some ways to avoid not to kill. You have to take care of that. The less killing, the better, even the small insects! But sometimes they are too harmful for the children and babies, then the mother has to do it. Because after all, human beings... human life is more precious. We dont do it because we are bad or we are malicious. Its just the situation. 清海無上師以英文講於美國夏威夷共修會1994.9.4 問：師父您是否認為會有這麼一天，我們都回去故鄉，不用處理世俗的問題和事情？ 答：噢！當然！我們會回故鄉！ 問：我是說我們全部都回去。 答：我們全部，沒人會留下來！你們不會再來（師父及大眾笑），除非你們很想回來，因為留戀某位美人等等。因為這個時代對我們的世界而言是一個很壞的時期，師父的力量認為我們已受夠苦了，只要我們做些努力，有一點誠心，師父就會不計一切的接受我們，因為你們沒有辦法了（師父嘆氣）。說實話，在這個世界你們無法打坐（師父及大眾笑），你們真的沒辦法！所以不管我們打坐多少或是成果如何，都是師父的恩典。師父指的是師父的力量，而不是這個人。不管如何，在晚上師父都會設法帶我們去不同的境界，這樣更安全、更好。白天我們太忙，思緒到處亂跑，和靈修的力量背道而馳。所以這次我們動作要快一點。如果你們持戒、打坐、而且參加共修，你們會看到自己改變之快超乎想像，當你們回頭看自己時，就好像變了一個人。是！真的如是！那些有體驗的人會告訴你。我告訴你們並非源自書本知識，而是來自親身體驗和你們師兄師姊活生生的實例。每週能看到自己的同修不是很棒嗎？共修很好，但沒有很多人能持續下去。但是共修是很有利益的，如果你們無法參加共修或因為某種緣故不想參加，那麼在家一定要打坐。不是強迫性，而是因為共修對你們真的很有益，我告訴你們只是為你們好，不是強制規定，你們照做的話，會對你們有益，如果你們不那樣做，而碰到一些挫折或障礙，那時你就知道原因了。 問：師父，您說不能殺生，包括不能殺害蟲、白蟻、蚊子嗎？ 答：為了環境清潔，我們必須做該做的事，但是我們也必須清付業障。不過牠們是小蟲，並非大的生命，所以我們為牠們打坐，牠們就會沒問題。重點不是殺生的行為，而是剷除心中暴力的思想，懂嗎？有些人不動手殺，但用意念殺，這甚至比殺的行為還嚴重。所以我們要儘量減少心中的暴力思想，那種想傷害其牠眾生的傾向。但是如果為了環境衛生必須做的話，還是得做，然後打坐為牠們祈禱。但最好避免殺生，保持環境的清潔，螞蟻和其牠的昆蟲就不會來，再噴灑防蟲劑，牠們就會離開，不會死亡。有方法可以避免殺生的，你們要小心，愈少殺生愈好，甚至小昆蟲也不殺。但有時牠們會傷害到小孩子，所以母親必須採取行動，因為人身畢竟比較寶貴，並非我們惡意殺生，而是情況如此。
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