During your sleep, the Master takes you to places. Sometimes you wake up you remember. (Right.) Or sometimes you wake up in the middle of it and the (inner Heavenly) Light was just gone out from here, and you know you have been somewhere. But sometimes you sleep soundly, and the next morning you forget. But the Master always takes you during your sleep if you concentrate more here. OK? (Thank You.) That’s the time we should go out (Right.) because we’re free. […]
Just yesterday, I had been talking to the Quan Yin messengers, the male and female. And I said, “What happened to all my Occidental residents?” And they said, “Oh! They’ve all gone home.” I said, “What’s wrong?” They said, “No, the mentality is different. They’re not prepared to work hard and go through tests, and they take it easy, and they’re casual, and all that.” I said, “Oh, you have to be patient. They are of course different. They have different karma and different thinking, different background. So, we have to be patient. It is very good of them that they forsake everything and come to us, and want to stay, and want to be trained.” […] It’s not only for working, endurance or anything. Because we have to think of the whole world. Not just individual clashes of personalities, and a little lack of patience and mentality differences here and there.
Of course, the Chinese and the Aulacese (Vietnamese), maybe they work harder. They’re used to more hardship and they endure the rubbing better. They’re used to rubbing shoulders with each other. Shoulders and elbows, they’re used to it. And if I scold a Chinese, she would not run away. For example, like that. She’ll come even more. She likes it. Some Chinese beg me to scold them. Because they think I care. If I scold, it means I care, I love. God! What a weird perception! I tell you. It’s unbelievable. Unbelievable. Because they think also when I scold them, they believe that I cleanse their karma. It might be true, but I don’t like it. I don’t like their dirty karma.
I tell you, yesterday, my hair, sometimes I want to look like you, you all look blond and beautiful, so I get very “envious” and I want to dye my hair blond. But don’t need to, they just put some bleaching or something, highlights. So I wanted the highlights, since my roots had gone black again. So, I called Tong to arrange for highlights, and she called a Chinese, of course. Who else? And the Chinese came up, and she recommended to me all kinds of things, made it so complicated. Whereas, last time I went, they just sat me there and put something, foils in, and then I sat there, and after a while it’s blond. It’s highlighted. And I like that.
And she recommended first have to dye the whole hair because I have gray hair. Dye the whole hair with this color and that color, then put another color on top of it later. And I said, “No, it wasn’t like that.” And then she talked to me in a professional way and recommended this color was better for me. And I said, “Well, like what color?” She said, “Like my color,” her color. Red. It looks like soy sauce diluted in snowflakes. So after she told me a lot of things, I looked at her hair and said, “No, if it’s like your color, forget it! Forget it! Not soy sauce color. I like Chinese food, but not soy sauce on my hair.”
So I kind of scolded her a lot, because she lectured me too long and washed my hair and took the opportunity to touch my head and all that. And then afterward, she didn’t have this, she didn’t have that. And she told me to do this, do that. Oh, I felt like cheated, like I’m being cheated. So, I was so mad. I said,” No. No. You go. Go out. Go out. I don’t want you. Go. Go! Too much trouble.” But she went out and sat in my living room and didn’t leave. I told her to leave. I’ll go out and do it myself. But she didn’t leave, just sat there. And when I came out, [I had] dried my hair already…. She cheated me – washed my hair and all that and then did nothing. And didn’t have this and that…
I said, “You’re professional; you should have had this and that in case. Just one color, the soy sauce color, and that’s all? And you know my other color is not like that; I didn’t want that.” I was so mad. But she didn’t care. She sat there like nothing happened. Yeah. I said, “I told you to get out, you didn’t understand Chinese?” And then she went out and still left all the stuff there, in case. I told her to take all the stuff out, but then she said… I said, “OK then, go alone. No, no. Leave the stuff there.” And then when I went to the shop, just about half an hour, everything done. So fast, and no complication, no explanation, no lecture, nothing. Just did it exactly the way I wanted. And they knew immediately what I wanted.
Don’t you believe it! Don’t you believe the outside people are worse. It’s not true. They (some initiates) complicate things a lot. Oh! Are you still with us? Are you still with us? OK. You can ask her too. Her and her together. Oh, you get in the “worst” company. OK. What else? And then you know what? After that, last night, I came out to see everybody. This “soy sauce hair” girl, she’s everywhere to see me all the time. I said, “I don’t want to see your face everywhere like this.” I scolded her a lot and then she just sticks around. I’m surprised too. I recognized her because of her soy sauce color.
So, that’s what I mean. The Chinese people they’re “incredible;” they take anything. As long as they can go forward and they get what they want, they don’t care what the treatment is. But the Occidental people are different. You’re so used to liberty and freedom – “It’s a constitutional right, human wrong,” and all kinds of things. So you can’t bear too much. That’s why many of the Oriental people practice easier. Probably their endurance is more, or their egos are less. Or they are not so used to an argumentative mind inside, so they sit and quiet down quicker. Not all of them, of course. And not all of you are like that. But this is the weakness each of us have. The Occidental have this weakness; the Oriental have the other weakness. I try to forget them because too many. So I don’t want to list them now. OK.
Next one. Sister here. Where’s the microphone? Can you pass it? You don’t mind a male passing it? Do we have a female to help with that? You help to run around? OK. Good. You stay with the males. Now you talk. (Hi, Master. Thank You for this opportunity. You bless us with Your presence.) Thank you. (I have a question. I’d like to know, how many lives can we go back through meditation? How many lives can we visualize, because for me meditation is more like a visualization? Going out, seeing the [inner Heavenly] Light, being in contact with the universe. How many lives can I visualize?) You can what? (Visualize.) No, you don’t visualize things. You mean the past? (The past or the past life.) Oh, don’t… Don’t bother about that. (No?) Don’t bother about that. But if you go to the Second Level, there’s a library there, and you can look into your past life if you want. But I would not advise it. Don’t bother about it. Just go forward. Don’t go backward. (Oh, OK.) Past life is not important. (Oh, OK. It’s not important to know your past life) No, no. (in order to understand your present?) No, no, it’s not at all. Not important. If it is important to know your past life, God would have let us be born with it.
(OK. I have another question.) No problem. (OK. After we finish meditation, and we go to bed, for example, we’re still like in contact; and after we fall asleep, can we go to different places? Because for me) We can. We can. (it’s like a contact sometimes.) We can, we can, yes. During your sleep, the Master takes you to places. Sometimes you wake up you remember. (Right.) Or sometimes you wake up in the middle of it and the (inner Heavenly) Light was just gone out from here, and you know you have been somewhere. But sometimes you sleep soundly, and the next morning you forget. But the Master always takes you during your sleep if you concentrate more here. OK? (Thank You.) That’s the time we should go out (Right.) because we’re free. But sometimes you sleep with your husband, and he kicks you in the middle of your night and then you wake up. And then (inner Heavenly) Light was still there, all over, and then you know that you have been somewhere and just came back. Like you were yanked out of maybe the Fifth Level or something, in the middle of your experience.
Otherwise, you don’t know.
(Can we be in, for example, a very high level, like with monks and...) With what? (Monks.) Monks, yeah. (...and just have a conversation with the monks and meditate with the monks?) Sure. Can, if those monks are in high level. (Yes. How do we know that?) Well... (In the sleep.) Depends on what they talk about and (What if they don’t talk, just like a mind communication…) the intensity of their light. The intensity of their aura. (The intensity of their aura? And the intensity of the physical?) No. Not the physical. (Not the physical… OK. Thank You.) You’re welcome.
She was a very pure monk. We met each other in Taiwan (Formosa). Fifteen years ago. (Morgan Hill.) Morgan Hill? (In ’89?) In ’89. (Yes. Taiwan [Formosa] was after.) After? (I got initiated in Morgan Hill.) (San Jose.) I see, I see. Oh, oh. No, no, no. The other one. Where is she? (Oh! Gone. Poof!) Gone where? (Left us.) Yeah? (Yes, finally.) Where go … Did you ask where she goes? (Sri Lanka.) Yeah, I’m sure. What I mean is I remember the other one. She was… (Oh, I didn’t know You meant her. She’s already gone from my head.) Yes. She was with me in Taiwan (Formosa) then, not you. (Oh, she initiated with You, yes.) Yes. Yes. Not you. Yes, yes. I get mixed up between those two because they look alike so much! (We two?) Yes. You two? (Yes.) Like sisters. OK. Bye-bye.
Yes? Which one? OK. Since you are there. Wait. (Master, I’m working on a project, a music project. And the people that I work with are much more experienced than me. And some of them are kind of famous.) What? (In another words, the people that I’m working with they are much more experienced than me.) In music? (Yes. I’m just a beginner. And I get very intimidated.) Yes. (And I think they expect me to act very confidently. And I feel like in a way that’s being very insincere to pretend,) Yes, yes, don’t do that. (“I’m so great, and this is so great,” when I really don’t know.) OK. (But they pretend that they’re so great. And that they know everything. And then so there’s like this discrepancy between what’s going on inside me for real and what I’m supposed to present.) You just present the real self. (OK.) Sometimes you’re great also, but you’re humble. You don’t know. And you don’t think you are great. And they are not great, but they think they are great. And they want to show off. So, you just have your self-confidence inside. I think you are great.
You made nice songs before for us. (Yes.) And now you left the medical practice? (Yes. Thank God!) Why? What do you mean “Thank God?” (I started to get very sick from touching people.) Oh, no! It’s not true. (So I’m very happy to be doing this now but I’m nervous.) If you want to be a musician, it’s fine. No problem. But be confident. Because your songs are different from their songs. Anyhow, much better. More pure and elevated. And people, when they hear it, they feel better. That’s the purpose of music. It’s not to be famous, it’s not to be praised, or to be recognized. If people recognize it, it’s fine; if people don’t recognize it, it’s fine – as long as there are some people who understand your music and feel elevated and benefit from it. And that’s all the purpose, that you serve the purpose already.
Don’t worry about their intimidation. You’re great from inside already. Before you’re a musician, before you started, you’re already great. So what’s the problem? (I think the problem is I just… say, if I have to be in front of the microphone or… I get nervous. But maybe I should just say, “Oh! I’m nervous.”) Yes. (Because they’re all very...) Because they’re more practiced, that’s all. I got nervous before, 10 years ago, 15 years ago. And now you get nervous when I sit here. Before, I got nervous when I sat in front of you. You see? Practice makes the master. Don’t worry about it. You’ll get there. (Thank You.) Just hang in there. (OK.)
