So, if you have any questions, if it’s a very deep question, then I’ll answer. If it’s not, it’s just ordinary, like reciting the Five (Holy) Names or how to sit and all that, other disciples can answer you. So, don’t be offended. Now, any questions? Please. You look like a queen when you put that on. It’s African? Yes, yes. Very noble. Most of them wear beautiful clothes. (Yes.) Like queens and kings, or the way they walk. Our ancestors are all very noble. If you really study the way people walk and the way people wear their ancient clothes, their traditional clothes, we’d know definitely that their race has come from Heaven, the first people of their race. All our human being race must have come from Heaven. The way they love color and beautiful clothes and are dignified, the way they handle their body and their movements, it is really noble, graceful.
(You said that when we are meditating, we say the [Five Holy] Names, but can we ask for some guidance. When we are meditating, saying the [Five Holy] Names, or the guidance will be…) Sure. Of course. (We can ask for guidance, it doesn’t matter?) Yes. Of course. You can pray. You can pray, pray to the Almighty Power, the Buddha Power to help you so that your meditation is fruitful, that you keep your path. Yes, no problem. Pray for a while, and then you meditate. When you meditate, you should not pray anymore. That will keep you busy, and not concentrating. But you can pray before or after, thank God or thank Buddha. Anything will do. (OK. Thank You.)
The reason why we have to recite or concentrate is so that our mind is not scattered. And then after a while we concentrate very well and then we will break out of the physical barrier and then we go straight to a higher dimension. Not that prayer or talking, or thinking are forbidden. It’s just that it obstructs our power of concentration. We should not talk nonsense or pray too much because if we concentrate on that gate, just walk through the gate then you walk out. No need to talk or to shout or to say anything. So that’s the way. You want to ask one more question or later?
(I was just initiated today, and I memorized the Five [Holy] Names to recite. But what if I don’t mentally pronounce them…) Oh later, later. Later. (I don’t maybe pronounce it correctly, is that OK?) No. You should say it correctly. You ask again. No problem. You ask the nun again, or anybody can tell you. The ones who correctly pronounce [them], no problem. Most of the time when I’m in America, I speak English. Just today, somehow, I read an Aulacese (Vietnamese) book, and I forget.
Yes, please. Please. Please. (I would like to ask You. When you die and your spirit goes to hell, does it go by itself, with the mind, or…) Or with the spirit alone. (the soul.) The soul, right? (Yes.) Both, both. Both. Because hell is a lower dimension of the Universe in which the soul still carries the memories of the past of their present life into it, meaning their past previous existence. And they still need the mind in hell in order to suffer. And the soul has not been liberated from this finer body. We have this body, but we have other bodies also. This body is a little bit coarse, rough. So, we can see it. It’s made by material that is coarse, so we can see. But other bodies are made by material that looks like non-material, but still it exists, and the fine body still can be subjected to punishment, to pain and sorrow. Maybe sometimes a thousand times more than in the physical body.
The physical body has advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that it shields us from many invisible pressures, invisible harm. It’s like a shield protecting us from the harmful spirits. That’s why many people don’t see the ghosts or the devils or things like that, because we are protected by the physical instrument of the body. Now, after we lose this physical instrument, if our soul has not been liberated from the different levels of bodies, from the different materials, finer bodies, then the soul is still trapped inside. Just less, one less body only. Just like the house has many doors. The prison has about seven, ten doors. If you walk out of one door, it doesn’t mean you’re free. You’re still subjected to any kind of trouble within that camp, within that prison, or outside of that gate but still inside of the prison, still has all kinds of punishment, and even worse.
Therefore, when you lose this physical body you have no more protection from this invisible influence; therefore, hell can punish you. The devil can torment you and there’s no more protection. And then also you can feel the emotion and pain a thousand times more intensively. Because, for example, now you have the physical body, it filters a lot of things. Like filters the bad spirit influences and things like that. But also, it filters the good things. For example, the angels come here, or the Buddha appears here, you don’t know. So there’s an advantage and disadvantage.
But after you leave the physical body, you will see there is no more filtering screen. So, you see other ghosts and other devils or other spirits who will torment you or harass you, or then you can feel the suffering of the living people as well, of your relatives and friends who really love you and cry over you and suffer over you. But you cannot comfort them because you don’t have the physical instrument to work with. But you feel their suffering intensely. Therefore, it’s more suffering for you. You know their mind. You can see their emotions clearer. Before you didn’t know.
For example, you sit in front of me – if I am very sad inside, if I show it then you know. If I don’t show it, you don’t know. But after you leave the physical instrument, you know even if I don’t show it. (Yes.) Because you can see through. So, the suffering you can feel many folds from different directions, different sources. Therefore, I tell you the physical body has an advantage and disadvantage. So, now if we meditate with the method that I teach you after I have helped you to open your own power, then you go above all this physical and invisible bodies. Therefore, you’re free. And you don’t feel the suffering anymore.
Please. (So, that means that if we keep on with our meditation, then we’ll help those relatives?) Yes. (That they’re being helped?) Yes. That’s why when you meditate – one person – five, four, six, seven generations of yours, they know it, they feel it, and they will go to Heaven. (And what happens when no relatives meditate, and they are in hell?) They are in hell? (How do they get out of hell?) If their crime was not so great, they come out immediately at the time of your initiation. If it’s too great, they have to wait a little until I break through the “turtle bureaucracy.” That’s the administrative turtle.
Yes, please. You can ask again, you can ask again. (How many levels must one break through when breaking out of the physical?) Four, four at least. And then you go to the Fifth [Level], and then you become a Master. But meanwhile, if you just get to the Third Level… Beyond the five levels, there are more. Five [levels] is just generally speaking. Within each level there’s hundreds of sub-levels. So, sometimes people say [there’re] many, many, many levels, it’s also true. But we compress it into five. One belongs to the emotion; the other one belongs to the intellect. And the other one belongs to the creative power which creates the whole world and absorbs it in too, that’s the Brahma power.
And another one is nothingness – no good, no bad, no intellect, no feeling. That is what the Buddhists called the empty void, emptiness. But that is not the final. When you empty of everything, you are nothing. You don’t want to be anything. You have to become what we have been. Not just to become nothing. Empty of nothing. No emotion, no desire, no wish, no feeling. That is not Nirvana. Even though Nirvana means desirelessness. Desirelessness doesn’t mean we become like a stone, all empty and blank. So, you have to go through that level of nothingness, and we go back to the level of Mastership, of Buddhahood. But that is the house of the Master only. There are above, other levels. You can go and come as you wish, after you are free.
But after you get through the Third Level, you are already free of karma. Free of karma means you are free of good and bad, you are free of reward and punishment. But that doesn’t make you an any better person. It’s not perfect. You’re free of everything, but then if you do it again, you will commit it again. But maybe you won’t. If you do something, maybe because you’ve reached the Third Level, you have no karma. Maybe. Because you are already fine. Your ego is very, very less. But that doesn’t mean you’re already a perfect person, with knowing everything. To know everything, to do everything without doing, to appear at every place at the same time, to be omnipresent, you have to reach the Fifth Level at least. Understand now? (Yes.)
Because at that time we are one with all things already. That’s why we can be everywhere. That doesn’t mean we have to walk everywhere. But we are one with everything, with every place. We transcend time, space, and all the relatives’ conceptions. That’s why anybody calls us, we are not there, but we are there. We are there, but we’re not there. So, they label, or they title, they praise the Buddha as omnipresent. Thus come, thus gone. It means the Thus Come One – meaning He comes but He doesn’t come, He goes but He doesn’t go. So, kind of like that.
More? Yeah, please, please. Oh, can you wait next time. You talk. No, you talk first. (OK.) It’s OK. Behind, there’s somebody. (Should I be concerned that I didn’t see or hear anything new during initiation?) What do you mean new? You’ve heard it before? Seen it before? (Yes.) Never mind, never mind. It will improve. (Oh OK.) Only if you don’t see anything, you should be concerned. But if you did see, you did hear, that’s fine. Some people, they have not been initiated, but they have a lot of faith in the Master and the Teaching before they come. So, some disciples contacted them. But due to contacting with the disciples and believing in the Master, they already have an enlightenment experience. So, maybe when they finally they come officially for initiation, they don’t see new things because their level is still there. Master already blessed them before they come. So, no need to bless anew. And so your level’s already like this. And you come in, go and go, go, go, go. No need to worry. Some people, at the time of initiation, they have more, better experiences. Just because their level just happens now, it’s the time to turn. Alright. Please. Don’t worry. You’re OK.
