Spoken
by Supreme Master Ching Hai,
Florida Center, USA, February 15, 1999 (Originally in English)
Q:
Many so-called experts say there will be disturbances during the next
year, social problems, etc., the millennium, computer problems, all
these things are predicted for the next year. I am wondering what preparations
You see that we should make: families, centers, to help our community,
just to be prepared for everything.
M:
Yeah, be prepared to die anytime, that's my advice. [laughter
and applause] Because we die in any millennium, I tell you. [Master
laughs]
Q:
In every Millennium.
M:
Anytime, be prepared. That's right. It could be in the next few days.
It could be the next moment. I am prepared all the time. Disaster may
strike at any time in any area anyhow, in any millennium. For example,
sometimes you are here and the weather forecast is for a storm coming,
or flood coming, then of course, you have to prepare your Noah's Arc
somewhere. Put it in the attic or hang it from the ceiling to feel secure
for your children.
Of
course, you are responsible for their safety, and do your best to bring
them into safety. That's it. Whenever it comes, there is no millennium
as bad as now.
They
have been predicting that for thousands of years. We are supposed to
be dead already according to their predictions [laughter]. Some of the
predictions say our planet is supposed to be kaput already. Finito!
But it goes on, you know. And if it doesn't go on, we have other planets.
We have the inner planet, which is indestructible. Don't concern yourself
much about physical things. All these predictions are concerning the
physical only. There's not much to worry about. Even if we do worry,
even if I know tomorrow is the end of the world, what can we do? You
think we can escape somehow by preparing, or hanging some bottles on
the ceiling or something like that? When God wants to take us away,
or to bring us back to where we belong, we go. But meanwhile, if we
don't know that Hes wants us to go, then we prepare whatever like everyone
else, because what else is there to do?
Q:Thank
You.
M:
The reason why we prepare, I'll tell you why. For example, even though
you are a practitioner, and you believe in God. You say, "Oh! God will
take care of me, and everything." But why? Why let God worry about two
bottles of water and packing rice and some bread for you? These things
you can do yourself. And why do you do it? To have peace of mind. Why
should you sit there and worry about whether you will be safe or not,
whether God will come or not? And why would you let people who depend
on you, like your children or wife worry about whether you have food
to eat, if supposing a flood comes? So that's why you have to be prepared.
You prepare it when the flood comes, prepare some food, put it safe
somewhere, or drive them to safety, things like that. This is a normal
thing to do. So I don't advise people to put away anything, anyway,
or make anything anywhere. And if I do so, it's just because it's at
a specific time to ease their mind. I want them to concentrate more
on the wisdom than on food while they are at it.
If
they already know: "Okay, we have a cave of food somewhere," they meditate
better. That's all. It's not because that can help us. Lots of people
are concerned about the Millennium and the end of the world and all
that. It's okay. As long as we do our spiritual practice and send out
loving energy, the world will still go on splendidly and get better
and better. And if people don't practice well, and there's not enough
good energy, then the world has to go, and that's okay. God will make
another.
Q:Do
You think the reason it hasn't happened is because there are more and
more spiritual practitioners?
M:
That, also. Yes.
Q:
Do You think there are other reasons?
M:
There were many reasons for why it hasn't happened.
Q:
Like so many changes were supposed to happen right now.
M:
Yes, yes. And it's supposed to be true, too. And if it's true, the reason
why it did not happen is because the atmosphere changes, people's consciousness
changes. They fear God, and they pray more, and they go more inside,
they repent, and they go in a more right direction, so the energy changes
into being more positive and uplifting. So it changes. Everything changes.
Because disaster is attracted by bad energy, by a vicious energy, atmosphere.
So
if everyone starts to think good thoughts and pray to God, then the
atmosphere changes. When the atmosphere changes, the disasters, which
are bad energy, have nowhere to hook onto, so they have to pass by or
disappear somewhere else in the vastness of the firmament, or, in the
atmosphere. So if we are happy-go-lucky persons, we attract more luck
and happiness. That's normal. And another reason that it doesn't happen
is because that person probably predicted wrongly. [laughter] Yes. He
kind of had clairvoyance or some astral psychic powers. And what he
saw happening was somewhere else, or was his own illusion. The third
reason is that sometimes he sees these things in the past, or in another
place, not this planet, and he gets it all confused. Since he lives
here, he thinks it's here. Since he lives in this present, he thinks
it's now. But the time in dreams sometimes doesn't coincide with the
time of this reality.
When
he thinks it's coming this year, he calculates it wrongly in the different
dimension. The time is different. And maybe there is no time at all.
So when he comes back, he thinks it's this year. He calculates that
everything is this year, but it's not so. So there are many reasons.
There is no need to bother about all these metaphysical and physical
phenomena. The more we meditate, the more we spread the good news, the
more we feel good. And even if we don't feel good, and we have to go,
then we go. We have to go at the end. We don't stay here forever, whether
we practice or not. 
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