Selected Questions and Answers

A True Master Transcends
the Duality of Time and Space

Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai,
Three-day Retreat, Cape Town, South Africa,
November 29, 1999 (Originally in English)
Videotape No. 674

Q: Master, You state in Your book I Have Come to Take You Home that there are two kinds of Masters: those who are always in ecstasy and those who are both in and out of ecstasy at the same time. My question is whether the Master’s consciousness moves back and forth between ecstasy and normal consciousness or whether there’s a duality.

M: It's the same thing at the same time.

Q: That's what I don't understand. Is there a way you can help me with that?

M: Yes. Everything in this world is divided by time and space because of our concept of the duality of things: "There's God; there's me; there's Heaven; there's Earth." It's because we're in the physical body and we're surrounded by the physical illusion that there are things in space -- that you're there and I'm here -- and that there's a past, present and future because of time. But those are the only things that make us believe that we're separate from God. And that's why we can enjoy God again. We create this illusion! So things won't always happen to us at the same time.

For example, you can't eat and blow a harmonica at the same time. And you can't be at a party drinking and sun bathe on the beach at the same time. But nevertheless, in the higher dimensions, things happen simultaneously all the time, but they don't coincide with each other. You can choose to have it all at once, or you can choose to have only one thing. For example, here in this world, I'm here and you're there. Or, you're in Africa and I'm in England. So we're divided by the space between England, the ocean of England, and Africa, with many other countries in between. And if I want to see you or you want to see me, you have to take an airplane or I have to take an airplane or boat to come see you, which takes time. In Heaven, however, even though you're there and I'm here, if I want to see you, you're here instantly! Or I'm there. Because you're there and here at the same time. But we don't crowd each other. We can choose to be with a person, with a thing, with a place or we can choose to feel alone. This is the freedom of the celestial dimensions that we don't have here.

So a true Master is one who masters two worlds. She can be here and there at the same time, doing both jobs at the same time. She can be here and there, and She can be in England and Africa and everywhere at the same time and speak all kinds of different languages in that dimension. In this dimension She might speak English, Aulacese, Chinese and so on. At the same time, anyone in Australia or Germany who prays to or wants to talk to Her -- if that person is highly developed enough -- can converse with the Master in English, German, Swedish or Dutch while the Master is sitting here talking in English -- at the same instant! Because the Master has transcended the difference between time and space. That's how that Master can lead you here and continue to lead you in the life after simultaneously -- or after She's left the physical body, or after you've left the physical body and the Master is still here.

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