Spoken by Supreme
Master Ching Hai
Santimen, Pingtung, Formosa
December 26, 1992 (Originally in English)
You
said the Master knows everything and is omnipresent. But I don't know anything!
The Master knows. 'I' don't have to know. We are doing without doing. If
I have to know everything, I am too busy, because I have to do a thousand
and one jobs at the same time. And you think the mind is capable of flushing
out one thousand and one jobs at the same time to report to the so-called
'me'? I already have no 'me'; we have no 'me'. I told you already that we
are only thoughts. The so-called 'me' is only one thought after another,
all garbage, all habits, and all recorded information. There is no 'me',
actually
'Me'
is the awakened one, the witness, the one who sees everything that we collect
or we react to. There is a chain of action and reaction, and the one who
knows that is the witness. It's not the action or the reaction; it's the
witness. That's the 'We'; that's the 'I'. But then we always mistake the
witness for the event. We are so attached to the event or the taste of all
the things that we know, and then we think that's 'we'. Now 'I' am angry,
now 'I' am happy, now 'I' am not. It's not true! It's just the reaction.
It's not 'me' who is angry; 'I' am witnessing the anger; 'I' am seeing the
drama that is going on. Now it's funny, and now it's miserable, but that
is all, just the action and reaction on the stage.
Therefore, when
we do some work for ourselves, we never think it's a big deal. If you put
some food in your mouth, do you expect any reward? Or when you wash your
body, do you think you are fantastic? (Audience laughs) If you don't wash,
you cannot bear it. If you don't eat, you feel very weak, and you cannot
move. So eating itself is kind of self-rewarding. Bathing itself is kind
of self-rewarding. Similarly, doing any work for the Master, for human beings,
for fellow initiates or non-initiates, these are self-rewarding.
Of course, when
we do work for Master, it means it is for human beings, because the Master
is a human being. He is not a private person; He is a public instrument.
Anyone can use it - you know this already - to do any kind of job, it doesn't
matter how humble or how great. You always let the Master or tell the Master
to do it, and the Master will do it, whether you see it or not. The Master
doesn't always have to report to you about what the Master does. Therefore,
sometimes you know, you see it with your wisdom eye, and sometimes you don't.
Maybe your wisdom eye sleeps. (Audience laughs) Yes, it happens like that!
And then you say, "Master doesn't do anything for me. I never see anything."
When your mother is cleaning, washing and cooking while you are sleeping,
do you know anything? (No!) That doesn't mean the mother doesn't do the
housework. When you see your house is in order, neat and tidy when you wake
up, you know someone has done something. And if no one else is in the house,
it must be the mother!
So
only the Master does everything. Who else is there, who else is with you
except the Supreme Power who does everything for you? And then you think
you meditate, you sit, you eat vegetarian, you keep the precepts, etc. Actually,
it's all the Master who does it. It is the Master who seeks the Master;
it's not you. Who is it that seeks? Is it all the thoughts that are jumping,
one after the next, is that the one who seeks the Master wisdom? No! It's
the wisdom who knows that it is time to recognize itself, to appreciate
its own power. (Audience applauds) You cut off my inspiration! (Audience
laughs) Never mind! I have another one. So if we still think we are doing
something or seeking something, we are wrong. That's why 'we' cannot mix
with the Master. That's why we can not recognize who we are, and who the
Master is. The Master is ourselves.
