Opening Lecture Vô-Vi Congress “Dragon and Clouds” – 

Oroville, California, 1989

Lecture by Master Vĩ-Kiên

Good Morning  to all my friends,

On the first day of our Vô Vi New Year (Tết Vô Vi), Baby Tám sends you his smile as we rejoice together. It has been a very long year. I have divided my time to be able to visit our Vô Vi friends from all around the world, so that we could exchange our spiritual experiences and learn within a spirit of equality in order to develop our spiritual consciousness. I have gone to many places and I have kept practicing regardless of the difficulties encountered, whether I have money or none, but eventually, destiny has arranged everything smoothly.

I have traveled to many places. Everywhere, people welcome and greet me with joy like a family, and the atmosphere is even warmer than within one’s own family. So, you can clearly see the compassion of our spiritual adepts. What does compassion mean? Compassion is the liveliness of our spiritual consciousness, and it also represents a live Bible on this earth.  

We meet each other within a spirit of equality, equilibrium, love and forgiveness. We all work constructively with each other, everyone loves and respects the other, and this harmonious energy becomes increasingly significant. As a result, it mirrors back the value of a human being. A human is unique and the most special being on this earth.

Humans possess an infinitely subtle nervous system, and they can develop themselves at any place. Therefore, today, we are borrowing this Vo-Vi method in order to maintain the harmony of our nervous system. Why do we need to maintain order? So that we can build the weapon of Compassionate Love and Spiritual Virtue that humanity is yearning for.

Right on this planet earth, innumerable people have implemented a revolution. They wanted to bring peace to people, they wanted to bring people to Heaven. They wanted to transform the earth into a paradise. However, our heart is restless, our heart is filled with rivalries and intransigence, our heart is selfish and arrogant. We want to erase one group and save another one. We want to create one party and kill the other one. Consequently, this will never succeed! You have clearly seen the past images: Burning houses, killings, destroyed tanks. Why can people be so strong? Army tanks are very solid, but they were still burned down. You have clearly seen these images in Communist China, so why can people do it?

When people use weapons against others, they forget the capacities of a human being. With his brain, a human can create all that he wants to create, but a human can also destroy anything that he wants to destroy. This is a clear lesson, and we can see that all things come and go in accordance with the law of birth, maturity, decay, and annihilation. There is a law. But humans are holding this law, no one else! Therefore, when people are too oppressed, they will react and burn down army tanks. When they burned the army tanks, it was unthinkable that they could do it, but they were able to do it.

So, how can a spiritual adept give up his bad character and bad habits? Our bad character and bad habits are even clumsier than an army tank, even clumsier than a missile. How can we burn them, eradicate them, relinquish them? We must use the help of a dharma. The Vo-Vi method that you are currently practicing is a method to release impurities and preserve the pure energy. As you slowly release your impure energy, you will bring in the pure energy. When you breathe in the original energy of the universe, you are burning all the impurities in your spiritual consciousness. Therefore, you will restore your calmness!

Inside yourselves, you harbor an army tank. Inside yourselves, there is a foolish and dictatorial mob. If you accept to utilize the original energy of the universe to burn them, they will be destroyed. Every night, you practice the Cyclical Breathing without Retention. This is the most grandiose revolution of the universe.  If humanity can be aware that this method is truly a way to revolutionize both one’s mind and body, that this method can bring humanity toward world peace, if humans awaken their consciousness and see that we are the universe, and the universe is us, then you will see that it is not difficult to establish a heavenly paradise.

A heavenly paradise is very easy to establish within one’s consciousness. We have spent one night away from our family. We stay here inside the woods. Our means for sleeping and eating are lacking, but in contrast, we can feel the very warm love among people, and we exchange with each other within joy. We find it truly strange, but we feel happy and we accept to stay more days to try to learn what we want to learn.

What do you learn here? Do you learn words? No! You are learning about the True Bible without words. You are staying in a forest; you are breathing the pure energy of the universe. After one night, you can feel the change and you see the neighborly love among your fellow people. We can feel closer to each other. If I would stay in a separate villa, or a large storied house, and I would meet a person in a drab attire like this, I would certainly disdain them. However, at this moment, in this environment, we live within love and harmony, and when I look at my neighbors, we are all brothers and sisters.

Everybody has the same senses (eyes, nose, ears, mouth). We all have the same spiritual consciousness, but the only small difference is whether our consciousness is obscure or lucid. A lucid person will accept harmony, they will accept constructiveness, they will accept to learn. However, a dark-minded person will be full of arrogance, they believe that they are the number one, that they are the only ones capable of governing and teaching others, and  people would never learn without their presence. This is wrong.

When you possess a physical body, you are bringing the divine law on earth. Whatever you do, the law of birth, aging, illness, and death will educate you. Similarly, the law of birth, maturity, decay and annihilation will also educate you. Whether the circumstances are fortunate or miserable, they will lead you slowly toward benevolence and self-awakening. As I have explained earlier, even a tree in the forest must accept to stand at one place to ascend higher. It must maintain the law of births and rebirths in order to guide the thousands of living beings around it.

Today, as human beings, we are able to travel all around the world. We have clearly seen that the human brains are capable of creating all kinds of works. But only if we agree to come together, will we have plenty of prosperity to distribute anywhere we want.  We must be unified, we must have solidarity and combine our efforts, we must work for the common good, for humanity, and not for a particular human race. The human mind will become more and more generous, compassion will abound everywhere each day, and our contributions will become more and more beautiful each day.

The weapon of Compassionate Love and Spiritual Virtue will be used everywhere. In the era of goodness and extreme happiness, we will only use the weapon of Compassionate Love and Spiritual Virtue instead of the deadly weapons. Therefore, in America, if one wounds someone, if one coerces someone of if one oppresses someone, these people will be protected by the law.  The law in America respects human rights 100%. It must always find ways to help people return to their own balance. Today, we are practicing this method to release the impure and preserve the pure energy. We know how to repent ourselves and awaken our consciousness. We know how to restore our own equilibrium. Then, would this society welcome or criticize us? 

If we spend efforts to practice the correct way of releasing the impure and preserving the pure energy, our spiritual consciousness will develop more and more each day. We will harmonize with all spheres, and bring peace and happiness to all places. We do not cause rivalries, but we are bringing a spirit of constructiveness and sincere contributions.

Once you have succeeded on the spiritual path, regardless of where you are going, when you encounter infatuations, you will dissipate these infatuations, when you encounter intransigence, you will eradicate intransigence, and you will be able to bring peace and happiness to everyone.

A human being is very important. If there are one or two agitated people in our group, it will cause restlessness in the whole group. But if we direct our mind toward the World Above, we will clearly see our position and our current path. We are currently progressing and learning in this lifetime. Then, we will continue learning and evolving further. We keep learning infinitely, and we will no longer be threatened by the law of births and rebirths, i.e., the law of reincarnations. We keep learning whether we are dead or alive. We clearly understand this divine law and know that our soul is governing our body, and  our soul is controlling our mind. The human mind has a lot of strength. The human mind enables highly advanced technology, which provides constructive and beautiful means to everyone. However, when we come to this country, what are we lacking?

When you come here, whether young or old, you are not lacking anything. You only lack spiritual cultivation. We do not know who we are? You are present here, but you do not know who you are. Where do you come from and where will you go? You hear me saying:” Whether dead or alive, we keep learning”, but you do not know who you are. Why can’t you see it? Because you lack serenity! You have read all kinds of book, you have studied all the human races, and you can understand thoroughly each race. However, even though you know all about each human race, you do not understand who you are. You truly have a name, but one day, when you are dead, you will realize that your name is ephemeral. Fame is fleeting, my name is not real, and only spiritual perfection is the true path.  

Through the different stages of birth, aging, disease, death and suffering, from youth to maturity, I have kept perfecting my mind in order to advance further, and to release all grief and worries and to rectify my faults. When I look back, who is responsible for causing me worries, grief, and mistakes? Myself! If I don’t take them in, they will not invade my mind. If I accept them, they will invade my mind.

Therefore, the method you are practicing currently is a method to release the impure and preserve the pure energy. You practice the exercise of concentration of spiritual energy to release the impurities in your brains. You do the cyclical breathing without retention to release the impurities in the five internal organs. Consequently, your lucidity will always be in harmony, and you will work constructively for the common good. At that time, you will clearly see your position. You have descended on earth, and you have been governing this microcosm since innumerable lifetimes. However, even though you are the master of this body, you do not know about your soul. Only after you practice a spiritual method to regain your serenity, will you see that you have to come and go.

You have come here within order, and not within agitation. When you descend on earth, your face is happy and fresh. Is there any boy or girl who does not look happy and fresh? People always love an infant whether a boy or a girl, and they love to hold the babies. Eventually, we live till we die, then where do we return? We also return to a place where people are holding us, but now they must carry us instead. 

So, you start with a small void at the beginning, then you return to a greater void. You have learned through the actions and reactions of life. If you are able to resolve many problems on your own, your detachment has already increased. Therefore, at the beginning, people are holding your body, but when you die, they have to carry your body. You come here with a carefree mind, then you will have to leave with a clear detachment.

What should we look for in order to see ourselves? We come from emptiness and we will return to emptiness. However, if we are not courageous, if we are not lucid, we will not understand our path clearly. We will not understand all the laws of the universe. We believe, that in the next lifetime, we will be able to contribute to this planet earth or we will reside somewhere else. The supernatural civilization has restored order in our mind, and we should hold to it and keep going.

Therefore, you have learned through the seminars, you understand the cause  and effect  of a happening. If you mind is able to release your karma of heart and sufferings, if you regain happiness in your enlightened inner consciousness, you will be able to spread this spiritual science elsewhere, and you will able to work constructively wherever you land. However, this is nothing else but the weapon of Compassionate Love and Spiritual Virtue. In all 3 spheres, whether Hell, Earth, or Heaven, we have to use the weapon of Compassionate Love and Spiritual Virtue.

In the future, weapons will be produced only to play with. After a ferocious battle, humans will realize that they do not die. For example, in Vietnam, the population was only 50 million, now we have 80 million, so what causes this jump in birth rates? Because once a soul dies, it will still return on earth.  They will come back, and they will rebuild a new environment, and things will change. Therefore, we often hear that the celestial mechanism cannot be disclosed. 

Ordinary people cannot understand these transformations. What will the increase of 30 million people bring? They will rebuild a new foundation. They will adjust to the new environment and work constructively to ascend higher. Therefore, this is a victory without a war! Many people want to implement a revolution. However, in order to understand this law, people must apply patience and cultivate themselves spiritually. They must practice patience and resignation in order to see the transformations clearly. Why did many Immortals predict that the country of Viet Nam will be happy, that the people of Vietnam will enjoy happiness? From now until the year 1993, the people of Vietnam will have an opportunity for betterment. How can the situation change for the better? However, it will change inexorably.

Ordinary people cannot see it, but when we analyze the matter, we will see it clearly. When the population increases, we will discover people with a modern mind. Those people will accept whatever is new, and they will rebuild within benevolence. Therefore, all the cruelties will transform into a generous opening that will use compassionate love and spiritual virtue in the future.

Therefore, humans should learn about sufferings! When we come here, we are leaving our homeland behind. We have sufficient means for a living, but we are still grieving. We are grieving, because we are separated from our homeland, separated from our loved ones. But we will slowly find our hidden potential behind these sufferings. We endure sufferings, sufferings, sufferings, before discovering that the Buddha is pure and light. We can only save ourselves by finding the Buddha. Only the Buddha is a righteous revolutionary able to change both the mind and body. We discover his eternal and infinite liveliness and we follow his example in order to practice, rectify ourselves and ascend higher. Only then will we bring peace on earth, peace to our community, peace to all families. We clearly see the opportunity to advance and elevate ourselves, and the human soul is eternal. We are no longer worried and suffering, we no longer harbor infatuations and intransigence. Instead, we will cultivate ourselves spiritually to attain calmness, happiness, and we will ascend higher in a clear direction.  

Today, we are in the middle of the woods, but we have understood now. If we do not come here, do the trees still remain alive? They continue to thrive in a natural manner. The law already exists. The trees stay at one place, but they keep thriving. In contrast, we have a spiritual consciousness and we can go to places, but if we destroy whatever belongs to the nature, we will only bring sufferings to ourselves. As spiritual adepts, we will reduce our needs and we like to live in a natural way.  When we live in a natural way, we will attain harmony more easily, and we will also live with the supernatural. The pure air of the universe is helping us. Everyone sitting here today can feel the quietness and naturalness thanks the pure energy. If we do not have the pure air to breathe, we won’t be alive. We won’t be able to hear, we won’t be able to discuss with each other. We won’t have any demands, and we won’t be able to do constructive work. Therefore, our path is very clear. We must start from our spiritual heart. We must march with our own efforts to arrive at a place of purity and lightness. We must destroy the wall of infatuations and intransigence. We must destroy the wall of arrogance. Only then will we have the opportunity to fully enjoy the present atmosphere.

Therefore, the original principle of the universe is a precious jewel for humanity. If one accepts to cultivate one’s serenity in order to return to this original principle, one will truly live in happiness. One never dies, one’s soul is eternal! We have the fortunate opportunity to reside in a human body and to govern a mind to carry out benevolent work instead of deceiving others. We do not store poisons in our mind in order to harm others, we do not use evil schemes.

God has planned everything, but we are foolish and do not understand. When we return to our calmness and serenity, we will see that our path has been planned, and we are just poised and tranquil. We have come to America, just like in a dream. When we were fleeing on small boats, we never thought we would come to America. A country full of freedom, full of human rights, where we have an opportunity to develop ourselves from the social to the spiritual plane. This is a blessing coming from our previous lifetimes of spiritual perfection. Should we take this opportunity in hand? We should implement the discipline in our mind, we must restore order in our spiritual consciousness, and we must bring order in the community where we are living. This is our strength; this is the work of God! We should work tirelessly without stopping and make positive contributions. Heaven on earth comes from our heart! Once we understand this matter, we will easily govern the affairs in our family. WE will easily practice love and forgiveness, and we will clearly see that we all have a mission.

Today is the first day I come here to rejoice with you, and we will enjoy a pure and joyful atmosphere. Everyone will open up, and we will all see our true position. We will open our heart and mind to work constructively for each other. Then in the future, we will certainly have good opportunities to meet again.

I sincerely thank you for your presence today.