Extract Lecture by Master Vi-Kien at the Seminar 3 - Day 1 - Vi-Kien Meditation Center, USA.

1986-05-04

Eventually, one phrase sums it all: The man who dedicates himself to spiritual perfection will attain enlightenment, the woman who dedicates herself to spiritual perfection, will attain enlightenment.

We must cultivate ourselves spiritually! Earthly people lack spiritual cultivation. Thus, The Lord has pity for them, and He has to descend on earth to remind people that they should perfect themselves spiritually.    

What is the purpose of spiritual cultivation?  To cultivate oneself spiritually means to rectify one's weaknesses. Since the children of the Lord descend on earth and use their intelligence to serve their impure goals of rivalries and intransigence, they remain narrow-minded and unable to develop themselves.

They have always refused to use their power of Compassion and Forgiveness. They must know how to love compassionately and forgive, in order to be truly rich and strong. Only then will they be worthy to be called the children of the Lord.

They don't know how to use compassion and forgiveness. They even reject the precious words which remind them of the spiritual path, they do not want to research them, they do not want to learn them, and they do not want to discover their true nature.

In fact, humans are of this kind, they are made for compassion, they are made for forgiveness, but they never utilize these capabilities.

Therefore, they generate unending sufferings for themselves, they learn about spirituality

but they don't understand spirituality, they pretend to perfect themselves but they don't understand spiritual practice, they claim to make progress, but their spiritual heart is not advancing, so how can they achieve their goal?

Therefore, today, you have a dharma, the Vô Vi Esoteric Science and Dharma of Buddha. Thanks to the Vô Vi practice, you have arrived at a purer and lighter state.

At the beginning of the practice, you were very agitated, you dealt with many rivalries and intransigence, today you are less agitated, so you should advance to the next step.

We should disentangle the karma of our heart. Our wants and desires are all agitation. Let's undo them, let's return to our innate serenity to truly enjoy and develop our soul. Only then will we acquire peace in our inner consciousness, and we will be able to influence all spheres.

Earthly people have an obscure mind, but they still want to know who they were in their previous existences, and why are they present on earth?

However, even if you know about all your previous existences, if you do not accept to rectify yourselves, you will keep your bad habits and character, and you will never improve yourselves.

Therefore, I encourage you to dedicate yourselves to spiritual perfection. I was like you before, I also had the same curiosity, exactly like you did. 

We were the same. But today, I have gained experience, I clearly see that we must dedicate ourselves to spiritual perfection, we must disentangle ourselves, only then, we will know about our original roots.

If the World Above lets us know that we are God, how can one believe that one is God? We think that God should be very grand, very magnificent. No, this is not correct!

God humbly told His children, that when His children suffer, He, Their Father, also suffers. The virtue of God is inherent in His children. They are on the same journey.

There is no separation.

God resides in your consciousness, God resides in your breath, He resides in your spiritual heart, in your subtle spiritual consciousness. He is present there. No need to search for Him outside.

If you return to serenity, you will find Him there. He only resides in the palace of serenity.

Because He is the Great Serenity. Even if we are the lowest achievers, we should at least attain serenity in our spiritual practice, in order to be able to welcome Him. If we lack serenity, we won't be able to welcome Him.

In order to attain serenity, we must clean up, we must achieve union and harmony, we must develop ourselves spiritually.

Only then, we will be able to receive the pure light of the Lord. This will occur automatically.