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Lecture by Master Vi-Kien
Vo-Vi Congress “Compassion and Spiritual Virtue”,
Vancouver, B.C., Canada, 1986
Abandoning our serenity means to abandon our Divine Father.
The power of love and forgiveness is our ultimate power.
Every individual is carrying the heavy burden of their karma on earth. However, today, O brothers and sisters, we have the opportunity to be reunited while being away from our homeland.
We are reunited within a deep love. We are reunited as eternal souls. We have been separated since many previous lifetimes. Today, we are reunited thanks to our sincere heart, we are reunited within joy. We look at each other with joy and happiness, with openness, with the hope that our souls will be liberated. You have accepted to practice meditation. You have accepted to return to your true selves. So, what are you looking for? You are looking for something better than what you currently have. We clearly see that the whole society, all creatures are subject to the actions and reactions of life in order to awaken themselves through trials and tribulations, and bring their souls back to their true knowledge and inherent serenity.
Today, O brothers and sisters, we have achieved awareness. Only spiritual perfection would allow me to pay back my gratitude towards my parents, only spiritual perfection would allow me to know God and the Buddhas. Only spiritual perfection would let me clearly see my original spiritual root, and my potential of serenity.
We have been oppressed a lot in the past in our narrow-minded society, from one government to another, from one humiliation to another, and we don’t know when the people of Viet Nam will be able to be proud again!
But today, we are fortunate to know a path of liberation, which is our soul. Numerous religions have spread their teachings to help us, but we did not yet feel the need to awaken our consciousness. Why? Because we still keep a spirit of fighting, rivalries, stealing, so we forget our true selves and have to endure misfortune.
Today, misfortune has fallen upon us and forced us to return to serenity in order to see ourselves more clearly. We clearly see our infinite capacity. We should be aware that Our Divine Father, The Maitreya Buddha resides within ourselves. They guide us, they embrace us, they are leading us at each minute and second from one situation to another, from one knowledge to another. Today, we have understood clearly. God stays beside us, His presence is permanent within us, and He will never abandon us! In fact, we are the treacherous people. Abandoning our serenity means to abandon our Divine Father.
Our serenity and lucidity are our infinite treasures, but we forget about them. The more we perfect ourselves spiritually, the more we see our foolishness. The more we perfect ourselves spiritually, the more we see our agitation, the more we perfect ourselves spiritually, the more we see that we are still unable to do anything significant. God has worked for us tirelessly, He helps us to develop ourselves positively, He has provided us abundant food and clothing. He has provided us from one technological advancement to another, so that we may develop our consciousness according to our evolution cycle, but we are still forgetting Him, we still don’t know about Him. Therefore, today, we are borrowing this Vô-Vi method to return to serenity. We are detaching ourselves from many agitations that we are clinging to since many lifetimes. Even in this present lifetime, we only have a few short decades to live, but we still hold to our delusion, we forget our true selves, and remain intransigent and infatuated.
Today, we have seen it clearly. We are no longer holding to unnecessary matters. We must abandon what is unnecessary and utilize what is necessary.
I see the contributions of humanity through their abilities. Today, we have a video camera to videotape this event. Isn’t it a technical contribution? Where does it come from? From the human intelligence! Where does this intelligence come from?
With their intelligence, when humans accept to sit down and work together, when they agree to build for the common good, they will create successes and positive contributions everywhere and in every domain. Seeing that we can record our images, our voices, seems like a miracle, but when we examine the matter deeper, this is just an ordinary thing, and it is not the real truth.
Our truth is serenity, which has no image and no physiognomy. We realize that we are truly imageless and faceless, we are currently imprisoned in this physical body filled with actions and reactions. This body is a prison, which governs our soul. Do you see it?
You are tied to your karmic relations on earth, you are still shackled by your family, you want to leave but are unable to do so, you want to liberate yourselves to no avail. Therefore, we must direct our mind toward our soul, we should dedicate ourselves to spiritual perfection to cultivate our serenity, we should repent our mistakes and amend ourselves. Only then will we clearly see our sins from previous lifetimes.
Today, we are a sinful soul on an unfinished journey. We must bear the consequences of our sins, we must accept them, we must practice patience and harmony. When we develop our wise mind, we will enjoy blessings everywhere.
Where do these blessings come from? Where does this equitable return come from? How does God bestow upon us His equitable blessings? Right now, your breath represents the love of God at each minute and second. It circulates through your whole body and it is serving you with full dedication, so that you can see yourselves more clearly.
We clearly see that we are enjoying the riches coming from the tireless work by God, The Lord, the Buddhas, the Immortals, the contributions from humanity, from all the scientists and intellectuals who are serving us. In contrast, we only know how to waste these resources, and do not make any contributions, we do not really offer any services!
If humans truly serve each other selflessly, this earthly world will be at peace immediately! Senseless rivalries will no longer exist! Dark hatred and revenges will no longer exist! We should open our heart and live within the ocean of love of God, the ocean of love of The Lord.
God’s words never change! From now till eons of time, the truth remains the truth, immutable! The divine truth exhorts people to practice love and forgiveness, compassion and spiritual virtue!
But in contrast, we do not know how to love and forgive. We only take advantage of compassion and spiritual virtue. We criticize this and that, we do not keep our serenity in order to learn and advance in accordance with the will of God. God has planned for us to stay a short time on earth, then we must leave. Who dares saying that they will live forever on earth? Even the erudite who have read all the books on earth, even a doctor, do not dare to claim that they will live forever on earth.
A doctor always has medicine within his reach, but he can’t still live forever. Do you see the law of God? Do you see the law of The Lord? When we clearly see this matter, we will accept to be a good human being. We are born as humans, and we must know how to apply compassion and spiritual virtue. Our physical body has been granted by God. It is a supernatural structure, but we never had the time to love it. You have a physical body, but you do not know yet how to truly love it.
If you know how to love it, you must improve it, you must cherish it, you must understand it, you must disperse its darkness, so that it would become lucid. Then, you will see that “All things start from Emptiness.” Being comes from non-being. You are also Emptiness. Your consciousness is Emptiness, it neither follows the right nor the left. You should always go on the middle path in order to develop your soul and advance toward infinity. This is the right path of lightness and purity that God has planned.
We all want to attain soul liberation, but we do not make efforts to liberate ourselves. We want to attain liberation, but we do not practice. We cultivate ourselves spiritually, but we lack practice! Those who perfect themselves spiritually, but are still entangled in intransigence and rivalries are lacking spiritual practice!
Spiritual perfection means that we must cultivate compassion and spiritual virtue! What we understand, we need to propagate to all other people. What we do not understand, we must learn in order to progress further. This is the behavior of a true spiritual adept. This is the right path in order to achieve an infinite spiritual consciousness.
You are no longer being oppressed, and you no longer nurture your narrow-mindedness like before. The more we meditate each day, the more we see our shortcomings. Our compassion should increase, we should love even a blade of grass, even a grain of sand. We step on the sand, but at our moment of death, don’t we need the help of sand to bury our body?
Let’s not disdain the grain of sand. Let’s not think that we are the greatest, let’s not think that we are the best, let’s not think that we are powerful.
We have no power. We do not have the power of fist fight, but in reality, we have the power of compassion and spiritual virtue, the power of love and forgiveness. This is our ultimate power.