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The Spirit Catcher: Ko Hsuan   
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Okay. Happy,she is clean. She is clean,very clean. Cleaned all day,four,five times. Cleaned before coming here,with vinegar. Not everybody likes dogs. Come. Too friendly,too friendly. Too friendly. Love people; love people so much. Happy,don't lick everybody. You'll eat different cream,you will get sick. She loves people. She loves people very much. Yes,yes,she is very protective.
 
Okay. How are you?
*Good!
 
 
I have a story to tell you. It's a story about catching ghosts; story about catching ghosts or spirits. Okay,let me tell you a story about catching spirits. Maybe it's not about catching ghosts. I haven't read this story either. I was just reading the title. This may be a Chinese story. There was a person named Ko Hsuan. Have you heard of him?
*No.
 
 
No?Aren't you Chinese?Okay. He studied magical powers with Tso Ji.  So,Ko Hsuan had practiced magical powers to a very advanced level,similar to that of the Monkey King. Do you know those stone statues?People take a piece of stone and carve it into a statue,not of a human but of Buddhas and such,understand?So,Ko Hsuan could make the statues walk like living beings. A walking statue!Very powerful!He could also talk to butterflies. So powerful,so powerful!He could make grasshoppers dance. So powerful!Can you do that?
 
*No.
 
 
I can't either. I don't have time doing these kinds of things. He could plant vegetables even in winter,he could make ice even in summer… Powerful!This is very convenient. If you practice this kind of magical power,you won't starve even during global warming,right?
 
 
It is said that once he went out with his friends and they got thirsty. They saw a well,but they couldn't get the water out. So he pointed at the water with his finger and the water came out of the well,with glasses even!The glasses with well water came into everyone's hand. So powerful!This kind of power is very much needed in our time,right?After digging the cave,we can use this technique,so we don't need to dig a well,or worry about having no water.
 
 
One year,there was a severe drought. The king invited him over and asked him if he could summon the rain.
 
 
Sit down,Happy,sit. Okay?She is too excited now.
She begged me to bring her here. She didn't want to sleep at home. She begged to come here,and then she makes noises like this.
 
No,no,no. Sit down. Sleep.
 
 
Ko Hsuan simply drew something and it started to rain instantly. It means that this person was very powerful,he could do anything,understand?He could summon the wind and the rain,talk to butterflies,and make grasshoppers dance. When he wanted to drink water,water would come to his mouth automatically,and so on. Once,there were many ghosts at a certain place; the place was haunted.
 
 
Of course,ghosts haunt. What else can they do?These ghosts went to an earth god's temple. They took over the temple and bullied the villagers. They made the people send food and offerings to the temple for them to eat every day. The people suffered so much. If there were no offerings for one day,the ghosts would start to haunt and cause trouble for a lot of people; it's because they were ghosts.
 
 
So Ko Hsuan went to the village. He went straight to the temple to take a look at the ghosts. They were all sitting on the beams under the ceiling,quarreling with one other. When they saw Ko Hsuan,they said, 『Where is your offering?Hurry up and put it there for us to enjoy.』But Ko Hsuan didn't respond; he ignored them. Then they used their magical power to blow lots of wind,rain and stones at him; these could almost kill people.
 
 
But finally Ko Hsuan said to them,『If you continue your haunting,I'll lock you up in a gourd. If you don't stop,I'll lock you up in a gourd.』Do you remember that there are also these kinds of stories in the Western world?Some genies or spirits were locked in a lamp. If you rub on the lamp,the genie will come out. If you rub it and open it,the genie will come out and ask you for your wish; he can make your wishes come true.
 
 
But those ghosts didn't listen to Ko Hsuan and continued with their haunting. So he used his magical power to cast a spell and sucked these ghosts into his gourd. People can truly do that. Ko Hsuan took the gourd with the ghosts inside and came out of the temple. The whole village was cheering and praising him. He told them,『I have captured the ghosts,so from today onward,they won't trouble you anymore.』
 
 
Then he drew a talisman and put it on the door of the temple. He also posted talismans in the villagers' homes. 『From now on,no one will dare to come bother you.』How wonderful it would be if we had those kinds of talismans!We could then drive away global warming. This means he had a lot of magical power.
 
 
Another time,he was wandering around a volcano and he saw a mass of dark clouds above a house. He knew that it was a very vicious spirit which was occupying the house. So he turned himself into a farmer and knocked on the door. A scholar came out and opened the door to greet him.
 
 
Then Ko Hsuan told him, 『I'm a farmer. I need someone to help me today to harvest my grains and crops.』Then the scholar said, 『I'm very willing to help you.』Then Ko Hsuan and the scholar left the house together. At a good distance away,he told the scholar, 『There is an evil snake spirit in your house posing as your wife.』Too scary. I'm scared. If he took a snake as his wife,it would be terrible. Oh my God.
 
 
We wouldn't recognize it. If the wife was a vicious snake in disguise,how could we recognize that?It's too scary. Okay. Oh my God. There are more terrifying things to come. He continued, 『This snake,your wife,has already eaten a lot of children in the village.』
 
 
Too horrible!Of course,the scholar didn't believe him. How could his wife be so vicious like this?He didn't believe him. Then Ko Hsuan took the scholar into a very dense forest,and showed him a pit. There was a pit underground which was filled with skulls and bones of children. The scholar was very shocked.
 
 
He said, 『What should I do now?What should I do?』Ko Hsuan told him, 『It's okay. Today,if you can give your wife something to do to occupy her attention…』- meaning to accompany her and to keep her busy so that she wouldn't have time to think - 『then I can catch her.』Okay. So the scholar went into the village and bought a bolt of cloth,as beautiful as what I am wearing. He went home and presented it to his wife.
 
 
Then he said to her, 『This is for you. We can use it to make such and such beautiful things.』He pretended to chat with her about the beautiful clothes. Meanwhile,Ko Hsuan drew a talisman outside - you know what they are like. Then he chanted incantations to catch the spirit of the snake. When the snake realized that she had been trapped,she turned herself into a large python and tried to attack her husband,wanting to swallow him up. It's frightening!
 
 
Okay. Good!Sometimes it's like that. Maybe they are not as bad as this snake,but some people appear as our relatives or friends to hurt us sometimes. That's what I mean. Maybe they are not snakes,but they have the ferocious qualities. Sometimes our enemies or creditors come back to reclaim what you owed them. It's so scary. If it's like this,I'd dare not have a wife. I tell you. What if she turns out to be like this?Why are you so quiet today?Yesterday you laughed so hard,but today you are so quiet,sitting here without moving. Why is that?Why?
 
*We are afraid of ghosts.
 
 
You are afraid of ghost stories. Everyone is nervous. Yes. It's the same when you watch ghost movies,right?You are nervous when you watch those ghost movies,right?Okay,okay. It's fun to be scared occasionally.
 
 
At that time,Ko Hsuan saw that the snake was about to swallow her husband,he quickly threw his magical sword at her and impaled the snake against the wall. Understand?He threw a sword at her and impaled her on the wall. At that time,a very stinky smell came out and suddenly
 
 
many poisonous scorpions and centipedes that bite people crawled out from her body onto the wall. They filled up the room and then suddenly dissolved into a very dark,filthy,and stinky liquid. Then Ko Hsuan drew another talisman to make a fire to burn them up. Then the scholar suddenly started to throw up. He vomited out filthy,brown,dark,stinky liquid. After he vomited it all out,he recovered.
 
 
Then Ko Hsuan told him, 『You were poisoned and controlled by this snake spirit. Luckily,you have a little blessed reward and a spark of kindness in you so I could still save you. If you didn't have this kindness in your heart,you would have become a vampire as well,just like her,the snake.』Then he left and went to a mountain with yellow soil. He dug a cave and lived there to practice spiritually.
 
 
He waited to see if the situation of global warming would get better. He continued to practice spiritually there,making the elixir of immortality. The Chinese stories are always like this: spiritual practice is always about making the elixir of immortality. It never changes. I've never seen any Chinese story in which a spiritual practitioner did not set up an eight-diagram furnace to make the elixir of life. Never. Understand?All of them were cultivating this. The Eight Immortals,the Seven Deities were all making the elixir of life. That's what we heard.
 
 
Maybe it's just a metaphor. Maybe they didn't actually make the physical elixir of life. The elixir of life symbolizes liberation,the eternal liberation,from the cycle of transmigration. Maybe he could live a long life. Who knows?We can go find him and ask him. But if the world is totally destroyed by global warming,perhaps the elixir of life would be useless as well. Even if you take the elixir,where can you live?Where can you live if you live a long time?It would be very painful not to have anything to eat.
 
 
When everyone else is dead,it would be very lonely to live by yourself. At that time,you can't even die even if you want to because you have become immortal. I don't want it. I don't want to take this risk. If we should live,we live. If we should die,we die. Why take the trouble?To live a long life,we should have a good environment,such as enough food,fresh air,beautiful forests,high and magnificent mountains,and pleasant weather.
 
 
Only when everything is very comfortable would we want to live this long,right?(Yes.) If we are not comfortable,why bother?Let's check first whether the world is good or not before we start preparing the elixir of life. Okay?Please be careful. Don't prepare it at random. If you have already done it,don't take it at random,okay?Take your time. Wait until a few years later. It won't be too late to take it a few years later. One winter morning,he went outside to gather dry firewood,
 
 
minerals and roots,herbal roots. He walked barefoot. He also grew long hair,wore simple clothes,which didn't have long sleeves. There was a woodcutter with his two daughters. The two girls saw that he was digging in the snowy ground.
 
 
They didn't know that he had great magical powers. The two little girls didn't know that he was a Taoist who had great magical powers,so they said to each other, 『This old man is so pitiful. He has no shoes and wears such a thin layer of clothes which can hardly keep him warm. We should help him.』They were very kind. So one of the girls made a pair of shoes and the other girl knitted a warm sweater for him.
 
 
After they made a pair of shoes and a sweater,they went to his house. They knocked on his door and said,『Old man,we made a pair of shoes and a sweater to keep you warm.』But they heard no reply,so they opened the door and walked in. They saw an alchemy furnace inside. They didn't know anything about alchemy. It was just a big pot heated over a fire,with smoke coming out. The water was boiling and the smoke kept coming out.
 
 
There was a note lying nearby,which said, 『Thank you for bringing gifts to me.』He knew it already,before they came. Maybe he had already passed away. He wrote, 『If you open the cauldron,you will find two halves of a herbal pill.』He didn't say it was the elixir of life. 『It's my gift to you. Each of you can take one half of it.』
 
 
So they swallowed the pill,thinking it was just tonic. Since it was a gift,they just accepted and ate it. From that day on,the two of them… what happened?They stopped aging. They were not like us,not like me and you,old ladies. They each swallowed half of the pill and they stopped aging from then on. For example,if they were 18years old,they'd keep their youthful look. It's wonderful. I want to find one.
 
 
They lived for a hundred years and still looked very young when they died. When their time came,they passed on,but their faces didn't look old. Also,they found a letter on the table. It was a letter inviting them to Heaven,with his signature. It was then that the two girls realized he was a Taoist who had great magical power. That's the end of the story.
 
This is your bonus for your trip here. You are going home tomorrow,right?Or the day after tomorrow? Are you all leaving tomorrow?(Today.)
 
 
Today. Yes.
*Today.
 
 
You are leaving in a few hours. Are you leaving in happiness?(*Yes.)
You came in happiness and you'll leave in happiness as well. You'll cry and say that you don't want to leave,but if I ask you to stay,you will cry and want to go home.
*We don't want to leave tonight!
*We don't want to leave.
 
 
You don't want to leave. Should I believe you?Okay,okay. I believe you. Some people want to stay,but they can't stay; and some people can stay but they don't want to stay. The world is always like this. But your lovely karma (retribution) is waiting for you at home.
 
 
You have your friendly 『rats,』lovely 『goats,』『tigers,』 『pigs,』etc.,all waiting for you at home. Right?Obedient 『rabbits』and snakes,unlike the snake in our story. Your 『snakes』are lovelier,right?Okay. I wish you good luck. If you run into any trouble,go find Ko Hsuan. Okay?
 
 
 

  • Drugs begins with the ignorance and frustration of the young people of our age,because many of the organizations sometimes have failed in satisfying their spiritual need for the higher meaning of life,more than just material. Because material today,we don't lack. Therefore,they're charmed,they're seduced into taking drugs,because in taking drugs,sometimes they can have hallucinations and feel comforted for a very short time. But little did they realize the very grave consequences after that. Therefore,meditation is the best way to relieve all this suffering of the people when they want to know God,when they want to know happiness inside. Because our happiness through meditation,through the Light and the music of Heaven,is everlasting. And it's always improving and always more and more happiness,and never has any consequences like the drugs. If we can propagate more the meditational benefit,then the drug-effect on people will be less and they will understand where to turn to for a longer-lasting happiness.-

 
 
If you do good deeds, you will have good results, like that scholar. He lived with a snake for such a long time and was poisoned to such a degree that his soul wasn't even aware of it, and yet he was still saved. It's because he had a good heart inside. A part of his heart was good, so he could be saved.
 
 
We humans are like that. I often tell you that we can only rely on our merit. These two daughters of the woodcutter were so kind; they just wanted to help a poor old man. They didn't know he practiced magical power and that he didn't feel cold in the winter or hot in the summer. I told the story already. He could plant vegetables in the snowy winter - meaning the vegetables he planted could survive the winter - because he put his energy into the vegetables and they could survive.
 
 
I don't know if I have such magical power as well, but when I was in Germany, I planted some vegetables and they lived! The peppermint. Do you know that? (Yes.) I planted some at the corner of my house. Snow covered them, but when I brushed off the snow they were still green and alive underneath. They didn't wither. They lived through winters and summers. I remember that.
 
 
But normally, would peppermint live underneath the snow? (*No.) Peppermint. No. But it's strange that they survived!
* It's your magical power.
 
*I didn't practice at that time. I didn't have magical power. I just kept a vegetarian diet. I hadn't looked for an enlightened master yet. I just performed rituals and read the Buddhist scriptures every day. It was truly like this. So whenever I wanted to drink tea at that time, I went outside to pick some peppermint and mixed it with the tea. I drank tea at that time, occasionally. I thought it was normal for peppermint to survive the winter. Now when I think about it,
 
 
I realize that that peppermint did survive the winter. I told you yesterday that you could plant vegetables in winter. I thought everyone could do it. You can't?
*No. They will turn yellow if it snows.
 
 
Really? (*Yes.) No, they survived and looked very good.
*It will grow again in the summer.
 
 
I know. But mine was growing and alive in winter.
*(Normally they can't grow in winter.)
 
 
Sometimes the snow covered part of it, but it was still alive. They all survived unspoiled. It's very cold in Germany. In the winter, sometimes it snows a lot. They never have a winter without snow. Munich has a lot of snow. I also planted some coriander. I piled up the soil and planted coriander. They could also live, not just in summer, but also in cold weather. They still lived. You can try. Try to plant peppermint, maybe it can live.
*Coriander can survive snow.
 
 
What?
* Coriander.
*Coriander can survive snow.
 
 
Yes. When it's cold, it wilts and when the snow melts, it stands up again.
Really? Okay.
*I grow some at home.
 
 
It's great! You can plant like this. Maybe you have magical power, who knows. You just aren't telling us. You look like a Taoist with a white beard and rosy cheeks. He looks like the long-lived Taoists in the paintings, right?
*Yes.
 
 
One with two peaches, right? Where did you put your peaches? Tell us.
*I hid them.
 
 
You hid them. I know. He looks very healthy, very much like those Taoists who lived in the forests, but he lives in Paris, a busy city. We spiritual practitioners can live anywhere, maybe because we have happiness inside. We are happy. Do you live alone, or with kids and wife?
*I live with my wife, a fellow practitioner.
 
 
A sister practitioner. What about your kids?
*They live somewhere else.
 
 
They live away from home. (Yes.)
They have grown up. (Yes.)
They moved out.
*(They all have their own families.)
 
 
Okay. Can you get along with your wife?
*Sometimes yes, sometimes no.
 
 
Sometimes no, but you are still so happy? It's wonderful.
*This way, it's better for my spiritual practice.
 
 
You have tests.
*Yes. One of us has to be tolerant.
 
 
Really? You are right. Sometimes it's very stressful. In this world, there are too many hindrances from the maya, and my assistants are tested severely. They are very pitiful, too. Those who have reached a higher level in spiritual practice have fewer tests, or don't feel the tests, but those who don't practice well are tested very severely.
 
 
It is because I am too close to them, so I can feel it. Even if they don't do anything, I can still feel the pressure. Sometimes I really can't bear it. Sometimes I really can't bear it. I can't tell anyone, but I still have to put up with it. I can't do anything about it anyway. Sometimes the pressure is great. Sometimes the pressure is so great that I am afraid there will be an outbreak of violence. It's not just ordinary pressure. Understand?
 
 
Sometimes, I have to lock my own home very securely - to such extent - because I live by myself with no one protecting me. Just in case something happens, it's safer to lock the door. So you should lock your cave, to avoid that kind of snake which swallows people. Sometimes it's like that. We are someone's relative, friend, or spouse out of a loving romance, and we think it's okay.
 
 
But it's not okay all the time. Sometimes your partner has more bad karma (retribution) than you and you don't know it. That's why things often go wrong and you feel depressed. He or she might not poison you like the snake, but they create an unpleasant atmosphere, which sometimes is also very….
 
Oppressive.
Very oppressing. Sometimes I feel like going out, because I can't bear it, sitting there, for example like that. Sometimes I also have this kind of feeling. Sometimes when their bad karma (retribution) comes out a lot, they create this kind of atmosphere. Fortunately, they practice spiritually and have some control, otherwise…
 
 
That's why the people outside who don't practice spiritually have violence between couples sometimes. Right? Of course, spiritual practitioners have less such violence. Maybe there is still pressure, but it won't break out like that. It's very difficult to practice in this world. There is pressure everywhere. Especially at this time, the maya is causing a lot of trouble, serious trouble.
 
 
When the maya is going to be annihilated, it causes trouble, like that snake. When it realized that it was caught, it turned into a huge python and wanted to swallow the husband. Understand? Fortunately, the Taoist who had magical power was there; otherwise, the husband would have been finished. Even if the snake was caught, it would have been difficult to keep the husband's life.
 
 
It's terrible. I wonder if it's a true story or it's just an allegory? Maybe it symbolizes an enlightened master coming to teach a spiritual practitioner who has some longing for the Truth. Understand? What's wrong with you? You have a problem with your eyes, do you? Your eyes have problems?
*No.
 
 
What's wrong?
*I feel a little sad.
 
 
Is that so? Why?
*You said that sometimes you were very lonely by yourself and felt pressured and suffocated.
 
 
Is it you?
*When you said that, I felt very sad.
 
 
You also felt that way?
*No.
*I can't express well. When I heard it, I felt sad.
*After she heard you say just now that sometimes you were under great pressure and you had to lock yourself in a room, and you had no one to talk to.
 
 
Me? Are you talking about me or you? (You.) You didn't explain clearly. I thought you had some problems. You lock yourself in and you felt lonely. I thought you had problems.
 
 
Yesterday she said she could get along very well with “rats” but today she said she feel sad, so I was a little confused. I was wondering why she said she felt so good yesterday but today she said she was lonely. Then where did the rats go? Now I understand. You are talking about me. This is not the first time. I can get through it. I have to pay a high price as a Master.
 
 
I should know it. I already knew it, so I don't complain. I will get over it. As long as other people are okay, it's fine. It has to be this way so that other people can be better. Otherwise, where would the bad karma (retribution) go? I have to take some. There is a lot of suffering in the world, so it's all right if I suffer a little. I am like everyone else. If I don't suffer this way, I'll suffer another way. Okay?
 
 
So I think the story is a fable. Understand? My situation is not always like this. It only happens when sometimes, the bad karma (retribution) comes, or when people around me are going through the worst karma (retribution), then that kind of atmosphere will emerge and then I also need to protect myself. Of course, I have to protect myself, too; otherwise, who can protect me? If I don't protect myself, who else will? Never mind. I have dogs. Yes. Sometimes, I have to bring two or three dogs with me to the cave.
 
 
Then they understand and behave well. It's not a big deal. There might be some intruders, but my dogs will protect me. Usually, they have their own place to stay, but sometimes I bring them with me because I love them very much, and I want to sleep together with them. I bring them with me to have company and protection. Very long ago, in the era of Kings Yao and Shun, people didn't need to lock their doors. However, for a master, it's safer to lock it, whichever era he is in. Opposition does not only come from outside people, but also from our own people. Understand? Sometimes, demons grab them to go against me.
 
 
So, even though we are practitioners, we need to be prepared, then it will be fine. I think it's a fable. It implies that even though our action, speech, and mind are not pure sometimes, because of the contamination from the world and the influences from the society, our nature is always good. Therefore, enlightened masters still come here and teach us the way to save ourselves. Then we'll cut our bad habits, bad karma (retribution). From then on, we will be fine. It's like that.
 
 
The snake in the story symbolizes the demons, maya, or the negative power. It seems like this. Most of us are controlled by this force of maya, so if we don't practice spiritually, we have no way to escape. In this world, there is much pressure, with or without work, whether you are married or not, and everyone struggles to survive. Sometimes, we just live day by day. When we are busy, we forget a little bit.
 
 
When we are not busy, we think of how much suffering this world has. We cannot bear thinking of animals either. They are so pitiful. People in some places of this world suffer a lot. I think your eyes have some problem. I ask since I have a kind of eye drops that I apply every day. Otherwise, these lights make my eyes very uncomfortable.
*It would be great if the whole world becomes veg. .
 
 
It would be good if the whole world becomes veg. I agree. It's a correct statement. You are so smart, old mama. I think so too. I'm your consultant, so I understand you clearly, but they don't listen to you, and that's the trouble. I'll go out to tell them to listen to your words of wisdom. It's really great! It's so simple like this: just be vegan!
 
 
But they don't. We can get used to not eating meat. Even if we couldn't, when we think of the suffering of the animals, we wouldn't want to eat meat, right? We didn't know it before since we were blind and too busy to think about it. No one told us or reminded us. Now we know it, how can we dare to continue to eat meat, right? (*Yes.)
 
 
We don't want to. Thinking of how much suffering the animals go through, our heart is already broken, let alone eating it, right? (Yes.)
 
 
When I think of the anxiety of the vegetables, I don't dare to eat them. I don't want to eat them. Understand? Not to mention eating meat. I wouldn't eat it even if I wanted to, understand? We have many kinds of foods, why should we eat animals? They are so pitiful.
 
 
Okay, the characters in this story symbolize the positive and negative forces. It must be like this. How can there be that snake? Terrible! But the negative force is truly vicious like this. Even if it doesn't harm people physically, and eats them up, it harms their spirit, right? It is so stressful and so painful. Sometimes it's very hard to practice spiritually, right? (*Yes.)
 
 
There are a lot of obstructions. People who don't practice suffer more, and they don't know whom to talk to, understand? So even if the negative force doesn't eat people up, it still harms their spirit, mind, and emotions. Sometimes the mental pressure makes people suffer as much as physical sufferings. Sometimes it's even worse. Your eyes are not feeling good either?
 
 
Don't rub them too much, or it will get dry. Do we have eye drops here? Probably yes. We must prepare some eye drops in small bottles. If you have dry eyes, go ask for a small bottle of eye drops. You can throw it away after using it Does anyone need it? No. Did you say you are the same age as me?
* Yes, I'm a tiger.
 
 
Really? You look beautiful, really! Perhaps you have a good marriage and a comfortable life. His marriage is sometimes good, sometimes bad, but he also looks good. Is your wife here?
*Yes, she is.
 
 
Where is she? Raise your hand and let me see. Why do you sometimes not get along with him He is such a good husband. Is it because of personality?
*His personality has improved now after practicing with you.
 
 
He was not good before, right?
*Before his mind was a little too “old.”
 
 
He is old already, of course his mind also gets old. Okay, you two have already lived until now. Okay. My parents were like this too. When I saw my father at that time, he was in his seventies already, almost eighty, yet he still clung to my mom to such a degree.
 
 
My mom told me, “Your father doesn't let me go out. If I go somewhere for a few days, he asks, `When are you coming back?'” The older people get, the more they love each other. Strange. After living together for a long time, you become the best of friends. How long have you been married?
*Almost 50 years.
 
 
Fifty years! Then it's a diamond marriage or what?
*It's a golden marriage.
 
 
Golden marriage. (Yes.)
It means the marriage is like gold?
(Yes.)
 
 
It's not a diamond marriage yet?
*A diamond marriage is 60 years.
 
 
Sixty years is… (Diamond.)
Diamond, you're right. So not yet. After ten more years, both of you will become diamonds. Okay, how long have you been married?
*Thirty-three years.
 
 
You're also terrific. Is there anyone else who has been married for 50 years? You too? Fifty years? You have a lot of patience. You deserve a peace award. I tell you, those who have been married for 50, 60 years deserve an award.
 
 
It means that their endurance is like gold. No wonder they call it “golden” or “diamond” marriage. You have to endure to that degree. How can you live with one person for so long? Is it possible? Yes, it is easier. There are only two of you. It's easier to do things and to get used to it. If there are too many people, sometimes it's very tiring. Okay, very good. It's not that the gas will stay above the ground. The soil can absorb the gas.
 
 
Without the soil and the ocean absorbing the toxic gases, we would have been dead long ago. Our world would have been ruined a long time ago. There are a lot of toxic gases from atomic bombs, carbon emissions, vehicle emissions, understand? There are also the toxic agricultural chemicals applied to the soil. The more of those that are used while plowing the farmlands, the more the soil is damaged.
 
 
These chemical fertilizers, which have no nutrients and are unnatural, damage the soil. So our world has too many toxic gases and toxic substances. What we eat is not very nutritious or clean. It is not very beneficial to our body. Even vegetables have toxic substances in them. Even the water we drink has toxic substances in it as well. Many toxins, carbon emissions or animal manures contaminate the water.
 
 
They seep through the soil and then contaminate the water. They slowly seep into water, which we later drink. Because the water is too toxic and unclean, many chemicals are used for detoxification, and this adds even more chemicals. That's why humans' long lifespan is increasingly rare, and there are more and more wards and hospitals. The more meat, food and drinks, the more sick people there are. We are really very pitiful, I'm telling you. We are not only oppressed by maya, but we can't even maintain our body well, which is the equipment for our spiritual practice.
 
 
We don't ruin it intentionally, but it just happens like that. Everything around us is hurting our body. I wonder when the worldly people will awaken? If they don't, even if there is no global warming, slowly our life will get worse and our body will become weaker, understand? We get sick from eating the unhealthy foods and drinking the toxic water which contains many chemicals. Then we get sick and go to hospitals more often. We then take more medicines, antibiotics and chemicals. We are too busy to save ourselves, understand? We cannot fight it. You are better off because of spiritual practice, right?
 
 
We have the spiritual power within to protect us a little. Outside people go to hospitals often. Understand? The more they eat, the more often they go to hospitals. They are so pitiful. So you have to rely on your merits. Otherwise, this world offers us nothing good. Everything is harmful to us, physically and mentally. If you are not well physically, how can you be well mentally? If you feel drowsy all the time, you cannot concentrate on your spiritual practice, and all day long you are controlled by the system that requires you to work eight to ten hours a day. Otherwise, you won't be able to earn your living.
 
 
Then you get too tired after work. You have to eat the food even though it's toxic because you are hungry. If you don't eat, you'll die immediately. If you eat, you'll die slowly. We really have no choice. Humans are so pitiful. We drag the animals into this system as well. They are very, very pitiful. Therefore, if married couples fight with each other, or if the mother-child relationship is not good, it's not necessarily because of karma (retribution).
 
 
It might be the toxins making people crazy. Those foods make people mentally unhealthy. Being sick is truly like this. It's so pitiful. You'll be fine if you protect yourself more. Okay? There is no other way besides more spiritual practice. I can't tell you other things. Truly, there is no other choice, unless the whole world stops harming the Earth and adopts the natural way of farming. Then the Earth will recover and become better and better. The trees will grow back. If we stop contaminating the soil, it will recover by itself. Then, as we gain more merits, the atmosphere of the Earth will become happier.
 
 
Everyone continue to meditate. I'm going back to my house. Okay?
*Okay.
 
 
So many candies and cookies. Who should I give them to?
Yes, the elderly.
*Thank you, Master.
* Thank you, Master.
*Thank you. Thank you, Master.
 
 
We have different blessed rewards. Some have the blessed reward of wealth, some have the blessed reward of marriage, some have the blessed reward of spiritual practice.
*Thank you, Master.
 
 
Have a good trip. Go home safe.
*Thank you, Master. Please take care of yourself, Master.
 
 
Take care!
*Thank you, Master. Take care, Master. Wishing Master everlasting beauty.
 
 
I am fit and healthy.
*Master, we love you always.
 
 
Thank you.
*I wish Master everlasting health.
*See you, Master.
 
 


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