Sometimes when we take presents from other people who are impure, it also affects us. We may not even know that it affects us, but it’s as if we owe that person or these persons something. We just feel like we’re bound to them, and we don’t know why we can’t get away. It’s sometimes like that, just because we take their presents. I have taught you to try not to receive things when not necessary, and when someone gives you something, try to give something else back, even if it’s your relative. One master in India, he had five hundred disciples. He was an ordinary teacher really, not a very high master, but he could see the future. Now, normally when he went to party, if someone invited him to make offerings, he never took his disciples along. So, one day the disciples couldn’t stand it anymore. They said, “Master, whenever you go to a party, you go alone. We only work and work, but you never give us the same pleasure. If this time you don’t take us along, we will leave you.” So, the master took them that time, and then he always took them along. After that life, the master reincarnated again as a pure monk, of a higher and more famous order. Wherever he went, there were five hundred flamingos always flying behind him. These were the five hundred students from his previous life who could not digest the offering merits from the people because they didn’t have enough blessing, enough purity or enough practicing merit to enjoy this. There are differences between people, not only between Masters and disciples. Therefore, I’ve taught you to be frugal, not to be greedy and exceed your share. Do not spend more than you have. When it’s necessary, you can take and use. When it’s not, try not to. Otherwise, we might get in trouble. Sometimes we might get sick, or get an incurable disease. . -- Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai; Group meditation, Costa Rica, June 2, 1991 (Originally in English)
Posted on: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 07:03:33 +0000
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