OM MANI PADME HUM

There are many who have sought help here hoping to find fulfillment only to find that their pleas have not been attended to and so there were disappointment. But yet they continue to come for they have seen that many others have been more fortunate, have found and received all kinds of help. These people are the ones who are going through great trials and they are practising endurance and patience without realising it. Whether their problems have been solved or not is not of great consequence but they have already benefitted much by way of practice, by way of cultivation, which will bear fruits in time to come. Once they begin to realise that life must be filled with all kinds of problems, they will put their energy towards a more worthwhile method of looking at it. Life must be seen as a whole, not in part.

In life there must be death. Polarities make up the Whole. So in love there must be hate. Is and is not, happiness and sufferings, hopes and disappointment, friend and enemy and so on just as day must be followed by night. Life has been depicted daily in many ways if only one can see and appreciate them. Therefore be aware of each moment of living, be aware of the environment, the behaviours of living beings and you will enter into a new world of understanding. If this is within your grasp you will be able to go deeper into the mysteries of life which will not be so mysterious once you have the wisdom to understand them. Then you will not spend time uselessly in despair or in the search of fulfillment of many desires. Even to seek for happiness, which is a natural act, is not recommended if you are unable to understand that you must also accept unhappiness which is surely to come along, for unhappiness is part and parcel of happiness otherwise the ‘whole’ cannot exist. Therefore to raise hope, you should also expect disappointments. That is why it is so important for you to practise contemplation and to acquire right understanding. That is why the unhappy minds, the greedy minds, must be brought to a proper state of understanding through which one then learns that all that comes with life are entirely of our own doing.

For those who are in a state of suffering, it will not be easy for them to understand such an explanation, but they will, when they see that many others are in a worser state than themselves. That is why there will always be some benefits for those who come here and continue to be here despite their not having their desires fulfilled. As long as real and sincere efforts have been made, some form of fulfillment will be attained and if not healing their physical wounds they will gain with a better understanding towards life, their spiritual nature may therefore begin to unfold out of their physical problems.

Be content with life. Be glad that you are not in a worser condition than so many others. Be happy that you have the realisation that life is but a short journey if you can accept its entirety and that if only liberation from worldly life can be attained, the rewards of an eternal life awaits you. Accepting life in its entirety is to begin to live a life of purity with a developed mind which will lead you to cease all evil actions and to develop good habits which will make you into a worthy and beneficent being. In this state of being you will drop discriminations and you be able to accept the world as it is, for you have understood!

Saturday, 3rd April 1982 (3rd Moon 10th Day)