Spoken by the Supreme Master Ching Hai in Ilan, Formosa, August 16, 1988 (Originally in Chinese) MP3-2 We practitioners should train ourselves to become accustomed to any situation whenever we have an opportunity. Otherwise, we won't know what to do when a situation arises. After we train ourselves well, we can handle any situation. Therefore, we should not just care about physical comforts, even if they affect our spiritual practice. We should meditate whenever we can because it is most precious and beneficial. We should not sacrifice our spiritual practice for worldly pleasures; instead, we should sacrifice worldly pleasures for spiritual practice. Only when we are in this human form can we go beyond the three worlds and be liberated from the cycle of life and death, into which countless kinds of sentient beings reincarnate. It takes these sentient beings eons to reincarnate into human beings. Sometimes it takes even longer. We should understand these things, so that we won't be attached to worldly comforts like sleeping, eating, pleasures and all that physical garbage. Back to Contents