The Difference between Prayer and Meditation
Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai, Aukland, New Zealand, April 27, 2000 (Originally in English) Videotape No. 686
Q: Is praying meditation?
M: Yes, it’s a kind of meditation. But praying is only one-way meditation. We talk to God: “Oh God, please do this!” But we don’t hear what Hes says. That’s why it’s one-way. Meditation is two-way communication. We offer our pain, our sorrow, our happiness and our gratitude to God. And Hes in turn lets us know what we should do next. We have communication and we have a connection with God. Praying is just the talk of one person; we don’t hear what God says at all. But in meditation, we hear; we know. Hes guides us. Hes brightens our life with thousands of suns inside. Hes makes us shining, loving, wise, humorous and beautiful, inside and out. That’s the difference.
Spiritual Practice Advances
Our Planet
Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai, Aukland, New Zealand,
April 27, 2000 (Originally in English) Videotape No. 686Q: I sometimes sense the guidance and presence of the ascended Masters. Can they really help humanity from afar?
M: Sure! We’re all one. So if you’re enlightened, they’re affected. Can you imagine if after the Golden Age our planet were all destroyed and not too many people survived. Can you imagine the state of human beings at that time? Everyone was kind of groveling in darkness, and they all affected each other. We do all affect each other. And that’s why we became the way we were, and now that we’ve been practicing and practicing, year after year, our planet’s become better. Don’t you feel it? Don’t you feel we’ve progressed? (Yes.) Yes.
I’m not saying you should come and practice the Quan Yin Method or have the experience of Heaven. Even if you don’t have it, you can feel that our planet now has a different energy. It’s different; happier, more open and very relaxed. And human beings are really different from before, even a few decades ago. Our technologies such as science and everything are just blossoming so fast. It’s very amazing what we’ve discovered lately. Can you imagine? e-mail, and the Internet: Wow, this is incredible! There are so many other things you don’t know about that they’ve already developed as well.
