There's nothing worth dying for. Nothing! God doesn't give birth to you so that you have to die for something. Except to find God, there is nothing really worth dying for. People should be given hope, inspiration to live, not to die. Remember in one of my poems, I said that I don't ever want to grow up to be a hero, to keep the war and die? It's not my job, is it? It's nobody's job. You're not born to grow up just to keep a war and then die for it. Isn't that ridiculous? We should never have a war anyway; we're so backward. If it hadn't been for you, the Quan Yin practitioners who grace this Earth, who bless the atmosphere with love and universal energy, this Earth would soon be 'kaput' (meaning "ended") already. So, we're just holding it and waiting for humankind to wake up more and do something. If not, it has to go. We can leave it sooner or later anyway; we don't care. But it's such a negative way. Suppose the Earth became kaput now, we could go up to a higher level. We are already there and we already have our 'security card,' but the people out there, if they die like that, they will be living in shock in such a state of stupor, for a long, long time - thousands of years - before they wake up. And then their atmosphere will manifest in another kind of world again, and they'll war with each other again, because they haven't finished their thinking process. They haven't gotten to the understanding about peace and "Love thy neighbor." They haven't done that. So if they wake up again from their stupor after thousands of years, they'll do the same thing again.
Peace Costs Far Less than War I therefore really hope that this is the time they understand this very simple concept. Even a child understands peace at all costs. But peace doesn't cost anything: that is the thing. Only war costs something. War costs human resource, war costs emotional upheaval, war costs tremendous financial resource and every other resource of humankind. All this equipment they build for war could be used to build houses, to build railways for the tram, to build underground train stations or build bridges for the poor countries. And all this money - billions of dollars - something like $7 million per day or week in Iraq, for example, and how many weeks or years have already gone by? Do you understand how much that is? You don't because it's too much. It's too much for us to even want to think about. It's just too ridiculous when people are hungry or starving and don't even have the basic things like clean water to drink. And we spend tons of money and tons of human resources, tons of world metal resources or any resource just to build a killing weapon. This is beyond imagination! No wonder our world is lagging behind, compared to all others in the galaxy. But mind you, be happy. Our Earth is getting better of course, number one. Number two, our Earth is still better than many other planets. There are worse planets. There are planets whose people are evil, just pure evil. And they will harass you day and night. Some of the warlords have been born there; I don't know how much longer; I don't want to see. It's terrible. Even if they repent, they don't even have time to pray. Can you understand that? That's why they have to stay there forever, because they don't have time for anything. They're just running and running, running and hiding, running and hiding, all day long, with no time. It's such mental torment that hell even sounds better. So at least we're born on this planet, where it's half-and-half, and we're pushed to go nearer to God. But even then I don't know if I could ever get used to the kind of people who go out and kill each other like that. I mean, if you want to be a soldier, you have to have instilled in you the hatred; otherwise how can you kill? Just killing at random like that, killing as ordered. There's no turning back. If you turn back, then you are killed too, by your own people for betraying your country.
Use Earthly Resources to Build and Help Others We should use all this money and intelligence and time and resource to train people to love and to build. This makes more sense, yes? We should use it for a peaceful purpose. The soldiers are so strong and healthy and in the prime of their life, and they also very idealistic. When we are young, we are very idealistic; we are heroes. We want to do good for the world. So this good and pure energy and enthusiasm has to be used for a peaceful purpose, for building the world and for helping the needy. That is the kind of heroism that the young people love to spend their energy on; they will love it. Suppose any government tells the soldiers, "Look here: no more war, you go out and build houses," they'd be very, very happy. They would be relieved. They would feel that this is really what they want. I bet you that's what would happen. Any soldier - you ask them - they would want to do that. We can retrain them. There's still time. Because they are young, they can learn fast. What I mean is that their youthful inspiration and heroism and idealism should not be misused. It's a waste. The young people are the best. You tell them what to do, and they will do it. They are so eager to serve, they're eager to learn, they're eager to do something good because they're full of energy. If they are used for war, it is a pity. It's a misuse of their purity and their idealism. So it's better to use the soldiers for peaceful purposes. We can keep the army. Keep it and use it to build things up. In the Philippines, they are trying to do that. That is a very good idea, and I hope they will. Maybe the Filipino soldiers should do that first, and everyone else will follow. We have to start somewhere. Our world would have been a paradise a long time ago if we did not have so much war going on, which is wasting a lot of the energy, finances and resources of the Earth. There's no need to believe me; you know it yourself. This is terrible; so now I hope that all signs of peace are coming our way. It is coming, and I hope more will come. The true peace really must come, because that's the only way to survive on this planet, my God. We must use our time now, to change the course of history; otherwise we'll all die together. The good and the bad, the powerful nations and the weak nations, will all be gone. Being gone is no problem; the problem is that not all of the people on the planet are ready to integrate into paradise. After they're gone they'll still stay in shock or in misery. And that state of mind will keep them for a long time in a hellish existence, worse than this planet's. They'll be warring with each other in that kind of existence and then wake up and become human again, warring with each other again. Have you heard of those stories that in some of the big major battlefields, sometimes those who have psychic power can see that the soldiers in their astral forms are walking around and trying to fight each other still? Or, looking for the fighting or thinking that the war is still going on, because if you're not enlightened now, you won't ever be. Not after you die; you just suffer more, because you can see more. With a body you can shield yourself from some of the emotional distress, and recover or don't see the suffering. But without the body you'll see more; you'll see the naked misery in hell and you will suffer more and more. And this is terrible.
Making a Model for the World So the question is not whether I care that the planet is still alive or not, it's just for the people who live in it. They have to know this concept; they have to awaken to this peaceful solution, to the real human purpose, to build up the peaceful atmosphere, to find God or to remember God at least, and to be at peace with each other, just like God wants us to be, like one time paradise. Otherwise if they die like this, they will suffer more than what they do now. You understand me? That is the reason why they have to stop the war and begin to build peace now. Otherwise if they die, it would be terrible: more terrible than being alive, more terrible than the war in Iraq, more terrible than 9-11, more terrible than any terrorism can ever cause you to feel. So that's the reason we practice hard, we really pray for peace in our way, and we're pushing for it inside our hearts. And then peace has to come; people have to stop. Just stop like that! Just shake hands, with no conditions. There shouldn't be any condition for peace at all because both sides will gain. Maybe you lose one piece of land but who cares? If Noah and the flood ever come again, you'll lose everything. You'll lose the whole land, not to talk about one piece! Because suppose a typhoon like Katrina comes, we would also lose billions of dollars for nothing. So if we lose billions of dollars or a piece of land or even a country for a peaceful purpose, let it be. Why do we need a frontier? Why do we need the country anyway? If you don't have Egypt, you can go to live in Germany. If they dissolve the border, for example, between your countries and you become another citizen, why not! Just like me, I'm Aulacese and I'm British and now I'm in Germany, who cares? And you guys even come from England, Finland, Poland, Greece, Croatia, France, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Russia, Spain, Romania, Austria, Sweden, Switzerland, Estonia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Czechoslovakia, Africa, Ukraine - welcome! Bulgaria, Italy and Israel even. (Congratulations, your country is getting good. We celebrated your country's peace with the Palestinians for one week. We had cakes and dancing, just to support more peace and make it more real, make it getting better, like a little push.) Where else? Sri Lanka, Columbia, Belgium, of course Germany, India, Armenia, Australia, New Zealand, Iran - Oh, wonderful. It's international, a big United Nations, and we are happy together. (Applause) This is a model for the world to follow. So your actions of coming here have many meanings. Number one, you of course want to see me, your lovely Princess; that I understand. (Applause) Second, you want to meditate together, which is very important, and third... eating! (Laughter) But the most important thing is that you make a model; I let you come so we can realize peace in one section of the world. Because we are all telepathic, I told you already. And if we are peaceful here, we will be peaceful everywhere. (Applause) This is a mini-model for the world to follow; this is how the world should be, and they should follow our example, that we live peacefully together. Here no one cares if we are from Iran or Czechoslovakia. We eat the same food and we sit on the same floor, if you have a seat at all. So here you fighting for property and also for food, but in a loving and peaceful way. And we are so happy; even you can sit in the corner like that. This is all we need, just a little square and we're so happy! So whatever you do here with us together, it will affect the world. Whatever you do in your house, in your group meditation weekly, it will affect the world. And then it will change. Some people learn slowly; some people learn fast. They better learn fast! There's not too much time. But they are learning fast.
Be Prepared to Act Positively and Quickly I think the world is getting very aware now that they must do something. There's no more excuse to say they don't know; they do know, because what affects the neighbor affects you. Imagine if all the people from the lowlands, when the flood arrives, they don't have time to build a Noah's boat. They will not know and it will hit them quick, according to the reports, which is logical also unless a miracle happens. Imagine these people who have nowhere to go and who will then all run into the city, to higher land, where there's no flood, no disaster - where do they go? They've lost everything by then. At that time there's too many people for us even to go and rescue or to help because there's so many, and then they will have no home. They will have lost everything; there's nothing to lose anymore and they will be very chaotic. They will go looting the cities, and they might even have worse war than we're having now. So, whatever affects them, affects everyone. It's not like, "OK, I am the President, it doesn't concern me." Or, "I am the Governor, a high official; it doesn't concern me," or, "I live on the high land; I don't live next to the sea; it doesn't concern me." It does concern everyone because if they come in hundreds of thousands at the same time, hungry, stressed, disoriented, starving and confused, they'll do anything. They will be like so-called zombie soldiers and that's the worst you could ever be confronted with. They don't know anything anymore at that time. It's too big a grievance for them to even keep their mind together. And there's no weapon that can stop this kind of war. It will be terrible. So we'd better be prepared, and whoever has the authority and the
power must use it to change the way we live our life. We have to clean
up our planet, and quick.
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