Mastership Is Revealed through Our Actions

Master's Words

Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai,
International Christmas Retreat, Florida, USA,
December 23, 2001 (Originally in English)
Videotape #725

I sometimes read reports that say people come to you because you look so happy and so kind. And whenever we go out to lecture and you volunteer to distribute flyers and so on, some people tell me, "I came because they looked so kind and happy, and I wondered why. So I came to have a look and see why they're so happy, and that's how I came to You." You see? It's because you're so kind, so happy, so disciplined and so good that you can convince people to go back to the kingdom of God.

That's mastership. Mastership doesn't mean sitting here and having the Supreme Master title and talking about birds and dogs and so on. (Laughter) Mastership is people recognizing you as something extraordinary, having something above or something that they can learn. Then you're a teacher. If someone looks up to you as someone who can teach them something that they don't have or that they don't know, then you're a teacher. You're the master of yourself.

And from then on, the whole universe knows who you are. And the more you do it, the more you realize yourself that you really are something: that you teach, not by words but by actions, by example, by just being yourself. Just your silly face is already good enough to attract people. (Master and everyone laugh.) You don't even have to talk. I read some reports that said people kept going back and forth many times and didn't want to take the flyers. But even when you were far away, because you radiated this happiness and were so attractive, they couldn't resist. Finally, they had to come and take a flyer and then come to the lecture.

You see how incredibly powerful you are? And you don't even know it. But it's a good thing you don't know! (Applause) Many people distribute flyers outside but they don't look happy, so people don't want to take them. But you radiate this happiness from inside; even from far away, people can feel it and see it. So it's a good thing that you don't know you're powerful, because like this you don't have any ego. Who needs it? We need the power but not the ego. So, you're cool. The more you do things, the more it reflects on you, and then you realize how powerful you are.