Highlights~

This lecture includes 3 spiritual stories. One desperately poor man throw a stone at  a mango off the tree to feed himself, but the stone hit a king’s head . What punishment would he get? What decision did the king make that later made his people rejoice and develop their own loving kindness? Through this story, Supreme Master Qing Hai elaborated  the ideal of non-violence. Jesus Christ once said, “If anyone slaps you on the right cheek,  let him slap  your left cheek, too .” But Master says this is no good either, because that  person’s hand would feel sore by slapping us . What should we do then? We can learn from the saintly  king in this story.

Why did a so-called good woman who claimed to have never done anything bad go to hell only because she killed one cockroach by accident? And why did a so-called bad woman who killed and sold fish all her life  go to heaven after death as she was willing to bear the other woman’s karma? Mater teaches us by telling this story that: many people tend to exaggerate  their merit, no matter how small it is. Instead of doing good out of love, they do it in order to be praised. So they are blind about their own intentions. If we do good things without thinking it is a good or doing it for ourselves,, that is truly good to us. We should not look down upon anybody who does not do good deeds.

Why did a so-called good woman who claimed to have never done anything bad go to hell only because she killed one cockroach by accident? And why did a so-called bad woman who killed and sold fish all her life  go to heaven after death as she was willing to bear the other woman’s karma? Mater teaches us by telling this story that: many people tend to exaggerate  their merit, no matter how small it is. Instead of doing good out of love, they do it in order to be praised. So they are blind about their own intentions. If we do good things without thinking it is a good or doing it for ourselves,, that is truly good to us. We should not look down upon anybody who does not do good deeds.