What is beyond this world that’s better than our world? Everything that we can imagine and can’t imagine. Once we experience it, we know. No one else can really tell us. But we have to be persistent in that, and we have to be truly sincere; otherwise, no one else can ..(more)

What is initiation? What is the difference between a so-called saint and an ordinary person? What is the greatest obstacle in achieving enlightenment? In a lecture by Supreme Master Ching Hai in Sydney, Australia in 1993, Master imparts her wisdom on the esoteric ..(more)

There are two levels in our existence. One is so-called ignorance; the other is enlightenment. And when we step through the border, we come into enlightenment. Enlightenment implies light. So when you sit in quietness through the help of an ..(more)

Forgive ourselves when we make mistakes or when we cannot help with our habits, like anger or sometimes greed and sometimes lustful thoughts, because these things also arise from the circumstances. It's not truly the Self; it's not truly the soul that ..(more)

In traditional Indian philosophy, ahimsa, non-violence, includes three levels--the body, the mind and spirituality. In this video/audio, Supreme Master Ching Hai offers an in-depth, detailed explanation of each level, asserting that the worst form of violence is ..(more)

During a European Lecture tour, Supreme Master Ching Hai accepted the invitation from sincere truth seekers to make a stopover in Madrid, Spain. In this wisdom-filled talk, the Supreme Master conveys in simplicity and clarity to the Spanish audience the way to know ..(more)

Meditation on God, some people call it "prayers," some people call it contemplation," some people call it "going inward," some people call it "connecting yourself with God," etc. But meditation is a must. Without meditation, our life is not as complete, is not as ..(more)

How can we bring an end to war on our planet and attain eternal peace? What are the three realms of delusion and how do we transcend them? Is there a conflict between practicing the Quan Yin Method and other forms of meditation at the same time? How did ..(more)

Supreme Master Ching Hai arrived in the beautiful city Budapest, Hungary, to tell the public that the purpose of the soul coming into this world is to find God, and nothing else will make it happy until it finds God again. But when we are in this physical world and ..(more)

From the beautiful country of Sweden, the Supreme Master Ching Hai speaks to us of returning to the innocence of our childhood, when we were most innately connected with God and our inner spirituality. As we all grow older, society causes us to lose our bond with the ..(more)

Because after disasters, we tend to become more spiritual. It is sad, but at least in the thorny bush, we have roses. Similarly, in the latest event, we have war in Kosovo. And people tend to become closer together, more loving, more giving, more understanding. Also ..(more)

Excerpts from Supreme Master Ching Hai's Lecture: Spirituality has two aspects: one is theory, and the other is practice. The theoretical aspect is what introduces us to God, Heaven, bliss, everlasting life and "seeing God while living." For example, it's just like I ..(more)

We can go to Heaven, come back, go to Heaven and come back again. But we don't go with the physical body. We go with the spirit. We can consciously leave this physical temple for a while, and go contact the spirits in a spiritual world with our same spirit like their ..(more)

Many people ask me all the time: "What happens when we die?" and I always say, "I haven't died yet so I don't know." But we can experience the feeling of death during our deepest prayers or contemplation. When we're in deepest prayer, we're oblivious to all our ..(more)

In order to experience physical existence as we do now, we, as God before, when we were in Heaven, and one with God, as God, have created time and space in this planet, in this physical existence, so that we can experience separation from God, so that we can reunite ..(more)