(Chinese) Sometimes when we meditate, we perceive beautiful children leaving us one by one. They're our bad qualities. Don't think that you're perceiving immortal children and feel reluctant to leave them. Sometimes they'll apologize and then say, "Good-bye," or "Your place is too hot. I can't...

(English) Excerpts from Supreme Master Ching Hai’s lecture: Our life, our time here, is very short so we have to make the best use of it. Don't ask people to serve us. We have to ask how we can serve people all the time and we'll never go wrong. What do we need, that people have to...

(English) Excerpts from Supreme Master Ching Hai's lecture: 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...