Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai
Youngdong Center, Korea, May 6, 1998
(Originally in English)
Q: Is
it correct to say that You know everything but You only choose to respond
to some things and other things You just don't respond to, even though
You know.
M: I also don't know. [Master and
all laugh] These are very intellectual issues. You know, the mind is
different from the soul. The body is different from the Master Power.
The body eats, but the Master power doesn't. The body sleeps; the Master
Power stays awake 24 hours. The mind responds, and the Master Power
just acts with knowledge; it doesn't react. The Master Power has to
be above the body, outside the body, and inside the body, in order to
know everything at the same time.
If
it's not really necessary, the Master Power does not direct the mind
to understand that, or to do anything. If it's really necessary, then
the Master Power will direct the mind to do something, to react to something
physically. If not, the Master Power just does it in the abstract sense
- outside of the physical realm. Not that the body can understand; not
that you and I can understand; not that the brain can understand. The
Master Power works 24 hours nonstop. The brain can get tired, overloaded,
and exhausted because of too much information, too much stress or too
much thinking. The Master Power never does.
So,
what you're referring to right now, whether I know or not know, refers
to my brain. In order to know the way you think I should know right
now, I have to use the brain to know the way you think. But that's also
the brain's domain. Knowing is the Master Power. The mind can be briefed
about it with a little information. It doesn't have to know. If that
thing is really important, the Master makes the mind react, makes me
react - "me," in the physical sense that you see. However
the "me" who is the Master Power always does something, always
knows everything, but not in the physical realm.
In
the physical realm, if something happens, if something is necessary,
then the Master Power directs the body and the mind to do it for that
particular thing, that particular event only. Not everything else that
the Master does the body should know, or the brain should understand,
because the brain and the body are limited. They will burst, explode,
become exhausted, be overpowered; they cannot take too much. So, the
Master Power does things, not always with the body and with the brain.
Even the physical Master's body and brain can only take so much. Just
like your car, it doesn't matter if you are a president or king of the
Arabian world, you can't drive your car all day, all night, every day,
every night. Even if it's a Rolls Royce, a Volvo, or a Mercedes, it
needs a rest sometimes. It needs gas; it needs a lot of things. But
actually, the Master's body is more than a car, of course. It is different,
but it can get exhausted also, because of the law of the universe, the
material law. So that's why I tell you, just take my teachings, do the
meditation, and don't bother about what the body does or what I'm doing.
Master
Knows Everything