Develop the Wisdom Eye to
Understand the World

Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai
Long Beach, CA, U.S.A., December 29, 1996
(Originally in English)

Q: Everything I read says that we are entering a millennium of harmony, peace, and prosperity. Can we give people a word of encouragement about the good things to come? In fact, we can even use the bad things that have happened as an opportunity for growth.

M: Every opportunity is an opportunity for growth; every millennium is a golden millennium. It depends on what we feel inside and how we see the world outside. When we develop our wisdom eye, we see things differently. Every age is a golden age. If it's not, we are not developed spiritually, and every age is a dark age. No problem; for us, the golden millennium is already here.

Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai
Portland, Oregon U.S.A.
December 4, 1993 (Originally in English)

We are stepping into the Golden Age, so we have to change. We have to leave behind all these old, useless conceptions of how a saint should be; or we should leave behind the dark thinking, the negative expectations of the world and ourselves. Do something! We should start with ourselves; we should clean our house. If there's anything we don't like about ourselves, we should change it - replace it with more positive, more virtuous qualities.