Tests Are Of Your Own Choosing
Spoken By The Supreme Master Ching Hai Group Meditation in Hawaii, U.S.A.
Sep. 6, 1994
(Originally in English)During a group meditation, a fellow initiate asked: When we come to this earth do we choose our parents? Master replied: Yeah! You did! You did everything. Everything you are in you chose, but you forgot then you reject it.
You know, sometimes we reject, not you, but I mean us, we, and then we complain about our situations. Actually we have chosen to be sometimes in the hard situation. Even accidents, even violent happenings to us, these are our choice to challenge us to grow. The harder the situation, the stronger the soul will be, supposed to.
But sometimes we choose the task too big, perhaps, and then we fail, and then we don't like it. Yes, and that's how. Okay! Therefore, I told you really everything is good for us. But there is never an end to the paradoxes of the universe, you know what I mean?! And then that comes to the case and you will ask me, "Then Master, why would You cry with the suffering of the people?" But that's what makes us human.
One thing we know, that suffering is good for us. Yeah! One thing I know, that the doctor's injection is good for my allergy; but another thing, I am afraid of it. I say, "Please!" I just really want to stop it. You know what I mean? Stupid! I was never like that before. But sometimes I am like that. So what! It's my weakness. I know that and I'm not afraid to tell you.
It's the same with your spiritual issue and the situation you choose to be born in, in this world. You know it. You want it. But when it comes to the actual facing of these problems and these trials and these tests, you are afraid.
I'm the one who came to the doctor myself. I went right through the door and I wanted something. Because you know... I took all the medicines, sweet ones, you know sugar coated; and it never helped. So I already expected he probably would give me a shot or something. Because people told me, such allergy, if you take medicine, it doesn't help, it goes all over the body like that, it is likely 100% that the doctor will give you a shot. Otherwise, it will not clear; and I already knew it. But knowing that and facing the needle are different things. (Master laughs.) And when she comes behind you, you know you can't even see it, that's the worse thing. (Laughter) You don't know what she is doing there, whether she misses it and she does it again. Sometimes it's like that. They are worse you know. The nurse sometimes they put in there. "Oh! Sorry honey. I have to do it again." (Laughter) Oh, that's when you don't believe that God really exists. (Everyone laughs.) Ah, never mind, never mind. But luckily God is very big hearted; Hes doesn't mind our weakness. Yeah! It's alright. But still I don't like the needle. I never liked it. When I was young, my father always forced it on me. I don't like it, but I still have to go. I know there is no choice, right! No choice, even when we don't like it.
The same before we were born, we chose our environments, our parents, our trials, our tests, our examinations, the friends we will be with, the situation we will be in. But then, when it's too much, we cry. Okay! Fine. It's alright you can cry, you can pray; and help will be there, to help you to overcome this weakness; or to go quickly, to comfort your soul a little bit to go through the test.
Just like you have to go to get a shot from the doctor, but the nurse will hold your hand or things like that; or your parents, your daughter, your father, your mother will say, "Honey it's alright honey. I'll take you to the movies later." (Everyone laughs.) And things like that, you know what I mean? But the shot you still have to have it. But still you feel better, with the love ones next to you. Alright! That's why when you go to the hospital, many people go to see you. It doesn't ease your pain, it doesn't lessen your sorrow; but you feel comforted with the flowers, with the get well cards, with a lot of friends and loved ones smiling and loving you. You feel comforted. Is that right? Okay. Yeah!
That's why we pray, yeah! That's why we meditate also. It will lessen the pain of our test and it makes us pass with flying colors. Okay!
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