Selected Questions and Answers

The God Within Knows the True God

Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai, Athens, Greece,
May 20, 1999 (Originally in English) Videotape #653

Q: How can a person overcome his human existence or his humanity, which has within it so many frailties and so many fears? And how can he then feel like a God? Perhaps, it would be daring to feel that you are God.

M: Of course, we dare not now because we are not yet. You have forgotten. After reawakening the God inside, then God will know that God is God. You will not identify yourself with this weak body, with this prison of the flesh any more. You stay too long in this house, and you will think you are the house. But once you open the door and walk outside, you know you are not the house. It doesn’t matter how bad the house looks, how damaged, how terrible the condition of the house, it’s not you. Inside this house, there is a computer system, which we call the brain. And it is the brain that tells you that you’re weak, that you’re mistaken, that you are trouble, you are stupid, you’re ignorant and so on and so forth. Because the brain records all the data every day of what you’re doing and how you react, how you feel, etc., so every time you keep playing the recording out again, and it makes you feel you are that.

After the awakening we can, every day, at least temporarily for some time, detach ourselves from the physical body and the physical brain and know our true Self - which is all perfect, all glory, all love and all wisdom. But this is all talk! You have to experience it. Talking about cake doesn’t make you taste anything. You should come in and eat the cake yourself. Then you know what it is.