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Supreme Master Ching Hai on the Environment:
The Significance of Trees to Life on Earth - P3/3, A Compilation of excerpts from Supreme Master Ching Hai's lectures
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How do you teach
or guide your initiates
in their relationship with nature?
We respect nature.
We respect
the environment.
We don’t destroy trees
and forests or vegetation
at random.
And
in many of our centers,
we plant trees,
we plant flowers, and
beautify the environment as much as we can.
And because
we love nature,
we don’t eat animals.
Recently, our world has
a lot of disasters,
like drought,
and then dry climate
and heated-up planet
due to a lot of
weather changing –
because
we have abused so many
of the natural resources.
As well as some of
the disasters from nature,
like burning forests, and then
that reduces a lot of rain,
and that in turn also
heats up our planet,
and then
the more it heats up,
the more dry;
the more dry,
the less trees;
the less trees,
the less rain;
the less rain,
the less trees –
and this is the devil’s circle.
And every corner
of the Earth
affects the whole planet.
You can know it,
you know it very well
because recently the fires
in Indonesia affected
the whole of Singapore
and Malaysia
and the neighboring countries.
So, actually, from these
kind of “nature lessons,”
we can tell that
one person or one place
of this planet will affect
other parts of our planet.
Therefore,
if you yourself –
your heart, your mind,
your speech, your action –
are pure,
how much more beneficial
can it be to this planet?
This is very logical.
We have no need to argue
or to demonstrate.
Every place
has its own atmosphere.
So, when you go
into the funeral service
or hospital,
you feel different from
when you go into a church.
Is that not so? (Yes.)
Or, when you go into
the slaughter house,
where all the animals
are killed for meat,
you will feel different.
I don't know
if you can feel, but I feel.
Do you feel?
Can you feel? (Yes.)
Yes, of course.
The thing about disasters
is that they are largely
caused by humans.
Thus, humans are
also able to reverse
the conditions from
which disasters are born,
and then no need for
the plants or the animals
to warn us.
But, of course,
you can communicate with
the animals or the plants
if you want,
but we have to calm
our mind first.
Our mind is
too pre-occupied,
too crowded by
problems, anxieties,
and many other things –
necessary or unnecessary –
so we cannot hear
the animals or the plants.
It is true that
I could communicate
with the animals
and the plants as well.
Not that I deliberately
seek the communication
for fun or just for chatting,
sometimes they just
come to me to warn me
of some event, to try to
protect me from danger,
or warn me from some
unfavorable situation
or people,,
or ask me for help.
Now,
everybody can do that,
but first,
we must calm our mind.
And in order to have
the communication with
the plants or the trees
or the animals,
first we must learn to
protect them. Then
we can be like friends,
because friends
trust friends.
If we don't have this trust
between ourselves
and the environment –
the trees, the plants
and the animals – through
our protecting attitude,
then it's more difficult
to have a conversation
with them.
It's like family members
or neighbors or friends –
if we have a good
relationship between us
then we communicate well.
Otherwise, we don't
even want to think of
that person because
it's so scary to us
or so untrustworthy to us.
How we would even
have a conversation
with them?
So, in order to
communicate with plants
or trees or animals, we
must also be their friends
first, you see?
So, being vegetarian
means being a friend
of nature. For example,
now, right now,
I try to avoid even killing
plants or flowers.
I take only the fruits that
they’re willing to offer.
The fruit will not
harm the plant, and
the seed will continue
to help other plants,
or other trees if we
plant it from the seeds.
So the vegetarian diet is
a very good way to begin
to try to communicate
with nature and animals
on a higher level.
And it is very crucial
right now to halt
global warming because
of the methane gas, but
also on a deeper level,
to halt
the suffering and killing
of our co-inhabitants,
the animals, and
in turn consequently,
killing also plants and
trees and the environment.
In the law of
the physical universe
is the principle known
as “cause and effect.”
If we kill, we have to
expect the same in return.
So, all this slaughtering,
massacring of the animals,
has an effect on us –
sometimes quicker,
sometimes slower.
The effect, we’re seeing
right now –
all the disasters that
happen around our planet.
But since they are
entirely avoidable,
what we need to do is to
focus on the real solution
and take the reverse action,
meaning
be vegan,
go green,
to save our planet.
We would like to invite
Master to share
some more of your words
of wisdom and advice
for us and the world.
The best advice, honey,
is from examples.
I think we have plenty
of wisdom from Mars,
from Martians, from
what happened to them
and what we’ve discovered,
telepathically
as well as scientifically.
They have discovered
that Mars is all barren
and uninhabitable,
but they’ve also discovered
that, long ago,
there was water there.
Water means
life-supporting.
So what has happened to
all these bodies
of water?
That is a very, very
important question for us.
So from Mars
we can learn to prevent
such disaster, that
it might not ever happen
to our planet.
So my advice is just
look to Mars,
and don’t forget:
don’t forget that we have
a very beautiful home
here for us
and for our children
and for grandchildren,
great-great grandchildren.
It’s a beautiful place,
physically speaking,
and it has all the conditions
to sustain life.
And it offers us so much,
so much –
so much fun,
so much beauty,
so much love.
And even though
it’s a temporary home,
it’s a very good home
for practicing spiritually,
for rekindling
our wisdom within
and for practicing to be
a higher and nobler being.
So, it’s a nice place to
sojourn for as long as
our time permits, at least
to develop spiritually,
or if not, just enjoy it;
just enjoy the scenery,
enjoy what we have here.
We have
exquisite flowers.
We have exotic birds.
We have
incredible animals.
We have amazing trees,
mountains, and great
bodies of water which
sustain so much life, and
energies and nourishing
all beings, and
it’s such a beautiful place.
If we just walk out
everywhere and
look at the trees – imagine
one day they’re all gone!
And smell the flowers
quick before
maybe they’ll be gone soon.
Touch the grass
because maybe it will
be also gone soon.
Imagine if all
this beautiful scenery,
vegetation, humans,
animals, imagine
if they are all gone.
How would you feel?
So we have to protect
this beautiful place
we call Earth because
this is the home of
not just us
but many other species –
and the environment,
beautiful flora and fauna.
It’s really
an incredible place.
It took trillions of years
to manifest such a planet,
and it takes many, many
meritorious, virtuous
deeds of human beings
or animals
or other beings alike
in order to garner into
this energy in order to
manifest such kind
of planet like this.
It’s not a gift that you can
buy and offer it
to someone.
It’s not a toy that we can
use and discard
tomorrow.
It’s not an item, that if we
have trillions of dollars
we can buy it.
However much money
we have, we cannot
buy this planet.
It’s so exquisite,
it’s so special, so unique,
so beautiful.
Not every planet is
as beautiful as our planet,
even though we have
more beautiful planets.
But not all of them are
as beautiful as our planet,
so beautiful like this.
Some planets are not
as beautiful.
The peopled planets – not
all are as beautiful as this.
I wish I can make
everybody understand
what I’m talking about.
I wish I can wake them
all up and we just
turn around – and that’s it!
We can save the planet!
All we do is just
be vegetarian.
Nothing else is really
important anymore.
Just being vegetarian,
you can save the planet
overnight, just like that!
And I wish everybody
really listens.
Okay guys,
thanks for your time
and thanks for
all you are doing.
I want everybody
to know that we still
can save the planet.
We still can.
We still have some time,
but we have to
turn around quick.
Because we are going in
the destructive direction
right now.
If we just turn around,
then it becomes
constructive again,
positive again.
Very simple.
If we don’t head north,
then we’re going south.
Turn around
and we’ll go north,
if that’s where
we want to go.
I’m sorry I have
no more bigger words
or impressive words
or incredible sentences
to conclude our meeting
or that I could impress
people of the planet
or convince them
in any way,
but I just hope they feel
what I say is the truth
and sincere, and I truly
wish them to continue
to have the planet and
to save the planet for
the future generations.
Thank you, all of you.
Keep up the good work.
Thank you, Master.
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