When you practice for enlightenment in the spiritual way, you have to know: We do it with no condition. Even if we follow the Quan Yin Method, we practice the highest way, we still have to accept some minor or sometimes even major problems or disasters that come to us. But luckily, there are fewer than ordinary people who don’t practice. […] I never promise you richness. I never promise you a life of ease, a bed of roses. I never promise you you’ll get anything you want, even when it’s bad. […] Because God doesn’t owe us anything. It’s only for us, for our benefit, that we should meditate, that we should become good because it’s good for us.
That’s what we should be in the beginning, in the middle, and in the end. We should be a good human being, a perfect being and developed in all sides: Spiritually, worldly, as well as compassion, love, and the sacrifice spirit for others before ourselves. But that is when that person is truly in need, that others are truly in need. […] And also, when they’re not needy, and you help them, then you harm them. You put him in a reliant habit, and you take away his independence, and that’s no good for him. You’ll kill him in the long run. You trample on his dignity, on his self-respect, on self-reliance and independent spirit. That you cannot do. That’s very cruel. You ruin him. You ruin the whole of his life, of his life’s purpose. […]
I tell you: Everywhere I go, I pay for my food, and if I go to see a doctor, I pay for the medicine and the doctor’s fee. So, you do the same. Even with fellow practitioners, even if they are my disciples, because they have to live on. If all of you, thousands of you come to see him because he’s a fellow practitioner and give him nothing, then he eats grass. And we have to think. We don’t make use of anybody’s goodness. Whenever we can, we pay. If you cannot, of course, it is different. […]
