Illusion
Is a Reflection of Reality
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No.
691
Date: 2000.05.03
Place: Manila, Philippines
Occasion: Lecture
Language: English |
Subtitles: Aulacese, Bulgarian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional
Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian,
Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Malaysian, Nepalese, Norwegian,
Philippine, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Romania, Slovenian,
Spanish, Swedish, Thai (26) |
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The Bible tells us, "Judge not, because you will be judged."
Why should we not judge our brothers and sisters? Because
they are God's children also, they are of the same essence
as God. We are all children of God. So no matter what your
brother does, he is God inside; he has God inside him. And
he came here to do this and that and the other, in order to
know God. The ways we have chosen so that we can know God
are different. Some choose a very moral way so that they get
to know God more quickly. Some choose a longer and harder
way by being less moral, by being less noble, less good, so
that they can learn to know God in a more intense way. But
of course, by our human standards, we value good and bad,
moral and immoral. So, therefore, we make judgments, we have
come to make a definition about good and bad, evil and so
forth. But in the eyes of our Father, we are all equal. Because
everything here is an illusion anyway, and bad or good is
not real. It's just a reflection so that we know God in the
totality of it. Because we have been in Heaven for so long,
where everything is so good, so pure, and so perfect, we cannot
know the perfection unless we see the imperfection. We cannot
realize a man unless we have a woman to compare him to. We
cannot know goodness unless we have something bad in contrast
to it. And that's why we came here into this world of the
physical dimension so that we can know the worst of suffering,
of pain, and of sorrow, so that we can know goodness, we can
know glory, we can know bliss, we can know the blessing of
Heaven. That's why we have to know God in this lifetime. We
must see Hirm. We must not just talk about Hirm; we must not
just hear about Hirm; we must not just understand about Hirm.
We must see Him or Her... |
Topics
addressed
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Why
are all sentient beings equal before God? |
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Why
is it improper for us to randomly judge and criticize people? |
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What
is the meaning of the statement "I die every day" in the Bible? |
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What
is the sole purpose of coming to this world? |
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What
is the meaning of the existence of the physical world, in contrast
to the Truth, goodness and beauty of Heaven? |
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What
are true freedom and liberation while living in the body? |
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Master's
explicit and incisive explanations help us to more clearly realize
the subtle relationship between the illusory world and the real
world. |
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