The Almighty Awaits Us Everyday
Master Ruma lectured at Don Daeng Village, Champasak, Lao
October 4th, 2010

 
  
        How are you? I’m happy to see you again.For many, many thousand and thousand years ago.Do you remember me? No, right? I know that. When we were born and then we forgot everything. I know you forget me but I don’t forget you. Wow, you are beautiful. It is a long time I have not seen you so I’m very happy to see you again. This is the last life.
 
        I enjoy here very much now. I feel like I’m coming back home. Wow, today you are strong?
OK, thank you for your patience and sitting here. I’m happy to see you again and again. For many thousand and thousand and thousand years, we haven’t seen each other. You forget me but I don’t forget you. Even we are different people.  I’m a Vietnamese or an American, different nationality but we know each other for many, many thousand years ago for many last lives.
 
        Why do I say that? I’ll tell you one story.
 
       Long long time ago, there is a small village. It’s very beautiful and very nice. And the people there are so beautiful, so peaceful and very rich. They have a lot of gold and materials. Many thousand thousand people lived in that village.
 
        And one of their kings was a very good king. He is full of compassion and Love, a very emotional king. He loves all the people like he loves himself or like he loves his family.
 
        One day, he went out of his Palace on a Royal progress around the country where he saw all his people live in luxury, glory and peace but no one knew about spirituality, no one is liberated and they were reborn and reborn, died and lived and died and lived and be reborn again and again. His feeling was not happy.
 
        And then that king looked at His people who were living for materials. One day, he knew that another country was looking after his country because his country was very rich and had a lot of money, a lot of gold. So, that neighboring country wanted to fight to take over his country.
 
        So he felt very bad and he said: “I don’t want to fight. I don’t want to fight because you see my country having a lot of gold, a lot of materials”. And then, one day, he felt it was not safe since his enemy almost came to the kingdom. So he left the kingdom leaving a note for all of his people. He wrote: “I leave to find the truth and the liberation, the enlightenment. One day, I shall come back and I will teach you. I will tell you how the enlightenment is and how great the whole universe is. I will answer you if there is another planet which is beautiful but no killing, no fight, no anger, no suffering and no reincarnation or not”.
 
        And after that he went to Himalaya where he lived and sat meditation. One day, he got enlightment and he saw in the heaven, there is one realm which is beautiful. Its roads are made of gold and diamond. It is a really beautiful planet with beautiful houses and everything is made of gold and diamond. So he thought: “I will keep this planet for all people in my country”.
 
        After he had achieved enlightenment and he had traveled every corner in the whole universe already, he came back to the earth looking for his people in the country that he had ruled many thousand years.
When his people knew that he had already lelf in the kingdom, they cried a lot because they really loved the king. Their king is full of compassion and love. He loved all beings he was a very good king at that time.
 
        Because His people in that country just only enjoyed the materials and they were not interested in spirituality.  That’s why that king had to become a monk. That king is me now and the people in the country are all of you here today.
 
        You forget me but I remember you.
 
        I know it’s very difficult for you to approve me and that truth but that’s alright since I know who you are.
The reason I come here is to remind you. We have a beautiful kingdom waiting for you to come to live.  You will not suffer from sickness, hunger, hurricane and tornado. We don’t have these things up there. If we can go up there, it is so beautiful. We can live forever and not die. People are very very rich up there and we can have everything we want. Whatever we like, they will come to us. These things could only exist in that planet. I’ve waited for you for many thousand years already.
 
        Sometimes, we are reborn and we forget our past. Our eyes are blocked and we just know the current: “Oh, I’m a Laotian, you are a Vietnamese monk and you left your country for America to live, then you went to India, etc. We just know each other this time”. But it’s actually not. We have already known each other for a long time in our last lives.
 
        Sometimes that is a problem. That is the problem of a human body. You know nothing. But let me share with you. You have suffered so much already. So now, please turn to look inside and try to pray to the Buddha for His help. And try to be vegetarians as much as you can. Then when your last chapter of a human life comes, we can go home to the kingdom of the Buddha together.
 
        You know it’s the first time I know the interpreter but I told him: “No, I’ve known you since many many many lives ago”. He loves me a lot. Why he loves me? That’s because he was one of my princes. He was my son at that time when I was the king.
 
        He followed the father to go into a jungle and practiced meditation to get the liberation.
 
        After I had been liberated, I went to the heaven while my prince came back to the country to fight the enemy. Finally, he was successful in taking back his country and became a new king after that.
 
        Before all these things happened, I had told my son: “No, don’t fight the enemy. Anyway, they have already taken our country. So just let them do it; let them do what they want”. But my prince didn’t listen to my advice. So after I had gone up to the heaven, he then went back to the kingdom and fought against the enemy with the result that he finally became the king at that time. So that’s why he has been reborn until now.
 
        And I gave him initiation since he wants to learn the meditation with me. So I asked him: “Are you alright to become a vegetarian?” He answered me: “Yes, if it’s like that”. Because my disciples made beautiful and healthy vegetarian dishes, so when he saw them, he said: “Oh, if all vegetarian foods are like these, I’ll eat them forever”.  And I taught him the meditation, then after that, I asked him: “Do you have experience from heaven?” He answered: “Oh, yes”.
 
        Now you know, right? Sometimes we are reborn and we forget everything.
 
        So if we have a chance to know this again, please try to learn some meditation and pray to the Buddha everyday. You should pray to the Buddha as follows: “Please after I’m a hundred years when all my time comes, please come to help me to go back to the heaven.” Since they know the road to go back home very fast.
Everyday we pray to the Buddha but we never hear he says or answers anything for us, right?
 
      
        We keep praying, offering him all the food, but he still sits there like that. Eventhough we keep praying everyday, everyday and everyday, the result is still that we don’t hear anything from him.
 
        That is because we do not actually see the Buddha. We just see the statue only. So even after you have prayed already, you still don’t see him. Then you die, be reborn again and pray again.
 
        That’s why I say: “If you want to pray to the Buddha for coming, I will teach you how”. Then he could hear you pray.
 
        You could hear and see him come to you.It’s very easy.
 
        I can talk to the Buddha so you can talk to the Buddha too.If we can get these things, it means we are enlightened. Then we will never suffer any more. We are free to go back to the heaven.So if you want to go home, go to that kingdom in the heaven, I can teach you how.
 
        We can not use the language to describe but I can tell you a litter bit. OK, it is like at your home, if you don’t have a telephone line, you have to call the telecommunication company to come to your house to connect the line for you. After you have your line already, you can call to your mom, to your friends or whoever you want to talk to. Right?
 
        Let me give you another example.  Like if your house doesn’t have electric power. So you have to call the electric company to come to connect it to your house. Then after that, you just turn the light on and your whole house is bright. The enlightment is also like that.
 
        It’s very easy, you can see the Buddha. You can see the heaven. You can see angels. You can speak to the Buddha anytime you like. You can pray to them for whatever you want. It is very easy for you to talk to the Buddha. Very easy, like one – two - three.

 
        That is true, I don’t lie. I can see so you can too.
 
        Many people think: “Oh. That is impossible. We can not see the Buddha”. But actually yes, we can see.
 
        I’m lucky. I always tell anybody that there is a beautiful planet in the heaven, very beautiful. We can get enlightenment. We can see Buddha. We can see God. We can see anything we want. And if we get enlightenment, we can hear the Buddha speaking. We can talk with the Buddha. We can get liberation in this life if we can learn the meditation called Sound and Light. But everybody doesn’t believe me. It’s lucky that in this generation, they don’t have a king; otherwise they may chop my head.
 
        Right, you see that. I was lucky at my time as the King but my people were not. They could not do what I could. That’s why I say: “Whatever we know, sometimes we know, it is just by the physical eyes. We don’t see things inside such as the love of God is always sent to here, the love of the Buddha is always given to the children”, so I am patient to tell you that there are things exactly as what I just mentioned above. It is just because sometimes you pray to the Buddha but you don’t hear Him due to the fact that you have lost the connection with the Buddha.
 
        Because we don’t hear, we lost the connection with the Buddha so if he talks to us, we of course can not hear that. Even if he appears in front of you, you will not see him. It is because your wisdom or your third eye is close; your inner ears are blocked. So if you want to see him, you have to open your wisdom eye. If you want to hear him you have to open your inner ear. Then you can prove what I say.
 
        I come here not to be your Master. I come hear to awake your inner Buddha up. Then you will know who you are and where you came from.
 
        Alright, I wish you the best in everything. I pray to the Buddha for blessing this country. Thank you very much, the chief of the village. Please continue to take care of your people as well as your job. I pray for you and pray for all the people that I have predestinate affinity. Please remember what I told and one day, you will recognize it’s the truth.
 
        I’ve done my job already. I left my kingdom and gave up everything many many thousand thousand years ago for becoming a monk to search for the truth, to be enlightened and become the Buddha. Now I come back to tell you about it. My job has been done and now it is your job to listen to me and practice by yourself. Then you will have liberation. I know who you are, but perhaps you forget.  That’s alright; the most importance is I still know who you are.
 
        This meditation is the key for our liberation, one life’s liberation. I have brought it here from a very far away place. It took me a million to a billion and a billion lives being reborn and reborn to practice this method till I could find the secret and be successful. Now I come here and bring it for my people. I have had to wait for a long time but that’s alright.  This method is for you. If you want to learn and if you’re ready, I’m happy to share with you, unconditionally. This method is called the meditation of sound and light: the inner sound and the inner light, the sound from the Buddha and the light from the Buddha, from God.
 
        Alright, that is my speaking today. I wish you the best in your life. God will be with you everyday and the Buddha’ll always be with us. You will always be in my heart. I never leave you. You forget me but I don’t. Alright, thank you!
 
        That is the meditation I mentioned: Sound and Light. Whoever wants to learn it, I will offer. Anybody can learn it no matter they are monks or lay people. OK, who wants to learn I can ask my disciples or whoever stays here to teach you.
 
        Alright, thank you very much. Thank you again and again.