Lectures

The True Self is never imperfect.
Master Ruma lectured at the Association of Disabled People, Udonthani, Thailand.
21 October 2013


     I would like to say hello to everyone, hello to those who have affinity with me being here today. I am sorry, I cannot speak Thai, and therefore I would like to speak Vietnamese.

     Four years ago, a Thai disciple gave me a book to help me learn Thai language, but so far I have not learned any words. I tried to learn Thai but it doesn’t work.

     The reason I come here, with my love of a monk, is to visit and wish you live in peace and happiness for the rest of your life.
I come here to remind you about your life, why it has many challenges and misery. Your life has a lot of difficulties and miseries. This is because of the cause-and-effect, so called karmas accumulated from previous lives, and then you have to bear them in this current life.

     Everything is caused by the karma. Because of the karma in the past lives, you didn’t accumulate good deeds, you didn’t see the    path of the Truth to attain enlightenment. Therefore this life you are stumbled and fail. You should accept it.

     I always come to you with my love, with my sincere heart.   I never think that I am Vietnamese or I am currently living in the United States. I just want to share my love to all people and unlucky ones in this life.

    Because you have difficult situations, your physical body is not complete due to the karma in previous life. You didn’t see it and didn’t do any good deeds. You didn’t accumulate spiritual merits for the next life.

     Everything is created because of the cause and effect, good and bad.Everyday in your life. You should try, in any circumstances, to live in happiness and peace, always pray to Buddha-God to bless you. Your country is a country of many religions, a country that still keeps the truth of the Buddha for thousands of years. The poverty is created by human beings, by the previous karma that you didn’t see it. You didn’t earn any spiritual merits, so in this life you are struggles and have difficult life.

     You have affinity with me, that is why I come here and share with you something about the karma.

     The karma is a severity for human beings, who cannot be free of it, cannot get rid of it in order to receive happiness and peace. Because you cannot find the liberation, therefore you were reborn in this world to bear many misfortunes of being disabled in human life. Therefore, you should try to be patient. The Buddha is always in your heart.Try to be happy with what you have and accept whatever has come to you.

     Everything happens in this life because of your previous life, you didn’t earn any spiritual merits or do any good deeds, and nobody guided you, therefore in this life you have to bear bad consequences. This life, you have paid everything already. Maybe next life, you will be better or you are free of human beings’ miseries in this earth.

     Nobody in this world abandon you, including the monks too. They always come here. Not only I, but many people also want to come here and try to help you.

     I come here to share with you about spiritual practice, merits and fortune so that next life you could live more happily, more peacefully and much better than this life. I come here with the heart of a Buddhist, bringing the love of Buddha to share with you. Although they are small material gifts, they contain my compassion and I always wish you live in happiness and peace.

     Because of this language that makes human beings disconnect and this language also make human beings misunderstand each other. Therefore they create many unwholesome deeds and bad things.

        Because of languages, did you see many wars? They are also caused by unclear languages.
Your life has been like that because human language is different and people don’t understand each other, they create misunderstanding among themselves. Then create bad things, therefore they are reborn in this world with poverty.
So, it is the language and each person creates his own language to talk and communicate with each other the language that is called “human language”. 

     In heaven, it has one language only.The Buddha uses one language, but all human beings could understand. One language only, all human beings could feel it, understand it and be aware of what the Buddha says.

     It is also one language that could relieve the suffering and unhappiness of human beings. It is one language that could make people never misunderstand each other, and help them realize their inner power, wisdom and peace.

     That kind of language is the silence of meditation. Therefore you see that Buddha always meditate and meditate.

     I would like to stop here, today I just come to share with you something about life and I always wish you receive many graces of the universe, of Buddha-bodhisattva blessing you.

     Everything has its cause and effect, good and bad. You are born in this world with incomplete physical body. You should try to accept it. This is just the human’s body only.

     Your inner self is never disabled. Your inner self is always perfect. This is just the physical body.
Sometimes you are wearing this physical body and it is incomplete because you wanted it, because you sworn an oath to do like that. In your previous life, you wanted to be like that, so this life you have to do it.

     When you hear these words, you may think: “Why is that”? It is because in your previous life you wanted to be like that to awake those who have complete physical body but didn’t know to do good deeds.

What you have burdened with this incomplete physical body because you want to play this role to awake the world, awake those who have complete physical body but they don’t appreciate it and they don’t love it.

When you were born, you forgot that this is what you want to do. You have sacrificed your life to reincarnate here and acted as a disable person.

     You have done a lofty and beautiful deed; goodness to play this role of being a disable person, to bring to the world a nonverbal word and everybody should value the human’s body. You are a saint, coming down upon this earth, acting as a disable person.

     Once you were born, you forgot who you are. Then you blamed yourself: “why don’t I have a complete human body? Why do I have to suffer the disease? Why I have to burden this misfortune and misery?”

     But it is not misfortunate. This is a spiritual merit for this world, a fortune for those who have complete human’s body but they don’t value it, they destroy it or they ruin their human’s body…etc.

     Inside us, it is never handicapped, it is never ill. It is always strong. Inside you, it is a perfect person, with big love brought to this world.

     You are an angel of the universe coming here, bearing an incomplete physical body to awake those who have complete human’s body but they don’t appreciate or value their human’s body.


     Similarly, I have a disciple from Vietnam. She has three children. When she gave birth to the first child, his body was complete, beautiful. The second child was also very nice, handsome, good-looking and intelligent.

     However, her family was suffering and poor. Wherever she did any business, she lose, never succeeded. She lived in deprivation and was not happy with her life. Suddenly, she gave birth to one more child. This child wore an incomplete human’s body. He was a disable person in her family.   But since this child was born, whatever business she did, it succeeded and everything went smoothly. Her family was wealthier. Money was high like a mountain. Her husband was also promoted. Wherever business she had done, it succeeded.

     Then she and her husband blamed on Buddha: “ We are good citizens. We don’t do anybad things. Why do we have such a disable child like this?”

     Then they mistreated their child, blamed themselves and blamed their child. They said: “Why? We are virtuous people. We donate and offer help for others. We go to temples. We know the Buddha but why our child is disabled?”
They didn’t know that it is not a misfortune. It is a spiritual merit and fortune. The child whom they gave birth to was not a normal person. He was a saint acting as a disable person, bringing all spiritual merits and fortunes to this family but the family didn’t understand.

     The child was disable and unhealthy. One day he was seriously ill, then he died. His parents were miserable: “Why? We are good people. Our child was handicapped already, and he didn’t live long. He died at young age” They kept complaining God or Buddha. They blamed themselves and made themselves troubled.

     One day in her dream, she saw her son coming home and said: “I come here not to make you suffer, but I come here to bring spiritual merits and fortune for you and father. My coming is not a misfortune, my coming is not karma but I come here to give you merits. I recommend you not to complain to the Buddha. It was just the right time that I had to go.”

     After that she saw her son in the dream was not a disable person. He was a very good-looking, handsome person.
Therefore, you are wearing this incomplete human’s body because of your wish to let the whole world understand that human life is impermanent. Hence we should head toward the inner presence to practice.

     You remind rich people who have nice human body that they should value human’s life. They should know the good deeds, should donate and offer helps to others so that next life they would be better. It is not that you created those things then you have to burden these karma and consequences.

     Ok, I come here to share with you a few things and wish you all the best, have a lot of happiness in your human’s life.
I wish the happiness and peace for Thai people and your life recieveing peace, peace and peace.

     I have small gifts with a vegetarian meal to share with the president here with my love, bringing to you. You may be surprised that why a monk gives materials to people. Usually people give offerings to monks, but I offer to people. I am quite a different kind of monk. Wherever I go, I give to people. Because I have enough, therefore I don’t need these materials. We share love with each other.

     Ok, thank you.