Whatever you do here or anywhere, eventually the benefit will come to you. Whatever we do good to people, we think good about people, the benefit eventually is ours. That's why I ask you to think positive, speak positive, and do positive things. That's the only thing we should do if you want any good out of this life, to balance, to make our life better than before.

Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. Remember that. If your mind is filthy, dirty, and you think everything is filthy, dirty, even sex becomes dirty to you. It's a gift from God. If it's no good, God didn't make it. But it must go with love. If you love someone, that is a kind of celebration of the love between you -- if you want to celebrate that way, if you want to express that way. But don't think anything dirty about it, don't try to abuse people just for the sense of pure control or possessiveness, then abuse the gift of sexual pleasure from God.

If two people love each other when they marry each other, is their business. And if you marry each other and love each other, nothing is anyone else's business. You can make love to each other or don't make love to each other, it's your business. It's your entire right -- the way you try to express yourself, the way you choose to express yourself. We choose to express ourselves in many different ways. If our mind is pure, everything is pure, as long as we don't hurt anyone, as long as we have faith in God that everything God arranges is good for us even though it doesn't look good at the moment.

For example, like this afternoon I asked one of the brothers whether his wife had come back. He said no that she left him for good, but then he has another better one. Of course he had to suffer a little meanwhile. Sometimes we think it's bad for us, but it's not. I told you that if God takes something away from us, Hes will give something. We have to have enough mind power, wisdom and the openness of the heart to appreciate when Hes gives us something new to experiment with, to have a new adventure, new challenge, new power of creativity.

Don't just sit there and sulk, "Oh, my last one was better." It might not have been better. She might not have even liked you. Maybe you feel it was better because it was the past. Every time, everything we think about the past, we cheat ourselves -- we think the past was good. I tell you truthfully, living in the present is the best, because the present is all we have. Even if the past was truly beautiful, even if your mind doesn't cheat you in thinking the past was beautiful -- like your past wife was better or your past lover better -- it's still the past. We don't have it. Cleopatra is gone. So might just as well be satisfied with the Mrs. X that you are married to.

Share Only The Beautiful Things With Others Most of the troubles in our lives we make ourselves. We imagine a lot of garbage because we have preconceived ideas about how the situation is and how it should be because of our past experiences. Then we just fix our idea on that and demand that things happen the way it was or the way we think it should be. Then we make our lives miserable. If we'd just be open to new challenges, receive God's gifts every moment -- anything with new curiosity and new enthusiasm -- and work together with whoever is next to us to bring happiness to each other, then everyone is an angel. Every moment is paradise.

But we have too much garbage. If you have garbage, check yourself and throw it out, don't bring it to the Center and share it with people. We like to share food, love and enlightenment but not garbage. Every time you bring any garbage in this Center, you are doing yourself a great disservice, not to talk about all your brothers and sisters here.

This is a place where you should come to feel love, blessings, togetherness, everything that is positive; because you maybe not have them at home already. You have enough quarreling at home, you have enough negative things at home, you have enough bad thoughts about people at home, you have a lot of suspicion at home.

When you come here, even if you have that, pray to the Master, pray to God, the inner power to cleanse it for you. Least you bring that and share it with people. Do you bring your garbage and share it with your neighbor or whatever at home? No. If you share, you share spring rolls, vegetarian Pho (Au Lac food), huh? You don't bring the garbage from your rest room to the neighbor and say, "Here it is. Please look at it. Do you ever do that? (A: No!)

The same with mental garbage. Come here and gossip about who is bad and who is good. It's no good for you. Garbage should stay where it belongs. As fast as possible throw it away. Never share it with people. It's no good, why do you share? Most of the things we talk or think about are not true anyhow, because you don't know how karma works. You just see the surface of things, like this guy treats that guy bad. But you don't know that last life he treated him worse even.

I have told you so many thousands of stories to demonstrate, to teach you; but you must learn it, you must digest it, and put it into practice. Don't listen here and let it come out there. Don't just sit here like an idiot, and don't think, don't better yourself. Clean yourself before you clean anyone else.

In my life, I haven't said I am perfect or anything; but I face myself every day without shame. I have nothing that I cannot tell you. So make your life like that. It's more comfortable for yourself.

There's no need to poke into the neighbors' business and even share their garbage, negative sometimes mostly untruthful information, dragging each other down. What's the use? Suppose really that person is bad, you gossip, you talk to a man and say, "Oh, he's really bad." Both of you agree he's bad. So what's the good for you? Does it make both of you better? (A: No.) You share the garbage that he has even if he is bad.

Suppose the neighbor has a lot of garbage, and both of you go to that garbage can and say, "Look here, this is the neighbor's, these are full of garbage, let's both take it and examine it." What good does it do for you? Then you take the neighbor's garbage to your house and examine it, and that's all there is. And you know that from beginning already, you don't even need to examine it -- it's garbage; and it belongs to the neighbor. You don't even have to talk about it, you don't have to discuss it. It is so plain, so simple that it's garbage. So leave it where it is. Is that clear to you? (Audience say "Yes" and applaud.) You know it is a garbage can, it's full of garbage, and you still poke your nose in it, dig your hand in it, smell it, and smear it. "Oh, it's really garbage, isn't it?" (All laughed) Isn't that stupid? If any man does that, do you think he is stupid? (A: Yes.) But you do that all the time. Don't laugh, isn't that true?

A Garbage Collector

Sometimes you dig also into my garbage. I've told you that I have a lot of garbage. I have never cheated you. Everything you have, I have. I collect it so that you're clean. I collect it so that your house smells nice. Don't criticize my garbage if I even have it. Don't smell it. Let me take care of it. I'll take care of it in my time. I'll dump it where it belongs, I'll destroy it so that you're clean, beautiful, nice, hygienic and healthy. Don't criticize my garbage. (Applause.)

This is the mistake that many of you make. It's okay with me, but there are many things that are not okay with you. For example, you smell like garbage, you look like garbage because you carry it around, and people know you are garbage if you collect it. It's not your job. We have a lot of garbage collectors out there on the streets. You pay them because they are doing their job. Don't do their job, you have better jobs to do. Be happy that someone else collects the garbage for you. Why do you snatch it from them, and even examine it whether it is really garbage or not? It is. You know already.

I have never cheated you. I told you I have a lot of karma. That's why I am often sick, I am often in trouble for nothing, I am often in bad shape, bad reputation. Even the people I've helped have turned against me. The things that I do good, people use that against me, personally also -- a lot of things. A lot of newspaper write bad things about me which are 100% garbage, not true at all.

So if you know already I have a lot of garbage, don't come around me, don't come near. Stay away. Keep yourself clean and pure. Even if I am full of garbage, it's okay, it's my problem, it's my job. Don't look. I've never cheated you and said I am always okay. I am not okay.

I am a sacrificed garbage can. Anyone can dump anything into it, and I have to digest it and take care of it. It's very painful sometimes. I don't have to go through it but I do. That's okay with me because I don't look at garbage as garbage. I have the way to digest it, make it into fertilizer, and turn it into beautiful flowers. But you don't do that, you don't have the means to. You were not born to do it, so just stay away. Leave the garbage to me. Leave the garbage to your own neighbor whoever that is. Keep yourself clean and pure. That's your prime duty. Your duty is not to be born to look into neighbor's garbage or into my garbage. You have enough with your own problems.

Suppose you have done everything to make yourself pure and clean. Then be happy. Be happy that you are now not in war. Why criticize the people who died in the war zone? Be happy that you are not there. Be happy that your hands and legs are still intact, you're living in a peaceful country, and you have enough money to live a decent life. Be happy. Don't criticize the poor people who are uneducated, who are homeless, and all that. Just be happy with what you have and don't criticize people who don't have even that.

Beauty Is In The Eyes Of The Beholder

But we never know. Most of the things we see are not truthful because it is our mind that see things, that makes things not clean, that makes things not pure because we are not pure, we are not clean. Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. Remember that. So whenever you see someone impure, check yourself. Whenever you see someone bad, check yourself. Whenever you see someone dirty, check yourself. If you're really clean and pure, then be happy, be proud, walk your beautiful way, and pray for the ones who are less fortunate or pray for me. I don't need but you can.

There's something that's not okay with you, that is No. 1. And No. 2, if you bring all that garbage in the Center, you damage the beauty of this holy place where people come expecting the best, the most uplifting blessing so that they can carry on with their duty, with their heavy laden burden when they go back home. They can deal with problems, with the garbage at their house, so they don't come here to deserve the garbage that you throw around. If ever you have poisonous thoughts in your mind, then pray to God, to the inner Master to cleanse them. Don't blame it on anything else and don't believe in that.

Negative things are never true because God is not negative. How can God create anything negative? Everything negative comes from our devil mind. Everything God created is perfect. We just make everything topsy-turvy, turn everything into bad because we are taught that way, we accept other people as our own opinion. We learn it from other books, say this is no good, that is no good. Then we believe in it, and we make it into no good. So be careful what you read, be careful what you take into your system and make your own. Be careful what you believe, whether it is really good.

You have to examine it. Examine even everything I say whether it is good for you or not, whether it is logical or not. If not, you just reject it. Really. Just tell me that what I am saying is garbage. You have to examine everything before you take it into your own system and make it becomes yours. Otherwise, it will be damaging. If you take some garbage, some bad system and you make it into a belief, it becomes yours, it's fixed, it's forever; and you die there, you are trapped there. You cannot be free. Thoughts, systems, conceptions, all these can trap people.