Always in sympathy with the people who are in need. But the problem is not only to put out the fire. There are so many problems. For example, cigarette butts that the people who smoke on the highway or in the car and then they just throw the cigarette out forgetting to put it out before they throw [it out]. […] Maybe Coca-Cola or Sprite or any cans, any kind of cans, that shine and collect the sun with their round shape that could cause fire also. And sometimes the woods, they themselves are the cause of fire. […] So, we can never be sure how to protect ourselves from this world. So now, the most protection we can get is from where? Yeah, from ourselves, from God. That’s the most permanent. Because at least we know. We know that we have something else besides all this material possession. And then sooner or later, we will return to that where we have everything, have the whole Kingdom. […]
But I’m glad to inform you that I think none of our disciples, who live in that area, had any problem. I mean, no houses burned, right? Or was there any? (No.) No. OK. Because many of our people live in that area, Santa Ana and all that. […] Every Quan Yin practitioner shares the responsibility of cleaning the planet in some degree or another. Therefore, when you’re sitting here meditating together in a group, it’s not that you do it for yourselves or your five-generation liberation or for America or for your family alone – it’s for the whole planet. And the more people do that, the better. […]
I helped the world. I don’t help any particular country. And there are many kinds of help: directly, indirectly; long term, short term. We have to see it with the Wisdom Eye. Whatever we give out, is never lost. It will return in a circle. […] But it doesn’t work overnight. The karma is thousands, millions of years old. And one Buddha, even a hundred Buddhas can’t do much if the people are not awakened themselves, right? (Right.) Yes. We can only help in smoothing it out, uplifting it for a while until they slowly, slowly get ready for the next Buddha to come. […]
