Excerpts from Supreme Master Ching Hai's Lecture

“You could have gone on holiday with all the money you spend. So for you to forsake all this, and to spend wisely on your spiritual nourishment, you must be really saint, you must be very enlightened person. Your heart must be so pure and simple that you know this thing. Like Jesus says: “Except you became pure as the children, you can not enter the kingdom of God”. This is our kingdom of God inside that prompts us to do this. Only saintly people and enlightened people would know that this worldly pleasure are really cause of disaster. So for you guys to even step up to this knowledge, this is incredible, and you spend your hard-earned money just to come here to meditate for world peace, for the universe, for yourself…”