Search for Truth
	CHAPTER 21
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	CHE FATT
	Cleaning the mirror daily
	Having the shine great
	Even as one bathes daily
	Facts of inner self must remain
	A cleaning a day for a beginning
	Take on more as time passes by
	Try hard, work hard for it instead.
	Ha! Ha!
	BODHIDARMA
	Being in a land when misery prevails
	Only by extending the teachings do the sufferings end
	Drippings of blood are nothing really in comparison
	Having broken the inner heart, nothing may repair
	Into lecture after lecture, yet the eyes are not open
	Dragging your body, your mind must first work
	After so many recycles, seek the Path now
	Remain not in this land but on the opposite Shore
	Motivate yourself to begin with and proceed on
	At the right door, one may enter.
	Q. 1 When a person is in deep meditation, will his body
	be attacked by evil spirit?
	Ans: Whether a person is in deep meditation or not, the
	evils are always working around him. Given the chance,
	he will be pulled back, A person who can enter into a
	deep meditation, has attained stillness to a certain
	degree. The Heavenly Being dwells in a pure heart and
	anything can dwell instead in an unsteady heart.
	Q.2 Can an animal attain Nibbana?
	Ans: In Sanskrit, this is known as Nirvana. This is the
	highest stage of attainment; in Buddhism. It is the
	absolute breaking away from greed, hatred and delusion,
	stopping the Samsara altogether. All beings may attain
	this stage but they must do it step by step. An animal
	which is reborn as a man, then Nirvana may still be
	achieved. A person must also realize that all beings
	need to be saved. It only depends on the length of time taken.
	Q.3 How can one have a healthy mind to practise the Search
	for Truth?
	Ans: A jade when found is but a stone. One cuts and chisels
	it, and shapes it to its perfect form. He polishes it again
	and again until the shine is bright. Likewise, man must
	rectify the mind in the right form. Thereby, with only pure
	thought will the mind remain pure.
	Q.4 What must I do to be saved and to save others?
	Ans: In a swimming pool, people swim with pleasure. Only
	you are sitting by the pool for you do not know how to swim.
	f one day, a drowning person calls for help. In order to save
	this person and also not to be drowned at the same time,
	what do you think you must learn? Therefore, a person who
	wants to row others across the river must first know how
	to row the boat.
	Q.5 Why do Great Sages and religious leaders have to
	undergo persecution?
	Ans: Flowers planted in a plot of land, its beauty no
	man can compare. Harmless and beautiful, yet man has never
	given them a chance to bloom to the fullest. Does that mean
	one will never plant flowers again? A person who seeks to
	search for the Truth, a little persecution for the sake of
	all is nothing at all. If the Great Sages can endure and
	have undergone all these persecutions, why can't you
	endure a little more? When one sets sail and right in
	the middle of the ocean, a big storm starts, does that
	mean he will not sail on?
	Q.6 What is fate?
	Ans: When two persons meet, there must be something that
	pulls them together from the beginning. Whatever type of
	seeds one sows, the fruits will be in accordance with the
	seeds. Have faith in the right seed and fate will bring
	fourth its harvest.
	Q.7 Why do so many new-born suffer in today's world?
	Ans: Yesterday, today and in future all new-born suffer
	the very minute they come to this suffering plane. They
	come back not in the right form. They do not see the Shore
	on the other side. If one is talking about handicap, then
	the Karmic forces are in action. Have you noticed that
	humans today are worse off than their ancestors? If
	one throws a rock onto the ground, it will remain a
	rock unless it can take a new form.
	Q.8 What leads a person to a holy place, and if he
	cultivates diligently, will be achieve enlightenment?
	Ans: Without fate, everything that passes you and the
	people that you meet, will not be possible. A person
	who wishes to cultivate must try his best in the right
	way. Unless one cultivates in the right path, realizes
	and acts accordingly, one may remain the same. Everyone
	who cultivates has his equal chance of attainment.
	However, this will depend very much on one's
	ownself. Let the true nature show you the way.
	Q.9 Since we do not know what we will be after this life,
	what is the use of being virtuous?
	Ans: Before your child is born to you, do you know his
	character, look and health? You don't know whether this
	child will be good to you or not, or whether he may be
	virtuous or not. Yet you still give life to this child
	before knowing of the above. Why then do you have
	the child? Not knowing where one may be in the next
	life does not mean that he must not act as a human should do.
	Q.lO Can one recite various types of prayers?
	Ans: Recitals are acting as security to mankind. No
	matter how many types one recites, if the heart is not
	sincere, the effect will not be seen. But with a sincere
	heart, even with the mere recital of the Holiness's name,
	the effect may still be great for everything is the work
	of the heart.
	Q.11 Are poverty and suffering the tests by the ABOVE for
	human being?
	Ans: Poverty and suffering are the punishment of man's
	own act. From the types of seed sown, the same type of
	fruits one will get. Being on this plane, even with misery
	and poverty, if one can go through this, one may still attain.
	However, if due to poverty and misery one does not return,
	when will one get this chance to attain? No doubt
	the world is a suffering place yet the Heavenly Beings
	seek to return in order to guide you back. What more should
	man ask for?
	Q.I2 Why do people often say that the good die young?
	Ans: The saying of man remains as saying. However, some
	truth of it will remain. Every different rebirth comes
	from Cause and Effect. Some people in their previous life
	have cultivated the Path, attaining the stage but cannot
	truly obtain. For all deeds done, repayment must be seen
	in one form or another. Thus, they take on the recycle
	for a short period and return to attain.
	CHE FATT
	Claiming ignorance when ignorance is not seen
	Hoping to judge to one's own extent
	Erase thoughts of impurities, but search in the right Path.
	Failure to see points for points; man judges
	A slight endurance in order to see; one cannot perform
	Trying to see eye to eye; this may not do
	Take the impurities back and bury all deeply.