http://SupremeMasterTV.com -- An Immediate Plan for Afterlife - P1/3 May 28, 1989 San Francisco, California,USA. Episode: 1714, Air Date: 25 May 2011. Script
* Ladies and gentlemen，welcome to the seminar. First，let me give you a brief introduction of our Master Ching Hai. Master Ching Hai was born into an Aulacese (Vietnamese) family. When she was a little girl，she always followed her parents，who truly believed in God and Jesus Christ，to church on Sundays.
During the weekdays，she spent most of her after school hours with her grandmother，who was a faithful Buddhist，studying all the Buddha's sutras. Because of this special family background，Master Ching Hai has accepted both Catholic and Buddhist teachings since her childhood. Concerning Master's biography，please refer to the free booklet you have in your hand.
I personally have been looking for the answers of life since I was a very little boy. I have tried from Buddhism to Christianity，but I had never been satisfied until I met Master Ching Hai. She gave me the answers and woke me up. Thank you，Master. I believe pretty soon there are people who are sitting in this room tonight who will have the same feeling as mine. Now，let's again welcome our Supreme Master Ching Hai.
@Thank you. Thank you，my friends，brothers and sisters，fathers，mothers. He came from Boston. He was initiated about last year，(*Yes.) last year in Formosa (Taiwan). Yes. They came from Boston to welcome us. So，may I also welcome you？Today，I saw that all of you came back from holidays. Is that not so？You came back from vacation？Had a nice vacation？Yes？
The best vacation we will have when we leave this world - I mean，go back to the Kingdom of Heaven. But for this，we must prepare today. It is like before we go on a big vacation or small vacation，we must prepare our luggage，our checkbook，our gasoline，our clothing and the comforts we need on the road and at the vacation site. So we must prepare today for the final day of our journey. How to prepare this day，most of us do not know. We only know how to prepare for old age，for sickness，life insurance，but nobody prepares for death insurance，and the death insurance is the most necessary insurance that we should remember.
When a woman is giving birth to a child，so many people rush to assist her; or when we get married，a lot of people come and congratulate us and help us prepare the joyful event. So，in any circumstances we have assistance and helpers，except when we... what？Depart from this world. No one ever can assist us except the angel of death. Now，people will tell me， 『No，no，no. When I die，the Buddha will come to me and bless me，take me to the Buddha Land，because I am a Buddhist，』and the Christians will tell me，『No，when I die，Jesus will come as my Savior and take me back to the Kingdom of God.』
But we forget... forget what the Buddha said about liberation，about going back to the Buddha Land，and we forget about what Jesus said，how we can go back to the Kingdom of God. What I am saying now to you is nothing new: it is all stated in the Bible and in the Buddhist scriptures. I only refer to them in order to emphasize that we must follow those advice in order to truly enter into the Buddha Land or the Kingdom of God.
Now，the Buddha said if someone doesn't meet a Buddha，then he has to run around in the circle of birth and death again and again: he may be born as devas - means heavenly beings; he may be born as human being; he may be born in hell or in the animal kingdom，but not in the Buddha Land. And what does it mean by 『Buddha Land』？The land of the ultimate bliss，of the highest happiness，or Nirvana，we call that.
Now，what is the Buddha？Everybody knows the Buddha，but the real meaning of the Buddha most people do not take care to consider. 『Buddha，』I say again and again，is the Sanskrit term for an 『enlightened master，』and that's all there is to it，to a Buddha. Whenever you meet an enlightened master so you meet a Buddha; the same with the word 『Christ』in the Hebrew language - means an 『enlightened saint，』a 『messiah，』a 『savior，』one who can lead us to liberation，can bring us back to the Kingdom of God.
So the Buddha said，if you haven't met such a master or such a Buddha，then your chance of becoming totally liberated，totally knowing the Truth，the true world - the invisible，true world，the highest world - your chance to know them is very，very thin; almost nothing，no chance. You will be born in Heaven，hell，world，and that's it - running around，around in the world of eighty-four thousand -means eighty-four thousand kinds of beings - but never becoming a Buddha; means never becoming an enlightened - truly，completely enlightened - perfect saint.
So，that's what the Buddha meant. Now
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