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How do you understand the process of surrendering to God's will?
(Sister): Dear Thay, dear friends, the question is:
How does Thay understand the process of surrendering to God's will?
(Thay): God's will is that you should be your best.
You should be alive.
You should enjoy the wonders of life
and you should help other people
to suffer less and to enjoy the wonders of life.
That is the will of God.
And that is also the will of nature, the will of Mother Earth.
Because Mother Earth is doing that.
Mother Earth always tries to be as beautiful as she can be,
to be as fresh as she can,
as forgiving as she should.
So Mother Earth is doing God's will.
And we who are children of the Mother Earth
we can learn from her.
We should be patient.
We should live in such a way
that can preserve our freshness, our beauty,
our compassion.
With that kind of intention,
good intention,
to transform the suffering inside,
to help people around, living beings,
to transform their suffering.
The intention to really be there
and live deeply the life that is given to you to live.
The intention to help people to do the same.
With that intention, you surrender to the will of God,
to the desire of Father Sun and Mother Earth.
Because vitality, the will to live,
the will to live peacefully, happily, with compassion,
that is the will of God.
And it is also our will,
because we have our physical body
and we have our cosmic body, we have our God body.
The one who surrenders and the one who is surrended to
they are not two separate entities.
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