(Chinese) Do you want to know the whole story of the third Zen patriarch - Sanakavasa’s spiritual practice in the Himalayas? How did he, having attained magic powers through practicing heavenly Dharma, switch to practice the correct Dharma of Sakyamuni Buddha? And how did Ananda transmit the Tathagata's great Dharma of Eye Treasury to Sanakavasa? What did Buddha predict about Sanakavasa’s transmission of the Proper Dharma? Sanakavasa passed down the Great Dharma of Eye Treasury to Upagupta. When he had finished ...

(Chinese) Highlights: The Eleventh Zen Patriarch Punyayasas was quiet in nature since he was a child and bore the manner of a great spiritual practitioner. How did he get the lineage from the Tenth Patriarch Parsvika? How did he win the respect of sentient beings and deliver tens of millions of them? Please listen to the interesting story of the Eleventh Zen Patriarch told by Supreme Master Ching Hai. It was still the Golden Age at that time and the Buddha was gone into Nirvana for just five hundred years, only ...

(Chinese) Do you know how many enlightened Masters there are in the universe? What merits can one gain by keeping the Precepts? Most chosen enlightened Masters are Buddhas from ancient times. There are just a few even if they are chosen multiple times. Others seem to have less power. When the time is up, one is chosen, is reborn in this world, and goes on to transmit the Dharma. When that one is gone, another one is chosen. There are a dozen ancient Buddhas like this who specialize in teaching sentient beings; ...

(Chinese) Supreme Master tells a story about an enlightened master and his young disciple. The young monk came to a busy town for the first time in his life and saw a beautiful woman. He knew nothing about woman and wondered why master called her tiger. He then got the permission from master and came down the mountain, intending to put an end to his affinity with the mundane world. Later the master came to look for him several times and asked him to go back to the mountain to practice, but the disciple was deeply ...

(Chinese) Ananda was Buddha’s attendant and was pre-eminent in hearing Dharma, but why was he still lacking in wisdom and weak in will power and nearly got lured to break the precepts? What did he ask from Shakyamuni Buddha mercifully teach him? Buddha accepted his request and emitted various lights from His forehead and merged all worlds into one; all Bodhisattvas stayed in their places and listened attentively with closed palms. Please listen to Supreme Master Ching Hai’s simple but profound explanations of ...

(English) Supreme Master Ching Hai reminded us that when we are attached to this world, we have already fallen into the trap of illusion, or maya. People compete, make pressure and even wage war against each other to attain materialistic comfort. Many Masters throughout the ages never used force to gain anything. Yet after their death, they continue to be revered by future generations. This is due to the power of love. Supreme Master also reminisced about the outstanding contributions and leadership of the ...

(English) During a video conference with Supreme Master Television staff, Supreme Master Ching Hai revealed the unknown mysteries of the historical remains left by ancient civilization and crop circles. Who built the pyramids, the prehistoric megalithic sites and the Immense Stone Walls all around the world? What were the purposes of doing so? Why does the cross-legged posture of meditation resemble the shape of pyramids? Supreme Master told us that the mysterious crop circles were made by aliens, what’s ...

(Chinese) Only enlightened Master can have tens of billions of transformed bodies. This “transformed body”, or Tathagata or the level of onmipresence is totally exceptional. He can be anywhere and appears in multiple places at the same time. Lots of people pray to him, and he has the ability to save those prayers in countless transformed bodies. That’s why we say Quan Yin Bodhisattva will appear in a thousand places where he is prayed to. That's the real level of Quan Yin, and the real level of Tathagata, ...

(Chinese) Master says: Don’t come here and complain that your husband is bad-tempered or your wife is not nice. Spiritual practitioners should be better than them, but you always end up quarrelling with them and forcing them to let you go to the 7-day retreat. One of your brothers from Yilan is a good example. He talked with his wife in a sincere, determined and humble manner about his going to the 7-Day retreat, and proceeded softly and slowly. This is the right way. We do not suppress other's feelings or make ...

(Chinese) When the twentieth Patriarch Jayata met the diligent ascetic Vasubandhu during his world travel while transforming sentient beings, Vasubandu was already very famous in that local area and had many followers. Why did the twentieth Patriarch say that Vasubandu was still far away from attaining the Tao even if he practiced ascetic? Hearing that, why did Vasubandu felt happy instead of angry? Supreme Master Ching Hai explains that practicing ascetic doesn’t necessarily mean one can attain the Tao, ...