(Chinese) Those who are able to come to this seven-day retreat are very much blessed. Great improvement can be made in seven days if you are willing to receive Master's training. If not, even seven years would be in vain. Master says that we should train ourselves, by turning into an ordinary person, disregarding any responsibility for one week and relaxing a little bit. There is actually nothing in this world! Just let God take care of the whole universe. The universe will remain the same when we are gone. The ...

(Chinese) Once a Zen master said: we will become Buddha if we are pure at heart and not attached to anything; that’s the meaning of “enlightenment comes from non-attachment”. If we are attached, for example, to a doctor’s skill, musical capability or any ability, we would concentrate our omnipotent power on that single point only and be bound there, so we can only do that, because our attention is the key to open the reservoir of our omnipotent power, or just open a small part of it to use. Don’t ...

(Chinese) We have two beings in ourselves. Originally there is only one, but we believe the mind is us, thenthere seems to be two. What are they? One is the person who is doing something in this mundane world, for example, eating, working, driving, getting married, having children, protecting the country, taking care of family, governing the country and pacifying the world, etc. The other is the one in another level or another world, who does many things, but nobody knows it, including us. The latter one is our ...

(Chinese) The Story of Water Margin (All Men Are Brothers) helps us see ourselves: we might originally be Bodhisattva or angles, but if we do not practice spiritually, we could still be very coarse and ferocious and destroy everything. We could not distinguish good from bad; sometimes we are so angry and ferocious but sometimes more reasonable and virtuous, all because we still haven't practiced the true Dharma, or we have not yet cultivated and trained ourselves well; we haven’t got rid of Maya’s qualities and ...

(Chinese) The sixth Zen Patriarch Mikkaka was born in central India. He became a monk after following the fifth Zen Patriarch Dhrtaka and attained the Great Dharma of Eye Treasury Method from the fifth Zen Patriarch. He met his future successor in his seniority and went to Nirvana after his responsibility of teaching sentient beings was fulfilled. Please listen to Supreme Master Ching Hai tell the wonderful story about the spiritual practice of the sixth Zen Patriarch. Since there’s no difference before and ...

(Chinese) How could we have true freedom under unfavorable political rules? Supreme Master Ching Hai points out: we should live as it is no matter what the situation is. Actually, we can survive in any government system as long as we don’t ask for too much. We can find our own way without wasting too much energy in resisting the system. We may just try to live our life with that energy. Only spiritual practitioners can have true freedom. There’s no need at all to stand out and announce that we are struggling or ...

(Chinese) The Fourteenth Zen Patriarch Nagarjuna Bodhisattva was born six-hundred years after Shakyamuni Buddha went into Nirvana. He was exceptionally gifted since he was a small child; because of hiskeen understanding of the sufferings and impermanence of this world, he went to live a secluded life in deep mountains. Later when he received the lineage from Master Kapimala and became a monk, he went to South India to teach sentient beings. Nagarjuna Bodhisattva wrote many books in his whole life, among which ...

(Chinese) Would you like to know how the fifteenth Patriarch Kanadaiba was tested by the fourteenth Patriarch Nagarjuna Bodhisattva? And how did the sixteenth Patriarch Rahulata receive initiation from the fifteenth Patriarch and follow him in spiritual practice？ Please listen to Master’s interesting story of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Zen Patriarchs. Our greed, anger and ignorance hide inside us, so if we are not scolded by Master, or if we do not interact with our fellow initiates, we will not know we have ...

(Chinese) Reverend Milarepa went through a lot of hardships to seek the Tao. Most people in this world praise his sincerity, but why does Supreme Master Ching Hai sympathize with his Master? An old man starting to search for a Master in his 70s, how did he become the keeper of the Master's true teachings ten years later? Why was the king not able to receive the grace from the enlightened Master when he came late at night to seek the Tao? The Supreme Master explains to us the importance of an enlightened Master ...

(English, Aulacese (Vietnamese)) Drugs, violence, killing and so on, most of which derive from ignorance and poverty, are the reasons of much suffering in this world. To stop this vicious cycle, governments should take their role in helping its people get rid of poverty, and family education is of utmost importance here. Supreme Master Ching Hai encouraged all parents, and even grandparents, using their inner wisdom, to guide their off-spring to live an independent and virtuous life. In addition the Supreme Master also explained ...