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(Chinese) We have both blessings and karma. How should we keep blessings and avoid karma? Supreme Master Ching Hai points out that if we are clever enough, we should seize the opportunity and make use of our blessings to the fullest extent, and gain more blessings at the same time, so that our blessings will never run out and our karma, if any, shall be left unused. For the same reason, we should not waste the opportunity of being a human; otherwise, when the karma comes, we shall be in hell for a long time and ...

(Chinese) Master reminded fellow initiates to be cautious in spiritual practice and pay attention to the ingredients of food. She said, “If we eat any animal product, we have to bear a lot of karma. These foods are not free. They cost the animals’ lives! Anything that’s related to life cost a lot. It’s even mentioned in the Bible that we should not consume anything associated with a life.” Why would we have “natural power” from practicing the Quan Yin Method and yet we shouldn’t practice the ...

(Chinese) Highlights Life after life, we have been cheated by Maya by keeping falling into the traps he set, thus losing many lives. We are bound not only by our karma, but also by our indiscreetly made blessings too. Because when born into this mundane world again without enlightened masters to remind us, we can be immediately cheated by maya both for our life and soul. Besides, we owe this world a lot, even if we do all benevolent things. The air seems to be free, but actually is not; water comes from ...

( English) Master explains how to be more still in meditation, the secret to making progress in practice, and ways to handle your fear and disturbances by inner beings during meditation. Master emphasizes the importance of putting Master's teaching into practice and the true purpose of a retreat. The "Real" Master is not the body. Master elaborates the reasons why a True Master must always suffer in the physical body and why people have different kinds spiritual experiences, inner and outer. ...

(English) As the Buddhist doctrines say, "Put down the butcher's knife, and become a Buddha immediately." This does not mean that we have to wait until we put down the butcher's knife to become a Buddha. No! We only need to turn within and "listen inwardly to our self-nature", then we will immediately behold our Buddha Nature. We have read many scriptures and heard about "listening inwardly to our self-nature", but we do not know how and why. Why don't we say "look inwardly", or "touch inwardly", or "feel ...

(English) Is it suitable for everyone to become a breatharian? How did it become a habit that humans need to eat? Supreme Master Ching Hai elaborates the difference between the Quan Yin Method and breatharianism, and also speaks of the situation and symptoms one may go through when transiting to a breatharian. She repeatedly emphasizes that if one wants to become a breatharian, you must follow the rules strictly and ask an expert for guidance, going through the three-week process step by step. In addition, ...

(Chinese) Why do we want to become Buddha? It's not because we want to deliver sentient beings or escape from this world of sufferings, but because we should become Buddha. It would be a pity if we forget our status after being born into this mundane world. Spiritual practice does not require us to shave our head. We can keep our religious belief if we have any; and we don’t have to change our job. The most important thing for spiritual practice is to find our Buddha nature, our real Self or the original power. It ...

(Chinese) This presents stories about the Taoist Sima Chengzhen, as told by Supreme Master Ching Hai. Even the body isn’t there, we can still go on living; we can create one and go down for a few days in a transformation body. To stay in this world, a few days, even several minutes are long enough. We use this body to practice well, and when we go up there, it would be easy to come down. The challenging part is going up. In ...

(English+Aulacese) Supreme Master Ching Hai tells six stories about Zen Master Zhaozhou, each of which has profound meaning and inspires deep reflection. With extraordinary wisdom, Zen Master Zhaozhou addressed Truth seekers of his time, saying that we practitioners should not get attached to scriptures but rather should look within ourselves and put our own innate wisdom into action. In describing Zen Master Zhaozhou’s exemplary spiritual practice and style, Supreme Master ...

(Chinese) Highlights: Everything is created by the mind: we are what we think. The thoughts of most non-practitioners, however, are in a mess with greed, anger, illusion, competition, hatred, etc, which will create a kind of electricity or atmosphere around us and transform it into a bad atmosphere in our country. Our Earth is full of this kind of mind-set, that is why the Earth is not peaceful. We humans do not only live on money, but also rely on affections, atmosphere, peaceful countries, loving kindness and ...