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(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, ...

(English) On February 21st, 2009, the 12th Philippine President, His Respected Excellency, Mr. Fidel Ramos visited the Taipei Center of the Supreme Master Ching Hai International Association to host the “Act Now! For a More Peaceful and Safer World” seminar through live videoconference with Supreme Master Ching Hai. His Respected Excellency Mr. Ramos emphasized that a wise, sharing and frugal kind of consumption is just the beginning to saving the planet. He also quoted the motto of the Ramos Peace Foundation, ...

(English) Highlights~ Excerpts from Supreme Master Ching Hai’s lecture The Original idea of monkhood is asceticism. You come because you love a Master, you follow a Master and you go through anything just to stay near. So, you eat whatever scraps leftover or whatever from the people outside, who brought in and ate and left it there; or you go begging for food, because you can't go to work. You understand this? But I don't think that spirit ...

(Chinese) Originally, any charity and good deed or action will bring you incredible merit and result, which is unlimited. So we should not ask for anything and the result will come naturally. If you put the unlimited merit into a frame of certain perception or demand, then it’s limited in the frame or we will only get a corner of it. Normally, if we don’t ask for anything, we will have everything including that corner. Understand? But because we are too narrow, we put all our attention to that corner, and ignore ...

(Chinese) Highlights: Supreme Master Ching Hai tells a story named‘Love and Hatred’ about the past life of Shakyamuni Buddha. Why did King Chang-Shou, who governed the country with kindness, decided to give up the throne to the king of a nearby country in face of his war declaration? King Chang-Shou took Prince Chang-Sheng to retreat in a forest and concentrated on spiritual practice. But how did the cruel new king find King Chang-Shou and put him to death? What loving teaching did King Chang-Shou give to his ...

(Chinese) Why do humans have so many sufferings? Why do we still feel lacking something, even if we have lots of money, very high status and a comfortable life? Supreme Master Ching Hai points out that it’s because we haven't found the inner happiness or treasure. Our inner Buddha nature or inner heaven can give us the highest level of happiness, that’s why we call it treasure, Cinta-mani or wish-fulfilling jewel. We all heard that Buddha Buddha is within us, all sentient beings have Buddha nature. or ...

(Chinese) Highlights: It happens to be Teacher’s Day. Master expresses her gratitude to the past, present and future teachers coming from all times and spaces, for their tireless guidance which has made our earth a better place. Master also comments on the story “The King Covered by a Jeweled Canopy ” and points out: it’s not our wish to become a king or master to make us one. It takes enough merits to distribute to the disciples, citizens or subordinates… We spiritual practitioners should not be ...

(Chinese) Some fellow initiates see Master’s transcendental body when they meditate at home. Sometimes the transcendental body would talk to them. They don’t just see the transcendental body in their visions, they can also see Her when they open their eyes, like I am seeing you now. They can also shake hands with Master’s transcendental body. The transcendental body we are talking about now is the “outside” body, who can talk to you. It’s a very special case. What you see in meditation belongs to the ...

(Chinese) We have to be full of the positive and loving energy inside to overcome the negative force. Otherwise, if our positive energy is weaker than the negative one, then we are overwhelmed by it. Understand? And our whole life will be pressed down. Sometimes we are born into a repressive environment, because God wants us to learn the spirit of fearlessness and the lesson of bravery. If we succumb to the situation, then we have not learned our lesson well and it’s not good for us. It won’t affect the ...

(Chinese) We meditate to train ourselves to concentrate, and when we’re able to concentrate, even our memory improves. Supreme Master Ching Hai gets tired when she works with the disciples because, as she says, they “can’t concentrate well, and then they can’t remember well; they don’t have enough intelligence; and their wisdom is not open. That’s why I can only use half or even one-third of their ability. To me, it’s not good enough. When I talk to them, it’s like talking to children; I keep ...