(English) Supreme Master Ching Hai told Chinese legends of Mazu, the Ninth Fairy, Through the stories, we learn the influence of our ego, karma, original sin and the real meaning of immortality. The Supreme Master also expressed Her deep sorrow for the suffering people and animals. She said that I never feel that I do enough as long as one person still suffers in this world, and one animal is still being slaughtered mercilessly. As a human, we should take everybody’s disaster as our disaster, continue to ...

(Chinese) Highlights~ Buddha's disciple Nitti was from the lowest social class in India, working as a humble manure carrier. But he could follow the Buddha and became a monk and attained Sainthood. Through this story, Supreme Master Ching Hai advised us that even if we have power, social status, property and knowledge, we should not become arrogant and look down upon others, and we should not think that this job is not good or the other is good. Humility is from within. A real humble person does ...

(Chinese) If we serve as a good tool, Buddha’s blessing power can be conveyed to this world through us, benefiting everyone, including our neighbors, friends, relatives of five, sixe, seven, eight, nine, or even ten generations so that they may get liberated. If we don’t practice well, we may obstruct Buddha’s power. Therefore, getting initiated alone is not enough. We ourselves have go practice diligently so that Buddha’s blessing power can benefit our relatives, friends and this world via our clean and ...

(English) Highlights~ Right now our earth’s situation is really urgent. The solution is simple: Stop eating meat, use sustainable energy, bio-degradable products and plant trees. Then naturally the planet will return to its state of harmony and balance. The planet’s very existence is in peril. There are many warning signs. Money is worth nothing if there is no planet. Now is the time for the world’s people to act and the killing have to stop. We know ...

(Chinese+English) Highlights~ This lecture includes 3 spiritual stories. One desperately poor man throw a stone at a mango off the tree to feed himself, but the stone hit a king’s head . What punishment would he get? What decision did the king make that later made his people rejoice and develop their own loving kindness? Through this story, Supreme Master Qing Hai elaborated the ideal of non-violence. Jesus Christ once said, “If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, let him slap your left cheek, too .” But Master ...

(English) In this special gathering, Supreme Master Ching Hai announced the good news that the Earth had been saved to continue for at least 58 more years, and that 99.9% of world’s population had been uplifted to at least the Third Level. How can we tell our enemies from past lives? Supreme Master shared that the intimate partner is often our past life enemy. A lack of love and care in a former life made us enemies, so this lifetime we come back together to learn the lesson of love. Supreme ...

(Chinese) Highlights: Why is saints' wisdom sometimes regarded as a kind of disease? In the old time, a man named Longshu got a strange disease. A famous doctor named Wen Zhi diagnosed it as “saint disease". What are the symptoms of this disease? Supreme Master Qing Hai points out that maybe Longshu had been practicing spiritually during previous life times and merely came back this life to practice that little bit left. Would you like to know what remedy Master gave for this type of disease? Many of us ...

(Chinese) Highlights: Supreme Master Qing Hai who always loves kids meets with our little fellow initiates and tells them several interesting stories, such as the Little Japanese Monk and A Little Japanese Monk + A Trillionaire Digging Sweet Potatoes. She brings the little initiates into a hearty laughter with her usual humorous style while instilling new spiritual meaning into these stories. There was a smart little monk in Kyoto who was always capable of solving all kinds of problems with his extraordinary ...

(Chinese) Highlights: Supreme Master Qing Hai tells a Buddhist story about A Purely Tolerant Princess. What caused the Purely Tolerant Princess to be so utterly ugly? Why did the prince in the nearby country determinedly marry her while all the male descendants of the nobility in the country went abroad to avoid marrying her? When the prince finally couldn’t bear with her appearance and others’ mockery and decided to divorce her, how did Shakyamuni Buddha help the housebound princess and changed her ...

(English) Highlights~ Master discusses the psychological aspects of possessive tendencies and insecurities, to present to us the picture of what people can be, how they can behave and how they sometimes hold themselves and others back, by not improving their knowledge or different skills. Master further provides us with solutions by telling us not to let anyone, whoever it may be, even the closest ones, take hold of our life so much that we cannot grow. We always have to try to be ...