(Chinese) Highlights: Master trains disciples to be hard and soft and uses scolding method sometimes to help disciples free from and break through their preconceived ideas. During the seven-day retreat, a fellow initiate blamed master for scolding him. But the next day when he turned happy, he saw Master’s light, felt Master’s loving power, and was grateful to Master. Master explains that it's not that Master showed the light to him after he turned happy, but that he got enlightened after regaining happiness, ...

(Chinese) Master praises elderly people for their greater beauty as they possess boundless love and wisdom. Therefore, it is better for grandparents, rather than young parents, to raise the children. Master also patiently answers spiritual questions from fellow initiates, such as: How can we concentrate better in our spiritual practice and develop our love and wisdom? How can we progress if we have few experiences of inner Light and Sound? Will it affect our spiritual practice if our job involves checking fengshui ...

(Chinese) Highlights: Supreme Master Ching Hai tells us aninteresting story about an adventure to Tibet made by Ms. Alexandra David-Neel, who is famous around the world as the first European woman ever stepping onto the land of Tibet. Supreme Master explains the difference between a ghost and a transformation body by comparing this lady’s experience of encountering with one of our initiates’experience of seeing Master's transformation body come to their rescue during a car accident. Ghosts with stronger ...

(Chinese) Highlights: Supreme Master Qing Hai tells a story about an Indian master who was famous for scolding his disciples. Whatever his disciples thought, he knew it right away and reacted instantly before they spoke out. Supreme Master points out that, an enlightened master should completely know what sentient beings think about, then he can be regarded as an enlightened master. He should understand his disciples in order to help them. Everyone has different levels, personalities and wisdom, so if he treats ...

(English) Highlights~ At a gathering between Supreme Master Ching Hail and Association members in France 2008, Master told stories of the Wise Mullah Nasrudin and profound stories from the poems of Rumi. Why did Mullah Nasrudin choose money instead of wisdom in the face of the king? Why did such a great master have to endure his wife’s sarcastic criticism? The Supreme Master also explained ...

(Chinese) It's difficult to communicate in this world even when we speak the same language. But in the Pureland or heavenly kingdom, we can understand each other even without speaking ; Supreme Master Ching Hai reveals that in the higher world, communication is just through radio waves. There's no need to distinguish between languages. It seems there's only one type of language in the whole world. So how should we communicate with the whole universe? Why do the scriptures say "Buddha speaks one single language ...

(Chinese) What kind of person can be considered a true spiritual practitioner? Is it enough just to be vegan and meditate? Supreme Master Ching Hai tells us that a sincere practitioner should be considerate of others in all circumstances. When we need to confirm the right thing to do, just put ourselves in the other's shoes, and we will know right away. "Don't do to others what you don't want others to do to you." There is nothing wrong with wanting to achieve something, but if our actions hurt other beings ...

(Chinese) Highlights: Will there still be tests when one has attained Buddhahood? And what are the conditions to become a Buddha? Supreme Master Qing Hai talks brilliantly about Buddhahood to break our illusions. She says that: don't think there will be no test after becoming a Buddha. There is tests everyday! The more the disciples you have , the more tests there will be. But just because of the tests from them, you know what level you are. When occasionally some mundane thoughts pop , we’ll be amazed how we ...

(Chinese) Highlights Penghu is a small island located off the southwest coast of Formosa (Taiwan). Surrounded by the ocean, people there can clearly see the effects of climate change already. Our Association members in Penghu thus especially invited Supreme Master Ching Hai to discuss this global issue via video-conference. The Supreme Master expressed, “I am also very worried, but we can only advise people to change. We can ...

(English) Highlights~ Supreme Master Ching Hai delicately chooses many jokes as gifts of joy for this mundane world. For example, a lion asks every animal he meets, “who is the strongest in the woods?” and gets a surprising answer from an elephant. One group of bats sees that one of their fellows seems to have had a wonderful meal. When they all rush out looking for food they find out an unexpected truth. In this DVD ...