By
brother initiate Andreas Scherer, Hong Kong
(Oringinally
in English)
I
am a 34 year old native of Germany living and working in Hong Kong.
After learning eight years ago about the existence of living Masters,
I became more and more determined that once I found such a Master, I
would not hesitate to become a disciple. In February of this year, while
vacationing on the island of Palawan in the Philippines, I found Issue
# 90 of the Supreme Master Ching Hai News and was immediately captured
by its contents. Upon my return to Hong Kong, I accessed one of Master's
Internet home pages, studied its contents, and became a strict vegetarian
the same day, realizing that the sooner I could begin keeping a vegetarian
diet, the sooner I could become initiated.
Just at the time I had completed
the three month purification period (of course, I was then already a
Convenient Method practitioner), Master's European Lecture Tour was
announced. Since I didn't want to wait for initiation a single day longer,
I decided to take a week off from work and fly to Europe with a group
from the Hong Kong Center. We reached Helsinki just after midnight -
the day of Master's lecture. I think that by that time, everyone in
our group was eagerly looking forward to finally seeing Master. Although
I was a new 'face' in the group, everyone took care of me and treated
me so nicely that I felt very comfortable. About one hour before the
lecture began, I took my seat in the lecture hall. Guess where! I dared
to sit in the first row, directly in front of Masters' sofa, thus being
at the closest possible distance from Her!!
The results of the lecture
and the response of the audience to Masters' teachings were great: Many
people from all generations queued up to register for either initiation
or Convenient Method training. Before I went to bed that night, after
initiation, I meditated together with another brother. Thinking about
the suffering of Master for the sake of delivering sentient beings and
saving the world, I suddenly started to cry inside, and tears rolled
down my face. Being raised as the oldest of four sons, I can say that
being tough and never showing any signs of weakness were always my strengths,
and crying was something I really have not done since childhood. In
that moment I realized that inside I had changed and that there was
something that I had forgotten or suppressed for a long time. The crying
re-occurred the next morning, again when thinking about Master's sacrifices
for humanity.
Later, I helped with the
lecture tour work in several other stops, and wish to thank all my brothers
and sisters for the wonderful experience of oneness that I felt throughout
the whole trip. Master, I have no words to express my eternal gratitude
to You for accepting me as Your disciple. I will try my best to be a
worthy one. 
