During
my childhood and youth, I lived under the high expectations of my parents,
eventually entering medical school and becoming a gynecologist and obstetrician.
As I look back at my past, I clearly realize that God has always taken
good care of me, and my gratitude is beyond words.
On
the operating table at the hospital where I work, I often welcome the
arrival of new lives. I have also seen many patients reach the end of
the journey of their lifetimes. The two extreme situations of great
joy and deep sorrow brought about by these events used to mystify me
about the ultimate meaning of life, and I wondered, "Who actually
rules our lives?" Many times I attended Buddhist retreats or worshipped
Buddha's statues seeking an answer to this question, but nothing could
help resolve the ongoing puzzle in my mind. However, these concerns
gradually faded in the midst of my busy life as a doctor until I went
to study in Oxford, England. When I read the wonderful lectures by Supreme
Master Ching Hai published in the overseas edition of Formosa's Central
Daily News, I suddenly felt enlightened, and the true meaning of life
became clear to me, filling my soul with indescribable joy. Master's
words printed every other week in the Central Daily News became the
spiritual food that I craved.
It
was a remarkable arrangement by God that in the last year of my study
in England, Brother Loh from Formosa's National Defense Medical Center
also came to study at Oxford, where he set up a local center for group
meditation. With great happiness, I learned the Convenient Method, and
began practicing meditation and vegetarianism. However, just as I was
preparing for initiation, my father informed me that my mother was undergoing
a serious illness and I rushed home. Two operations failed to save my
mother's life. At this time I shared with my father the precious teachings
of Supreme Master Ching Hai, and he decided to become a vegetarian and
request initiation. Mother's death made me realize the urgency of pursuing
spirituality. A few months later, on my flight home with my wife and
children after completing my overseas studies, we began to follow a
strict vegetarian diet, and sought initiation upon returning to Formosa.
About
three months later, Master came back to Formosa, and on a holiday just
before a typhoon, our whole family went to Hsihu for initiation. My
wife was frightened and anxious on the highway as dark clouds loomed
in the sky, but for me it was one opportunity in thousands of eons to
be initiated by a living Master. Thank God, we were all initiated into
the Quan Yin Method that day. Without my father's cultivation and Master's
grace for bestowing on me a new life through our initiation, I would
not be the person I am today.
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