by the Seoul News Group

[Seoul] On April 4 and 5, 2004, while enjoying beautiful spring weather, Korean initiates held a blissful two-day retreat and an Arbor Day event at the Youngdong Center. After the retreat, the practitioners planted approximately 160 pine trees and countless flowers, including royal azaleas, around the Center’s newly built meditation hall.

Youngdong’s large temporary meditation hall, used in the past for international retreats, is not suitable for use during the winter months. Thus, to satisfy a long-cherished desire of Korean initiates, last December a new meditation hall was built that can hold around 450 initiates for meditation and has a 4 x 5.5m (13’x18’) wide screen for viewing Master’s videos.

However, the only thing that remained to be done was to beautify the hall’s natural environment. So, during Korean Arbor Day, the initiates lovingly planted trees and flowers in the area. Brothers moved and placed in the ground large trees while sisters cleaned up the surrounding valley area and gathered spring herbs from the mountainous land of the holy Center.

When the resident-brother responsible for the Center’s landscape architecture went shopping for trees at a local store, the owner, seeing the brother wearing a Buddhist robe and thinking that the plants were for a temple, was very helpful and even provided some free of charge. Then later, after talking further with initiates and learning about the supreme teachings, the shop owner even learned the Convenient Method of meditation.

The gardening work is scheduled to continue for one month, and in May, the area around Youngdong’s new meditation hall will be reborn into a beautiful Heavenly landscape with numerous trees providing plenty of shade, and a pleasantly cool pond constructed by initiates.

 

The City of Light Shines More Brightly
after Hearing Master’s Words

 

by the Seoul News Group

[Gwangju] On April 25, 2004, Gwangju City, whose name literally means “City of Light,” played host to a public video seminar at the Namdo Art Center. Two months earlier, about fifty Gwangju initiates had pulled together and begun preparations for the event to make it the area’s most successful seminar ever.

While promoting the activity, the sisters and brothers noticed that the citizens of the Golden Age were very positive and elevated as many passersby paid great interest in the posters being put up on the streets. For example, one elderly couple asked if they could have a poster to display in their home. And another person saw a poster that had accidentally fallen on the ground, felt indescribable delight and deep emotion, took it home, and later came to the seminar and learned the Convenient Method.

On seminar day, approximately one hundred people attended and listened intently to Supreme Master Ching Hai’s message. After the video-lecture presentation, the guests asked many insightful questions about Master and the Quan Yin Method, and also attentively read Her publications.

Many of the attendees already knew about Master; for instance, a man who had read several of Her books revealed, “I’ve long thought that She’s a great Master. Today’s lecture also delivered the Truth in the simplest way possible.” And another guest commented, “From the scriptures I’ve learned that the Light and Sound meditation is the most efficient way to reach the Truth, and I partially affirmed this knowledge after learning the Convenient Method here today.” A number of other guests also received Convenient Method transmission after the seminar.

Also, after reading Master’s sample booklet at home, an elderly gentleman who attended the seminar but did not learn the Convenient Method realized that his remaining life should be in accordance with Master’s teachings so he later traveled a great distance by bicycle to the Gwangju Center to learn the practice.

In addition, since the seminar many other Truth aspirants have visited the Center such as one person who had heard of Master ten years ago, saw Her poster and website, and then came to the Center to be taught the CM. Also, a taxi driver who could not make it to the seminar because of his job later came to the Center and learned the Convenient form of practice.

Thanks to Master’s great blessing, after the Namdo Art Center video seminar, the City of Light was filled with even more light, and thus shined more brilliantly than ever!

 

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