Letters of Appreciation

From Costa Rica

(Originally in Spanish)

FUNDEICO

Foundation for the Cultural

and Social Development of

the Indigenous People of Costa Rica

January 22, 2005

Your Excellency
Supreme Master Ching Hai

Honorable Master,
On behalf of the people and community of Higher Talamanca, Bribri, Costa Rica, we wish to convey our sincere gratitude from the bottom of our hearts for the food and other aid that You provided us, which arrived at the moment when we most needed that blessing.

It is also our wish that the Great Spirit protect You and fill You with many blessings and that Your kind heart, which You have shared with us, will continue to grow.

In our moments of affliction and suffering we did not expect miracles of kindness coming from a great, special and spiritual person such as You, but we have learned and understood that the Great Spirit has angels here on earth. Our prayers filled with tears of need traveled thousands of miles to be heard at a great distance, and only a very spiritual being full of kindness such as You would respond in such a loving and charitable way.

Honorable Majesty, Your wonderful gesture of love will remain forever in our hearts and spirits, in our people and in our community, and we will always be grateful to you as a highly spiritual person. We therefore hope to live to see the great magical day when we can meet you and thank you personally.

We would like to invite You to visit our land, our culture, our language and our spirituality that was inherited from our ancestors, as we are natives of this country and still follow the culture of our grandparents regarding the road to spirituality.

We cannot help but mention the great spirit of love and commitment expressed by Your disciples from the Los Angeles Meditation Center in California, the United States, among them, the Aulacese man, the Chinese man and the Mexican lady, and those from our country of the International Meditation Center. To all of them we express our gratitude and congratulations for their great spirit of commitment toward their compatriots, to whom they showed kindness, spirituality and above all love.

In closing, we say “so long” as we want to continue our ties of friendship, love and especially kindness, which You have conveyed through Your disciples. To them and to You we wish the fullest of blessings so that You may always continue on the path of true spirituality that is translated into service to others. May the Great Spirit always protect You. Amen and thank You.

Thank-you letters from:

A) Mr. Rafael Angel Borbón Vargas, President of the Association of Nazareth Work in Costa Rica

B) Father F. Fabio Flores from the Parish of Saint Anthony of Padúa, Bribi, Talamanca, Limón, Costa Rica

C) The National Prevention Commission, Liaison Officer for the Atlantic Region

D) The Local Committee for the Prevention of Risks and Attention to Emergencies of the Indigenous Territories of Bribri and Cabecar, Talamanca—CLETI

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