Report From Los Angeles, U.S.A.

◆ Love In Mexico

Inspired by Master's loving instructions to show more concern and care for the poor, fellow initiates from Los Angeles went across the border to the border city of Tijuana to help the needy by supplying them with food, clothing, as well as spiritual comfort.

Fellow initiates from Los Angeles go to Tijuana, Mexico to distribute food, clothing and Master's boundless love.

It was a hot day when fellow initiates arrived in the shanty town that is situated between a cemetery and a garbage dump. Even before they stopped, a crowd began to form. Fellow initiates began distributing the food, clothing and Master's boundless love. The people gratefully told us that this location has improved a lot since fellow initiates began to go there to help these poor people.

Fellow initiates then moved to a nicer area of the city and showed Master's video in a vegetarian restaurant. On the way to the restaurant, a miraculous incident occurred. Some of the initiates got lost. Before long, these lost members stopped in front of a pharmacy to call for help. They found out that they had stopped less than a block from the vegetarian restaurant when the leader found them. Interestingly, one of initiates remembered, only when she saw the pharmacy, that she had been asked to buy some medicine in Mexico. She was grateful for Master's wonderful reminder which allowed her to get the job done.

The video and the discussion afterwards were great, all went smoothly. The attending Mexicans listened to every of Master's words and asked very good questions. Master's love continuously blessed each and everyone. Fellow initiates deeply felt that they received much more than they gave.

◆A New Focus At The World Dance Festival

This year the renowned World Dance Festival was hosted by the Performing Arts Department at Palomar College, located on the outskirts of Los Angeles. The best dancers from different areas gathered to show off their unique talents and beautiful cultures. Fellow practitioners from the Los Angeles center were also invited to participate in this traditional festival. During the event, thousands of people were attracted to come and enjoy the most fabulous art entertainment of the year.

During the festival, there was an impressive introduction of Master and Her contributions to world peace, to the local performing art admirers. When the fellow initiates dressed in beautiful golden outfits appeared on stage, the Candle Dance began. Master's portrait, with Her dressed in the elegant, golden Thai imperial outfit, was projected on a large screen in the background. This amazing projection mixed with the moving candle-light from the dancers suddenly emerging from the total darkness of the stage and creating a magnificent scene full of celestial harmony, resulted in cheering and applause.

The dance performance by Los Angeles initiates is a new focus at the World Dance Festival. It truly display the talents that emerge after enlightenment...

The delicious vegetarian food was also the focus of the festival. Thanks to Master's blessings, fellow practitioners from Los Angeles and San Diego Centers used the entire weekend to prepare the vegetarian food to offer to all guests during the performance intermission. Beautifully decorated tables, full of vegetarian food, were set outside the theater next to a poster of Master. They were surrounded by people of all ages who could not wait to try the exotic, vegetarian delicacies. Many anxiously inquired about the recipes, about information on how and where to get ingredients, as well as showed great interest in the vegetarian diet.

Fellow initiates were grateful to have had the opportunity to serve the public. To be able to follow Master's perfect example; to use love, wisdom and the ever increasing talents that emerge after enlightenment, to beautify the world, is the most joyful thing for them!