One
day, after talking with a would-be initiate about her affinity in finding Master,
I was deeply shocked and touched. With sincerity and gratitude, I have recorded
her experience, wishing to share this holy love story of the living Master with
everyone.
"One day in 1992, on the Xinchu
bus from Chung Li to Longtan, a very young and beautiful nun, wearing an orange
colored Tibetan lama's robe, was sitting in the front seat. She held a walkman
in one hand, pressing the buttons with the other hand. Because her lama's robe
was special, it drew my attention. I attentively watched her every move, thinking
about where she had come from and where she would be going. Suddenly, she turned
her head and looked at me with a smile. Then she continued to play with her
walkman. When the bus arrived at Longtan, I stood up to get off. The nun also
stood up and got off through the front door. Seeing her walk away, I thought
that I might give her a ride on my motorcycle. When I got my motorcycle and
wanted to catch up with her, I could not find her anywhere.
After the would-be initiate
finished her story, I excitingly told her, "What you saw was Master's transformation
body. Master appeared to you in order to liberate you.
She said, "How could that
be? She looked so real. How could She have been a transformation body? At that
time, I did not know who She was. Several days later when I went shopping, I
unexpectedly saw a poster about this nun's lecture posted on an electricity
pole. On the poster was written: Supreme Master Ching Hai, a Master from the Himalayas.
Only then did I come to know that the nun whom I had seen several days earlier
was Supreme Master Ching Hai. From then on, Master has been in my heart, and I have never
forgotten about Her. In the past few years, I have practiced other methods,
but they could not satisfy my spiritual longing. Deep in my heart, I more and
more firmly believe that only Supreme Master Ching Hai is my true Master.
As I write this, the melody
of the song, "A Little Lamb Wants To Go Home resounds in my mind. Each time
when I sing this song, I can not help being touched and shed tears. Each fellow
practitioner has some affinity with Master from past lifetimes. After we come
to this world, we immediately forget about our Home and then begin to reincarnate
life after life. Our compassionate Master is like a shepherd, enduring the hardships
of a long and tiresome journey, thinking nothing of the hard work of looking
for the group of loving and ignorant missing lambs in this bottomless secular
world. She eagerly teaches us with boundless love and leads us to return to
the Home of our soul. Master's grace is vast and mighty. The only thing that
we can do is to comply with Her teachings, apply them in our daily lives, and
follow Her footsteps till eternity.