The chi-kung master uses
his energy, called "chi," to heal his patients. He must practice chi
kung very diligently everyday in order to have enough "chi" to perform
the healing. He heals by putting his hands on patients' pressure points.
His energy can relieve their pain temporarily and relax them. His patients
as well as other chi-kung masters respect him very much. This chi-kung
master felt very good that the "chi," for which he had worked so very
hard, could bring him such a successful career. In the beginning, he
just wanted to practice chi-kung for self-healing. Since he practiced
diligently day and night, he could attain enough energy to heal himself
and others. People who admired him very much called him a master of
chi-kung.
One day this chi-kung master
received a dinner invitation from a friend who wrote books on the subject.
The friend admired this master very much because the friend only knew
the theory of chi-kung but he had not yet achieved a comparable level.
When this master arrived at his friend's house, the friend told the
master about his problem with his wife over the subject of chi-kung.
The friend's wife has Ph.D.
in neurology and an M.D. in psychiatry. She had also practiced chi-kung
for a long time and had reached a fairly high level of advancement.
One day he and his wife went to a health exposition in Columbus, Ohio
so that he could demonstrate chi-kung to the public. His wife stopped
at the Quan Yin booth and picked up a sample booklet. After reading
the booklet, she became a vegetarian and began practicing the Convenient
Method.
Subsequently, she received initiation from Master Ching Hai.
This upset her husband very much because he had written a book praising
chi-kung meditation and now his wife left it to practice another method.
He grew angrier when he told the chi-kung master about how his wife
enjoyed practicing the Quan Yin method and believed that it was much
better than chi-kung. She even dared to say that she practiced more
efficiently being near Master Ching Hai at the 7-day retreat in Cambodia
than when practicing at home. She told him that she had many inner experiences.
The chi-kung master asked
his friend, "What do you want me to do today?"
His friend sighed and
said, "My wife admires you very much because you have really obtained
the chi and have the power to heal other people. Can you explain to
my wife that our chi-kung method is better than the Quan Yin meditation?"
The chi-kung master nodded his
head and said "Oh, sure, our
chi-kung meditation is the
best." So the friend called his
wife out to talk to the chi-kung
master. The master talked about
the many methods that he had
tried and how very hard he
practiced every day on each
method. From his experience so
far, chi-kung was the best.
His friend's wife did not
say much, but instead gave the chi-kung master a sample booklet about
Quan Yin meditation with the title "The Key of Immediate Enlightenment".
Not being able to convince the wife, the master went home with the sample
booklet in hand. At home, he left the book in the corner of the house.
One day a patient came to his
office, but he couldn't heal her
because she was so depressed
about her son's recent death.
The chi -kung master had no way
to relieve her depression and so
he gave her the sample booklet
to read. He hoped that by
keeping her busy with the
booklet, she would be distracted
from her own sorrows for a
while. Little did he know that
the benefits of the sample
booklet were much greater than
that.
A few days later, this patient
came back to return the booklet. She told the chi-kung master that she
was very excited about visiting the local center the next day to learn
more about Quan Yin meditation. She had felt peace and consolation after
having read the words in the sample booklet. The chi-kung master was
very surprised that the words in the sample booklet had more power than
his chi. The booklet could relieve his patient's depression when he
couldn't.
After his patient went
home, he was curious about the sample booklet. As he opened the booklet,
he detected a fragrant aroma emanating from it. So he started reading
and couldn't stop. After finishing, he called his patient and asked
her if he could join her on her visit to the local center. They arrived
early the next morning at the local center. Immediately, he signed up
to learn the Convenient Method. He also bought the set of books, "The
Key of Immediate Enlightenment". He then went home and read the books
day and night without sleeping, and had many inner experiences while
reading the books, which made him very happy and surprised. He could
smell the fragrance and feel the energy around him while he read.
One week later he was approved
by Master Ching Hai to learn the Convenient Method, and soon found out
how powerful even the Convenient Method is. He could gather the equivalent
amount of energy from only half an hour of practicing the Convenient
that he could from six hours of practicing chi-kung. He couldn't express
his happiness when many times he saw a big bright light in front of
his wisdom eye and heard beautiful sounds all around him. As soon as
he closed his eyes, he was in deep samadhi. He read in the book about
the tremendous blessings received from looking into the eyes of a living
Master. He longed to meet Master Ching Hai so that he could look deeply
into Her eyes. As he closed the book, he saw Master's picture on the
cover, and so he just looked into the eyes of the Her picture. Surprisingly,
another spiritual experience occurred. He received the light and a warm
blessing straight from the eyes of Master Ching Hai.
He later went to the local
Center to ask for more sample booklets, and told his patients that he
was going to close his healing office. Then he gave the sample booklets
to all his patients and advised them to hurry and find Supreme Master Ching Hai
because She is really a Supreme Master and a Master of masters. He understood
that to heal people from the root is to help them meet a living Master
so that they can be liberated from the maya world and break out of the
circle of reincarnation. He knew that his success in healing people
had built up his ego and prevented him from advancing his spiritual
level.
The chi-kung master is
now very humble and cannot wait for initiation. He plans to close his
healing office in a few weeks and live very simply, allowing more time
for meditation. The chi-kung master plans to meditate many hours a day
after receiving initiation, and is very happy that he has finally found
a True Master.