★By Sister Initiate Kuan Yiao, California, U.S.A.

More than ten years ago, I dreamt of a big clear ocean. The water was so soft and warm. The jade color made it appear half gaseous and half liquid, but it was crystal clear. I immediately jumped in and felt myself dissolve and unify with it. I disappeared, yet I remained conscious. Never before had I felt such an intense feeling of belonging, and also an indescribable feeling of nirvana and ecstasy. It was an ocean of love. There was no boundary to it; there was no beginning or end, as if the whole universe was engulfed by it. Countless lives were forming in it. This ocean was both tangible and intangible.

I knew it was what I had been looking for all the time -- the original source where I belonged. But, where was it? For a very long time, I tried hard to find the answer to this beautiful dream. It was not until many years after, when I first heard the name "Ching Hai," (means Pure Ocean) that I was totally electrified. The riddle was solved: Master is the ocean of love that occupied my mind all the while.

I saw Master, I got the initiation, and I began to practice the Quan Yin Method. After that, I was even more certain that She is the primeval and the everlasting source of all. I will strive to reach the state of absolute selflessness, so that I can merge with Her, and attain the ultimate Truth.

I realize that Master began teaching me more than a decade ago with that "clear ocean" dream. That year was precisely the year when Master first started spreading the Truth openly in Formosa.