A blind man is restored
to sight.
The deceased is raised
to life.
Mortals see Heaven
before their eyes.
The holy scriptures
are full of wonders
witnessed
in the presence of
great enlightened Masters.
Do unexplainable events
we call miracles
still happen?
Through
Supreme Master Ching Hai’s
loving guidance
in the Quan Yin practice
of meditation, members
of our Association
worldwide have
encountered their own
extraordinary incidents
in their daily lives.
Such privileged moments
are a true Master’s grace
manifested.
Supreme Master Ching Hai
has often accredited
her students’ miracles
to their own
reawakened greatness,
natural outcomes of daily
contact with the Divine.
Every time you pray,
miracles will happen
all the time
because you are
in the direction of
benevolence and miracles.
We are also the miracles.
If we know how to tap
into this miraculous power
within ourselves,
then we are in full power,
empowered with
all miracles and
all the mighty power
that we can imagine.
In a foreign land,
I met you some years ago.
Your nun’s robe,
the color of faded brown,
Both worldly life and
renunciation uncertain.
Born with
a headstrong personality,
In a female form,
you endured controversy.
I read the old verse
with nostalgia –
A cheerful line here,
a line of grievance there.
Each polished sentence
Still quietly reflects
your grace and elegance.
When you passed on,
who cried
and who rejoiced?
To whom could you
explain the misjudgments
and turmoil?
Pray to the Three Jewels
on the high abode
May the Awakened Soul
be saved from
the world of sorrow!
Beauty is often ill-fated;
A poet’s hair turns gray
before others’!
Alas! Alas!
At the Buddha’s altar,
I lit a fragrant incense
In reverence
And prayed
to Amitabha Buddha
To take the kindhearted
to the Western Land...
Namo Buddha
Namo Dharma (Teachings)
Namo Sangha
(Assembly of renunciates)
Namo Quan Yin
Bodhisattva Mahasattva!
To take the kindhearted
to the Western Land...
Beauty is often ill-fated;
A poet’s hair turns gray
before others’!
Alas! Alas!
At the Buddha’s altar,
I lit a fragrant incense
In reverence
And prayed
to Amitabha Buddha
To take the kindhearted
to the Western Land...
Namo Buddha
Namo Dharma (Teachings)
Namo Sangha
(Assembly of renunciates)
Namo Quan Yin
Bodhisattva Mahasattva!
To take the kindhearted
to the Western Land...
Namo Buddha
Namo Dharma (Teachings)
Namo Sangha
(Assembly of renunciates)
Namo Quan Yin
Bodhisattva Mahasattva!
To take the kindhearted
to the Western Land...
We now invite you
to this episode of a series
sharing amazing true stories
about our Association
members’ modern-day
miracles on the path.
When our loved ones
pass away,
where do their souls go?
Will they go to Heaven?
Will the paths of
our relatives eventually
cross with ours again?
Kim,
our Association member
from Âu Lạc (Vietnam),
shares a fascinating story
about reincarnation and
spiritual development
with the guidance of
Supreme Master
Ching Hai.
Kim’s story actually
begins when she was
a teenager,
long before she was
a spiritual practitioner…
When my mother was alive,
one night, when I was
about 15 years old,
I was sleeping
next to my mother.
At midnight,
my mother woke up;
she stroked my head
and said,
“Among all my children,
I trust and have hope
in you only.” At that time,
I did not understand
what she said.
And a short while later,
she pointed at
the Quan Yin Bodhisattva
statue at Rù Rì Pass –
Nha Trang and said,
“After I pass away,
I will follow to
Quan Yin Bodhisattva.”
A few months later,
my mother passed on.
I did not quite
understand her previous
two statements, but later,
after practicing
spiritually with Master,
I understood very well.
It was my mother’s
last words for me
and her wish to follow
a Buddha after she died.
Kim was just 16 years old
when her mother quite
suddenly passed away.
Twenty-three years later,
only after Kim
was initiated into
the Quan Yin method
of meditation, did she
finally see a vision
of her mother
ascending to Heaven,
under the protection of
Supreme Master
Ching Hai.
At the time of initiation,
Kim, as all of
Supreme Master
Ching Hai’s disciples,
received the guarantee of
liberation from the cycle
of birth and death,
as well as suffering.
Not only that,
at least five generations
of disciples’ family members
would also be liberated.
In 1993, I got initiated
and practiced
the Quan Yin method
with Master.
Not long afterwards ,
one night, while meditating,
I saw a vision of
my mother standing
on a white cloud,
wearing a white dress
like a fairy.
Her hair and clothes
were very beautiful.
She was standing next to
the Quan Yin Buddha,
but that Buddha
was Master herself
who was also standing
on a white cloud.
From the sky,
two clouds descended.
I looked up, my mother
looked at me and smiled.
My mother’s countenance
was very young
and lovely.
She looked at me and
Master also looked at me
with a very benevolent gaze.
After that, my mother
waved goodbye to me
and the two clouds
slowly rose up.
Master and my mother
disappeared.
By the grace of
Supreme Master Ching Hai,
Kim’s mother was able to
go to the heavenly realm.
Nonetheless, her mother
chose to reincarnate
into the human world,
in order to have
the precious chance to
progress spiritually with
an enlightened Master.
During my meditation,
I saw in a vision that
my mother was asking
if she could reincarnate
as my baby girl.
And I saw myself
giving birth to a very
beautiful baby girl.
In particular,
her eyes were very bright
and her face was joyful.
Indeed, Kim really did
give birth to a baby girl.
Early on,
the child demonstrated
that she was advanced
beyond her tender years.
For instance, already as
a six-month-old infant,
she was able to sit up
and speak
many full sentences.
One day,
when her daughter was
about three years old,
Kim disciplined her
for misbehaving.
I spanked her and
made her lie still in bed.
After an hour,
she left the bed
and went straight to me.
Suddenly she slapped me
and said, “I didn’t
spank you before.
Why did you spank me now?”
I was startled and
remembered that my mother
never spanked me
when I was a child.
During a May 2000
lecture in the Philippines,
Supreme Master Ching Hai
spoke of
how younger children
often still remember
their past before
they were born.
Up to the age
of four or five,
the children
still remember
where they came from,
still contact with Heaven.
That's why they are
so pure, so happy.
Doesn't matter
in which circumstances,
their eyes spark with love
and
with the heavenly bliss,
that we adults have lost.
The older we became,
the spark in our eyes
faded more and more
because we have
contacted with
this physical world,
which is very coarse,
which is not refined,
which is not blissful,
compared to where
we came from.
Although I knew that
my daughter is indeed
my mother who
was saved by Master
and reincarnated
to practice spiritually,
in a moment of anger,
I had spanked her.
When she was almost
six years old,
there was an initiation.
I registered her
for initiation, but the
Quan Yin messenger said
that she was not quite
six years old yet, so she
could not be initiated.
She cried and
no amount of comfort
could ease her crying.
The Quan Yin messenger
asked, “Why cry?
Just wait a few more
months until you’re six.”
She answered,
“Life is ephemeral.”
While she was still
very young,
sometimes I was away
from home for
two, three days.
In my house, there were
only the meat eaters .
They intentionally forced
and tempted my daughter
to eat meat but
she did not eat and cried.
She secretly went to
the back of the house and
threw away all the food
that had animal products.
There was only
a little white rice left.
When I returned home,
she told me that they
fed her very stinky food.
Later, when she grew up,
she practiced spiritually
very diligently,
no longer remembering
her past life.
But her face, personality,
and behavior are like
my mother’s from before.
Through this miracle,
I know Master
saved my mother as she
did many other people
in my family.
And my mother
is the person whom
I love most and owe
the deepest favor.
So, that is the most
profound memory
in my life.
Next is another of
Kim’s many
spiritual experiences.
It took place in 1997,
about four years after
her initiation into
the Quan Yin method.
Kim was attending
an international
meditation retreat
in Thailand and saw
Supreme Master Ching Hai
in person
for the very first time.
In the afternoon,
before the international
retreat ended,
Master drove around
the meditating area
to greet fellow initiates.
I thought to myself:
“I rarely have a chance
to see Master.
Now I should run after
Master to see her again.”
But I fell hard on the ground.
At that time, Master saw me
and stopped her car.
Master looked at me,
feeling sorry for me,
and I could feel
all that in her eyes.
But at that time, I felt like
I had an extraordinary
strength and rebounded
like a coiled spring.
Master extended
one hand toward me.
I also quickly extended
two hands toward Master.
Master looked at me
with so much love.
I felt very happy.
As the retreat ended
and she was
on her way home,
little did Kim know
the danger she was about
to encounter.
It was a moonlit night
at a gas station.
She briefly stepped off
the bus with her
traveling companions.
I talked while walking.
I turned around and said
to other fellow initiates,
“Wait for me. I’m going
to the rest room.”
When I started to walk on,
my foot just touched
the mouth of a pit which
I thought was the shadow
of the building.
I was startled. I realized
it was a black pit
in front of me.
And my second foot
followed the other foot.
At that time, I felt that
I would surely die.
I only remembered Master
and recited her name.
Normally, I recited
Buddhas’ names,
but at that time,
I remembered
Master’s words:
“In an emergency,
you should recite
Master’s name
to pray for help.”
But at that time,
I thought I’d die.
I was sure I’d die,
as I fell into the deep pit.
The pit was about
five or six meters deep
or something because
it was an old,
unused petrol pit.
People threw
waste materials, soil,
stones, iron bars,
everything into it.
When I was reciting
Master’s name,
I touched the ground and
felt a pain at my chest.
After that,
I knew nothing anymore.
I could not shout when
I touched the ground.
I felt a tightness
across my chest. I didn’t
groan or move at all.
I lost consciousness
completely.
When I woke up,
I saw myself lying on
a stretcher and two Thai
people were carrying me.
And they asked me,
“Do you want to get
in an ambulance or get
on the bus of your group
to go back to your hotel?”
I couldn’t speak,
I was in great pain.
They helped me sit up.
I could sit up
but I could not speak.
It seemed I lost my power
of speech or something
due to the fall.
When Kim fell down
the deep pit,
she was carrying a bag
with a water bottle
from the retreat.
I couldn’t talk,
but I pointed
to the water bottle.
I signaled a fellow initiate
to pour me some of
that water.
After I drank it,
I could talk again.
My fellow initiates asked me,
“How do you feel?
Do you feel better?”
I said, “Much better
and less painful.”
I could talk, so everyone
was very happy.
I could walk, too.
When I arrived
at the hotel,
I felt very much in pain,
but I tried to walk
like a normal person.
Upon arriving home
in Âu Lạc, Kim’s intense
pain did not subside.
She decided
to go to the hospital.
The doctor asked me,
“How did you fall?”
I told him that I fell down
a pit five, six meters deep
which had a lot of waste
materials such as iron,
steel, or rock and dirt.
And the doctor asked,
“Did your head and legs
get hurt?”
Because I had only two
wounds, one right here,
and another
on my left thigh which
was badly bruised.
But when x-rayed,
you saw nothing.
The doctor was
very surprised.
He said, “Falling down
a depth of over five meters,
either one’s head would
get hit and crushed,
or the arms and legs
would be broken.
Otherwise,
one’s chest or back
would hit the ground
and it would affect
the heart and lungs.”
But my heart and lungs
were very good, my legs
and head were all right.
The doctor was very
surprised and couldn’t
believe what I said,
but it was the truth.
So the doctor said,
“You must be God
and Buddha’s child
and God and Buddha
had saved you.”
By then, I had opened my
eyes wide and answered,
“Right.
I’m Buddha’s child.
I’m Buddha’s child.”
Later, when I went home,
I still felt full of pain.
I ate only Master’s blessed food,
because at that time,
I had a lot of blessed food
from all the fellow disciples.
A number of my family
members told me
to seek oriental medicine.
The doctor asked,
“How did you fall?”
I told him what
I told the other doctor.
This doctor also laughed
and said exactly
the same thing
the previous doctor said.
“You must be a child
of God and Buddha.
God and Buddha saved you,
otherwise no one
could survive this case.”
About one month later,
the bruises disappeared
and my body became
normal, no more pain.
I knew that
I would have died,
but Master had saved me.
In normal circumstances,
Kim would have faced
a deadly end or severely
crippling tragedy.
Yet, astonishingly,
her bones and vital organs
were in perfect condition,
and it seems the doctors
had diagnosed correctly:
a case of divine protection.
Kim could only
be deeply grateful to
Supreme Master Ching Hai,
who gave her the key
to access the Divine
at the time of initiation.
Besides these
spiritual experiences,
I have many other wonderful
spiritual experiences.
And because of
these experiences,
I feel very grateful
to Master and I love
and respect Master
very much.
In my spiritual journey,
I’m always helped
by Master in my spiritual
and material life.
Sometimes when I was
in sorrow or shocked,
I’d feel very peaceful
when I think of Master,
or recite Master’s name.
I love Master very much.
I don’t know how to
express my gratitude,
my love for Master.
Our respectful gratitude to
Supreme Master Ching Hai
for her constant love
and care in so many lives,
and in myriad ways
both visible and invisible.
Through such real stories,
may we be reminded
that miracles do happen
where there is
Divine connection
and the Master’s boundless grace.
Faithful viewers, thank you
for joining us today.
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“Miracles on the Path.”
When Vân’s machine
fell apart,
no one was able to fix it –
until she prayed.
While meditating,
I thought of
the damaged machine
and asked Master to help
to repair it for me.
As Soo-mi watched
Supreme Master Ching Hai
sing on stage,
suddenly, they were
standing side by side…
Master’s real body
was over there.
It was her
transcendental body
that had come to me.
Find out about
the omnipresence
of the inner Master.
Watch
“Miracles on the Path,”
Sunday, October 16
on A Journey through
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