Greetings and welcome! It is truly a blessing to have an enlightened
Master accompany us on our spiritual path. But how does an enlightened
Master train his disciples to grow in wisdom? During a lecture given in
Brazil in 1989, Supreme Master Ching Hai shared a story that sheds light
on this topic.
Supreme Master
Ching Hai: There is one Master. He's very perfect, the greatest
one. One day he told one of his disciples to take two potatoes and go
and eat them.
He emphasized again and again that the disciple must
eat two potatoes all of it together.
So the disciple took two
potatoes from the Master's hand and then went to the stream, sat down
and began to eat. So he sat there and ate, one potato already, and then
he began to peel the second potato.
Then came a beggar, very
hungry, nearly dying. Says, "Please give me that potato because you have
eaten one and I have nothing for many days. I would die if you don't
give me this potato."
So, now what you do? You surrender to your
Master or you surrender to compassion?
HOST: So, what happened
next? Let’s find out through this dramatic adaptation of the story as
told by Supreme Master Ching Hai. “Two Potatoes” was performed by our
Association members and friends of our Association, from Formosa
(Taiwan).