Excerpts from Supreme Master Ching Hai's lecture: Our life, our time here, is very short so we have to make the best use of it. Don't ask people to serve us. We have to ask how we can serve people all the time and we'll never go wrong. What do we need, that people ..(more)

It's difficult to communicate in this world even when we speak the same language. But in the Pureland or heavenly kingdom, we can understand each other even without speaking ; Supreme Master Ching Hai reveals that in the ..(more)

Why do some initiates, who had practiced some very well-known methods before, appreciate so much, so much the Quan Yin Method taught by Master? Supreme Master Ching Hai points out that it’s because we talk from our heart, from our own realization of the Tao. Even if ..(more)

Highlights～ If we didn't have a lot of merit, even if we were at the level of the Bodhisattva up there, we would still be contaminated when we came down here. If we have not reached a very high level, ..(more)

At one time, there were some vampires and Yaksha ghosts who often caught people to suck their blood to sustain themselves. They didn’t eat the five grains. In that country, the people were forced to keep the ten precepts, ten ..(more)

The king assailed himself. Someone like him has a heart as big as the ocean, as vast as space. He can break the ignorant preconceptions of people. “Now the sentient beings are rolling in the mud and struggling. How can ..(more)

In this MP3, Supreme Master Ching Hai told a story about the Gold Monk and the Great Bright King. For what reason does the Gold Monk have ..(more)

Countless millions of eons ago, a king named Maha Ratha had three golden crown princes around him. One day, the king travelled to the deep forest with his family. The three princes saw a mother ..(more)

What is the Eight Fasts? Tow good friends practiced the Eight Fasts together. How come one became a dignified king, while the other fell and ..(more)

Highlight:~ During the 3-day retreat, Master tells stories about Shakyamuni Buddha, and happens to find this story named “Merits of Becoming a Monk”. It’s about a one-hundred-year-old man who wanted to follow Shakyamuni Buddha and become a monk for the ..(more)

We all think God is the most loving and very sweet and takes good care of us. This is true, but God has many facets. Of course when you reach the fourth or fifth level, you will always encounter the ..(more)

The noble qualities such as compassion, benevolence and obedience are just a part of the world. For example, there are troubles, scary things, and scary feelings in this world. There are also other qualities that belong to ..(more)

Supreme Master Qing Hai tells a story about a man living in Buddha’s time who had no eyes, ears, nose or tongue. What merits did he earn to be born into a wealthy and noble family? And what bad karma had ..(more)

A poor woman sincerely offered to the living Buddha the only piece of cloth she and her husband shared to cover themselves and. After ..(more)

During the time of Sakyamuni Buddha, there was a couple named Jin Tian and Jin Guangming who had followed the Buddha to become monk and nun and attained arahantship. They went ..(more)