133/Master's Wonders/A Nun's Wish Comes True

She next told us about her pursuit of the Truth. It was her third year at the temple, and every year, she prayed to Buddha to send her a true enlightened Master to guide her along the spiritual path. She had previously practiced meditation with a Taoist master and had experienced astral projection. But each time, her soul had difficulty returning to her body. Fear thus stopped her from continuing with the practice. Then, one day after a worship ceremony during her first year at the temple, she prayed and drew a lot to surmise Buddha's arrangements for her. The lot carried the message: "Stay at the temple and wait for the Supreme Method." She understood that she had become a nun not to become the follower of a master but to attain eternal liberation from the cycle of reincarnation. Although she knew there was no one in the temple who knew the method of eternal liberation, she painstakingly waited a year for a miracle, but nothing happened.

In the second year, after the same ceremony, she surprisingly drew the same lot. She therefore dared not leave the temple, hoping that one day her wish would be granted. The second year passed, but again, there was no answer. She kept asking Buddha when the Master and the Supreme Method that she was seeking would come. In the third year, she drew a third lot. This time, it read: "Cultivate the heart." She then began to feel frightened and wondered whether she was destined to obtain the Supreme Method.

Then one night, she had a dream, in which someone had given her a key. Happily, she tried to open the door with the key, but suddenly, the key disappeared and dawn came. Later, when she opened the gate for us and saw the Light above our heads, she knew that her dream had come true.

Her sincerity moved us very much. We explained Bodhidharma's Four-fold Practice and Bodhidharma's Blood and Vein Scripture, with which she was already familiar, along with Master's teachings. Holding her palms together from the beginning to the end of the explanation, She happily nodded to show her agreement with each word we said. Because she was in charge of the temple keys, she led us to a secluded Quan-Yin-Hall so that we could teach her the Convenient Method. Only at that time did we realize why earlier the temple's blessing power had been so strong. It was because Master had come and blessed everything before us.

After 30 minutes of meditation in the Quan-Yin-Hall, the nun smiled in tears. "I have not felt this peaceful in years!" she said. She also told us that she beheld brilliant Light shining through endless space. She wanted to bow to us, but we stopped her and asked her to bow to Buddha instead. Then, out of gratitude to Buddha, she sincerely bowed and kowtowed three times on the unclean floor. With tears in her eyes, she vowed to cherish the precious Method and practice diligently, and we promised to later give her some of Master's publications when an acceptable situation arose. We also told her that this was only the Convenient Method, that a more superior and complete method was available, and that if she had good experiences with the Convenient Method, she could move on to the Supreme Method.

When we left the temple, the young nun reverently saw us out. We were reluctant to say goodbye to her, for we seemed to have been good friends for a long, long time. After we had gone far away, the nun was still standing before the gate with her palms held together. At that moment I understood why I had come to the mountain and why the brother suddenly wanted to visit the temple.

Master's power arranges everything. Every earnest heart and thirsty soul will receive Her care. Thanks to Master, we learned a lesson in ego-lessness because when we did the job, we did not know even how to do it and what to do. Everything was done through Master's Supreme Power, which always guides those children who are ready to go Home in the right direction.