Front Line


(Originally in English)

In order to spread Supreme Master Ching Hai’s precious teachings in Romania, European fellow initiates enthusiastically formulated a plan to start a lecture tour there.

Their initial energies were put into translating the book I Have Come to Take You Home into Romanian. Also, many videotapes with Romanian subtitles were quickly produced with the help of work team members in Formosa. Thanks to Master’s loving blessings and everyone’s common ideals, these co-operative efforts proceeded very smoothly despite the diverse languages and backgrounds of those involved. This experience brought to mind Master’s words “Love means we look in the same direction.”

For the seminars, we followed the overall design of Master’s 1999 European Lecture Tour with ten disciples from four countries forming work teams. Then we chose four cities from which to give seminars, including Romania’s capital Bucharest, two other large cities in the heart of the country and one adjacent to the Hungarian border. Two teams distributed fliers, put up posters with Master’s picture and helped with the seminars, while a third team traveled between cities to conduct the video seminars and related discussion groups. In this way, the ten disciples with just one native Romanian speaker among them gave four highly successful seminars within a week.

Everything went so perfectly that the initiates felt like small pieces of a big puzzle falling into the right place at the right time. And through Master’s grace they managed to meet their hectic schedule and still have many happy moments during the tour.

Everyone was thrilled at the numbers who attended the seminars, as people entered the halls to the delightful sound of Master’s voice, and were enraptured with Her appearance and message. After the Bucharest seminar, many people told us several times, “Master is so beautiful! I’ve never seen such a beautiful Master before and She is so full of love and joy that it makes me feel great!” In another city a woman came to the work team and said, “This seminar was such a powerful and positive experience for me that I will never forget it. I hope to see more seminars like this in our city!” And the most common questions the initiates heard everywhere were “When will you come again?” and “When is the next seminar?”

At each seminar, the excitement spilled over into the next day as people would come up to ask questions about Master’s teachings, and inquire where they could meet the initiates to learn more. So some guests from the audience enthusiastically offered their houses as meeting places, and long discussions went on into the night with warm feelings shared by all. The initiates and guests felt as though they could have stayed till dawn to share the extraordinary experience of talking and learning about a living enlightened Master. The initiates forgot about time and space while talking about God and Master and the inner Light and Sound, and many guests could even feel Master’s presence during our discussions. The atmosphere of these meetings was especially uplifting, with people’s excitement and happiness almost tangible. Many expressed a desire to receive full initiation by our Master, and most decided to become fully vegetarian from that day on because Master’s teachings are so clear that it made great sense to do so. It seemed obvious from these gatherings that “When the disciple is ready, the Master will come.”

Thank You, Master, for giving us this wonderful opportunity to help others, and at the same time granting us countless blessings that we will never forget.

 

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