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.”