Faith and Experience(Part 1)

 

Videotape no. 606

Date: 23rd to 24th December 1997

Place: Washington D.C., U.S.A.

Nature: Washington International 4-Day Retreat (Tape 3)

Language: English with Chinese subtitles

 

  1. What are the details that we should pay attention to, so that we can sit more comfortably and allow the vital energy to follow properly?

  2. The initiates-to-be might distrust Master when the venue and time are changed repeatedly due to difficulties in preparing for the initiation. What are the proper attitude and understanding that we should have at such moments?

  3. If our spouse is not a fellow practitioner, we might drift away from each other. How do we adjust ourselves to the situation?

  4. Are we supposed to eat the "blessed food" when we are in India? What is the proper understanding that we should have towards "blessed food"?

  5. Precisely because Master is very impartial and undiscriminating that She pays special attention to Western fellow practitioners. Do you know why?

  6. Are you worried about the shortage of Vitamin B12 in your vegetarian diet? From which food can we get sufficient Vitamin B12?

  7. How can we break through bottlenecks in spiritual cultivation? Will we regress instead of progress?

  8. What are the background and psychological elements that make it easier for oriental people to pursue spiritual practice than occidental people?

  9. What is the purpose of having music?

  10. How to develop self-confidence?

  11. Some people are always haunted by invisible beings that they imagine; others might see violent images in meditation. Why? How can they erase these images?

 

* This videotape will be played before and after the group meditation on this Saturday, March 20, 1999.