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There is a Chinese chi-kung master who has a healing practice in Ohio, USA and is quite popular in the local area. Most of his clients are Americans who have lost faith in modern Western medicine because they have suffered from the side effects of medical methods that treat the symptoms instead of the whole being, and have lost hope in finding a cure for their illnesses. These Americans came to the chi-kung master in search of an alternative medical treatment from the East that could cure them. The chi-kung master uses his energy, called "chi," to heal his patients. He must practice chi kung very diligently everyday in order to have enough "chi" to perform the healing. He heals by putting his hands on patients' pressure points. His energy can relieve their pain temporarily and relax them. His patients as well as other chi-kung masters respect him very much. This chi-kung master felt very good that the "chi," for which he had worked so very hard, could bring him such a successful career. In the beginning, he just wanted to practice chi-kung for self-healing. Since he practiced diligently day and night, he could attain enough energy to heal himself and others. People who admired him very much called him a master of chi-kung. One day this chi-kung master received a dinner invitation from a friend who wrote books on the subject. The friend admired this master very much because the friend only knew the theory of chi-kung but he had not yet achieved a comparable level. When this master arrived at his friend's house, the friend told the master about his problem with his wife over the subject of chi-kung. The friend's wife has Ph.D. in neurology and an M.D. in psychiatry. She had also practiced chi-kung for a long time and had reached a fairly high level of advancement. One day he and his wife went to a health exposition in Columbus, Ohio so that he could demonstrate chi-kung to the public. His wife stopped at the Quan Yin booth and picked up a sample booklet. After reading the booklet, she became a vegetarian and began practicing the Convenient Method. Subsequently, she received initiation from Master Ching Hai. This upset her husband very much because he had written a book praising chi-kung meditation and now his wife left it to practice another method. He grew angrier when he told the chi-kung master about how his wife enjoyed practicing the Quan Yin method and believed that it was much better than chi-kung. She even dared to say that she practiced more efficiently being near Master Ching Hai at the 7-day retreat in Cambodia than when practicing at home. She told him that she had many inner experiences. The chi-kung master asked his friend, "What do you want me to do today?" His friend sighed and said, "My wife admires you very much because you have really obtained the chi and have the power to heal other people. Can you explain to my wife that our chi-kung method is better than the Quan Yin meditation?" The chi-kung master nodded his head and said "Oh, sure, our chi-kung meditation is the best." So the friend called his wife out to talk to the chi-kung master. The master talked about the many methods that he had tried and how very hard he practiced every day on each method. From his experience so far, chi-kung was the best. His friend's wife did not say much, but instead gave the chi-kung master a sample booklet about Quan Yin meditation with the title "The Key of Immediate enlightenment". Not being able to convince the wife, the master went home with the sample booklet in hand. At home, he left the book in the corner of the house. | One day a patient came to his office, but he couldn't heal her because she was so depressed about her son's recent death. The chi -kung master had no way to relieve her depression and so he gave her the sample booklet to read. He hoped that by keeping her busy with the booklet, she would be distracted from her own sorrows for a while. Little did he know that the benefits of the sample booklet were much greater than that. A few days later, this patient came back to return the booklet. She told the chi-kung master that she was very excited about visiting the local center the next day to learn more about Quan Yin meditation. She had felt peace and consolation after having read the words in the sample booklet. The chi-kung master was very surprised that the words in the sample booklet had more power than his chi. The booklet could relieve his patient's depression when he couldn't. After his patient went home, he was curious about the sample booklet. As he opened the booklet, he detected a fragrant aroma emanating from it. So he started reading and couldn't stop. After finishing, he called his patient and asked her if he could join her on her visit to the local center. They arrived early the next morning at the local center. Immediately, he signed up to learn the Convenient Method. He also bought the set of books, "The Key of Immediate enlightenment". He then went home and read the books day and night without sleeping, and had many inner experiences while reading the books, which made him very happy and surprised. He could smell the fragrance and feel the energy around him while he read. One week later he was approved by Master Ching Hai to learn the Convenient Method, and soon found out how powerful even the Convenient Method is. He could gather the equivalent amount of energy from only half an hour of practicing the Convenient that he could from six hours of practicing chi-kung. He couldn't express his happiness when many times he saw a big bright light in front of his wisdom eye and heard beautiful sounds all around him. As soon as he closed his eyes, he was in deep samadhi. He read in the book about the tremendous blessings received from looking into the eyes of a living Master. He longed to meet Master Ching Hai so that he could look deeply into Her eyes. As he closed the book, he saw Master's picture on the cover, and so he just looked into the eyes of the Her picture. Surprisingly, another spiritual experience occurred. He received the light and a warm blessing straight from the eyes of Master Ching Hai. He later went to the local Center to ask for more sample booklets, and told his patients that he was going to close his healing office. Then he gave the sample booklets to all his patients and advised them to hurry and find Supreme Master Ching Hai because She is really a Supreme Master and a Master of masters. He understood that to heal people from the root is to help them meet a living Master so that they can be liberated from the maya world and break out of the circle of reincarnation. He knew that his success in healing people had built up his ego and prevented him from advancing his spiritual level. The chi-kung master is now very humble and cannot wait for initiation. He plans to close his healing office in a few weeks and live very simply, allowing more time for meditation. The chi-kung master plans to meditate many hours a day after receiving initiation, and is very happy that he has finally found a True Master. |