CONTENTS

Introduction........................................................................................4
A Brief Biography of Suma Ching Hai...............................................8
The Mystery of the World Beyond.....................................................11
	A lecture by the Suma Ching Hai
	June 26, 1992, the United Nations in New York City
Initiation: The Quan Yin Method.......................................................58
The Five Precepts...............................................................................61
Why People Must Be Vegetarian......................................................63
	Health and Nutrition............................................................64		Ecology and the Enviornment............................................69
	World Hunger.......................................................................70
	Animal Suffering.................................................................. 70
	The Company of Saints and Others...................................71
	Master Answers Questions..................................................73
Publications........................................................................................86
Good News for Vegetarians............................................................. 93
How to Contact Us............................................................................102


A Little Message
Note: Master's new terminology for God so that they represent both sexes are as follows:
SHE + HE becomes HES = hes (like in mess)
HER + HIM becomes HIRM = hirm (like in firm)
HERS + HIS becomes HIERS = hiers (like in beers)
Example:When God wants, Hes makes things happen according to Hiers will to suit Hirm.






Twenty seventh edition			: Dec. 	1997




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"I do not belong to Buddhism or Catholicism.  I belong to the Truth and I preach the Truth.  You may call it Buddhism, Catholicism, Taoism, or whatever you like.  I welcome all!"
					     - Suma Ching Hai -


"By attaining inner peace we will attain everything else.  All the satisfaction, all the fulfillment of worldly and heavenly desires comes from the Kingdom of God - the inner realization of our eternal harmony, of our eternal wisdom, and of our Almighty Power. If we do not get these we never find satisfaction, no matter how much money or power, or how high a position we have."
					     - Suma Ching Hai -


"Our teaching is that whatever you have to do in this world, do it, do it whole-heartedly.  Be responsible and also meditate every day.  You will get more knowledge, more wisdom, more peace, in order to serve yourself and serve the world.  Do not forget that you have your own goodness inside you.  Do not forget that you have God dwelling within your body.  Do not forget that you have Buddha within your heart."
                                                                     - Suma Ching Hai -



Introduction


T hroughout the ages, mankind has been visited by rare           
         individuals whose sole purpose is the spiritual upliftment of 
      Thumanity.  Jesus Christ was one of these visitors, as were Shakyamuni Buddha and Mohammed.  These three are well known to us, but there were many others whose names we do not know; some taught publicly, and where known by a few, and others remained anonymous.  These individuals were called by different names, at different times, in different countries.  They have been referred to as: Master, Avatar, Enlightened One, Savior, Messiah, Divine Mother, Messenger, Guru, Living Saint, and the like.  They came to offer us what has been called: Enlightenment, Salvation, Realization, Liberation, or Awakening.  The words used may be different, but in essence they all mean the same thing.  

	Visitors from the same Divine Source, with the same spiritual greatness, moral purity, and power to uplift humanity as the Holy Ones from the past are here with us today, yet few know of Their presence.  One of Them is the Suma Ching Hai.

Master Ching Hai is an unlikely candidate to be widely recognized as a Living Saint. She is a woman, and many Buddhists and others believe the myth that a woman cannot become a Buddha. She is of Asian descent, and many Western people expect that their Savior will look like them.  However, those of us, from all over the world, and from many different religious backgrounds, who have gotten to know Her, and who follow Her teachings, know who and what She is.  For you to come to know this, will take a measure of openness of mind and sincerity of heart.  It will also take your time and attention, but nothing else.

People spend most of their time earning a living and taking care of material needs.  We work in order to make our lives, and those of our loved ones, as comfortable as possible.  When time permits, we give away our attention to such things as politics, sports, TV, or the latest scandal.  Those of us who have experienced the Loving Power of direct inner contact with the Divine know there is more to life than this.  We feel it is a pity that the Good News is not more widely known. The  solution to all of the struggles of life is sitting quietly inside us, waiting. We know that Heaven is just a breath away.  Forgive us when we err on the side of over enthusiasm and say things that may offend your rational mind.  It is difficult for us to remain quiet, seeing what we have seen, and knowing what we know.

We who consider ourselves disciples of Suma Ching Hai and fellow practitioners of Her method (the Quan Yin Method,) offer this introductory book to you with the hope that it will help bring you closer to your own personal experience of Divine Fulfillment, whether it be through our Master or any other.

Master Ching Hai teaches the importance of the practice of meditation, inner contemplation and prayer.  She explains that we must discover our own inner Divine Presence, if we are to be truly happy in this life.  She tells us that enlightenment is not esoteric and out of reach, attainable only by those who retreat from society. Her job is to awaken the Divine Presence within us, while we lead normal lives.  She states: It is like this. We all know the Truth.  It's just that we forgot it.  So, sometimes someone has to come and remind us of the purpose of our life, why we must find the Truth, why we must practice meditation, and why we must believe in God or Buddha, or whoever we think is the Highest Power in the Universe.  She asks no one to follow Her. She simply offers Her own enlightenment as an example, so that others may gain their own Ultimate Liberation.

This booklet is an introduction to the teachings of Suma Ching Hai.  Please note that the lectures, comments, and quotes by Master Ching Hai contained herein were spoken by Her; recorded, transcribed, sometimes translated from other languages, and then edited for publication.  We recommend that you listen to or watch the original audio or video tapes.  You will get a much richer experience of Her presence from these sources than from the written words.  Of course, the most complete experience is to see Her in person.

For some, Master Ching Hai is their Mother, for some She is their Father, and for others She is their Beloved.  At the least, She is the very best Friend you could ever have in this world.  She is here to give to us, not to take.  She takes no payment of any kind for Her teachings, help or initiation.  The only thing She will take from you is your suffering, your sorrow and pain.  But only if you want this!


"A Master is one who has the key for you to become a Master... to help you realize that you are also a Master and that you and God are also One.  That's all... that's the only role of the Master." 
					- Suma Ching Hai -


"Our path is not a religion.  I do not convert anyone to Catholicism or Buddhism, or any other "ism".  I simply offer you a way to now yourself; to find out where you come from; to remember your mission here on Earth; to discover the secrets of the universe; to understand why there is so much misery, and see what awaits us after death."
					- Suma Ching Hai -


	"We are separated from God because we are to busy.  If someone is talking to you and the telephone keeps ringing, and you are busy cooking or chatting with other people, then no one can get in touch with you.  The same thing happens with God.  Hes is calling every day and we have no time for Hirm and keep hanging up on Hirm."
					- Suma Ching Hai -




A Brief Biography of 
Suma Ching Hai

M aster Ching Hai was born to a well-off family in  Au Lac (Viet
               nam), the daughter of a highly reputed naturopath.  She
              was brought up as a Catholic, and learned the basics of Buddhism from Her grandmother.  As a young child, She showed a precocious interest in philosophical and religious teachings, as well as an uncommonly compassionate attitude towards all living beings.  

	At the age of eighteen, Master Ching Hai moved to England to study, and then later to France and then Germany, where She worked for the Red Cross and married a German scientist.  After two years of happy marriage, with the consent of Her husband, She left Her marriage in pursuit of enlightenment, thus fulfilling an ideal which had been with Her since Her childhood.  At this time, She was studying various meditation practices and spiritual disciplines under the guidance of the teachers and masters who were within Her reach.  She came to realize the futility of one person trying to help the suffering of humanity, and recognized that the best way to help people was to attain total realization Herself.  With this as Her singular goal, She traveled around many different countries, searching for the perfect method of enlightenment.  

Through many years of test, trials and tribulations, Master Ching Hai finally found the Quan Yin Method and the Divine Transmission in the Himalayas.  After a period of diligent practice, during Her retreat in the Himalayas, She attained complete enlightenment.  

In the years after Her enlightenment, Master Ching Hai lived the quiet, unassuming life of a Buddhist nun.  Shy in nature, She kept the Treasure hidden until people sought Her instruction and initiation. It is through the insistent requests and efforts of Her earlier disciples in Formosa (Taiwan) and USA, that Master Ching Hai has come to lecture throughout the world, and has initiated many tens of thousands of sincere spiritual aspirants.

Today more and more Truth seekers from different counties and all religious have been streaming to Her for Her supreme wisdom.  To those who sincerely wish to learn and practice the method of Immediate Enlightenment which She Herself has verified to be the supreme one - the Quan Yin Mehod, Master Ching Hai has been willing to give them initiation and future spiritual guidance.


The world is full of troubles.
Only I am full of You!
If You were placed within the world, 
All troubles would be removed.
But, as the world is full of troubles,
I find no place for You!				             ***

I'd sell all the suns, the moons and the stars
In the universe,
Just to buy one of Your Beautiful Glances.
Oh Master of Infinite Radiance!
Be gracious and shed a few beams into my longing Heart.       ***

Worldly people go out at night to sing and dance, 
Under the worldly light and worldly music.
Only I alone sit in trance,
Swaying with the Radiance and Melody within.                        ***

Since I got to know Your Glory Oh Lord,
I could love nothing in this world.
Embrace me in Your Loving Grace,
	Forever!
		Amen						                                                                                                    ***

from "Silent Tears", a collection of poems by Suma Ching Hai. 


The Mystery of the 
World Beyond


A Lecture by the Suma Ching Hai                   
June 26, 1992
United Nations, New York.

Welcome to the United Nations.  And please pray together for a while in your own belief that we are grateful for what we have, what we are given, and we wish, we hope that those who have not enough will be given the way we are given - the world's refugees, the war victims, the soldiers, the government leaders and of course the United Nations' leaders will be able to accomplish what they want and live together in peace.  We believe what we ask will be given because it is says so in the Bible.
     
Thank you!  It has been a long time since I was here.  Have any of you been here before, I mean been to my lectures before?  When? Oh, Yes?  So many?  Thank you.  
     
You know today the theme of our lecture is "Beyond This World" because I don't think I would like to talk to you about this world anymore.  That you all know.  Yes?  You know this world we have the United Nations, we have America, New York - "Big Apple" - but beyond this world, we have other things.  I think all of you who came here would be interested to know.  It's not something like Stephen just said about miracles or anything fantastic that you cannot believe.  It is something very scientific, very logical and very important.
     
We've all heard that in different kinds of religious Bibles or Scriptures, it is mentioned that there are seven heavens, there are different levels of consciousness.  There is the Kingdom of God within, there is Buddha Nature, et cetera.  These are some things that are promised beyond this world.  But not many people have access to what is promised in these Scriptures, not many.  I wouldn't say none, but not many.  Compared to the population of the world, people who have access to the Kingdom of God within or what we call, "what is beyond this world", are very few.  
     
And if you are in America, probably you have many opportunities to read a lot of books that describe things that are beyond our world.  And some of the movies that the American people made are not altogether fiction.  Also, there are some movies made by Japanese that are also not all fiction.  Because these people have probably read some of the books that have been written by those who have been beyond this world or they themselves have had some glimpses into the Kingdom of God.
     
So, in the Kingdom of God - what lies in the Kingdom of God?  Why should we bother about the Kingdom of God if we already have enough work to do in the world and we have a job, we have secure houses, and we have enough loving relationships, et cetera? Precisely, because we already have all these, we should be concerned about the Kingdom of God.  
     
It sounds too religious when we say the Kingdom of God.  It's actually just some level of higher consciousness.  The people in the old days, they say that it is heaven, but in scientific terms, we can say, it is a different - a higher level of knowledge, a higher level of wisdom.  And this we can have access to, should we know how.
     
So, in the late - lately in America, we have all heard of the latest invention; that people even have a machine to put you into samadhi.  Have you experienced this?  You haven't?  No?  It's in America on sale.  Four hundred to seven hundred, depends on what level you want.  They call - this is for the lazy people who don't want to meditate, just want to be right in samadhi.  Now, in case you don't know, I'll be brief about that.
     
They say that this kind of machine can put you into a relaxed, mental attitude, state; relaxed state, then you would achieve the high level of IQ.  That's supposed to give you high knowledge, high wisdom and then you feel great, et cetera.  And this machine uses some selected music, outer music, so you need earphones, and then they put some electric, probably currents that stimulate you, then you probably see some flashes.  So you need also a blindfold. The earphones and the blindfold, that's all you need for samadhi. This is very good, and four hundred dollars - very cheap.  But our samadhi is even cheaper, it costs nothing, and it's forever, forever.  And you don't need to charge with batteries or electricity, plug in, plug out; or in case the machine goes out of order, you don't need to go and fix it.
     
Now, even if the artificial light and the artificial music could make people become so relaxed and so wise - it is supposed to give them this, but I have read on a newspaper what it's supposed to do, I haven't tried it myself.  So that's why it is very hot and has sold a lot, I heard.  Even these artificial things could put us into a relaxed mood and increase our IQ, then could you imagine how much the real thing can help us in our wisdom?  The real thing is beyond this world but it is accessible to every man, should we want to contact with it.  This is the inner heavenly Music and the inner heavenly Sound.  And depending on the intensity of this Music, of the inner Light or inner Music, we can push ourselves beyond this world, go into a deeper level of understanding.
     
I guess it is just like the law of physics.  You want to send some rocket into, beyond the gravity, you have to have a lot of pushing power behind that, and also when it flies very fast it also emanates some light.  So I guess when we go fast into the beyond, we also, how to say - oh, I speak Chinese too much - we can, radiate, yes, some Light also, and also we can hear the Sound.  
     
The Sound is the kind of Vibrational Power that pushes us into the higher levels, but it does that without any noise, without much trouble and no cost and no discomfort to the "experiencer".  That is the way to go into the beyond.
     
And what is beyond this world that is better than our world? Everything that we can imagine and cannot imagine.  Once we experience it, then we know.  No one else could tell us really. But we have to be persistent in that, and we have to truly be sincere, otherwise no one else can do it for us.  The same like no one else can replace you to work at the UN's office and you get paid for that.  The same as no one else could help us to eat and then we get satisfied.  Therefore, the way is to be experienced. We could listen to someone who has experience to tell us, but we cannot gain much experience from that.  We may have experiences one time, for a couple of times or some days due to the power of that person who experienced God.  Then we might see some Light or hear some Sound, very naturally without our effort, but in most cases, it doesn't last very long.  So, we have to also experience it and do it ourselves.
     
Beyond our world, there are many different worlds.  We could just put an example, like the one a little bit higher than us.  What we call the Astral world in the Western terminology.  In the Astral world, they have even one hundred and more different levels.  And each level is a world of itself.  And it represents our level of understanding.  It's just like we go into the university, and then each grade as we go through the university, it represents our understanding more, about the university's teaching and then slowly we move to the graduation.  
     
In the Astral world, we will see many kinds of so-called miracles and we probably will be tempted also by miracles and we probably will have miracles also.  We can heal the sick, we can, how to say, sometimes see some things that other people cannot see.  We have at least six kinds of miraculous power.  We can see beyond the ordinary boundaries, we can hear beyond the limits of space. The distance doesn't make a difference to us.  That's what we call the heavenly ears and the heavenly eyes.  And then we can see through the people's thinking, and what he has in his mind, sometimes we can see et cetera.  These are the powers that sometimes we acquire when we have access to the First Level of the Kingdom of God.
     
And within this First Level, I have already said that we have many different other levels which offer us a lot more than language can describe.  And when we get there, we will - if we, for example, after initiation, then we meditate and if our level is at the first one, then we have many more abilities.  Then we will even develop our literature talent which we didn't have before.  And also we know many things that other people do not know and many things come to us just like gifts from heaven, sometimes financially, sometimes, how to say, career-wise and sometimes many other things.  And we begin to be able to write poems or maybe we can draw pictures, and we can do some things that we have not been able to do before and we couldn't imagine we could do that.  That's the First Level.  And we could write poems and write books with the beautiful style.  And we could have been a non-professional writer before, but we could write now, for example.  These are very material benefits that we can get when we are in the First Level of consciousness.  
     
Actually, these things are not God's gifts.  These things are in heaven inside us and only because we have awakened them, they became alive.  And then we can make use of them.  So, this is some of the information about the First Level.  
     
Now, when we go to the higher level, for example, then we see many other things, and we achieve many other things.  Of course I cannot tell you everything.  Yes, because of time, for example. Also, it's not necessary to listen to all the beautiful things about cakes and candies and never eat them.  Therefore, I just kind of "appetize" a little bit, and if you want to eat them, that's another thing.  We can offer real food later on.  Yes!  Just in case you want to eat these things.
     
Now, if we go a little bit beyond this level to the Second Level, what we call "Second", just for the sake of simplifying matters.  The Second Level - then we will probably have a lot more abilities than the first one, and including the miracles.  But the most striking achievement we can have at the Second Level is that, the eloquence, and the ability to debate.  And no one seems to be able to conquer a person who has achieved the Second Level because he has tremendous power of eloquence, and his intellect is at the peak of his power.  
     
Most of the people who have ordinary minds or very simple IQ's cannot match this person because his IQ has opened to a very high degree.  But it is not only the physical brain that has been developed more, it is the mystical Power, it is the heavenly Power, the wisdom that is inherent inside us.  Now it begins to open.  In India, people call this level "Buddhi" means intellectual level.  And when you achieve "Buddhi", you become a Buddha.  That's where the word Buddha came from - "Buddhi" and Buddha.  Now, so the Buddha is precisely just that.  It's not finished.  I am not going to introduce you to the Buddha only, there is more than that. 
     
So, most of the people call an enlightened person a Buddha.  If he doesn't know beyond the Second Level, he would probably feel very proud about it.  Yes, thinking that he is a living Buddha and his disciples would be very proud calling him Buddha.  But actually if he only achieves the Second Level in which he can see through the past, present and future of any person he chooses to see and in which he has an absolute eloquence of speech, then it's not yet the end of the Kingdom of God.
     
And any person should not be proud of this ability of reading into the past, present and future because this is the akashic record, as you know in the Western terminology.  All of you who practice yoga or some kind of meditation will understand akashic record, which is a kind of library like the one we have next door in the UN, you know, with all kinds of languages in it.  You see Arabic, Russian, Chinese, English, French, German, everything in your library next door, all kinds of languages.  Should you have the ability to read all these languages, you know what's going on in that country.  Understand?  So, similarly, the one who has access to the Second Level, he will understand, he can interpret a pattern of a person very clearly, the way you see your own biography.
     
There is much more to be gained from the Second Level of consciousness.  But when one reaches the Second Level, this is already fantastic, already a living Buddha, because you have opened the Buddhi, the intellect.  And we know many things, many things that we could not name.  And every so-called miracle would happen to us, whether we want it or not, because our intellect just opened and just knows how to contact the higher source of healing, of arranging so that our life would become smoother and better.  And our intellect or Buddhi has opened so that it can have access to all the information necessary from the past and from the present in order to arrange and to kind of rearrange or kind of make up for something we did wrong in the past.  You understand?  So that to correct the mistake and then to make our life better. 
     
For example, if we did not know that we have offended our neighbor by some unintentional action, and now we know.  You understand?  Very easy!  If we did not know and the neighbor is silently against us and trying to do something sometimes behind us in order to harm us because of misunderstandings or because we did something wrong to the neighbor.  But now we know, now we know why it happened.  So, it's easy.  We can go to the neighbor or we can telephone, or we can have a party, invite the neighbor in and then we clear the misunderstanding.  
     
Similar things when we get to the intellectual level, we automatically, I mean silently, understand all these and silently arrange all these or contact with some source of power which could help us to arrange these things, to better our way of life, to better our course of life.  So, we minimize many accidents, many unwelcome situations and unfavorable conditions of our life. Understand?  Yes!  Yes!  Therefore, when we get to the Second Level, this is fantastic already.
     
Therefore, what I have explained to you is very scientific and very logical and no need to think that a yogi or meditation person is some kind of mystical person or an ET, you know, extra terrestrial.  They are terrestrial beings, like any one of us, who have developed, you know, because they know how. 
     
In America, we say everything depends on know-how, so we can learn everything.  Right?  We can learn everything.  So this is a kind of beyond this world science, in which we could learn also.  And it sounds very strange, but the higher the things, the more simple.  It's more simple than we go to high school or college with all these very complicated mathematical questions and problems.
     
The Second Level - Second Level, there are many different levels also.  I mean within the Second Level there are many levels, too. But I just make it brief because I cannot be detailed in all of the secrets of heaven.  Yeah!  Anyhow you will know all these also when you travel along with a Master who has already traveled.  So, it's no secret.  But it is too long, you know, if we have to stop in each level, which has a lot of levels, sub-levels and we have to examine everything - it takes too long.  So, sometimes a Master just takes you briefly from one level after another, very fast - Cha!  Cha!  Cha!  Because if you have nothing to do with master-ship, then you don't need to learn so much.  It'll give you headache.  Therefore, just takes you through and back home, because even then it takes a long time.  Sometimes it takes a whole lifetime.  But enlightenment we get immediately.  
     
But that is only starting, just like enrolling.  You know?  The first day you enroll in the university, you become immediately the university student.  But that has nothing to do with a Ph.D.  After six years, four years or twelve years then you graduate.  But you immediately became, how to say, university student, if that is a real university, and if you enroll, you truly earnestly want to become a university student.  Right?  So, both sides have to cooperate.
     
Similarly, if we want to go beyond this world, for example, just say for fun, because we have nowhere else to go in New York; we have known everything about the Manhattan, Long Beach, "short" beach and every beach.  [Laughter]  Now suppose we want to take a trip to the ET's place, to see what's going on.  All right?  Why not?  Since we pay a lot of money to go to Miami, Florida, just to have a bath in the sea, so why couldn't we sometimes go to different worlds beyond this world to see what our neighbor planets look like and how do the people fare themselves over there?  I don't think it is anything strange about that.  No?  It's just a kind of a little bit further traveling and mental traveling, spiritual traveling instead of physical traveling. There are two kinds of travel.  So, it's very logical and very easy to understand. 
     
Now, we are at the Second Level, okay, Second Level.  What else should I tell you?  So that's how we continue in this world, but then we have the knowledge of the other worlds at the same time. You understand?  Because we travel. 
     
Just like you are an American citizen or you are any other citizen of the world, but then you travel from one country to another just to know what the neighbor country looks like.  And I guess many of you in the United Nations are not native Americans. No?  Yes.  So, you know now the same thing.  We can travel to the next planet or the next level of life in order to understand.  Because the distance is so great that we cannot walk, we cannot take a rocket, we cannot take even a UFO.
     
Some worlds are longer than UFO could fly.  UFO!  Unidentified object, yeah?  Okay!  A flying object, yes!  Now, there is a facility within us which is faster than any UFO can comply.  That is our own soul.  We call it spirit sometimes.  And we can fly with this, without any fuel, without any police, or traffic jams or anything at all.  And no need to worry that one day the Arabs don't sell oil to us, [Laughter] because it's self-sufficient. Never goes out of order, except when we want to damage it by violating the universal precepts, violating the harmony of heaven and Earth which is very simple to avoid.  We will tell you how if you are interested to know.  
     
For example, I'll be brief, okay?  I am not a preacher.  Don't worry, I don't take you to the church.  Just for example.  
     
There are some laws in the universe that we should know, just like when we drive the car, we must know the laws of the traffic.  Red light, you stop; green light, we go.  Drive left, on the right, et cetera.  Highway, how much speed.  So, there are some very simple laws in the universe, in the physical universe.  You understand? Beyond our world, beyond this physical universe, there are no laws, no laws at all.  We are free, free citizens, but we have to get beyond that in order to be free.  And as long as we still live in this world, in the physical body, we should as much as possible keep within the law, so we don't get into trouble.  And then our vehicles don't get damaged so we can fly faster, higher, without problems.
     
So, these laws have been written in the Bible, of your Christian Bible and in the Buddhist Bible or in the Hindu Bible.  The very simple ones like we don't harm the neighbors, we don't kill, thou shall not kill, not commit, you know, outside loving relationships and not stealing, et cetera; and not taking intoxicants, that includes the drugs today.  Probably the Buddha knew, in the 20th century, we would invent cocaine and all that, so He said no drugs.  The drugs include all kinds of gambling and anything that makes our minds, how to say, attached to the physical pleasures and forget the spiritual journey.  
     
If we want to fly fast, high and without danger, these are physical laws just like the laws of physics.  When a rocket wants to fly, the scientist has to observe certain laws.  That's all, okay?  So, how much more must we be careful because we want to fly higher than that, higher than the rockets can fly, faster than the UFOs.  But there are some more details that could be explained, should you be interested, and that will be at the time of initiation.  Now we don't want to make you bored with all these precepts which you say, "I know already. I know already.  I read them in the Bible.  Ten precepts, right? Ten commandments"
     
Actually, many of us read the precepts but are not very deeply concerned with them, or not deeply understood.  Or maybe we want to understand, the way we do, but not the way it's exactly meant. Therefore, it doesn't harm sometimes to remind us, or to listen to a little bit deeper meaning of that, again.  For example, in the Bible, in the Old Testament, the first page, God says, I made all the animals to befriend you and to help you, and you shall rule over them.  And then Hes says Hes made all the food for the animals, each one a different kind.  But Hes didn't tell us to eat them.  No!  And Hes says, I made all the food, all the herbs in the field and the fruit on the trees which are delicious to the taste and pleasing to the eyes.  These shall be your food.  But not many people pay attention to that.  And so many of the Bible followers are still eating flesh, you know, without understanding what God truly meant.
     
And if we come into a deeper scientific research and we will know that we are not for flesh eating.  Our system, our intestines, our stomach, our teeth, everything is scientifically made for vegetarian diet only.  No wonder, most people get sick, get old fast, get fatigued, and get sluggish when they were born so brilliant and intelligent.  And they end up a little bit duller each day, and the older they get the worse they feel.  It's because we damage our "vehicles", our "flying objects", our "UFOs".  So, if we like to use this "vehicle" a little bit longer and safer, then we have to take care of it in a proper way.  
     
Now, for example, we have a car.  You know, you all drive cars. Now, if you put the wrong petrol in it, how would it happen? What would happen?  It would drive just probably a few feet and then stop.  And you don't blame the car.  It's just our mistake, we mistakenly put some fuel which doesn't belong there.  Or if our petrol has some water in it, right, it probably can run for a while, but it has trouble.  Right?  Or, if our oil has become too dirty and we didn't clean it, it will run for a while but then we will have trouble.  And sometimes it explodes just because we didn't look after our car in a proper manner.  Right?
     
Similarly, our body is like a vehicle which we can use to fly from here to eternity, to the very high level of scientific wisdom.  But sometimes we damage it and we don't use it for the proper purpose.  For example, our car is to drive many miles to bring us to the office, to our friends and to different beautiful scenery. But then we don't look after, we put wrong petrol, or we don't take care of the oil, we don't take care of the water tank, everything.  And then it doesn't run very fast.  It doesn't run very long.  And then we just run around in our lawn, in the circle of our backyard.  That's all right also.  You understand?  But it's just we waste our purpose of buying a car.  It's just a waste of money and time and our energy.  That's all.  No one is to be blamed.  No police will charge you anything for that.  It's just that you waste your car, waste your money when you could go very far and see many things, and enjoy the different scenery. 
     
Similarly, our physical bodies.  We can live in this world but then we can take care that within this physical body, we have other instruments, that we can fly beyond that.  Just like an astronaut, he sits in the rocket.  The rocket is his instrument. He should take good care that he should not violate the physics laws so that his rocket will fly safely and fast.  But the astronaut inside is important.  That rocket brings him to his destination.  But the rocket, you understand, is not the main object - the astronaut, the destination.  And should he use that just to run around Long Island then it's also a waste of time. Understand?  A waste of the money of the nation.  
     
So, therefore our body is very precious because within this sits the Master.  That's why in the Bible, it says, know you not that you are the temple of God and Almighty God dwells within you, the Holy Spirit, the same, the same thing.  If we house the Holy Spirit or the Almighty God, can you imagine how terrible is that, how terribly significant!  But many people read this fast but do not understand, do not realize the greatness of this sentence, and do not try to find out.  So, this is why my disciples, they like to follow my teachings because they can find out who sits inside and what lies beyond this world, apart from our everyday struggle, money-earning and striking and all these physical problems.  
     
We have more beauty, more freedom, more knowledge within.  And should we know the proper way to contact this, this is all ours because we have them inside.  It's just because we don't know where the key is and we have locked this "house" for a long time and now we've forgotten that we have this treasure.  That's all. 
     
So, the so-called Master is the one who can help us to open the door and show us what originally already belongs to us.  But we have to take time and walk into it and check every item that we have.
     
So, anyhow, we were in the Second World.  Are you interested to go further?  [Audience: Yes!  Yes!]  You want to know everything without working?  [Master laughs]  All right.  But at least someone could tell you what another country looks like when he has been there even though you haven't.  Right?  At least you are interested, maybe you want to go.  Okay.  So, now after the Second World.  I haven't finished all the Second, but you know we cannot sit here all day long. So after the Second, you may have more power.  If you are determined and work for it, you will go to the Third. The so-called Third World.  It's a higher step.  
     
The one who goes to the Third World has to be absolutely clean of every debt of this world, at least.  You understand?  If we owe something to the king of this physical world, we cannot go up. Just like if you are a criminal of some nation, you are not clear of the record, you cannot pass beyond the borders to go to another nation.  So, the debt of this world includes many things that we've done in the past and in the present and maybe in the future days of our physical life.  Now all these have to be cleared, just like we clear the customs, before we can go into the world beyond. But when we are in the Second World, we start to work, you understand, with any leftover karma of the past and this present life, because without past karma, we cannot exist in this present life. 
     
The masters have two different categories.  One without karma but he borrows the karma to come down; the other one is like us, ordinary beings, but with cleansed karma.  So, anyone could be a would-be Master, you know, a future Master.  And sometimes the Master descends from the higher world with borrowed karma.  How does it sound to you, to borrow the karma?  [Master laughs]  It's possible.  It's possible.  
     
For example, before you came down here, you have been here before. Yes?  And you have given and taken with different people of the world for many ages or many hundred years.  And then you go back to heaven or to your abode which is very far away, different levels at least to the Fifth Level.  That's the house of the Master, the Fifth Level.  But beyond that there are more levels, okay!
     
Now, so when we want to come back again due to compassion or some assigned job from the Father, for example, then we come down. And because of the affinity with the people in the past, we could borrow some of their account, you know, karma.  Only debt, nothing, nothing beautiful about the people.  We can borrow some debt and then we pay it, understand, by our spiritual power, slowly until we finish the job in this world.  So, this is a different kind of Master, yeah?  And there are also ones who are from this world, after they practice they immediately become Masters here, just like they graduate.  Yes.  Therefore, in the university just like we have professors and have the students who graduate and become professors afterwards.  Understand?  There are long, long-time professors, and newly graduated professors et cetera.  Similarly, there are these kind of Masters. 
     
So now, if we want to go to the Third World, we must be absolutely clean of every trace of karma.  Karma is the law of As you sow, so shall you reap.  Yeah?  Just like we plant an orange seed, then we get oranges; an apple seed, we have apples, so these are the so-called karma.  It's the Sanskrit language for cause and retribution.  The Bible doesn't talk about karma but it says, As you sow, so shall you reap.  That's the same thing.
     
The Bible is a shortened form of the teachings of the Master, and anyhow His life was also a shortened form.  Therefore we don't have much explanation in the Bible.  And many of the Bible versions have been also censored in order to suit the so-called leaders of these movements; not necessarily always spiritually-minded people.  You know in every kind of aspect, people sell and buy everything.  Brokers - there are brokers full in every aspect in life.  But the Bible, the true Bible, we know is a little bit different, a little bit longer, more precise and easier to understand.  Anyhow, because we cannot prove much of it, so we don't talk about it in case people say we are blaspheming. So that we can only say something that we can prove.
     
And you would ask me then, "You talk about this Second World, Third World and Fourth World.  How can you prove it?"  Well I can! I can prove it.  If you walk along with me, the same path, you will see the same things.  Understand?  But if you don't walk, then I can't prove it to you.  That's of course.  That's of course.  Therefore, I dare talk about these things because there is proof.  We have proof with hundreds of thousands of disciples around the world.  So, we can say things that we know.  Now for example, if we go to - but this you have to walk with me, you have to walk.  Otherwise you cannot say, "Wow, you walk for me and tell me and show me everything."  I cannot.  
     
For example, if I am not in the United Nations in this room, doesn't matter how much you tell about this room, I have not actually experienced it.  Right?  So, we have to walk with whomever is experienced guide.  And I have some of the disciples in this room who have different nationalities, they have had some of these experiences that I have just told you - partly and some fully.  Yes, yes.  
     
And so, after the Third World, this is by no means everything.  What I told you is just a part of things.  That's kind of traveling story, relating things in a small portion and not very detailed.  Even when we read a book about some country, it's not the actual country.  Right?  Therefore, we have many books about traveling, about different countries in the world, but we still like to go ourselves over there.  Right?  We know about Spain and Tenerife and Greece, but these are only movies or only books.  We have to go there and to actually experience the joy of being there and the food they offer and the delicious water of the sea and the beautiful weather and the friendly people and all kinds of atmosphere that we cannot experience by reading books. 
     
 So, anyhow suppose you have passed the Third World and what next? Of course, you go to the higher, the Fourth.  And the Fourth World, this is already out of extraordinary.  And we cannot just use the simple language to describe all these things to the lay persons for fearing of offending the lord of that world.  Because that world is so beautiful even though there are some parts of it are very dark, darker than on electricity-cut night in New York. Have you experienced the whole, complete city in darkness?  Yes! It's darker than that!  But before you reach the Light, it's darker than that.  It's the kind of a forbidden city.  Before we reach God's knowledge, we are stopped, over there.  But with a Master, with an experienced Master, you can pass through, otherwise we cannot find the road in that kind of world.  
     
When we reach different levels of... planes of existence, we have experienced not only spiritual changes but physical changes also, intellectual changes and everything else in our life.  We look at life in a different manner, we walk differently, we work differently.  Even our work, our daily work takes on a different meaning and we understand why we work this way, why we have to be in this job, or why should we change that job.  We understand our purpose of life, so we no longer feel restless and agitated, yes! But we wait very harmoniously, patiently for our mission on Earth to finish, because we know where we are going next.  We know while we are living.  That's what is said, "dying while living".  Yes, yes!  And I suppose some of you have heard of something like this before, but I don't know any Master who can speak differently, [Master laughs] except that we have to experience the actual joy of the inner experiences.  
     
How can anyone who describes - I mean a Mercedes Benz differently. Right?  It has to be the same thing.  So, any people who own a Mercedes Benz, who know the Benz, he would describe the same thing, understand, but that is not the Benz. So, even though I speak to you in a very ordinary language, but these are not ordinary things and these are the things we have to experience by ourselves, with work, sincerity and with a guide.  It's safer that way.  Although it perhaps happens, one in a million that we can make it ourselves, but with danger, with risk and with very not secure results, not very safe.  
     
Some of the people in the past, for example Swedenborg.  He had kind of made it himself.  Or maybe Gurdjieff, he was supposed to have made it himself - gone all the way alone.  But when I read some of the people, this work, they have not been without danger and a lot of trouble.  And it's not necessarily that all of them reach the highest level. 
     
So, after that you go to a higher level.  After the Fourth, you go to the higher level, the house of the Master which is the Fifth Level.  All the Masters came from there.  Even though their levels are higher than the Fifth, they will stay there.  It's the residence of the Masters.  And beyond that, there are many aspects of God, which are difficult to understand.  I'm afraid to confuse you, so probably another time I'll tell you, or maybe after initiation when you'll be a little bit more prepared; and I'll tell you some terrific things about your imagination.  How sometimes it plays wrong about many ideas about God.
     
So I welcome some questions, should there be any.  And you're welcome to throw me out also, if it's too boring for you.  [Master laughs]  I'm also happy to go.  
     
Any questions?  Please.  Yes, yes.  Please wait.  It's all right.  No, no.  Please wait for the microphone, so people can hear what you say.
     

Question and Answer Session 
After the Lecture

Q: 	You mentioned the Master can borrow people's karma.  In that case the karma is erased, for these people?  What is the consequence for these people?
M: 	Yes, yes, yes.  Oh!  The Master can erase anyone's karma.  If that's what the Master chooses to do.  In fact all the disciples, at the time of initiation, all the karma in the past has to be erased.  I just only leave you the present karma, so we can go on to continue with this life, otherwise we die immediately.  No karma - cannot live here.  Therefore the Master has to erase the stored karma only, so the person is clean, and leaves a little bit karma for him to continue this life, to do what he has to do in this life.  And after this - finished.  That's why he can go, otherwise how can he go?  Even if he is clean in this life, how clean?  And how about last life, you understand?  Yes.  Okay.

Q: 	Thank You.
M: 	You are welcome.  Very intelligent question.  So, I think you have been very attentive.   Anymore?  Please.

Q: 	What is the goal of Your practice?
M: 	What is the goal?  I haven't told you?  To travel beyond this world, go back to Kingdom of God, know your wisdom, and be a better person in this life even.

Q: 	And is there karma in all realms?
M: 	Mm, not all realms, up to the Second Realm only, because our mind, our brain, the computer, is "manufactured" in that Second Plane.  When we go down all of the way, all the way from the higher planes down to this physical plane, supposedly to do some work, right; for example, even the Master goes from the Fifth Plane down to the physical world, then he has to go through the Second Plane and pick up this "computer" and fix it in, in order to work in this world.  Just like a diver, you know, who dives into the sea.  He has to go through a preparation of a mask, of oxygen and everything.  Even though he himself doesn't look so ridiculous, but, when he wears the oxygen mask and the diving clothes, he looks like a frog you know.  That's how we look like sometimes with our... this computer and the physical hindrances. Otherwise we are absolutely beautiful.  Even though you think you are beautiful now, you are so ugly compared to what you really are, understand, because all the instruments that we have to wear in order to dive deep into this world to work.  
	So after we pass the Second Level to go upward, we have to leave our computer there, we don't need it up there anymore.  So, just like when a diver reaches the shore, he discards all his oxygen mask and all his equipment to dive, yeah, and he looks the way he was.  Yeah?  Okay!  
	Yes, you continue if you wish.  Here, here.  We have only one microphone, so poor. 

Q: 	Thank You, thank You, Master.  You said that at the end of the Second World, before you go up, that you leave all your karma behind or you have to resolve or clean all your karma.  Does that mean that also all of the karma of the past lives that you come into this life with too?
M: 	Yes.  Because no "computer" to register anything.   We only have karma because we have this computer, the mind, the brain which is meant to record every experience of this physical world. That's why we have it.  Bad or good we register it in here.  That's what we call karma.  Karma is what?  Just the experiences, bad or good, our reactions, our learning experiences in many lifetimes.  And because we have a kind of so-called conscience, we know we should be good and sometimes we did bad.  Therefore we call that is karma.  And the bad things weigh down on us, just like a lot of garbage, luggage, because the law of gravity; it pulls us down and makes it difficult to climb the mountain. Understand?  Because of a lot of moral disciplines in this world, a lot of rules, a lot of customs, lots of habits, in different nations, bind us within these so-called conceptions of good and bad, guilt and innocence.  Therefore when we interact with people of this world, we have experiences of good and bad, guilt and innocence according to the customs, habits of that nation, laws of that nation.  Understand?  And it becomes a habit that we think that way, that we do this, we are guilty; we do that, we are bad persons.  And this, all is recorded in here.  That's what makes us transmigrate and makes us bound into this physical world or a little bit higher world.  But not high enough.  We are not, not - we are not free enough.  We are not light enough to float above. You understand?  Because of all this conception; preconception.

Q: 	Is it predetermined that we will reach a certain level each lifetime when we are born?

M: 	No, we have free-will to run faster or slower.  Yes.  For example, your car, you put in a hundred liters of petrol - I don't know how much you put in car.  I don't know drive a car.  But you can go faster with it, yeah, and reach the destination quicker or you go slower.  Okay.  It's up to you.  Yes.
The gentleman, next door.  Or you want to speak more, yes?  No?

Q: 	Well, I just want to ask You: the angels, what level are they?
M: 	What level are they?  Oh!  It depends on what kind of angels?

Q:	The guardian angels.
M: 	Mm?

Q: 	The guardian angels.
M: 	Oh!  The guardian angels, they could be up to the Second Level.  Angels are less than human beings - less prestige.  They are to serve us.

Q: 	And they never go beyond that?
M: 	No!  Except when they can become human beings.  They are all very envious of human beings, because Gods dwell within them.  We have all the facilities to become one with God, the angel doesn't. It's complicated.  I'll talk to you another day. Okay! 
	They are things made for our use also you see - the different kinds of angels.  Yes.  For example, if it is made by God, then it's made to serve us.  You understand?  And they should not - don't have to go beyond that.  Understand?  But they could, yeah. Sometimes, something is made without a proper arrangement to improve.  You understand?  
	For example, in your house some things you made for your own comfort.  You understand?  Even though it's very fantastic.  For example you sit here and you can turn the lights off and on all over your house and garden, and turn on and off the TV, because you invented it for yourself, but this is only to serve you. Because even though it's better than you in some aspects, like it can sit here and control everything and you cannot do that by human effort.  But that doesn't mean it's better than you. Understand?  It's made for the sole purpose of serving you.  Even though it's better than you, but it's not.  Okay!  All right.  It can never be human being, the computer.  Okay.  Yes, sir, yes, sir.

Q: 	Master Ching Hai, I want to know - that because we are in the body now, could it be that we could have a fallen from being liberated from this body before?  Have we always been in this state or have we been in a better state before, or just in this state?  What is the good attitude or a good disposition to quickly move ahead?
M: 	To quit the body and move ahead, hah, hah?  Yes, we can if we know how.  Yes.  There are many different methods for leaving the body behind and going beyond this world.  Some go not far, some go very far, and some go to the end.  So according to the comparison that I have made with my different research since I was young - even though I look still young now, but I was younger then, you know - our method here is the best, yeah!  Goes to the farthest one, the farthest one, the far end.  
	There are many other methods, if you choose to experience, you can choose.  There are many in the market: some go to the astral world, some go to the, Third or the Fourth, but not many can go to the Fifth.  Yeah?  So, our method, our practice is to take you to the Fifth before we set you free.  Understand?  Let you go alone.  And beyond that we can approach a different aspect of God, beyond the Fifth plane, but it's not always pleasant, yes.  
	We always imagine that the higher the better; it's not always true.  For example, sometimes we go into a beautiful palace and we were invited into the living room of the master.  We sat there and we were served with cool drinks and beautiful eating and everything.  And then we thought we should go a little bit deeper into the house, have a look.  And we would venture into the garbage place and you know many other things in the house.  It's not always important.  Yeah?  And also into a power house you know, we went into the electricity house which is just behind the house, beyond the house, and we got shocked so then we die there. So it's not always necessary or recommended to go into deeper, but we could do that for the sake of adventure.  Yeah, okay.

Q: 	Master Ching Hai, I have two questions.  One is, what world do past life memories come from, if you were to have the memory of the past life?  And secondly, how do past lives relate to karma?
M: 	To your present, right?  To your karma?

Q: 	To the present karma and to one's present understanding.  Are they part of the "excess baggage"?
M: 	Yes, yes.  They relate very much.  First question, where does the past karma come from?

Q: 	Past life memories.  Yes.
M: 	You can read the past life record, that's for sure.  And the past life records, as I have told you, came from the akashic record.  Yes.  And this is a kind of library in the Second World which is accessible to anyone who can reach there.  Not everyone can go to the United Nations' library and have access to it.  But I can, for example today, because I'm invited to talk in the United Nations.  Right?  Not everyone can come in, but you can, because you are a kind of residents here.  So, similarly, when we get access to the Second World, we can read the past life, yeah! Also when we access into the First World, some of it, we can have some glimpse of the past life of a person.  But that's not very high and not very complete record.  
	And how do these past life experiences relate to the present karma?  We can say that these are the experiences we have learned in order to cope with this present lifetime.  You understand?  What you assimilated in the past, you will bring into practice at this present lifetime.  And similarly, too many unpleasant experiences in the past would make you frightened, when you see some symbol that is very much similar to the past life.  For example, if last life - just now, you drop off from the staircase, yeah, by accident and then hurt yourself badly and in the dark, and no one helps you.  And now when you walk down the staircase, you would feel a little frightened, especially when it is deep and dark underneath; you would feel a kind of struggle whether you go or not.  Or if last life you have already studied and researched deep into some scientific field.  This life you will find yourself still very interested, interested in - this is Chinese tongue-twister.  [Master laughs]  I'm sorry.  Is my English still clear enough?  Yeah?  [Audience: Yes]  Okay.  Thank you.  So you still feel very - you have kind of a pull to any kind of scientific research, even though you are not a kind of scientist now.  Any kind of thing like that.  
	That's why Mozart, he was so - a genius when he was four years old.  He went straight to the piano and he became famous up till now, still.  Yeah?  He was a genius because he had practiced in many other lifetimes until master-ship, but then he died after that.  Understand?  Before he reached the peak of his career, he died and he wasn't satisfied just to leave, to leave his career because he loved music.  So he came back and all his learned experience from his past musical talent came back to him, because he had so strong desire to continue when he died.  Understand?  
	And some of these people learn many things from the Astral world or the Second world before they are reborn in this world again.  Therefore they are fantastically gifted with science, or with music, or with literature, or with any kind of inventions, which other people don't know.  You see, kind of very extraordinary inventions that other people cannot understand it and cannot even dream of inventing.  Okay?  Because they have seen them, they have learned them.  
	Therefore, two kinds of learning in this world or in the world beyond.  Those who are gifted and excellent, like geniuses, they are the experts from the worlds beyond, like in the Astral world, the Second world; sometimes from the Third world, if he chooses to come back.  Yeah?  They are excellent.  These are geniuses.  Okay?  Yes?

Q: 	Specifically, what does Your initiation involve and once one is initiated, what would the day-to-day practice involve?
M: 	Okay.  Yes.  First of all, it's all free of charge and no binding involved, except that you have to bind yourself, should you want to continue to go further.  Mm?  So, the conditions - no experience required.  Yeah?  No previous knowledge about any yoga, or any meditation required.  But then, you have to commit yourself to a lifelong vegetarian diet: no eggs; milk okay; cheese okay. Anything else without killing is okay.  
	Egg because it also involves of half-killing, even though it's, how to say, infertile.  And also it has kind of quality to have a tendency to attract negative power.  You know, that's why many people of the black and white magicians field, or many voodoo people - so-called voodoo - they use eggs to draw some of the entities from possessed persons.  If you know it or not?  [Someone answers: Yes.]  You know?  Oh, that's fantastic!  At least, I have immediate proof, if not immediate enlightenment, for you. [Laughter]  
	And after initiation - the time of initiation, you experience the Light and the Sound of God.  Yeah?  The Music of the spirit, it draws you up to the higher level of consciousness.  You will understand the taste of samadhi - the deep peace and joy.  Yes. And after that, you continue to practice at home, if you are serious.  If you are not, I cannot push you, I cannot bother you any more.  If you continue and you want me to help you all the way, then I continue.  If you do not - you see that's the way.  And two and a half hours a day meditation.  Wake up early in the morning, before you sleep - meditate two hours; and maybe half an hour in the lunch time.  When I am not here to speak, you have one-hour lunch.  You can hide away somewhere and meditate.  That's already one hour.  Yeah?  And in the evening, you make one more hour or half an hour.  In the morning, get up earlier one hour. 
	Regulate more of your life, you know, less TV, less gossip, less telephone, less newspapers, then you have a lot of time.  Yes, truly we have a lot of time but sometimes we waste away our time. Just like our car running in the backyard instead of going to Long Island, yeah.  Are you satisfied with that?  Or... 
	
Q: 	Yes! 
M: 	Yes, and nothing more.  No conditions for you, nothing else except you commit yourself to this lifelong practice.  And everyday you experience different changes for the better, and different miracles for your life, not that you wish for it.  It will happen anyhow.  Understand?  And then you truly experience what's heaven like on Earth, if you are really serious about it. That's how many hundreds of thousands of our disciples still hang on, still hang on to me after many years, because they have better and better experiences, because they are serious about it and they do practice.
	Mm. Yes, please.  Yeah, in front or right behind.  Gentleman first.  [Master laughs]

Q: 	Please explain the nature of consciousness. 
M: 	Nature of consciousness, okay.  It's hard to explain but you could use your intelligence to imagine.  It's a kind of wisdom, you know, like you know something better than you ever did before. Yes, you know something that is beyond this world, and you know something in this world which you did not know before, and you understand many things that you do not understand or you did not understand before.  That's the consciousness.  
	And also when you open this consciousness, or the so-called wisdom, you will understand truly who you are and why you are here and what else is beyond this world, and who else, beyond or apart from our worldly citizens.  Understand?  There are many things.  So the level of consciousness is a kind of different degrees of understanding, just like a graduation in college.  The more you learn, the more you know, until graduation.  Are you satisfied? 
	It's difficult to explain something that is abstract, but I have tried.  It's a kind of awareness, you know.  It's difficult to explain awareness.  When you go to different, higher levels of consciousness, your awareness is different.  You know things differently, you feel different.  You feel just absolutely in peace, tranquillity, blissful.  You have no worries, and everything in your daily life becomes clear to you.  You know how to handle things and how to take care of problems better.  Mm?  Even it benefits already in the physical level.  And inside you, how you feel - that only you know.  It's difficult to explain these things.  Just like you are married to the girl you love - how you feel, that only you know.  Mm?  No one else can feel it for you. Yes.

Q: 	Honorable Master, thank You for the insight You have given us. I wonder if You would like to address Yourself to something that is in my conscience.  Why are so many Masters on Earth today giving us a chance to learn so quickly, whereas that in the past it has been so difficult?  Can You address Yourself to that?
M: 	Yes, sure.  Because in our times, the communication is better.  So we know better about the Masters, not that in the past, Masters did not exist, or Masters were inaccessible.  Of course, it is true that some masters are more accessible than the others.  It depends on his choice, or his willingness to give, or his affinity with the people at large.  But then, in any age, always there are one, two, three, four, five Masters.  Depends on the need of the time.  Just we are more aware of the presence of many different Masters, maybe different degrees of Masters, because in these times we are fortunate to have the mass media, to have television, to have radio broadcasts, and books, which we print in millions, in thousands of millions of copies in no time. Yes. 
	In the olden times, we want to print a book, we have to cut the whole tree down first and chop them with very unsophisticated axes, which are "kaput" in no time and no use in another time; and have to polish it with stones and all kinds of things, and to carve one word after another.  And when you want to transfer a whole set of Bibles, it takes a whole convoy, you understand, big trucks, if you have a truck at that time.  So that's why we know of many Masters.  You understand?  
	Yes, so it's lucky, this is very good for you that have - you can shop, you know, you can choose what you want.  So no one will be able to cheat you and say, "I am the best.  Yeah, you can have comparison and use your wisdom, intelligence to judge: "Oh, this one is better," or "I like that one better," "Face looks terrible," "Oh, that one - ugly."  [Laughter]

Q: 	So my question to You then would be: since You have talked about shopping, would You consider initiating someone who has been initiated by another Master?
M: 	I would only if that person truly believes that I am more able to take her or him to a higher level and faster.  Otherwise it is better to stick to one's own Master if one still feels very much attached, and has much faith in that Master.  If you believe your Master is the best already, then don't change.  If you still have doubt and if you still have not got the Light and Sound which I have mentioned, then you should try.  Yes, because Light and Sound is the standard measurement for a real Master.  If anyone who is not able to impart you immediate Light or Sound he is not a real Master, I am sorry to say.  The road to heaven is equipped with Light and Sound.  
	Just like you go to dive into the sea, you have to be equipped with oxygen mask and all that.  There are things for different purposes.  Okay?  That's why you see all the Saints with the halo on them.  That's Light.  When you practice this method, you radiate the same Light like they draw on the pictures of Jesus, and people can see it.  If the people are psychic, you know, they can see your Light.  That's why they draw Jesus with the halo, and they draw Buddha with the Light around Them.  You can see practitioners, of high degree, with this Light if you are opened.  [Master points to Her forehead]  Many people can see that.  
	Have any of you seen, who are here?  You?  What did you see?

Q: 	Well, I can see auras, auras...
M: 	Yeah, but auras are different from Light.  Auras are different colors, sometimes black, sometimes coffee, coffee colored, and sometimes are yellow or red.  Depends on his temperament at that time.  But when you see a person with a strong spiritual aura, you know it's different.  Right?  Yeah.

Q: 	I don't really have a question.  I just - I used to do raja yoga for a while.
M: 	Raja yoga.  Yeah.

Q: 	And I thought I saw also auras.  I mean at that time, I didn't have much knowledge, you know...
M: 	Understand.

Q: 	...understanding.
M: 	And you don't see it now?  You only see it sometimes?

Q: 	No, I don't meditate now.
M: 	Oh, that's why, you lost your power.  Should meditate again, hah?

Q: 	Yeah!
M: 	If you still believe in that path, you should meditate.  It helps you to some extent.  It would not harm.  Okay?

Q: 	I saw in Your leaflet that there are five precepts.  Once you are initiated, you have to live according to these five precepts?
M: 	Yes, yes, yes.  These are the laws of the universe.

Q: 	I don't understand "sexual misconduct".
M: 	It means if you have a husband already, please don't consider the second.  [Laughter]

Q: 	Okay. 
M: 	Very simple.  Keep your life more simple, no complications and quarreling over emotions.  Yes.  It causes hurtful feelings for other people.  We don't harm other people, even emotionally. That's what it is.  We try to avoid conflicts, try to avoid suffering emotionally, physically, mentally for everyone, especially our loved ones, that's all.  Okay?  
	If you already have one, don't tell him.  It hurts more when you tell.  Just solve it slowly and quietly, and don't confess to him. Because sometimes people think if they have an affair, and then they go home and confess to his wife or her husband, that's very wise and very honest.  It's nonsense.  It's no good.  You already made mistake, why you bring garbage home and to let other people enjoy it?  If he doesn't know about it, he doesn't feel that bad.  You understand?  The fact of knowing hurts.  So we try to solve that problem and not to have it again, and that's it.  Better not to talk to the partner about this, because it will hurt them, hurt the partners.  Yeah!

Q: 	I have noticed that many spiritual Masters have a great sense of humor.  What is the relationship of humor to spiritual practice?

M: 	Oh, I see.  I guess they are just feeling happy, and relaxed, you know, and light-hearted about everything.  And they could laugh at themselves and laugh at others; laugh about ridiculous things in this life when many people cling so tensely and take so seriously.  
	After we practice somehow, we just get "loose".  You know, we don't feel so serious any more.  If we die tomorrow, we die; if we live, we live, you know.  If we lose everything, we lose everything; if we have everything, we have everything.  Yes, we have enough wisdom and ability after enlightenment to take care of ourselves in every situation.  So we are not scared of anything. We lose our fear, we lose our anxiety.  That's why we're relaxed. We feel detached to this world.  Whatever we gain or lose doesn't mean much any more.  If we gain a lot of things, it's only for the benefit of people, then we offer; and for the benefit of loved ones.  Otherwise we don't consider ourselves or our life that important to go through all of the struggles and sufferings to preserve it.  If we preserve it, it's all right.  It doesn't mean we sit in bed all day on the nail-bed and then meditate.  But we do work.  You understand?  
	For example, I still work, hah!?  I do my painting, and my handicraft work to earn my living.  So I don't want to take donations from anyone.  And even my earnings are so much I can help people.  I can help the refugees, the disaster victims and all that.  Why shouldn't we work?  But we have so much talent and abilities, and life is so easy for us after enlightenment that we feel there is just no need to worry.  You understand?  We just naturally relax.  That's how the sense of humor is born.  I guess that is what it is, hah?  
	Do you find me humorous?  [Audience: Yes]  [Laughter and applause] Yes.  [Master laughs]  Then maybe, I must be a Master of some kind hah?  [Laughter]  Okay.  [Master laughs]  Let's hope so, for your sake hah, so that you didn't listen to an unenlightened person for two hours - waste your time.  Okay.  Any more questions?

Q: 	Master Ching Hai, a rush of questions are flooding my mind.  And I'll just say them all, and You can answer any or none of them.  
M: 	Okay.  One hundred and eight.

Q: 	And they're questions that we, as seeking souls, always ask and we get theories and stories, and I'd just like to hear what you have to say about them.  The first is: Who are we?  Who am I? And How did I get to be in the predicament that I have to get back Home?  You know, how did I leave Home and why is it important to go back Home?  And You talked about going back to the Fifth realm, and it is not necessarily being important to go further than that. But if there is a further than that, then what is the purpose of it?  What relationship does it have to me if I don't necessarily have to go back there?  Those kinds of questions.

M: 	Okay, one at a time.  Okay, I think I'll answer this group of questions first.  So, the first group consisted of: "Who are you? Why are you here?  And why you have to go Home?"  And "Why the Fifth and not the Sixth?"  Right?  Simple.  It's getting humorous now.  [Laughter and applause]    Okay.  Pertaining to the question of "Who am I?", you can go and ask the Zen master, which is abound in New York State.  You can look in the Yellow Pages and find one.  [Laughter]  I am not specialized in that.  
	And the second, "Why are you here?"  Maybe because you like to be here.  Mm?  Or else who can force us to be here since we are the children of God.  The so-called children of God are like God Hirmself.  No?  A prince is similar to the king, yeah, in some aspects, or more or less like the king, or the future king.  So only when he likes to be somewhere, then he'll be there.  Mm?  Anyhow, we have free-will to choose to be in heaven or to be somewhere else to experience for ourselves.  That's - probably you have chosen to be here in the beginning, many ages ago, to learn something more adventurous, you know, something more frightening. Some people love scary experiences, you know. 
	For example, the prince, he can be in the palace but he could be wandering in the jungle, you know, because he loved to be exploring things in the nature.  It could be that way.  Mm?  It could be that we were so bored, bored in heaven, because everything was made ready and served to our palace doors, so we want to do something for ourselves.  Just like the royal household, sometimes they want to cook for themselves and they don't want the servants to be near.  And they smear themselves with ketchup and oil, all over the place, but they love it, you know.  Doesn't look very princely, but they love it.  Yes, yes, yes. 
	So for example, I have people who drive for me.  Everywhere I go, people would love to be my driver.  But sometimes, I like to drive for myself.  I drive on my small tricycle, non-smoking tricycle, yeah, electric plug-in - ten miles an hour, no, ten kilometers an hour.  I like to go around like that.  Yeah?  Because everywhere I go, people notice me a lot, so sometimes I want to go somewhere where the people don't know me.  I'm very shy except when I have to talk in the lecture, because it has become kind of duty now since people dug me out and made me famous up till now.  I cannot run away so often but sometimes I do run away, you know, for two-three months.  Just like a, you know, pampered wife who runs away from husband.  And so it's my choice, you see. 
	So perhaps you have chosen to be here for a while.  And perhaps it's time now that you want to go because you have learned enough of this world, and you feel that there is nothing more that you want to learn, and you are tired of traveling.  You want to rest.  Go Home, have a rest first.  And then see whether you want to go again or not, on an adventurous journey.  Okay?  That's all I can say up to now.  
	And why do you have to go Home?  And why the Fifth and not the Sixth?  That's up to you.  After the Fifth, you can go anywhere you want.  There are many more levels upward.  You understand?  But it's just more comfortable, more neutral to stay there.  It's too powerful, further upward, maybe like that.  You can go for a while, but maybe you wouldn't like to rest, for example. 
	For example, your house is beautiful, but there are some parts of the house are for rest-rooms and you wouldn't want to rest there forever, even though it's beyond your house.  You know, it looks like up the hill and the higher, more beautiful, but it's not the place to rest.  Or in the electric-power department in your house, the generator - noisy, loud, heat, hot and, you know, dangerous.  So you wouldn't want to be there even though it is very helpful for your house.  Understand?  That's all.  
	There are many aspects of God that we could not imagine.  We always imagine the higher we go, the more loving.  But there are different kinds of love.  There is violent love, you know, strong love, mild love, neutral love.  So it depends on how we can bear. God will give us different degrees of love.  Right.  Different levels, offer some different degrees of love from God.  Okay?  But sometimes it's too strong, we feel, we feel we are torn into ribbons.

Q: 	Hi.  I see so much destruction going on around me - environmental destruction.
M: 	True.

Q: 	Cruelty.  Cruelty to animals.
M: 	It's true.

Q: 	I just wonder how You perceive this and what You can recommend to people who are trying to release themselves from this world in the spiritual fashion, to help them cope with their surroundings and cope with all the devastation that is going on around them?  And do You think that going beyond this world is enough for us to recognize what we are leaving behind, or do You feel we in this plane have a duty to try to alleviate the suffering?  And will it do any good?

M: 	It will.  It will.  At least for us, for our conscience, so that we feel we are doing something and we have tried our best to relieve the suffering of our fellow beings.  I do all the same. Whatever you ask, I am doing.  I did, I do, and I will.  
	I have told you already, our finances are distributed to different organizations, sometimes, or different countries, when they are in disasters.  And I would not like to boast much about it, but since you ask - and for example, we helped the Philippines last year for their relief of their Mt. Pinatubo.  And we helped the flood victims in Au Lac, and the flood victims in China et cetera.  And we are trying to help the Au Lac refugees now to help with the UN's burden, you understand, provided the UN wants us to help.  But we are trying.  Yes, understand now?  We help them with financial support, and also we could relocate them if the UN lets it happen - with the blessing of the UN.  Understand?  
	Yes, so we do all these things that you have requested and also because, since we are here, you understand, we might just as well clean our environment as much as possible.  Therefore, we help with the suffering and we help with the moral standard of the world.  Yeah?  Both spiritually and physically.  Yes.  Because some people don't want to take spirituality from me.  They only want to take physical help.  So we help them physically.  And that's what we do; that's why I have to earn money.  That's why I don't want to live on people's donations.  Understand?  
	All my monks and my disciples have to work, just like you do. And then, apart from that, we help spiritually also, understand; and help with the suffering of the world, help to relieve the suffering of the world.  We have to do this.  Doesn't mean we sit in samadhi all day long and enjoy ourselves.  That's a very selfish Buddha (enlightened being).  We don't want to have him here.  [Laughter]

Q: 	You spoke about a level where one is aware that they have powers that come from that awareness.  Now what if you are aware of the powers, you don't know that you have them, but you are aware of them?  You may even feel like you do.  How do you access it or not access it?  If you don't access it, how do you not become impatient with the process that's going on around?  Like you see the process taking a slow, mundane way when you know you can just pray or do something else to bring about a better or quicker resolution.  What does that mean and how does one access it with the blessing that it will come out okay?  Do You understand what I mean?
M: 	I understand, I understand.  What you meant is that when we have the power to change things and when the things around go in a bureaucratic way and a slow way, how would you have the patience to bear it.  Right?  Or would you just pray or do some magic or point a finger and push it.  Right?  No, I have patience because we have to work with the pace of this world in order not to bring it into chaos.  Yes.  
	For example, a child cannot run.  Not because you are in a hurry or you want to run that you make the child stumble and fall. So we have to be patient.  Even though we have the power to run, we walk with the child, yes.  That's why sometimes I am also frustrated and impatient but I have to teach myself to be patient. That's why I have to go and bow my head from one president after another for the refugees, even though we want to add all the financial support.  We would give all we have, everything, millions of dollars, or billions even.  We have to go through the bureaucratic system.  Give Caesar what belongs to Caesar. Understand?  
	I am not going to wield my head or to point a finger at the UN even make them run.  No, no.  We cause disasters in this world if we use psychic, magical power.  Understand?  It has to go the way it goes.  But we can elevate people's consciousness by spiritual healing, by spiritual wisdom, understanding.  Impart to them the knowledge that they are willing to do it, you understand, and cooperate.  That's the best way, not to use magical power.  I never intentionally use magical power in any aspect of life.  But miracles just happen around the spiritual practitioners.  That's very natural, but not intentionally.  You understand?  Not trying to push things.  Yes, that's no good.  The child cannot run.  All right?  You satisfied with my answer?  
	If any of my answers don't suit you, please let me know, because I can explain further.  But I trust you are very intelligent - being the most chosen and intelligent people of all nations.  Therefore I don't elaborate very much, yeah.  
	Any more questions?  Yes, behind there.  
	It's good that we have United Nations, I have to say, by the way. Yes, yes.  We eliminate many of the world's conflicts and wars, even though we cannot completely minimize.  But I read your books of United Nations.  Everyone is United Nations.  And I have followed some of the United Nations work.  And I must praise its effort and efficiency in rescuing hostages where other people cannot rescue.  All the power of the world could not rescue and one United Nations' commissioner did it.  Yes, and many other things concerning disaster relief, refugee problems. 
	You have about twelve million refugees, I heard - responsibility. No?  It's a lot of work, and the wars and everything.  So it's good that we have United Nations, yeah!  It's very good.

Q: 	Thank You, Master Ching Hai, for sharing Your wisdom with us. I have a question.  It's about the escalating world population and its accompanying problem of further environmental abuse and the further greater demand for food.  Would You like to comment something on this escalating world population?  Is this a world karma?  Or is this going to create certain kind of karma in the future?
M: 	Mm, to have more people for this world is also very good.  Why not?  More crowded, more noise, more fun.  No?  [Laughter]  It's not that we are overpopulated, really.  We're just not spread out evenly.  People just condense in certain areas of the world and do not want to move to another area.  That is all.  Yeah, we have so many vast areas of wild land that have not been used.  Many virgin islands, many vast, you know, plateaus which are only green with forests and nothing there.  Mm, people just like to concentrate in New York, for example, [Laughter] because it's more fun here.  Yes, because if a government or any government is able to create jobs, you understand, and industry, and employment of different kinds in different places and people would go there also to work. They just condense in some places because it's easier to find employment here, or safety.  If the safety, security and employment opportunity presents itself in those other different places, people would go there also.  They would go for security, for their livelihood.  That's very natural.  Yeah?  
	So, it's not that we should fear about overpopulation.  We should be more organized to give people of the world more benefit of employment opportunities and housing and security.  Then everywhere is the same.  We would never be overpopulated.  
	And about your question concerning food, you should know better, because in America, we have so much information concerning how to preserve the world.  Vegetarian diet is one of the best, to preserve the world's resources, to feed the whole population of the Earth because we waste a lot of vegetarian food, energy, electricity, medicine, to raise animals.  Understand?  Whereby it could feed other people directly.  And many countries of the Third world nations, they sell their protein-enriched vegetarian food for cheaper prices.  But that is not a help to the other world nations' populations.  If we spread all the food evenly, and vegetarian diet will help this, not only for ourselves, not only for the animals, but for the whole world. 
	One of the research something, magazines, they already said that if everyone in the, how to say - oh, last time, I was in United Nations, I mentioned that already.  I've forgotten.  If we eat vegetarian, the world will not be hungry anymore.  And also we have to organize, yeah, organize.  I know some person, he can make rice bran into nutritious food and milk even.  And we have talked last time about that.  He said he spent about three hundred thousand dollars and he can feed six hundred thousand people in Ceylon - the poor, the under-nourished, the mothers, and all that. Yeah, it was fantastic.  Because the way we do it in many parts of the world, it's that we waste the natural resources, not that we don't have enough.  God wouldn't put us here to starve.  Actually, we starve ourselves. 
	So we have to rethink; rethink, reorganize, and that needs the blessing of many countries' governments.  They have to bless us with their absolute honesty, cleanliness and, you understand, dignity, and the will to serve people instead of serving themselves.  If we have this blessing from all the countries' governments, you understand, we have no problem really.  No problem.  
	We have to have good leadership, good economic organization and ruling talents and honest governments.  But that can come about more rapidly when many people or most of the people or all the people become spiritual.  Then they know the discipline.  Then they know the precepts.  Then they know how to be honest and clean.  And they know how to use their wisdom then. Then they can think of many things to do and reorganize our lives.  Understand? Otherwise if you just run for power with your pocket money or with the money collected from the public and then you try to collect the same money again before you run out of power then does not help at all.  Does not matter if you sit on gold mines, we die all the same of poverty.  
	The leaders of many nations have to be aware of their power and responsibility; have to think of the people, reorganize the system.  Hah!  Yes.

Q: 	That seems to be very difficult because as I see, much of the, as I understand, much of the environmental abuse today has to do with a growing population's demand for more living space, for homes, for living the way we, in the 20th century, know and want to live.  
	Say the jungles in Brazil - the environmental abuse there.  The destruction of the forest there, the rain forest.  The land, it's being defoliated and that results in floods.  And these are not unrelated to the problem of overpopulation.
M: 	Yes, everything is related to each other, of course, in this world.  And the only solution is to solve it from the root, not the branches.  And the root is spiritual stability.  Understand? [Applause]  
	So all we have to do is to try to spread the spiritual message; what we know, and keep to the spiritual discipline.  That's what people don't have.  It's okay to plug yourself in the electric machine and have some lights and some buzzing music and get samadhi.  But if you don't have moral discipline, then you only use the power for bad things sometimes - can't control it.  You understand?  
	That's why we in this group, we keep, teach people the precepts first.  Precepts are important.  We have to know where we go and maneuver our Power.  Power without love, without compassion, without proper understanding of the moral value, then it's no use. It becomes black magic - abuse.  Yeah.  That's where black magic comes from.  Understand?  
	So it's easy to get enlightenment, it's hard to keep it.  In our path, if you are not truly disciplined and morally equipped, the Master will take away some of your Power so that you cannot abuse it and do bad things to the society.  Understand?  That's the difference.  Master has control.  The Master Power, the Master Power, okay?  
	Yes, I am very happy with all of your intelligent questions. Very intelligent.  
	People do these things because they are not wise enough, you know, like abusing the land that you have said, or doing something just because their lack of wisdom.  Yes, so the root is wisdom, spiritual practice.  Get enlightened.  
	Yes ma'am.

Q: 	My question is that I know that I struggle to do the right thing, to do my practices, and I know that I am struggling against something that is struggling against me.  And my question is, how do I get beyond the struggle?  How do I win?
M: 	That's where fun is.  If something is too easy, you know you lose the challenge and you don't even want to win it.  Yes. Therefore, we have two powers inside us.  We call "Yin and Yang" in Oriental terms, and Chinese.  Ah.  We call negative and positive in the Western terminology.        	  Negative power just pushes us to do something which is against our will, and positive power helps us to conquer that tendency.  And sometimes we lose, sometimes we win - depends on our spiritual discipline and power.  So try to struggle and continue.  Just like the United Nations struggles with refugee issues and the wars in the world.  Sometimes you win at the end, it takes some struggling. 
	I thank you for your attention.  All the best.



"Initiation is not really initiation... you just come here and let me help you help yourself. I have not come here to make you disciples... I have come to help you become Masters." 
				- Suma Ching Hai -


"Everyone already knows how to meditate, but you meditate on the wrong things. Some people meditate on pretty girls, some on money, some on business. Every time you pay full attention, whole-heartedly, to one thing, that is meditation. I pay attention only to the inner Power, to the Compassion, the Love and Merciful qualities of God."
				- Suma Ching Hai -


"Initiation means the beginning of a new life into a new order.  It means that the Master has accepted you to become one of the beings in the circle of Saints.  Then you are no longer an ordinary being, you are elevated.  In the old times they called it "Baptism" or "Taking Refuge in the Master."
				- Suma Ching Hai -


INITIATION: 
THE QUAN YIN METHOD


M aster Ching Hai initiates sincere people longing to know the 
                Truth, into the Quan Yin Method.  The Chinese charac
              ters "Quan Yin" mean contemplation of the Sound Vibration.  The Method includes meditation on both the inner Light and the inner Sound. These inner experiences have been repeatedly described in the spiritual literature of all the world's religions since ancient times.

For example, the Christian Bible states, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." (John 1:1) This Word is the inner Sound.  It has also been called the Logos, Shabd, Tao, Soundstream, Naam, or the Celestial Music. Master Ching Hai, "It vibrates within all life and sustains the whole universe.  This inner melody can heal all wounds, fulfill all desires, and quench all worldly thirst.  It is all powerful and all Love.  It is because we are made of this Sound, that contact with it brings peace and contentment to our hearts.  After listening to this Sound, our whole being changes, our entire outlook on life is greatly altered for the better."

The inner Light, the Light of God, is the same Light referred to in the word "enlightenment".  Its intensity can range from a subtle glow to the brilliance of many millions of suns.  It is through the inner Light and Sound that we come to know God.

The initiation into the Quan Yin Method is not an esoteric ritual or a ceremony for entering a new religion.  During the initiation, specific instruction in meditation on the inner Light and inner Sound is given, and Master Ching Hai provides the "Spiritual Transmission".  This first taste of Divine Presence is given in silence.  Master Ching Hai need not be physically present in order to open this "door" for you.  The Transmission is an essential part of the Method. The technique themselves will bring little benefit without the Grace of the Master.

Because you may hear the inner Sound and see the inner Light immediately upon initiation, this event is sometimes referred to as "sudden" or "immediate enlightenment."

Master Ching Hai accepts people from all backgrounds and religious affiliations for initiation.  You do not have to change your present religion or system of beliefs.  You will not be asked to join any organization, or participate in any way that does not suit your current life-style.

However, you will be asked to become a vegetarian.  A life-long commitment to the vegetarian diet is a necessary prerequisite for receiving initiation.

The initiation is offered free of charge.

Daily practice of the Quan Yin Method of meditation, and the keeping of the Five Precepts are your only requirements after initiation.  The Precepts are guidelines that help you to neither harm yourself nor any other living being.  These practices will deepen and strengthen your initial enlightenment experience, and allow you to eventually attain the highest levels of Awakening or Buddhahood for yourself.  Without daily practice, you will almost certainly forget your enlightenment and return to a normal level of consciousness.

Master Ching Hai's goal is to teach us to be self sufficient. Therefore, She teaches a method that can be practiced by everyone, by themselves, without props or paraphernalia of any kind.  She is not looking for followers, worshippers, or disciples, or to establishing an organization with a dues paying membership.  She will not accept money, prostrations, or gifts from you, so you do not need to offer these to Her.

She will accept your sincerity in daily life and meditational practice to progress yourself towards sainthood.

The Five Precepts 


1. Refrain from taking the life of sentient beings*; 
2. Refrain from speaking what is not true; 
3. Refrain from taking what is not offered; 
4. Refrain from sexual misconduct; 
5. Refrain from the use of intoxicants; 

*The keeping of this precept requires a vegan or lacto-vegetarian diet.



"A fully divine person is a fully-human being.  A fully-human being is fully divine.  Right now we are only half a human being. We do things with hesitation, we do things with ego.  We don't believe that it is God who arranges all this for our enjoyment, for our experience.  We separate sin and virtue.  We make a big deal out of everything, and accordingly judge ourselves and other people.  We suffer from our own limitations about what God should do.  Understand?  Actually God is inside us and we limit Hirm.  We like to enjoy ourselves and play, but we don't know how.  We just say to others, 'Ah!  You shouldn't do that,' and to ourselves, "I shouldn't do that.  I must not do this.  So why should I be vegetarian?' Yeah, I know.  I am vegetarian because the God inside me wants it."
					- Suma Ching Hai -   


"When we are pure in our deeds, speech and thoughts, even for a second, all the deities, the gods and the guardian angels will support us.  At that moment, the entire universe belongs to us and supports us, and the throne is there for us to reign upon."
					- Suma Ching Hai -



Why People 
Must Be Vegetarian 


A lifetime commitment to a vegan or lacto-vegetarian diet is a 
           prerequisite for initiation into the Quan Yin Method.  Foods from 
          plant sources and dairy products are permitted on this diet, but all other foods from animal sources including eggs should not be eaten.  There are many reasons for this, but the most important comes from the First Precept, which tells us to refrain from taking the life of sentient beings, or Thou shalt not kill. 
     
Not killing or otherwise harming other living creatures is of obvious benefit for them.  Less obvious is the fact that refraining from harming others is equally advantageous for ourselves.  Why?  Because of the Law of Karma: As ye sow, so shall ye reap.  When you kill, or cause others to kill for you, in order to satisfy your desire for meat, you incur a karmic debt, and this debt must eventually be repaid. 
     
So in a very real sense, the keeping of a vegetarian diet is a gift which we give to ourselves.  We feel better, the quality of our lives improves as the heaviness of our karmic indebtedness diminishes, and we are offered entrance into new subtle and heavenly realms of inner experience.  It is well worth the small price you have to pay!
     
The spiritual arguments against eating meat are convincing for some people, but there are other compelling reasons for being a vegetarian. All of them are rooted in common sense.  They have to do with issues of personal health and nutrition, ecology and the environment, ethics and animal suffering, and world hunger.
     
     
Health and Nutrition

Studies of human evolution have shown that our ancestors were vegetarian by nature.  The structure of the human body is not suited for eating meat.  This was demonstrated in an essay in comparative anatomy by Dr. G.S Huntingen of Columbia University.  He pointed out that carnivores have short small and large intestines. Their large intestine is characteristically very straight and smooth.  In contrast, vegetarian animals have both a long small intestine and a long large intestine.  Because of the low fiber content and high protein density of meat, the intestines do not require a long time to absorb nutrients; thus, the intestines of carnivores are shorter in length than those of vegetarian animals.
     
Humans, like other naturally vegetarian animals, have both a long small and large intestine.  Together, our intestines are approximately twenty-eight feet (eight and a half meters) in length.  The small intestine is folded back on itself many times, and its walls are convoluted, not smooth.  Because they are longer than those found in carnivores, the meat we eat stays in our intestines for a longer period of time.  Consequently, the meat can putrefy and create toxins.  These toxins have been implicated, as a cause of colon cancer, and they also increase the burden on the liver, which has the function of getting rid of toxins.  This can cause cirrhosis and even cancer of the liver.
     
Meat contains a lot of urokinase protein and urea, which add to the burden on the kidneys, and can destroy kidney function.  There are fourteen grams of urokinase protein in every pound of steak. If living cells are put into liquid urokinase protein, their metabolic function will degenerate.  Furthermore, meat lacks cellulose or fiber, and lack of fiber can easily create constipation.  It is known that constipation can cause rectal cancer or piles.
     
The cholesterol and saturated fats in flesh also create cardiovascular disorders.  Cardiovascular disorders are the number one leading cause of death in the United States, and now in Formosa.
      
Cancer is the second leading cause of death.  Experiments indicate that the burning and roasting of flesh creates a chemical element (Methylcholanthrene), which is a powerful carcinogen. Mice given this chemical develop cancers, such as bone tumors, cancer of the blood, cancer of the stomach et cetera.
     
Research has shown that infant mice fed by a female mouse having breast cancer will also developed cancer.  When human cancer cells were injected into animals, the animals also developed cancer.  If the meat which we eat daily comes from animals that originally have such disorders, and we take them into our body, there is a good chance we will also get the diseases.
      
Most people assume that meat is clean and safe, that there are inspections done at all butcheries.  There are far too many cattle, pigs, poultry, et cetera, killed for sale every day for each one to actually be examined.  It's very difficult to check whether a piece of meat has cancer in it, let alone check every single animal.  Currently, the meat industry just cuts off the head when it has a problem, or cuts off the leg which is diseased.  Only the bad parts are removed and the rest is sold.
     
The famous vegetarian, Dr. J.H. Kellogg said, "When we eat vegetarian food, we don't have to worry about what kind of disease the food died of. This makes a joyful meal!"
     
There is yet another concern.  Antibiotics as well as other drugs including steroids and growth hormones are either added to animal feed or injected directly into the animals.  It has been reported that people eating these animals will absorb these drugs into their bodies.  There is a possibility that antibiotics in meat are diminishing the effectiveness of antibiotics for human use.
     
There are some people who consider the vegetarian diet not sufficiently nourishing.  An American surgical expert, Dr. Miller, practiced medicine for forty years in Formosa.  He established a hospital there, where all the meals were vegetarian, for staff members as well as the patients.  He said, "The mouse is one kind of animal which can support its life with both a vegetarian and non-vegetarian diet.  If two mice are segregated, with one eating flesh and the other vegetarian food, we find that their growth and development are the same, but that the vegetarian mouse lives longer and has greater resistance to disease.  Furthermore, when the two mice got sick, the vegetarian mouse recovered quicker.  He then added, "The medicine given to us by modern science has improved greatly, but it can only treat illnesses.  Food however, can sustain our health."  He pointed out that, "Food from plants is a more direct source of nutrition than meat.  People eat animals, but the sources of nutrition for the animals we eat is plants.  The lives of most animals are short, and animals have nearly all the diseases that mankind has.  It is very likely that the diseases of mankind come from eating the flesh of diseased animals.  So, why don't people get their nutrition directly from plants?"  Dr. Miller suggested that we only need cereals, beans and vegetables to get all the nourishment we need to maintain good health.
     
Many people have the idea that animal protein is superior to plant protein because the former is considered a complete protein, and the latter is incomplete.  The truth is that some plant protein are complete, and that food combining can create complete proteins out of several incomplete protein foods.
     
In March 1988 the American Dietetic Association announced that: "It is the position of the ADA that vegetarian diets are healthful and nutritionally adequate when appropriately planned."
     
It is often falsely believed that meat-eaters are stronger than vegetarians, but an experiment conducted by Professor Irving Fisher of Yale University on 32 vegetarians and 15 meat-eaters showed that vegetarians had more endurance than meat-eaters.  He had people hold out their arms for as long as possible.  The outcome from the test was very clear.  Among the 15 meat-eaters, only two persons could hold out their arms for fifteen to thirty minutes.  However, among the 32 vegetarians: 22 persons held out their arms for fifteen to thirty minutes, 15 persons for over thirty minutes, 9 persons for over one hour, 4 persons for over two hours, and one vegetarian held his arms out for over three hours.
     
Many long distance track athletes keep a vegetarian diet for the time preceding competitions.  Dr. Barbara More, an expert in vegetarian therapy, completed a one hundred and ten mile race in twenty-seven hours and thirty minutes. A woman of fifty-six years of age, she broke all the records held by young men: "I want to be an example to show that people who take a whole vegetarian diet will enjoy a strong body, a clear mind and a purified life."
       
Does the vegetarian get enough protein in his diet?  The World Health Organization recommends that 4.5% of daily calories be derived from protein.  Wheat has 17% of it's calories as protein, broccoli has 45% and rice has 8%.  It is very easy to have a protein rich diet without eating meat.  With the additional benefit of avoiding the many diseases caused by high fat diets such as heart disease and many cancers, vegetarianism is clearly the superior choice.          
     
The relationship between over consumption of meat and other animal source foods containing high levels of saturated fats, and heart disease, breast cancer, colon cancer and strokes has been proven. Other diseases which are often prevented and sometimes cured by a low-fat vegetarian diet include: kidney stones, prostate cancer, diabetes, peptic ulcers, gallstones, irritable bowel syndrome, arthritis, gum disease, acne, pancreatic cancer, stomach cancer, hypoglycemia, constipation, diverticulosis, hypertension, osteoporosis, ovarian cancer, hemorrhoids, obesity and asthma.
     
There is no greater personal health risk than eating meat, aside from smoking.
     

Ecology and the Environment
     
Raising animals for meat has its consequences.  It leads to rain forest destruction, global warming, water pollution, water scarcity, desertification, misuse of energy resources and world hunger.  The use of land, water, energy and human effort to produce meat is not an efficient way to use the Earth's resources.
     
Since 1960, some 25% of Central America's rain forests have been burned and cleared to create pasture for beef cattle.  It has been estimated that every four ounce hamburger made from rain forest beef destroys 55 square feet of tropical rain forest.  In addition, raising cattle contributes significantly to the production of three gases which cause global warming; is a leading cause of water pollution and requires a staggering 2464 gallons of water for the production of each pound of beef.  It only takes 29 gallons of water to produce a pound of tomatoes and 139 gallons to produce a one pound loaf of whole wheat bread.  Nearly half of the water consumed in the United States goes to the growing of feed for cattle and other livestock.
     
Many more people could be fed if the resources used to raise cattle were used to produce grain to feed the world's population. An acre of land growing oats produces 8 times the protein and 25 times the calories, if the oats are fed to humans rather than to cattle.  An acre of land used for broccoli produces 10 times the protein, calories and niacin as an acre of land producing beef. Statistics like these are numerous.  The world's resources would be more efficiently utilized if the land used for livestock production was converted to raising crops to feed people.
     
Eating a vegetarian diet allows you to "tread more lightly on the planet".  In addition to taking only what you need and reducing excess, you will feel better when you know that a living being doesn't have to die each time you eat a meal.
     

World Hunger
     
Nearly one billion people suffer from hunger and malnutrition on this planet.  Over 40 million die each year of starvation, and most of them are children.  Despite this, more than one third of the world's grain harvest is diverted from feeding people to feeding livestock.  In the United States, livestock consume 70% of all the grain produced. If we fed people instead of livestock, no one would go hungry.
     
Animal Suffering
     
Are you aware of the fact that more than 100,000 cows are slaughtered every day in the Unite Sates?
      
Most animals in Western countries are raised on "factory farms". These facilities are designed to produce the maximum number of animals for slaughter at the minimum expense.  Animals are crowded together, disfigured and treated like machines for the conversion of feed into flesh. This is a reality that most of us will never see with our own eyes.  It has been said that, "One visit to a slaughterhouse will make you a vegetarian for life."
     
Leo Tolstoy said, "As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields.  A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism".  Although most of us do not actively condone killing, we have developed the habit, supported by society, of eating meat regularly, without any real awareness of what is being done to the animals we eat.
     

             
The Company of Saints and Others
     
From the beginning of recorded history we can see that vegetables have been the natural food of human beings.  Early Greek and Hebrew myths all spoke of people originally eating fruit.  Ancient Egyptian priests never ate meat.  Many great Greek philosophers such as Plato, Diogenes and Socrates all advocated vegetarianism.
     
In India, Shakyamuni Buddha emphasized the importance of Ahimsa, the principle of not harming any living things.  He warned His disciples not to eat meat, or else other living beings would become frightened of them.  Buddha made the following observations:  Meat eating is just an acquired habit. In the beginning we were not born with a desire for it.   Flesh eating people cut off their inner seed of Great Mercy.   Flesh eating people kill each other and eat each other... this life I eat you, and next life you eat me... and it always continues in this way. How can they ever get out of the Three Realms (of illusion)?
     
Many early Taoists, early Christians and Jews were vegetarians.  It is recorded in the Holy Bible: And God said, 'I have provided all kinds of grain and all kinds of fruit for you to eat; but for the wild animals and for all the birds I have provided grass and leafy plants for food.' (Genesis 1:29)     Other examples forbidding the eating of meat in the Bible:     You must not eat meat with blood in it, because the life is in the blood. (Genesis 9:4)    God said, 'Who told you to kill the bullock and the she goat to make an offering to me?  Wash yourselves from this innocent blood, so I may hear your prayer; otherwise I will turn my head away because your hands are full of blood.  Repent yourselves so I may forgive you.'      St. Paul, one of Jesus' disciples, said in his letter to the Romans, It is good neither to eat flesh nor to drink wine. (Romans 14:21)
     
Recently, historians have discovered many ancient books that have shed new light on the life of Jesus and His teachings. Jesus said: People who have animals' flesh become their own tombs.  I tell you honestly, the man who kills will be killed.  The man who kills living things and eats their meat is eating the meat of the dead men.
     
Indian religions also avoid the eating of flesh.  It is said that, People can't get flesh without killing things.  A person who hurts sentient beings will never be blessed by God.  So, avoid taking flesh! (Hindu Precept)
     
The holy Scripture of Islam, the Koran, forbids the eating of dead animals, blood and flesh.
     
A great Chinese Zen Master, Han Shan Tzu wrote a poem which was strongly against flesh eating: Go quickly to the market to buy meat and fish and feed them to your wife and children.  But why must their lives be taken to sustain yours?  It's unreasonable.  It will not bring you affinity with Heaven, but make you become dregs of Hell! 
     
Many famous writers, artists, scientists, philosophers and eminent men were vegetarians.  The following people have all embraced vegetarianism with enthusiasm: Shakyamuni Buddha, Jesus Christ, Virgil, Horace, Plato, Ovid, Petrarch, Pythagoras, Socrates, William Shakespeare, Voltaire, Sir Isaac Newton, Leonardo Da Vinci, Charles Darwin, Benjamin Franklin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Emile Zola, Bertrand Russell, Richard Wagner, Percy Bysshe Shelley, H. G. Wells, Albert Einstein, Rabindranath Tagore, Leo Tolstoy, George Bernard Shaw, Mahatma Gandhi, Albert Schweitzer; and more recently, Paul Newman, Madonna, Princess Diana, Lindsay Wagner, Paul McCartney and Candice Bergen, to name a few.
     
Albert Einstein said, "I think the changes and purifying effects that a vegetarian diet have on a human being's disposition are quite beneficial to mankind.  Therefore, it is both auspicious and peaceful for people to choose vegetarianism."  This has been the common advice of many important figures and sages throughout history!


Master Answers Questions 

Q: 	Eating animals is killing living beings, but isn't eating vegetables a kind of killing, too? 
M: 	Eating plants is also killing living things and will create some karmic hindrance, but the effect is very minimal.  If one practices the Quan Yin Method for two and a half hours every day, one can get rid of this karmic effect.  As we have to eat in order to survive, we choose food which has the least consciousness and suffers the least.  Plants consist of 90% water, thus their level of consciousness is so low that it hardly feels any suffering. Furthermore, when we eat many vegetables we don't cut their roots, but rather we help their asexual reproduction by cutting branches and leaves.  The end result can actually be beneficial to the plant.  Therefore, horticulturists say that pruning vegetation helps them grow large and beautiful.
	This is even more evident with fruit. When fruit ripens, it will attract people to eat it by its fragrant smell, beautiful color and delicious taste.  It is in this way that fruit trees can achieve their purpose of propagating their seed over a wide area. If we do not pick and eat them, the fruit will become overripe and will fall to the ground to rot.  Its seed will be shaded from sunlight by the tree above them and will die.  So, eating vegetables and fruit is a natural tendency, which brings to them no suffering at all.

Q: 	Most people have the idea that vegetarians are shorter and thinner, and flesh eaters are taller and bigger.  Is this true? 
M: 	Vegetarians are not necessarily thinner and shorter.  If their diet is balanced, they can also grow tall and strong.  As you can see, all big animals like elephants, cattle, giraffes, hippopotamuses, horses et cetera, eat only vegetables and fruit. They are stronger than carnivores, very gentle and beneficial to mankind.  But flesh eating animals are both very violent and of no use.  If human beings eat many animals, they will also become affected with animal instincts and qualities.  Flesh eating people are not necessarily tall and strong, but their life span is very short on the average.  Eskimos are almost totally flesh eating, but are they very tall and strong?  Do they have a long life?  This I think you can understand very clearly.

Q: 	Can vegetarians eat eggs?
M: 	No.  When we eat eggs we are also killing beings.  Some say that commercially available eggs are unfertilized, so eating them is not killing living things.  This is only seemingly correct. An egg remains unfertilized only because the appropriate circumstances for its fertilization have been withheld, so the egg cannot complete its natural purpose of developing into a chicken. Even though this development has not occurred, it still contains the innate life force needed for this. We know that eggs have innate life force; otherwise, why is it that ova are the only type of cells which can be fertilized?  Some point out that eggs contain the essential nutrients, protein and phosphorus, essential for human bodies.  But protein is available from bean curd, and phosphorus from many kinds of vegetables such as potatoes.
	We know that from ancient times till now, there have been many great monks who did not eat meat or eggs, and still had a long life span.  For instance the Ying Guang Master ate only a bowl of vegetables and some rice each meal, and yet he lived up to the age of eighty.  Furthermore, egg yolks contain a lot of cholesterol, which is a major cause of cardiovascular disorders, the number one killer in Formosa and America.  No wonder we see that most patients are egg eaters!

Q: 	Man raises animals and poultry, such as pigs, cattle, chickens, ducks, et cetera.  Why can't we eat them? 
M: 	So?  Parents raise their children.  Do parents have the right to eat their children?  All living things have the right to live, and no one should deprive them of this.  If we have a look at the laws in Hong Kong, even killing oneself is against the law.  So, how much more unlawful would killing other living beings be?

Q: 	Animals are born for people to eat.  If we don't eat them, they will fill the world.  Right? 
M: 	This is an absurd idea.  Before you kill an animal, do you ask it if it wants to be killed and eaten by you or not?  All living beings desire to live and are afraid to die.  We don't want to be eaten by a tiger, so why should animals be eaten by humans? Human beings have only existed in the world for several tens of thousands of years, but before mankind appeared, many species of animals had already existed.  Did they overcrowd the Earth?  Living things maintain a natural ecological balance.  When there is too little food and space is limited, this will cause a drastic reduction in population.  This maintains the population at an appropriate level.

Q: 	Why should I be vegetarian? 
M: 	I am vegetarian because the God inside me wants it.  Understand? Eating meat is against the universal principle of not wanting to be killed. We ourselves don't want to be killed, and we ourselves don't want to be stolen from.  Now, if we do that to other people, then we are acting against ourselves, and that makes us suffer. Everything that you do against others makes you suffer.  You cannot bite yourself and you shouldn't stab yourself. In the same way you should not kill, because that is against the principle of life.  Understand?  It would make us suffer, so we don't do it.  It doesn't mean we limit ourselves in any way.  It means we expand our life to all kinds of life.  Our life will not be limited within this body, but extended to the life of animals and all kinds of beings.  That makes us grander, greater, happier and limitless. Okay?

Q: 	Would You speak on vegetarian eating and how this can contribute to world peace?
M: 	Yes.  You see, most of the wars that happen in this world are due to economic reasons.  Let's face it.  The economic difficulties of a country become more urgent when there is hunger, lack of food, or a lack of equal distribution of food among different countries.  If you took the time to read magazines and research the facts about the vegetarian diet, then you would know this very well.  Raising cattle and animals for meat has caused our economy to go bankrupt in all aspects. It has created hunger throughout the world - at least in the Third World countries.  
	It's not I who is saying this, it is an American citizen who did this type of research and wrote a book about it.  You can go to any bookshop and read about vegetarian research and food processing research.  You can read, "Diet For a New America" by John Robbins.  He is a very famous ice-cream millionaire.  He gave it all up in order to be a vegetarian, and to write a vegetarian book against his family tradition and business.  He lost a lot of money, prestige and business, but he did it for the sake of Truth. That book is very good.  There are many other books and magazines which can give you a lot of information and facts about the vegetarian diet and how it can contribute to world peace.  
	You see, we bankrupted our food supply by feeding cattle.  You know how much protein, medicine, water supply, manpower, cars, trucks, road construction and how many hundreds of thousands of acres of land have been wasted before a cow is good enough for one meal.  Understand? All these things could be distributed equally to underdeveloped countries, then we could solve the hunger problem.  So now, if a country is in need of food it probably invades the other country just to save its own people.  In the long run, this has created a bad cause and retribution. Understand?  
	As you sow, so shall you reap.  If we kill someone for food, we will be killed for food later, in some other form the next time, the next generation. It's a pity.  We are so intelligent, so civilized and yet most of us do not know the cause of why our neighboring countries are suffering.  It is because of our palates, our tastes, and our stomachs.  
	In order to feed and nourish one body we kill so many beings, and starve so many fellow human beings.  We aren't even talking about the animals yet.  Understand?  Then this guilt, consciously or unconsciously, will weigh down upon our conscience.  It makes us suffer from cancer, tuberculosis and other kinds of incurable diseases, including AIDS.  Ask yourself, why does your country, America, suffer the most?  It has the highest rate of cancer in the world, because the Americans eat a lot of beef.  They eat more meat than any of the other countries.  Ask yourself why the Chinese or communist countries don't have that high a rate of cancer.  They don't have as much meat.  Understand?  That is what the research says, not I.  Okay?  Don't blame me.

Q: 	What are some spiritual benefits that we get from being vegetarians? 
M: 	I'm glad you asked the question in this manner, because it means you only concentrate on, or care about, spiritual benefits. Most people would care about health, diet and figure when they ask about the vegetarian diet.  The spiritual aspects of a vegetarian diet are that it is very clean and nonviolent.  
	Thou shalt not kill.  When God said this to us, Hes did not say do not kill human beings, Hes said do not kill any beings.  Didn't Hes say that Hes made all animals to befriend us, to help us? Did Hes not put the animals in our care?  Hes said, take care of them, rule over them.  When you rule over your subjects, do you kill your subjects and eat them?  Then you would become a king with no one else around?  So now you understand when God said that. We must do it. There is no need to question Hirm.  Hes spoke very clearly, but who understands God except God?  
	So now you have to become God in order to understand God.  I invite you to be God-like again, to be yourself, to be no one else.  To meditate on God doesn't mean you worship God, it means that you become God.  You realize that you and God are one.  I and my Father are one, didn't Jesus say so?  If He said He and His father are one, we and His father can also be one, because we are also children of God.  And Jesus also said that what He does we can even do better.  So we may be even better than God, who knows! 
	Why worship God when we don't know anything about God?  Why use blind faith?  We must first know what we are worshipping, just like we must know who the girl is we're going to marry before we marry her.  Nowadays, it's customary that we don't marry before we date.  So why should we worship God with blind faith?  We have the right to demand that God appears to us, and to make Hirmself known to us.  We have the right to choose which God we would like to follow.  
	So now you see that it is very clear in the Bible that we should be vegetarians.  For all health reasons, we should be vegetarians. For all scientific reasons, we should be vegetarians. For all economic reasons, we should be vegetarians. For all compassionate reasons, we should be vegetarians.  As well, to save the world, we should be vegetarians.  
	It is stated in some research that if people in the West, in America, eat vegetarian only once a week, we would be able to save sixteen million starving people every year.  So be a hero, be vegetarian.  For all of these reasons, even if you don't follow me, or don't practice the same method, please be a vegetarian for your own sake, for the sake of the world.

Q: 	If everyone eats plants, will it create a food shortage? 
M: 	No.  Using a given piece of land to grow crops provides fourteen times as much food as using the same piece of land to grow fodder to feed animals.  Plants from each acre of land provide 800,000 calories of energy; however, if these plants are used to raise animals which are then eaten as food, the animals' meat can only provide 200,000 calories of energy.  That means that during the process 600,000 calories of energy are lost.  So the vegetarian diet is evidently more efficient and economical than the meat diet.

Q: 	Is fish all right to eat for a vegetarian?
M: 	It's all right if you want to eat fish.  But if you want to eat vegetarian, fish is not a vegetable.

Q: 	Some people say that it is important to be a good-hearted man, but it is not necessary to be a vegetarian.  Does this make sense? 
M: 	If one is truly a good-hearted person, then why does he still eat another being's flesh? Seeing them suffer so, he should not be able to bear to eat them!  Flesh eating is unmerciful, so how can this be done by a good-hearted man?  
	Master Lien Ch'ih once said, "Kill its body, and eat its meat.  In this world there is no one more cruel, malevolent, atrocious and evil than this man."  How can he ever claim that he himself has a good heart? 
	Mencius also said, "If you see it alive, you can't bear to see it die, and if you hear it groaning you cannot bear to eat its meat; so the real gentlemen keep far from the kitchen." 
	Human intelligence is higher than that of animals, and we can use weapons to make them unable to resist us, so they die with hatred. The kind of man who does this, bullying small and weak creatures, has no right to be called a gentleman. When animals are killed, they are terribly stricken with agony, fear and resentment.  This causes the production of toxins that stay in their meat to harm those who eat it.  Since the frequency of the vibration of animals is lower than that of mankind, they will influence our vibration, and affect the development of our wisdom.

Q: 	Is it all right just to be a so-called "convenient vegetarian"? (Convenient vegetarians do not strictly avoid meat.  They would eat vegetables out of a mixed vegetable and meat dish.) 
M: 	No.  For example, if food is put into a poisonous liquid and then removed, do you think it will become poisonous or not?  In the Mahaparinirvana Sutra, Mahakasyapa asked Buddha, "When we beg and are given vegetables mixed with meat, can we eat this food? How can we clean the food?"   Buddha replied, "One should clean it with water and separate the vegetables from the meat, then one can eat it." 	From the above dialogue we can understand that one cannot even eat vegetables which are mixed with meat unless one first cleans them with water, not to mention eating meat alone! Therefore, it is very easy to see that Buddha and His disciples all kept a vegetarian diet. However, some people slandered Buddha by saying that He was a "convenient vegetarian", and that if alms-givers gave meat, He ate meat.  This is truly nonsense. Those who say so have read too little of the Scriptures, or don't understand the Scriptures they have read. 
	In India, over ninety percent of the people are vegetarians. When people see mendicants in yellow robes they all know they should offer them vegetarian food, not to mention that most of the people have no meat to give anyway!

Q: 	A long time ago, I heard another Master say, "Buddha ate a pig's foot and then got diarrhea and died."  Is this true? 
M: 	Absolutely not.  It was because of eating a kind of mushroom that Buddha died.  If we translate directly from the language of the Brahmans, this kind of mushroom is called the "pig's foot", but it is not a real pig's foot. It's just like when we call a kind of fruit "longan" (in Chinese this literally means the "dragon's eye").  There are many things that by name are not vegetables but actually are vegetarian foods, such things as the "dragon's eye".  This mushroom in Brahmanic language is called "pig's foot" or "pig's joy".  Both have a connection with pigs. This kind of mushroom was not easy to find in ancient India and was a rare delicacy, so people offered it to Buddha in worship. This mushroom cannot be found above the ground.  It grows under the ground.  If people want to find it they must search with the help of an old pig which likes very much to eat this kind of mushroom.  Pigs detect it by their smell, and when they discover one, they use their feet to dig in the mud to find and eat it. That was why this kind of mushroom is called the "pig's joy" or "pig's foot".  Actually these two names refer to the same mushroom.  Because it was translated carelessly and because people did not truly understand the derivation, the following generations have been caused to misunderstand and mistake Buddha for a flesh devouring man.  This is really a regrettable thing.

Q: 	Some meat-lovers say that they buy meat from the butcher, so it's not killed by themselves, therefore, it is all right to eat it.  Do You think this is right? 
M: 	This is a disastrous mistake.  You must know that butchers kill living beings because people want to eat.  In the Lankavatara Sutra, Buddha said, If there was no one eating meat, then no killing would happen.  So eating meat and killing living beings are of the same sin.  Because of the killing of too many living beings, we have natural disasters and man-made calamities.  Wars are also caused by too much killing.

Q: 	Some people say that while plants can't produce poisonous things like urea or urokinase, fruit and vegetable growers use lots of pesticides on the plants, which are bad for our health.  Is that so? 
M: 	If farmers use pesticides and other highly toxic chemicals like DDT on crops, it can lead to cancer, infertility and diseases of the liver. Toxins like DDT can diffuse into fat, and are usually stored in animal fat.  When you eat meat, it means that you take in all these highly concentrated pesticides and other poisons stored in animals' fat, which have accumulated during the growth of the animal.  These accumulations can be as much as thirteen times that in fruit, vegetables or grains.  We can clean the pesticide sprayed on fruit surfaces, but we cannot remove the pesticides deposited in animal fat.  The accumulating process occurs because these pesticides are cumulative.  So consumers at the top of the food chain are the most harmed. 
	Experiments at the University of Iowa showed that of the pesticides found in human bodies almost all came from eating flesh.  They discovered that the pesticide level in the bodies of vegetarian people is less than half that in meat-eaters.  Actually, there are other toxins in flesh besides pesticides.  In the process of raising animals, much of their food consists of chemicals to make them develop faster or to change their meat color, taste or texture, and to preserve the flesh, et cetera.  
	For example, preservatives produced from nitrates are highly toxic.  On July 18, 1971, the New York Times reported, "The great hidden dangers to health for meat-eaters are the invisible pollutants in meat such as bacteria in salmon, remnants of pesticides, preservatives, hormones, antibiotics and other chemical additives." Besides the above, animals are injected with vaccines, which may remain in their flesh.  In this respect, the protein in fruit, nuts, beans, corn and milk are all more pure than the protein of meat, which has 56% water insoluble impurities.  Research shows that those manmade additives can lead to cancers, other diseases or deformed fetuses.  So it is even proper for pregnant women to eat a pure vegetarian diet to ensure the physical and spiritual health of the fetuses.  If you drink lots of milk you can get enough calcium; from beans you can get protein; and from fruit and vegetables you get vitamins and minerals.              


When Master's Love fell upon my soul
I'm reborn a youth.
Just don't ask me what's the reason:
Reason is not a logic of LOVE!		***

I am the mouthpiece
Of the entire creation.
Voicing openly
Their sorrows and pains
Of life after life in the ever rolling wheel of death.
Pray, Compassionate Master
Haster! Put it to an end.			***

Your Blessing pours forth to all and sundry.
The bad and the good,  The beautiful and the ugly,
The sincere and the unworthy, 
Alike!
Oh Master, I could never sing Your praise.
Your Love I hold in my bosom,
And sleep with it every night.		***

				From Silent Tears
					- By the Suma Ching Hai -
 


Publications 




N umerous books in English, including five volumes of Master 
              Ching Hai's lectures, one of questions and answers, thirteen 
             volumes of photographs, and three books of poetry are available from the headquarters in Formosa, or from our affiliated Associations and Centers worldwide.  Also available are an extensive collection of audio and video cassettes of Master's lectures, individual photographs of all sizes, and the Suma Ching Hai News magazine in English, Chinese, Thai, French, Spanish, Korean, Portuguese, Indonesian, and Au Lacese.

This Sample Booklet is also available free of charge in many different languages.  Please inquire.

It is our policy to offer all publications at near-cost prices.  Actual prices will differ depending upon the delivery destination.  If there is an item you want, please inquire first with your local Center, or local Contact Person. Otherwise you may order direct from the headquarters in Formosa.  Detailed catalogues are available upon request.


Books

The Key of Immediate Enlightenment: 
	collections of Master's lectures. 
	Available in English (Books 1-5); Korean (Books 1-8); Spanish 		(Books 1-3); German (Books 1-2); French (Book 1); Portuguese 		(Books 1-2); Chinese (Books 1-8); Thai (Books 1-6); Au Lacese 		(Books 1-8); Indonesian (Books 1-3); Japanese (Book 1); Mon		golian (Books 4 & 6); Sweden (Book 1); Polish (Book 1); and 		Hungarian (Book 1).

The Key of Immediate Enlightenment: Questions and Answers 		collections of questions and answers from lectures.
	Available in English (Book 1); Chinese (Books 1-2); Au Lacese 		(Books 1-4); Korean (Books 1-2); French (Book 1); Portuguese 		(Book 1); Indonesian (Books 1-3); and German (Book 1). Pol		ish (Book 1); Hungarian (Book 1)

The Key of Immediate Enlightenment: 
Correspondence Between the Master and Disciples:
	collections of letters.
	Available in Spanish (Book 1); Chinese (Books 1-2); and Au 	Lacese 		(Books 1-2).

The Key of Immediate Enlightenment: 
My Wondrous Experiences with Master:
	accounts by disciples.
	Available in Chinese (Books 1-2);  and Au Lacese (Books 1-2).

The Key of Immediate Enlightenment:  Special Edition/7-day retreat:
	collection of Master's lectures in 1992 during a 7-day 
	retreat in San Di Mun, Formosa.
	Available in English and Aulacese.

Silent Tears:
	a book of poems written by Master.
	Available in English, German and French in one edition;
	English, Chinese and Au Lacese in one edition; Spanish; Portuguese; 		Korean and Filipino.

Photo Albums:
	collections of photographs depicting many aspects of Master's life.
	Volumes 1-13, with notations in English and Chinese.

The Wu Tzu Poems:
	a book of poems written by Master. 
	Available in Au Lacese; and Chinese 

Album Of Creations: 
	collection of Master's art treasures including Palace Fans, 
	Longevity Lamps, paintings, pottery etc.

I Have Come To Take You Home.
	A collection of quotes and spiritual teachings by Master.
	Available in English; Indonesian and Korean.

Aphorisms.
	Collection of words of eternal wisdom from Master.
	Available in English and Chinese in one edition; French and 		German in one edition; Korean and Spanish.

The Supreme Kitchen - International Vegetarian Cuisine. 
	Collections of culinary delicacies recommended by fellow practi		tioners from all parts of the world.
	Available in English and Chinese in one edition.




Audio and Video Tapes

Almost all of Master Ching Hai's public lectures and interviews, as well as talks with groups of initiates, have been recorded on audio and/or videotape.  Some of the English tapes are listed below:

No. 		TITLE
E1  The Tao, the Sound, the Word.
E2  Let Peace Begin With Us.
E3  The Best Road to the Kingdom of God.
E4  Prepare Now for the End of Our Journey.
E5  Find a Proper Master for Your Own Enlightenment.
E6  Heaven is Created by Our Inner Power.
E7  The Definition of Pure Land.
E8  To Be a Master is Our Natural Tendency.
E9  Love is Powerful.
E10 Suma Ching Hai Speaks with the Hari Krishna devotees.
E11 The Way to Gain the Kingdom of God is Through Enlightenment.
E12 Love is Sharing the Same Point of View.
E13 What is the Cause of War and Peace?
E14 Moving Towards God Realization.
E15 The Value of Morality.
E16 Everything is Created by the Human Imagination.
E17 One With the Father.
E18 Create the Permanent Heaven for Ourselves and Later  Generations.
E19 To Do, Without Doing.
E20 Leading the World into a New Era.
E21 The Influence of Positive and Negative Energies.
E22 An Appeal for the Au Lac Refugees Longing for a Home.
E23 The Mystery of the World Beyond.
E24 How to Live a Simple and Happy Life.
E25 The Disaster Begins with the Mouth.
E26 Surrendering to God's Will is Freedom.
E27 The Supreme Method to Liberation.
E28 How Suffering Can Lead Us to Happiness.
E29 We Are the Supreme Master.
E30 The Highest Order of Friendship.
E31 Be Practical and Spiritual.
E33 We Must Find Our Real Self.
E34 Enlightenment is the Key Answer to Everything.
E35 Convincing People by Magical Power is to Interfere with 
    Nature.
E36 Let God Serve Through Us.
E37 Above the Intellect.
E38 Rediscover the Supreme Power Within Yourself. 
E39 The Heavenly Melodious Teachings.
E40 Possession-less Means Fearless.
E41 Masterhood Means Selfless Love.
E42 Love Is The Only Religion.
E43 Mistake Is The Mother of Perfection.
E44 Be Your Own Master.
E45 A Happy Life Is The Best Gift To Master.
E46 Rely On Yourself.
E47 The Same Mind Attracts The Same Thing.
E48 All Religions Are From The Same Source.
E49 Everyone Can Become Buddha at Home.
E50 Temples And Churches Are Originally For Group Meditation.
E51 Let Others Believe God The Way They Want.
E52 Be A Good Example For Society.
E53 Follow Your Heart.
E54 A Saintly Mind Expects Nothing In Return.
E55 Forever Young.
E56 Mastership Is The Most Lonely Position.
E57 Surrender Everything, You'll Have Everything.
E58 Silence and Acceptance.
E59 Only Wisdom Can Clear The Clouds Of Illusion.

ES1 To Disclose One's Inner Power.
ES2 How A Master Collects Karma From Disciples.
ES3 The Communication With God All Of Us Can Attain.

F1  Perceive The Truth By Inner Wisdom.
F2  Reconnect With The Almighty Power To Become Whole.

G1  Retrieve The Language Of God.
G2  We Should Bring Heaven Into Our Lives.

E=English; ES=English and Spanish; F=English and French; G=English and German  A1-A16 are in Au Lacese.

Music Cassettes and CD's

1. Buddhist Chanting (Vols. 1,2,3).
2. Holy Chanting: Hallelujah.
3. Au Lacese Songs and Music: Mandolin and Chinese Zither (Gu zeng)
4. Poetry Recited by Master: in Au Lac
5. Collections of Music Composed by Master (Vols. 1-9): Dulcimer, 
   Harp, Piano, Chinese Zither, Digital Piano, etc.
6. Songs Composed by Master: collection of Master singing Her own original compositions of spiritual songs in one special video.

Information concerning Suma Ching Hai and the Quan Yin Method can be obtained from the following World-Wide-Web host servers on the Internet:

http://www.sumachinghai.org.tw/ (Formosa)
http://www.chinghai.com (Singapore)
http://quanyin.org (U.S.A.)
http://mason.gmu.edu/~lduan/indexl.html (U.S.A.)
http://www.magi.com/~quanyin/homepage.html (Canada)
http://www.quanyin.com (Canada with Real Audio service)
http://members.aol.com/ChingHai/d hpage.htm (Germany and in German)
http://mach.ulb.ac.be/~ifaybish/ (Belgium)
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/quanyin/ (UK)
http://www.bookzone.com/bookzone/10000190.peek.html
(Book order - I have come to take you home)
News Group: lovesrc@www7.clever.net




"Find your own Everlasting Treasure and you will be able to draw from its Inexhaustible Source.  This is Infinite Blessings!  I have no words to advertise it with.  I can only praise it and hope that you believe my praise, and that my energy will somehow affect your heart and lift you to that kind of joyous feeling, and then you will believe.  After initiation, you will truly know the meaning of my words.  I have no way to convey to you this Great Blessing, which God has bestowed on me, and gave me the right to distribute, free of charge and conditions."
					- Suma Ching Hai -


"We take some karma from the people around us, by looking at them, by thinking about them, when sharing a book or a meal, et cetera. This is how we bless people and reduce their karma.  This is why we practice, to spread the Light and dispel the darkness.  Blessed are those who give us some of their karma.  We are happy to help them." 
					- Suma Ching Hai -


"In the human language we talk nonsense all the time.  We always have to blah, blah, blah about everything.  We have to compare, we have to value, we have to identify, we have to give a name to everything.  But, the Absolute, if it is the true Absolute, you couldn't even speak about it.  You cannot talk about it.  You cannot even think about it.  You cannot imagine it.  There is nothing.  Understand?"
					- Suma Ching Hai -




Good News For Vegetarians
The Essential Vegetable Protein

A    vegetarian diet is not only of great benefit for our spiritual 
                   practice but it's also very healthy for us.  However, we 
                    must pay special attention to the balance of nutrition and make sure that we do not lack the much needed vegetable protein.

There are two types of protein: animal protein and vegetable protein.  Soybeans, chick peas and snow peas are some of the sources of vegetable protein.  Keeping a vegetarian diet does not simply mean eating fried vegetables.  Protein should be included to complete the nourishment a person requires.

Dr. Miller was a vegetarian his entire life.  He practiced medicine and treated the poor in the Republic of China for forty years.  He believed that we only need to eat cereals, beans, fruit and vegetables to get all the nourishment we need to maintain good health.  According to Dr. Miller, "Bean curd is 'meat" of no bones."  

"As soybean is very nutritious; supposing if people could only eat one kind of food and they ate soybeans, they would be able to survive longer." (from the chapter, "Why Must People Be vegetarian" in Suma Ching Hai's "The Key of Immediate Enlightenment 1" and this sample booklet).

Preparing a vegetarian meal is the same as cooking a meal with meat, except that vegetarian protein ingredients such as vegetarian chicken chunks, vegetarian ham or vegetarian meat slices are used in its place.  For example, instead of cooking "saut‚ed shredded meat with celery" or "seaweed soup with egg," we can now cook it as "saut‚ed shredded vegetarian meat with celery" or "seaweed soup with bean curd sheets."

If you are in countries where these vegetarian protein ingredients are not readily available, you can contact your local Center of the Suma Ching Hai International Association and we will provide information on some main suppliers and vegetarian restaurants for your reference.  (Please see table 1).

As to how to cook vegetarian food, you may refer to "The Supreme Kitchen" that's published by the Suma Ching Hai International Association, or any other vegetarian cookbooks.

 

* Pamphlets listing vegetarian restaurants throughout the world are also available upon request.


North America

U.S.A.
Arizona     
	Neme:Suma Ching Hai International Association Vegetarian House  
	Address:4812 N. 7th Avenue Phoenix, AZ 85013 U.S.A.
	TEL:1-602-264-3480/Fax:1-602-780-0855
	E-Mail:NMinhAZ@aol.com

California
Oakland
	Name:Bo De Vegetarian House
	Address:464 8th St Oakland CA 94607 U.S.A.
	TEL:1-510-444-2891/Fax:510-8347478
	Name:Golden Lotus
	Address:1301 Franklin St Oakland, CA 94612 U.S.A.
	TEL:1-510-393-0382

L.A.
	Name:All Vegetarian Inc. 
	Address:9649 Remer St. South El Monte CA 91733 U.S.A
	TEL:1-626-4485919/1-626-4485809

San Jose
	Name:Suma Ching Hai International Association Vegetarian House  
	Address:520 East Santa Clara Street, San Jose CA 95112 U.S.A.
	TEL:1-408-292-3798/1-408-292-3832
	E-mail:Veghouse@juno.com
	Name:Vegetarian Food To Go
	Address:388 East Santa Clara St. San Jose, CA 95113 U.S.A.   
	TEL:1-408-286-6335

Georgia
	Name:Cafe Sunflower  
	Address:2140 Roswell Rd. Atlanta, GA 30309 U.S.A.
	TEL:1-404-352-8859

Texas
Dallas
	Name:Suma Veggie Cafe
	Address:800 E. Arapho Rd, #120, Richandson TX 75081 U.S.A.
	TEL:1-972-889-8598    

Houston
	Name:Quan Yin Vegetarian Restaurant
	Address:10804-E Bellaire Blvd, Houston TX 77072 U.S.A. 
	TEL:1-281-498-7890   FAX:1-281-498-7972

Massachusetts 
	Name:Life and Light Vegetarian Restaurant
	Address:115 Ela St W Newten MA 02165 U.S.A.
	TEL:1-617-630-8101

	Name:Quan Yin Vegetarian Restaurant  
	Address:56 Hamilton St. Worcester MA 01604, U.S.A.
	TEL:1-508-831-1322  FAX:508-831-3502


Central America

Costa Rica
	Name:Grupo Manjares Vegetarianos Corp. Ltd.
	Vegetarian Food Company      
	Address:Frente Cine Magry 33Av. Central Calle 23 San Jose. Costa Rica 			Apartado 7822-1000 San Jose. Costa Rica
	TEL:506-256-1048    FAX:506-256-0729

Mexico
	Name:Grupo Manjares Vegetarianos Internacionales S.A De C.V.
	Vegetarian Food Company 
	Admopn La Joya Col. 
	Address:La Joya Apartado 22-149 C.P. 14091 Tlalpan D.F., Mexico
	TEL\FAX:525-8492755
	E-mail:mexicocity@supernet.com.mx

Asia

Formosa

  Taipei
	Name:Loving Food Corp  
	Vegetarian food wholesale & retail dealer 		
	TEL:886-2-3815836
	Name:Classic Cuisine Inn 
	Address:120-122 Hengyang Rd., Taipei, Formosa, R.O.C.
	TEL:886-2-3886055
	
	Name:Mr. Tsai Healthy House
	Address:2 Lane 162, Yu Shi St., Yon Her City, Taipei Shien, Formosa, 		R.O.C.
	TEL:886-2-2929-4312
	Organic Vegetable & Fruits, Five grains, Natural Bean Sprouts,	Organic 		Lunch Box
	
	Name:Vegetarianism  
	Address:218 Ching-An Road, Chung-Ho City, Formosa, R.O.C.
	TEL:886-2-2240-7240, 886-2-2246-0423
	
	Name:Vegetarian Pizza 
	Address:41-3 Sec.2, Min Sheng Road, Lane 226,
	Alley 17 ,Ban Chyau,Taipei,Formosa, R.O.C.
	TEL:886-2-2252-7561
	
	Name:The Infinite Life Healthy Vegetarian Food Co. Ltd
	Address:200 Cheng-Yi Nord Road, San-Chung City, Formosa, R.O.C.
	TEL:886-2-2989-5263\886-2-2989-5438

Taoyuan
	Name:I Der Mei Bakery 
	Address:617 Hsing Feng Road Ba Der, Taur Yuan Hsuan, Formosa, 		R.O.C.
	TEL:886-3-3657855

Yi Lan
	Name:Healthy Vegetarian Food
	Address:93-1 Tai Shan Road, Yi Lan, Formosa, R.O.C.
	TEL:886-3-9326538

Hsinchu
	Name:Ya Shi Yoo Vegetarian Buffet  
	Address:2F 8 Lane 96, Chung Chin Rd., Hsin-chu, Formosa, R.O.C.
	TEL:886-3-5232-199, 886-3-5247-654
	
	Name:Shin Der Vegetarian Restaurant 
	Address:13 Lane 112, Chung Young Rd., Hsin-chu, Formosa, R.O.C.
	TEL:886-3-5232-432
	
	Name:Shin Der Vegetarian Restaurant 
	Address:318 Pei Da Rd., Hsin-chu, Formosa, R.O.C.
	TEL:886-3-5233-336
	Name:Hsin Hsin Bakery
	Address:210 Sec. 2, Chung Hwa Rd., Hsin-chu, Formosa, R.O.C.
	TEL:886-3-5346-674

	Name:Su Shi Hsin Shi Jay 
	Address:233 Sec.3, Chung Treng Rd., Chu Tong Town,  Hsin-chu shien, 		Frmosa,R.O.C.
	TEL:886-3-5944-889
		
Taichung
	Name:The Infinite Life Healthy Vegetarian Food Company Ltd.
	Business Item: Dried Vegetarian Material and Steak House
	Address:486 Wen Hsin Rd., Sec. 4, Taichung, Formosa, R.O.C.
	TEL:886-4-230-6655

	Name:Farm Taiwanese Vegetarian Restaurant 
	Address:13 Lane 15, Hsin Hsing Rd., Lung Ching Village, Taichung 		County,Formosa, R.O.C.
	TEL:886-4-631-5480.

Changhwa
	Name:Vegetarian Meals Workshop (Snacks, Veg. Beef Steaks) 
	Address:273-1, Rd., Shiuh-Guang ,Chang Hua City, Formosa, R.O.C.
	TEL:886-4-7256110

	Name:Vegetarian Breakfast
	Address:At the cornor of Shi Ping Rd., and Chen Chung St., 
	Er Lin Cheng, Chang Hwa Shien, Formosa, R.O.C.
	TEL:886-4-8941361

Nantou
	Name:Friendship Oriental & Western Style Vegetarian Restaurant  
	Address:37 Nan Chang Street, Puli, Nantou, Formosa, R.O.C.
	TEL:886-49-990695

Yunlin
	Name:I Der Tsuen Vegetarian Food 
	Address:248 Kuang Fuh Road Huu Wei Jenn, Formosa, R.O.C. 
	(next to Huu Wei Senior High School)
	TEL:886-5-631-1275   TEL:(H)886-5-631-3311
	    
Chiayi
	Name:Suma Ching Hai International Association Vegetarian House
	Address:308 Hsinyeh East Road, Chiayi, Formosa, R.O.C.
	TEL:886-5-2234663

Kaoshiung	
	Name:Loving Food Corp
	Vegetarian food wholesale & retail dealer 
	Address:No.28, Chien-Hsin Road, San Min Dist, Kaohsiung, Formosa, 		R.O.C.
	TEL:886-7-3961420  FAX:886-7-3961637

	Name:Pu TI Su Vegetarian Bakery
	Address:131 Chien-kuo Fourth Road, Kaohsiung, Formosa, R.O.C. 
	TEL:886-7-5335258  

	Name:Classic Cuisine Inn
	Address:3 Hsiamen St. Lingya Dis. Kaohsiung, Formosa, R.O.C.
	TEL:886-7-2270897-8

	Name:Asia Vegetarian Court
	Address:252 Chin-Ting Road, San Min District, Kaohsiung, Formosa, 		R.O.C. 
	TEL:886-7-3438006  

	Name:Fan Lin Vegetarian House
	Address:600-6 Jui-Lung Road, Chien Chen District, Kaohsiung, Formosa, 		R.O.C. 
	TEL:886-7-7713214  
	Name:Vegetarian Garden
	Address:35 Wu-Chia First Road, Fong San City, Kaohsiung, Formosa, 		R.O.C. 
		
Tainan
	Name:Joy Vegetarian Plaza (Supermarket Chains) 
	Address:115 Section 2, Hsian-Tai-Ann Road, Ann-Nun District, Tainan, 		Formosa,R.O.C.    
	TEL:886-6-2872102 

	Name:The Infinite Life Healthy Vegetarian Food Company Ltd. 
	Address:269 Dong-Ning Road, Tainan, Formosa, R.O.C.  
	TEL:886-6-2387317  Fax:886-6-2093871

	Name:The Infinite Life Healthy Vegetarian Food Company Ltd. 
	Address:48 Section 3, Ming-Tzwu Road, Tainan, Formosa, R.O.C.
	TEL:886-6-2110866  

	Name:Vegetarian Food 
	Address:203 Sec.3, Pei An Road,Tainan, Formosa, R.O.C.
	TEL:886-6-2559512

Pingtung
	Name:Lang Tzu Noodles Shop  
	Address:144 Kung-Yuan East Road, Pingtung, Formosa, R.O.C 
	TEL:08-7233145  

	Name:Tah Lien Vegetarian Buffet
	Address:14-1 Tah-Lien Road, Pingtung, Formosa, R.O.C 
	TEL:08-7366959  

	Name:Chuan Su Vegetarian House
	Address:21 Su-Chau Street, Pingtung, Formosa, R.O.C 
	TEL:08-7342526  

	Name:Wu Ma Ma Vegetarian Buffet 
	Address:25-43 Lin-Sen Road, Pingtung, Formosa, R.O.C 
	TEL:08-7223257

Keelung
	Name:The Infinite Life Healthy Vegetarian Food Co. Ltd.
	Address:Factory, 5 Kung-chien Road, Lij-Tu Industrial Zone, Keelung, Formosa, R.O.C.  
	TEL:886-2-4554477  FAX:886-2-4554492

Penghu
	Name:Good Friends Vegetarian House
	Address:124-1 Kuang-Fu Rd. MaKung, PengHu,Formosa, R.O.C. 
	TEL:886-6-9261158

	Name:Garden Bamboo (black tea shake)  
	Address:34-1 Giang-Kuo Rd. MaKung, PengHu, Formosa, R.O.C. 
	TEL:886-6-9273679

Kong  Kong
	TEL:852-23948614  FAX:852-23902926
	Name:Nature House
	Address: Shop 3, G/F Tai Wing House Tai Yuen Estate Tai Po. N.T., Hong 	kong
	TEL:852-26652280­E852-26670681
   
Indonesia
	Name:Suma Ching Hai
	Address:Jl Pasar Besar 3 Surabaya Indonesia
	TEL:6231-5469933

Japan
Gunma
	Name:Angel's Cookies(Tenshi no okashi)
	Address: 937 Kanbara Tsumagoi-mura, Agatsuma-gun, Gunma, Japan
	TEL\FAX:81-279-971065

Korea
	Name: S.M. Vegetarian Restaurant
	Address: Seoul-City, Kang Nam-Ku, Poi-Dong, 22-10, Seoul, Korea 
	TEL: 82-2-576-9637

Malaysia
	Name: Pusat Makanan Sayur-Sayuran Litevon Vegetarian Center 
	Address: 82 Lorong Hullon, 10050 Pulau Pinang, Malaysia
	TEL: 604-2289601  FAX:604-2626909

Europe

Germany
Munich 
	Name:S.M. Vegetarisch
	Address:Amalienstr. 45, D-80799 Munich, Germany. 
	TEL:49-89-281882

SPAIN
Malaga 
	Name:Restaurante Vegetariano "El Legado Celestial"
	Address:Calle Medellin, N3, Bajo 29002 Malaga, Spain
	TEL:34-5-2351521

Valencia
	Name: Restaurante Casa Vegetariana "Salud"
	Address: Calle Conde Altea, N44, Bajo 46005 Valencia, Spain
	TEL\FAX: 34-6-3744361

UNITED KINGDOM
	Name: Chai Chinese Vegetarian Restaurant
	Address: 236 Station Road, Edgware, Middlesex HA8  7AU, UK
	TEL: 44-181-9053033

OCEANIA

Australia
Sydney
	Name:Tay Ho Vegetarian Restaurant
	Address:Shop 11 Belvedere Arcade 66-68 John St., Calosamatta NSW 2166.  Australia 
	TEL:61-2-97287052






HOW TO CONTACT US


T   he disciples, or fellow practitioners of Master Ching Hai have 
               established many Associations and Centers throughout the 
               world. The main Headquarters and Center for publishing is in Formosa: 
Suma Ching Hai International 
Association in China, 
P.O. Box 9, Hsihu Miaoli Hsien, Formosa, 
Republic of China.

Liaison fellow practitioners are people who have received initiation into the Quan Yin Method, and who have volunteered to assist others wishing to either learn more about Master Ching Hai's teachings or apply to receive initiation.  They are ready to try to answer your questions.  They can assist you with selecting audio and video cassettes, and publications containing Master Ching Hai's lectures, which would be most suitable for you.  They can also keep you informed of Master Ching Hai's lecture schedules, meditation retreats and other Association activities.
Our Liaison Practitioners Throughout The World
P.O.Box 730247, San Jose, CA 95173-0247, U.S.A.

***AFRICA***
R.S.Africa:
Cape Town	Ms. Jui Chin Deng	27-21-6833000
	Mr. Christopher Luccarda	27-21-5311491
Durban	Mr. Venodh Premdeo	27-31-5781140
East London	Mr. Anthony Joseph Sabbagh	27-431-53300
Johannesburg	Mr.&Mrs. Chen Shih-Chih	27-11-6483712
	Ms. Sonya Gusson	27-11-6229455
		sonya_usa@hotmail.com
Pretoria	Mr. Daniel Pierre de Villiers	27-12-3199460
Togo:
Lome	Center	228-222864
	Mr. David Chine	228-222437

***AMERICA***
Argentina:
Buenos Aires	Ms. Hui-Ling Ling	54-1-9518130
	Ms. Chung Yi-Chiao	54-1-4008166
	Ms. Mabel Alicia Kaplan	54-1-545-4640
	Mr. Norberto Bellino	54-1-209-1493
Bolivia:
Santa Cruz	Mr. Wu Chao Shien	59-13-363742
Brazil:
San Paulo	Center	55-11-570-1180
	Liaison Office	55-11-227-4690
Belem	Mr. Ming-Hsun Wu	55-91-223-4375
Canada:	
Kingston	Mr. Quang Thanh Le	1-613-384-3295
London 	Mr. & Mrs. Feng Cao	1-519-438-3702
		wzhong2@julian.uwo.ca
Montreal	Montreal Center	xm_ding@alcor.concordia.ca
	Mr. & Mrs. Gerard Mangere	11-514-967-5105
	Mr. Hung The Nguyen	1-514-494-7511
	Mr. & Mrs. Nai-Chi Hsu	1-514-928-8068
Ottawa	Mr. & Mrs. David Trung Dung Tran	1-613-7447592
		au817@quanyin.com
Toronto	Toronto Center	1-416-503-0515
	Ms. Diep Hoa	1-905-897-0650
	Mr. & Mrs. Lenh Van Pham	1-416-282-5297
		hiepham@freenet.toronto.on.ca
	Mr. Zhen Bin Wang &  Ms. Zhen Yan Wang 	1-416-742-9049
		zwang@array.ca
		zhengbin@sunscreen.crl.mcmaster.ca
Vancouver 	Ms. Li-Hwa Liao	1-04-541-1530
Chile: 
Santiago	Santiago Center 	56-2-6385901
		chilcent@chilesat.net
	Liaison Office	56-2-6389229
	Mr. & Mrs. Chung-Hui Liao	56-2-695-1523
La Sarena	Center	56-51-395066
	Mr. Esteban Franciso Zapata Auzman	56-51-395066
Los Angeles	Mr. Lo Yih Min	56-4-332-2219
Colombia:
Bogota	Mr. & Mrs. Jose Guzman Alonso	57-1-2261245
Costa Rica:
San Jose	Costa Rica Center	506-268-8666
	San Jose Center	506-290-8663
	Ms. Santa Morales	506-259-5993
	Ms. Laura Chen	506-231-1162
Honduras:
Tegucigalpa	Ms. Edith Sagrario Ochoa	504-2250120
Mexico:
Mexico. D.F.	Center	mexicocity@supernet.com.mx
	Ms. Guadalupe Leal Aragon	52-5-7527472
Guanajuato	Mr. & Mrs. Jose Luis Sanchez Vargas	52-4-7436120
Tijuana	Dr. Silvino Diaz Martinez	52-66-34-30-51
Mexicali	Ms. Sylvia Lagrange	52-65-541587
Panama:	Mr. & Mrs. Lu Hsiao Tan	507-2222-149
	Ms. Maritza E.R. de Leone	507-260-5021
Paraguay
C.D. East	Mr. Zhi-Lu Taso	595-61-502034
		jscmike@fnn.net
Peru:		
Lima	Center	511-4716472
	Liaison Office	51-1-2656668
Arequipa	Center	51-54-287770
	Mr. Reynado Luque Vasquez	51-54-266257
Salvador 	Mr. & Mrs. Ming-Sen Lu	503-2746282
	Mr. Roger Rodriguez Molina	503-2840279
		rogerrod@es.com.sv

USA:
Arizona	Mr. Nguyen Cong Minh	1-602-581-0725
		NMinhAZ@AOL.com
	Ms. Toni Baca	602-2784451
Arkansas	Mr. Robert Jeffreys	1-501-253-8287
California:
*Los Angeles	Los Angeles Center	1-909-674-7814
	Mr. Tony Chu	626-292-1646
		avi@loop.com
	Mr. & Mrs. Ngo Can Hung	1-714-775-7787
		canhung@ix.netcom.com
	Mr. & Mrs. Nguyen Khoi	1-714-662-3105
	Mr. & Mrs. Ly Thanh	1-562-498-3033
		thanhly@quanyin.org
	Ms. Tina Polny Normandin	1-714-448-0955
	Ms. Sterling Vozenilek	1-714-965-1216
*Sacramento	Mr. & Mrs. Hieu De Tu	1-916-682-9540
		SACCENTER@aol.com 
*San Diego	San Diego Center	1-619-280-7982
		quanyinsd@juno.com 
	Mr. & Mrs.  Tran Van Luu 	1-619-475-9891
	Mr. & Mrs. Tang Thi	1-619-268-8651
	Mr. Paul Darby	1-619-566-8945
*San Jose	Ms. Sophie Lapaire 	1-650-493-3355
		Sophiel@flash.net
	Ms. Annie Nguyen	1-408-998-2342
		annieng@ix.netcom.com
	Mr. & Mrs. Edgar Shyuan	1-408-463-0297 
*San Francisco	Center	sumasf@aol.com
	Mr. &Mrs. Khoa Dang Luong	1-415-753-2922
	Mr.&Mrs. Dan Hoang 	1-415-333-9119
	Mr. & Mrs. Harold Barta	1-510-581-8806
Colorado	Mr. & Mrs. Steven Wander	1-970-229-0259
		smwander@aol.com 
	Ms. Victoria Singson	1-303-986-1248
		singhai@ecentral.com
	Mr. Le Phu Boi	1-303-292-5937
Florida	Mr. & Mrs. Thai Dinh Nguyen	 1-813-458-2639
	Ms. Trina L. Stokes	1-941-482-7542
	Mr. & Mrs. Michael Lin	1-352-429-0245
		74347.1356@compuserve.com
Georgia	Georgia Center	1-770-936-9926
	Bhiksuni Ch'an Mo	1-770-936-9926
		GeorgiaCnt@AOL.Com
	Mr. James Collins	1-404-873-3498
	Kim Dung Thi Nguyen	1-404-292-7952
Hawaii	Hawaii Center	1-808-735-9180
	Ms. Andrea Seu Chow Lee	1-808-599-4339
	Mr. & Mrs. Robert Truong	1-808-531-2183
		sanh@classic.msn.com
Illinois	Mr. & Mrs. John W. Hickey	1-630-963-2821
	Mr. & Mrs. Julian L. Chen	1-630-416-3821
		yyvonne@aimhi.com
Indiana	Mr. & Mrs. Jian Wu	1-317-293-5169
		j.wu@cummins.com
		jwu@cs.iupui.edu
	Mr. & Mrs. Duc Vu	1-317-293-5303
		duchanh@aol.com
Kansas	Ms. Ting-Mei Hsiao	1-316-721-0666
		rpatr85730@aol.com
Kentucky	Mr. & Mrs. Nguyen Minh Hung	1-502-695-257
		FNGUYEN@MAIL.STATE.KY.US
	Ms. Rui Wang 	1-606-323-3274
		rwang01@ukcc.uky.edu
Massachusetts:
*Boston	Boston Center	1-508-436-9982
	Ms. Gan Mai-Ky	1-508-791-7316
	Mr. & Mrs. Huan-Chung Li	1-508-957-7021
		yyfb48a@prodigy.com
	Ms. Cynthia A. Lombardo	1-508-388-4306
Maryland:	Mr. Nguyen Van Hieu	1-301-933-5490
*Baltimore	Mr. Robert Ectman	1-301-972-5654
		BCE@daly.com
Minnesota	Ms. Quach Ngoc	1-612-722-7328
	Mr. Bob Caverly	1-612-557-9041
	Mr. Lingjie Guo	1-612-378-0536
		liguo@ee.umn.edu
Missouri:
*Rolla	Mr. Genda Chen	1-573-368-2679
*Jefferson	Ms. Mary E. Steck	1-573-761-9969
		MSteck5208@aol.com
Nebraska:	Ms. Celine Robertson	1-402-483-4067
		3ctrobert@yoda.unl.edu
Nevada:
*Las Vegas	Ms. Helen Wong	1-702-242-5688
New Jersey: 	New Jersey Center	1-973-209-1651
		ttran@nji.com
	Mr. & Mrs. Nghiem The Trung	 1-609-667-298
		Tnghiem@juno.com
	Mr. Chang-Sheng Chou	1-201-335-5336
New Mexico:	Mr. Nguyen Duong Anh	1-505-2759601
	Ms. Sheri Wilson	505-758-1202
New York	Mr. & Mrs. Chih-Hua Tung	1-718-372-3921
		dong@phys.columbia.edu
North Carolina	Mr. & Mrs. Huynh Thien Tan	1-919-460-4622
Ohio	Mr. & Mrs. Vu Van Phuong	1-513-887-8597
		von@swoca.ohio.gov
	Mr. Richard D. Stewart	1-513-868-8977
		stewart22@fuse.net
Oklahoma	Mr. & Mrs. Tran Kim Lam	1-405-685-5881
		Ltran2292@aol.com
Oregon:
*Portland	Mr. & Mrs Thor Farra	1-503-256-4316 
	Mr. & Mrs. Minh Tran	1-503-614-0147
		cantho@worldnet.att.net
	Mr.  & Mrs. Alister Phuoc Minh Pham	1-503-642-1252
		AlisterPhuocPham1@juno.com
Pennsylvania	Mr. Ben Zwickel 	1-215-335-0969
	Mr. & Mrs. Diep Tam Nguyen	1-610-626-5546
		Diep.Ngu.PA@Juno.com
	Mr.  Shi-Tao Yeh	1-610-640-0463
		smchpa@juno.com
Texas:
*Austin	Austin Center	1-512-396-3471
		syuan@austin.ibm.com
	Mr. Dean Duong Tran	1-512-837-1684
		DEANTRAN@worldnet.att.net
	Mr. Robert Yuan	1-512-326-3786
		robert.yuan@compaq.com
*Dallas	Dallas Center	1-214-339-9004
		dlquanam@metronet.com
	Mr. Tim Mecha	 1-972-570-0987
	Mr. Weidong Duan	1-214-528-9178
		water96@hotmail.com
	Mr. Jimmy Nguyen	1-817-236-5601
		nguyenj@ustxl.dyncorp.com
*Houston	Houston Center	1-281-893-8300
		vnvoyager@aol.com 
	Ms. Carolyn Adamson	1-713-6652659
		caroltex@interserv.com
	Mr. & Mrs. Charles Le Nguyen 	1-281-370-898
		DNguyen376@aol.com
	Mr. & Mrs.Wayne Cheng	1-713-870-8081
*San Antonio	Mr. Khoi Kim Le	1-210-558-6088
Virginia	Center	vacenter@hotmail.com
	Mr. Tuan Nguyen	1-703-241-1342
		Vacenter@aol.com
 	Mr. David Young	1-757-5872458
		dkyoung@vabch.com
Vermont	Ms. Debra Couch	1-802-879-7064
		DebraCouch@aol.com
Washington:
*Seattle	Mr. Ben Tran	1-425-643-3649
		bentran@ix.netcom.com
	Mr. Edward Tan	1-206-821-9877
		edtan@compuserve.com
	Mr. Bernard Leech	1-206-401-9463
		gern@cyberspace.com
*Spokane	Mr. & Mrs. Adela C. Castro	1-509-534-3754
Puerto Rico	Mrs. Disnalda Hernandez Morales 	1-787-262-874
		barry@coqui.net

***ASIA***
Burma	Mr. Sai San Aik	951-667427
Formosa:
Taipei 	Taipei Center	886-2-23757527
	Mr.Chuan-Ping Yang	886-2-22365159
	Mr.Chiu Min Fen	886-2-23890885
Miaoli	Mr. & Mrs. Chen Tsan Gin	886-37-221618
Kaohsiung	Mr. & Mrs. Yao-Jong Chang	886-7-745-4062
	Mr. Fu-Hua  Lin 	886-7-336-5639
Hong Kong:	Mongkok Center	852-27495534
	Liaison office 	852-26378257
		anamipsc@netvigator.com
		bingavey@netvigator.com
		abicycle@hkstandard.com
India:	
Bombay  	Mr. Suneel Ramaney	91-22-2820190
Calcutta	Mr. Ashok Sinha	91-33-655-6741
Indonesia:
Bandjarmasin	Mr. Wong Ling Ann	62-511-68936
		lingann@bjm.mega.net.id
Surabaya	Mr. Rong-Tser Teng	62-31-5678962
		smch-sby@idola.net.id
Jakarta 	Center	62-21-6319066
		smch-jkt@dnet.net.id
		Mr. Tai Eng Chew			62-21-3856310
Semarang	Mr. & Mrs. Swie An Sia	62-24-556525
Japan:
Tokyo	Mr. & Mrs. Yasuhiro Okawado	81-3-37480207
	Mr. Eisuke Yoshii	81-3-32914344
Gunma	Ms. Hiroko	81-27-9961022
Kanagawaken	Mr. Minh Phuong	81-462-680386
Kumamoto	Ms. Tomoko Uchimur	81-96-3581856
Osaka	Mr. Ryu Norithito	81-67-829643
Korea:
Andon 	Mr. Kim Sam Tae	82-575-873-4961
Seoul	Seoul Center	82-2-5772158
		quanyim@unitel.co.kr
	Mr. Jong-Cheol Oh	82-342-7236319
Pusan	Pusan Center	82-51-6340065
		smpusan@taegu.net
 	Mr. & Mrs.Chang-Ha Chung	82-51-7524380
Chon Ju	Mr. Ji-Hwan Lin	82-652-2529088
Inchon	Mr. Yong-Je Baeg	82-32-4635351
Taegu	Taegu Center	82-53-7663189
	Mr. Kim Ik Hyeon	82-53-8165048
	Mr. Ryoo Jin Ho	82-53-8568509
	Mr. Chang Ik Hyun	82-53-7535264
Taejon	Taejon Center	82-42-6240879
	Mr. Kim Soo Dong	82-42-2547309
Kwangiu	Ms. So-Yeon Kim	82-62-2325630
Jeju Island  	Jeju Island Center	82-64-245781
Macau:	Macau Center	853-532231
	Liaison Office	853-532995
Malaysia:	
Alor Setar	Mr. Chiao-Shui Yu	60-4-7877453
Johor Bahru	Mr. & Mrs. Chi-Liang Chen	607-3516075
Penang	Penang Center	60-4-2290184
	Mr. & Mrs. Lin Wah Soon	60-4-6420370
Kuala Lumpur	Kuala Lumpur Center	60-3-9873904
	Mr. Lau Woh Kwong	60-3-2213610
	Ms. Mei-Huon Pan	60-12-2786098
Nepal:
Kathmandu	Kathmandu Center 	977-1-485307
	Mr. Narayan Ras Uprety	977-1-480232
	Mr. Lok Bahadur Baral	977-1-430293
Pokhara	Mr. & Mrs. Baikuntha Poudel	977-61-26912
Philippines	Manila Center	63-28234743
		sumachia@philonline.com.ph
Singapore	Singapore Center	65-741-7001
		chinghai@singnet.com.sg
	Liaison office	65-846-9237
Thailand:
Bangkok 	Center	662-954-2352
	Mrs. Thanaphon Pengsri	662-270-1946
	Mr. Prasan Tularuk	662-951-6867
Chiang Mai	Ms. Siriwan Supatrchamnian	66-53-387126
Had Yai 	Ms. Jintana Srimoon	6674211030
		(c/o 2475/6)
Khon Kaen	Khon Kaen Center	66-43-36459
	Mr. Paisal Chuangcham	66-43-241718
***EUROPE***
Austria:	Vienna Center	43-664-3826168 
		SchiaVienna@hotmail.com
	Ms. Christiane Deutsch 	43-2247-51288
	Mr. & Mrs. Nguyen Van Dinh	43-2955-70535
	Mr. Shih-Tsung Lu	43-1-5236978
		e8926732@studl.tuwien.ac.at
Belgium:
Antwerp	Mr. Tino Geerts	32-3-2817031
Brussels	Center	32-2-5275688
	Mr. Zhou Ying-Bing	32-2-4791546
		ybzhou@pop.vub.ac.be
Czech:
Prague	Ms. Ivana Hothanhova 	42-02-255033
Denmark	Ms. Lee Ping, Brooks	45-75-457204
Finland	Ms. Nguyen Thi Vien 	358-9-342-1143
France:
Paris Center	Mr. Lebreton Patrick	33-1-43080559
		sumachinghaifr@compuserve.com
Vaires/Marne	Mr.  Abdul Alim Pascal &
	Ms. Ngo Thi Huong 	33-1-60200014
		106616,526@compuserve.com
Montpellier	Mr. Nguyen Tich Hung	33-4-67413257
Ardeche	Ms. Reynet Jeanine	33-4-75376232
Strasbourg	Ms. Huang Chia Yin	33-3-88403503
Germany:
Berlin	Mr. Phan Duy Phuong	49-30-3448388
		phuong@berlin.sireco.net
Dusseldorf	Mr. Nguyen Van Luc	49-216-225708
Hamburg	Ms. Britta Hemmerling	49-40-4397808
Munchen	Mr. Cao Cong Hau	49-89-7602637
	Ms. Kang Cheng	49-89-3616347
	Ms. Johanna Hoening	49-89-3401254
		ChingHai@aol.com
Greece:
Athens	Mr. Lukas Georgiou	301-8075653
Holland:
Nijmegen	Mr. Dang Van Chanh	31-24-3448107
Amsterdam	Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Trung	31-294-41-9783
	Mr. Johan Schoots	31-23-5364941
Hungary	Ms. Nguyen Thi  Ngoc Bich	36-1-3701458
Ireland
Dublin	Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Leech	353-1-6249050  
Italy:
Roma	Ms. Lian Su Hua	39-774-420597
Norway:
Oslo	Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Tai	47-22-612939
Poland:
Cieszyn	Mr. Liang Ziming	48-033-514988
Szczecin	Mrs. Grazyna Plocinizak	48-091-4874953
Warszawa	Mrs. To Soszynska	48-22-6593897 
Slovenia	Mr. Rastislav Alfonz Kovacic	386-63-814981
Spain:
Madrid	Ms. Kong Lin-Min	34-1-3241802
	Mr. Liang Pu-Wan	34-1-5214510
Malaga	Mr. Wang Ya-King	34-5-2351521
Valencia	Ms.Xi-Chun Wang & Xin-Can Yang	34-96-3336208
	Vegetarian House	34-96-3744361
	Mr. Yu Xi-Qi	34-96-3715269
Sweden:
Malmo	Mr. & Mrs. John Wu	46-40-973452
Stockholm	Ms. Pooi Lin Chen	46-8-7403792
	Ms. Li Dan	46-8-894566
Uppsala	Ms. Premila Perera Ivarsson	46-18-302029
Angelholm	Mr. & Ms. Nguyen Van Tuyen	46-431-26151
Are	Ms. Viveka Widlund	46-647-32097
		widlund@swipnet.se
Switzerland:
Geneva	Ms. Feng-Li Liu	41-22-7973789
	Ms. Klein Ursula	41-22-3691550
United Kingdom:
Oxford	Mr. & Mrs. Shih-Hurng Loh	44-1865-244321
		shl@physiol.ox.ac.uk
London	Ms. Chuk Yee Ng	44-1895-254521
	Mr. Nicholas Gardiner	44-181-9773647
Surrey	Mr. Hu Tchang Rong	44-1293-416698
Russia
Moscow	Mr. Nepepa Pynacupu Xemmuapamruze	70-95-2424953
***OCEANIA***
Solomon Island	Ms. Sandy Gover	677-23678
Australia:
Ade Laide	Mr. Nguyen Huu Hiep	618-243-1542
	Mr. Leon Liensavanh	618-83326192
Brisbane	Brisbane Center	617-3374-3339
		sumahai@gil.com.au
	Mr. Gerry Bisshop	61-7-3847-1646
		gerry.bisshop@dnr.qld.gov.au
	Mrs. Tieng Thi Minh Chau	617-32826603
		tiengc@health.qld.gov.au
	Mr. & Mrs. Yun-Lung Chen	617-33442519
Canberra	Mr. & Mrs. Khanh Huu Hoang	61-2-62591993
Kempsey	Mr. Trevor  Jinks	61-65-622- 633
Sydney	Sydney Center	61-2-9724-4997
	Ms. Le Thi Thu Huong	61-2-98294408
		thuhuong@jolt.mpx.com.au
	Mr. Hong Bo	61-2-96461612
Melbourne	Liaison Office	61-3-93961877
		61-3-93312991
	Melbourne Center	nang@eisa.net.au
	Mr. Daniel Drenic	61-3-95239484
	Mr. & Mrs. Nguyen Luong Nang	61-3-9331-2991
	Mr. Alan Khor	61-3-98574239
Perth	Perth Center	61-8-9242-1189
	Mr. David Robert Brooks	61-8-9418-6125
		daveb@iinet.net.au
	Mr. Ly Van Tri	61-8-9244-7661
Tasmania	Mr Peter John Boatfield	61-3-62293878
New Zealand:
Auckland	Ms. Xiao Ling Li	649- 4839454
	Ms. Ma Wu-Hung	649-4802839
Tauranga	Ms. Pi-Hsia Chang	64-7-5765157
	Ms. Joy Daniels	64-7-5445268
Christchurch	Mr. Lin Chao-Min	64-3-3891087
Hamilton	Mr. Alfred Hieng Chong Yii	64-7-849-4442
Dunedin	Ms. Ding Li	64-3-479-0005


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