Children's Letters

u By Young Friend Park, Age 7, Seoul, Korea (Originally In Korean)

Master, You Are So Beautiful!

Master, I miss You very much.
I really like eating a vegetarian diet. I also hope that I can be a great person like Master.
Master, I love You.

The sun fell to the Earth to shine upon You. Master, I want to be Your disciple.

Spiritual Interludes

Brotherhood

u By Fellow Initiate Lam, CA, USA (Originally In English)

I have been endlessly pondering my experiences while staying at Hsihu Center. One day when it began to rain, I was in the middle of some work, so I didn't run back to the foreigners' area to bring in my clothes that were hanging outside to dry. At the end of the day when I was tired from working, I went to collect my clothes to wash them again; but when I reached the clothes hanging place, I found that all the clothes hung outside had been taken inside, including my own. I was very touched. Someone had thought of everyone in the group. I was so moved that I almost cried. But here, everyone is like that! All the monks and nuns that drove me to and from the airport and the fellow initiates who took me to meals, to check my visa, to pick up my airplane ticket in Taipei, to withdraw money from the bank, and even to go shopping were people that I didn't know; and they did all this for me, an absolute stranger to them. Everyone I met treated me so kindly and attentively, and with such love that I can't describe it.