The most honorable Supreme Master Ching Hai,
I am Your faithful devotee in Mainland China. Although I have not been
initiated yet, I wish very much to share my feelings with You, and earnestly
hope to receive Your guidance and help for the many inconceivable feelings
and experiences that I have had since I have come in contact with Your
teachings last year.
My most exciting experience was hearing daily an indescribable and
super-worldly sound, coming from nowhere. This is truly exciting for me
because I haven't been initiated yet and am only practicing the Convenient
Method. It is there every time I open Your book, but it is most distinctive
during my meditation. This phenomenon has continued for several months.
I feel strange but also not strange. Strange in a way that I had no such
experience before despite having studied Buddhism for several years. Not
strange because since knowing about You, I feel I have been receiving Your
blessings all the time, and consequently have had these incredible
experiences. Otherwise, if I continued to practice blindly like before --
without the blessing power of an enlightened master, I could not have any
result even after eons of time, as one cannot cook rice out of sand.
Therefore, with deepest gratitude, I report this good news to my most
revered Supreme Master Ching Hai -- the greatest Master of Heaven and Earth in this
era. I think the best way to thank and repay You for Your grace is to
unconditionally follow Your instructions, sharing the same noble ideals and
goals as Yours and to persist in learning and practicing diligently until I
become a fully enlightened being capable of delivering sentient beings.
No words can ever describe Your grace, and no songs can ever praise Your
virtues. With great respect and closed palms, I prostrate before You, Namo
Ching Hai Wu Shang Shih!
Sincerely,
Zhang