Report from Formosa

Free Medical Service
at the Millennium
Paintball Sports Carnival

[Taipei] On March 12, the National Sports Council convened the Millennium Paintball Sports Carnival at Keelung Riverside Park. This event was meant to strengthen relations and friendships among diplomatic officials of the R.O.C. and foreign ambassadors, counselors and economic and cultural affairs officers stationed in Taipei. Featuring a paintball war game that attracted participants of several nationalities, the carnival also included such events as a motorbike stunt performance, a Chinese martial arts presentation, dance performances, and traditional folk arts and exercises. The Supreme Master Ching Hai International Association was invited to offer free medical services to the carnival's attendees.

Fellow practitioners arriving at the carnival grounds immediately began to play Master's musical CDs, filling the venue with a warm and peaceful atmosphere. Their medical consultations and services included blood pressure measurements, Chinese medicine prescriptions, acupuncture treatments, ophthalmic examinations, and surgical and dental consultations.

When our group was introduced through a loudspeaker to the audience, a huge crowd, including foreign visitors, rushed to our booth. We had prepared many chairs to keep people comfortable while they waited in line. We also shared spiritual nourishment in the form of Master's sample booklets and magazines. While waiting for their consultations, people quietly read the booklets with great attention. We were really touched to witness God's love flowing gently into their hearts and souls. Each visitor to the booth received physical care, along with the spiritual nourishment of God's love.

Spring Holiday Retreat

Fellow practitioners provide free medical services to local and foreign diplomats in Formosa.

[Hsihu] This year, April 2 to 4 were Formosan Holidays, among which April 4 was Tomb-Sweeping Day. On that day, Formosan initiates took the rare opportunity to hold a special three-day retreat at the Hsihu Center, thus allowing them to both participate in the retreat and take care of their families. Initiates were free to attend the retreat for one day, two days, or all three days. Family members were also welcome to visit the Hsihu Center on Sunday. Thanks to this flexible arrangement, many initiates participated in the retreat, their colorful tents bringing a lively atmosphere to the Center.

During the retreatants' diligent meditation sessions, fellow initiates truly practiced the custom of sweeping their ancestors' graves. For people who have received initiation from Master and followed Her in spiritual practice, their ancestors have long left their graves for a superior plane of existence, or have already been liberated from the cycle of transmigration.

During the retreat, fellow initiates also prayed for the success of Master's Oceania and Asia Lecture Tour. For the same purpose, all the Centers in Formosa have asked that fellow initiates join in a daily meditation session at home from five to seven in the morning, and again from nine to eleven in the evening.