Rosemead, July 27, 2012
From My Profound Gratitude To My Two Exceptionally Masters:Master Nguyễn Đức Thuận & Master Nguyễn Ngọc Hải
First of all we would like to express our sincere thanks to my two truthful masters who taught us valuable lessons in the level five class. These past days in the Head Quarter of the UHBE in Seattle gave us the most meaningful and heartfelt memories of our life. The meticulous care of the Organization Committee from the Head Quarter in Seattle and other disciples from other meditation centers gave all of us a lot of unforgettable impression.
The bonds of love made everyone closer by loving and caring for each other more and more so we all could study, meditate, and have more compassion to each other in order to make better progress toward evolution of the humanity.
As a level five disciple, we are well aware of our responsibilities toward the UHBE Discipline. We have to prepare ourselves to be highly virtuous. We have to cultivate ourselves in order to build up our experience so we can influence and help more people believe in our UHBE discipline.
We know that we must listen to the dharma sincerely and keep it in our hearts. By understanding the meaning of the dharma from the heart, our wisdom will then be fully developed. With wisdom, we will solve the problems in life more beautifully. The Founder Grand Master teaches level five disciples to have a still mind while meditating in order to have strong will. We also need to mediate with a keen mind that is fully aware of the surrounding without agitation. Therefore, all disciples need to take a good care of the land in our mind by planting good perception seeds so our knowledge will continue to expand and bloom fully.
Every day, all disciples need to take a good care of ourselves and perform self evaluation to get rid of the weeds in our mind. We need to meditate well and with a noble mind so we can eliminate afflictions in our life. As a result, we will have healthy and beautiful constitution and all illness will disappear.
The Founder Grand Master has taught us that we have to try harder to better ourselves both in virtue and in wisdom so we will not be left behind on the way to return to our home due to difficulties and challenges along the way. We must build up more good karmas to pay back to the karmic debts in order to pass all obstacles on the way back home. This is our chance to train our spirit to make better progress.
The Founder Grand Master has taught us that we need to cultivate ourselves so we would be able to transform our three main attributes “Conscience, Knowledge, and Ability” to our Supreme Soul’s three main attributes “Benevolence, Wisdom, and Fortitude” so we could become Sages or Saints in order to give better services to the human kind. This is one of the major goals of all UHBE disciples when we carry out the sacred duty of the dharma.
One more time, we pledge that we will try our best to practice the teaching of our Grand Master as a way to bring one thousand beautiful radiant flowers from our heart to express our gratitude to Thầy and Cô, our truthful masters of today and forever after. We wish that in the near future, we have a chance to follow Thầy and Cô on the way to implement the bodhi practice, it will definitely become the most memorable event in our life as a UHBE disciple.
Sincerely yours,
Pauline Công, a disciple from Rosemead Meditation Center