Report
from East Africa
Blessed
Are
the Sincere Aspirants!
[Uganda]
When and how someone left a copy of Master's English sample
booklet in Uganda is a mystery. Ten years passed, and the booklet remained
cherished by a sincere Truth-aspirant. He persistently wrote to the
contact addresses listed in the booklet, hoping someone would tell him
how he could reach the path to enlightenment called the Quan Yin Method.
When our Headquarters learned that a South African fellow initiate was
going to begin working in Uganda, it immediately asked him to look up
this sincere person who had repeatedly requested initiation.
The dream
of this Truth-aspirant materialized when a Quan Yin messenger visited
Uganda to initiate him into Master's supreme method of liberation. The
messenger came with many other spiritual gifts - Master's sample booklets
and News magazines, to be shared with other people blessed with the
affinity.
The
South African fellow initiate working in Uganda earnestly guided many
Truth-seekers in their practice of the Convenient Method. Every Sunday,
the would-be initiates squeeze into a crude and roofless mud hut to
meditate together. They have very limited access to Master's teachings
- only the News magazines, a few videotapes, and two copies of "The
Key of Immediate Enlightenment." But they have great faith and
intense longing for enlightenment and liberation.
When
the Quan Yin messenger re-visited Uganda just before Christmas, he was
amazed to find that most would-be initiates awaiting initiation in the
area had observed a vegetarian diet for more than twenty years, some
of them from the time of conception. They confided that it was the Ugandan
ethnic custom to be vegetarian. Except for the modern generation that
has begun to eat meat, the majority of the people continue to preserve
their traditional diet, with bananas as their staple food.
Although
the new Ugandan fellow practitioners have yet to meet Master, they are
permeated by bliss all the same. When the Quan Yin messenger distributed
the latest issue of the News magazine, some held it close, repeating
softly: "Master! Master!" They looked very innocent and lovely,
as though they were passionately calling their lover. At the time of
departure, the Quan Yin messenger gave a sister initiate one of Master's
brooches as a souvenir; the latter bowed reverently and accepted the
brooch with both hands. Blessed are all sincere aspirants; Master's
intangible love and blessings for them are expressed in their eyes and
speech.
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Fellow
practitioners from Johannesburg, South Africa provide funds for
Ugandan initiates to build a roof for their group meditation center
and buy a television set for watching Master's videotapes.
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Lying
adjacent to the beautiful Lake Victoria, Uganda is gifted with a wonderful
landscape. Although her people do not enjoy a wealthy lifestyle, they
do have an adequate food supply. Thanks to the country's good climate,
bananas, corn, and sugar cane grow in abundance. God loves Uganda, though,
like other African countries, she faces the severe threat of AIDS. But
then, infectious diseases are the mutual karma of humankind. When more
people come to know Master's teachings, realize the importance of vegetarianism
and spiritual practice, and adopt the five precepts as their fundamental
lifestyle, our world will definitely become better and better.