Professor
Ruaan Zhi-sheng believes that the actions and speech of Supreme Master
Ching Hai often shatter boundaries and rules, and that She offers
a new message and new choice to the general public, religious researchers,
and spiritual practitioners.
[From
Kaohsiung Reporter Yao Tsu-shun] Supreme
Master Ching Hai has countless disciples around the world. Her unique
way of preaching has evoked such extensive comments and discussions
that even the highest academic institutions in the country, the Academia
Sinica and National Taiwan University (NTU), have conducted intensive
research on Her and expressed tremendous praise for Her. NTU Professor
Ruaan Zhi-sheng believes that Supreme Master Ching Hai and the Quan
Yin Method offer a new message and new choice to the general public,
religious researchers, and spiritual practitioners.
Professor
Ruaan said that the materials from the SMCHIA and the lectures he
has heard delivered by the Supreme Master Ching Hai have given him
a very special impression of both the Master and the Quan Yin Method.
He considers them to be unique and of an "alternative" category.
From his observations, he finds that the actions and speech of Supreme
Master Ching Hai often shatter boundaries and rules, as they do not
conform to social norms. For this reason, it is very difficult for
people to understand and categorize Her according to existing concepts
and customary rules. In the eyes of worldly people, Supreme Master
Ching Hai is very different than other religious leaders.
In
his research, Professor Ruaan has also found that Supreme Master Ching
Hai can converse in Chinese, English, Aulacese, and even German and
French. In Her lectures on all five continents of the world, She has
proven to be well-versed in all major religious scriptures and can
easily expound profound doctrines in simple terms of common usage.
The Supreme Master Ching Hai gives initiation to Truth-aspirants of
any ethnic group or religious background, without demanding that they
give up their original faith. She imparts a supra-worldly method of
liberation, but is also very concerned about worldly suffering, conducting
disaster relief and charitable activities when and where the need
arises.
Supreme
Master Ching Hai teaches the Quan Yin Method, a simple method that
seems to be new but is believed to be the most ancient and magnificent
form of meditation, Professor Ruaan said. She requires Her disciples
to strictly observe the Five Precepts and a lifelong vegetarian diet,
and to meditate two and a half hours each day. They are also encouraged
to practice the middle way, to refrain from going to extremes, and
to pursue a life of Truth, virtue, and beauty. While She gives lectures
on the Truth, She also writes poems, composes songs, plays musical
instruments, recites poems, sings songs, paints, cooks vegetarian
cuisine, and compiles vegetarian cookbooks. She is also a fashion
and jewelry designer. She has held art exhibitions, and even fashion
shows and musical events in several major cities around the world.
People thus have difficulty detecting Her spiritual traits, and are
even sceptical about Her being a spiritual practitioner.
