The first October seminar was held in Arequipa, Peru's second largest city, located in the south and known as the "white city" for its many buildings of white lava rock. The city had only a few local fellow initiates at the time, but each was strongly devoted to Master. During the messenger's visit in May to conduct an initiation, the contact person tried very hard to convince the messenger to come to the area again to hold a video seminar.

After the Arequipa seminar, guests stay to learn the Convenient Method as the venue is filled to capacity and even the stage is occupied.

The Arequipa seminar was thus held at the lecture hall of the city's German Institute. Far more guests turned out than expected, filling the venue to capacity and leaving many people standing at the door. When one of Master's videotaped English lectures was shown, due to the fact that the screen on the wall was not high enough, people sitting in the back were unable to see the Spanish subtitles at the bottom. So a fellow initiate had to read them aloud through a microphone for these guests and for those outside the venue who could not otherwise hear Master's words. Most of the guests, including those unable to squeeze into the hall, stayed to learn the Convenient Method. Many had very good experiences, and a number lingered to ask spiritual questions and hesitated to leave at the end of the seminar.

The video seminar at Santa Mónica Urbanization in Cusco.

Cusco, the capital of the ancient Inca Empire, has a rich cultural heritage. Not only is the city materially developed, but its people are also spiritually evolved. The local historical monuments offer a glimpse into the advanced ancient Peruvian civilization. The Supreme Master Ching Hai International Association has a center in this world-renowned city, and at the warm invitation of local fellow initiates and the contact person, a Quan Yin messenger came to help video seminars there. Within four days, three seminars were conducted, each drawing a capacity audience. The first session was held in the home of the contact person and the second in the area known as Santa Monica Urbanization. Meanwhile, on two consecutive days several initiates were interviewed at the local station Radio Salcantay. During the one-hour interview on the second day, Master's lecture was broadcast for more than twenty minutes, as a broadcasting staff member nodded her head approvingly. The program host was a doctor of natural therapy who often encouraged his listeners to adopt a vegetarian diet. He invited us to his weekly meeting with the audience to introduce Master's teachings, and thus the third session was held. The guests at each seminar easily accepted Master's teachings, with most deciding to immediately switch to a vegetarian diet and learn the Convenient Method.

The city of Trujillo is located in northern Peru. Before the seminar there, fellow initiates invited members of the local news media to conduct interviews. Thus, on the morning of the seminar, Mr. Elmer Zamudio Sanchez from Radio Libertad of Trujillo interviewed members of the Trujillo Center. Before the formal recording of the interview, Mr. Zamudio chatted with fellow initiates and the Quan Yin messenger, and was deeply impressed by their natural and lively accounts of the changes that occurred in their lives after beginning practice of the Quan Yin Method. After the interview, Mr. Sanchez enjoyed vegetarian snacks with the initiates while Master's songs played in the background. He became so interested in the music that he recorded a brief selection of Master's beautiful singing for later broadcast on his program.

On the day of the Trujillo seminar, the Center was packed and most of the attendees stayed to learn the Convenient Method, including some who had never given a thought to vegetarianism but expressed a wish to try the new diet and begin spiritual practice after listening to Master's talk.

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