Very soon, my prayers were answered. I knew that at the very least I had
learned how to pray with intention and urgency. I met and married a wonderful
man who had recently become a widower and had two little girls, nine and two
years old. At first I thought this was the answer to my problems but it soon
became apparent that I was going to need even more enlightenment to take care
of a husband, raise four children and try to blend them into one family.
Specially when we were dealing with three different nationalities and three
religions that soon became four nationalities and four religions when my ex got
remarried. I have prayed for wisdom and patience and most of all for the
ability to make the best decisions for the children.
That is why, I could not stop my search after I remarried. It was imperative
that I find divine help for the task ahead. Through the years I continued
searching and I attended various seminars including one by the reknown
spiritual healer Rosalyn Bruyere's," The wheel of Life", based on Ancient
Indian American wisdom. I also took the weekend Reiki course, a form of healing
hands developed by a Japanese master.
Just less than a year ago I went to the Yosemite Valley for a Silent Meditation
Retreat for ten days, offered by an Indian organization called Vipassana. I
truly enjoyed this retreat, I needed the peace and quiet to recharge. You leave
there with a very peaceful feeling, however you know you will go back to face
the same tensions and stresses in life that got you there in the first place.
And even though you feel inspired to meditate two hours a day, one in the
morning and one at night, you do not know a whole lot more than when you
started. You get very little feed back as to how to do the meditation. They
expect you to sit for several hours without moving and achieve enlightenment by
yourself. You have no way of gaging wether you are on the right path or not.
I could go on and on with the books and tapes that I have read and heard but
you get the idea, I have been actively looking, aggressively looking to fill
the void, to understand my life, to get some inner peace, to learn tools I can
pass on to my children, to help my family, my friends and to be the best person
I can be.
This is why when I met Master Chou and took his course I was so taken with his
method. It has taken many years of working on myself and searching but I
finally found what I was looking for. I feel lucky to have ended up here in the
Hochi Institute and blessed to have Master Chou so generously share his wisdom and
his teachings with all of us. I have to confess that I felt especially blessed
when I realized I was one of only two non-Chinese speakers taking the class and
they provided a simultaneous translator for us to receive the teachings. I was
so touched to see they went out of their way to make sure I felt welcomed and
comfortable with the translations.
Now, the new non-Chinese speaking students are even luckier because the
volunteers have been diligently working to translate all the materials and have
most of the CD's used in class in English as well so there will only be a need
to translate the spontaneous comments.
From the moment I arrived here and came into the compassion field I felt
something special, I did not know if it was my Asian background and my Japanese
sensitivities that made me feel so connected to the energy in this space or the
welcoming loving energy this place exudes . I just felt I was in the right
place. Then I met Master Chou and shook his hand I knew he was the One. I did not
know the One for what, I just knew he had It, his aura, his magnetism were very
different from all the other teachers I have met through the years. The
intimate setting and the small class it all made for a very powerful
experience.
Then he actually started speaking, and I was fascinated, I was in a trance. He
condensed in one class all the little bits and pieces of wisdom that I have
been able to gleam through the years and he put it all into one very simple
method to understand and to follow. He offers solutions to your problems at all
three body levels, the physical, the emotional and the spiritual levels. Above
all he made it attainable, not a pie in the sky option.
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