By Ottawa News Group, Canada (Originally In English)

Appreciating the invaluable benefits of the Quan Yin Method, the Ottawa initiates continue spreading the Good News in their city. Many people came to visit our booth at the last Health and Fitness Expo. A few weeks before the exhibition, our initiates wrote an article for a local spiritual magazine to introduce Master's teachings. People contacted the local Center for more information, requested sample booklets, or even came to visit our booth. This event also sowed the spiritual seeds for the forthcoming months.

Fellow initiates from Ottawa, Canada spreading Master's teachings during the Chinese New Year's festival.

Following Master's instructions to help the needy and the poor in our local area during the Lunar New Year and the winter months, initiates contacted local social workers to get the names of those who are in need. Some of these families had recently migrated to Canada. Initiates distributed scented rice, canned milk, dumplings, New Year assorted "sweet-meats" and other necessities to those families before the beginning of the New Year. We also shared with them the Supreme Master Ching Hai News magazines and sample booklets. People sent many thanks to Master for these New Year's gifts on this very special occasion.

Initiates also participated in the Au Lac New Year's festival. Although this event was mainly for the Au Lac people in the region, many Canadians participated as well. At one time, we had to send initiates back to our Center to get more English News magazines and booklets. We also took the opportunity to introduce Master's poems and the music composed from Her poems. One week later, we participated in the Chinese New Year's celebration for the first time in many years. Initiates from Montreal who can speak Chinese came to help.

Echoes--
There was much interesting feedback after the above events.

For example, one spiritual healer contacted us shortly after the Health and Fitness Expo to get a sample booklet. Then a few months later she inquired about initiation. Her spiritual teacher had already told her in January that she would have a new teacher soon and Master's name was actually mentioned. Her present teacher also told her not to open Master's booklet until she wanted to be a complete vegetarian. Although she did not read Master's booklet the energy from it helped her in changing her diet. When she decided to be vegetarian, she read Master's sample booklet. After learning the Convenient Method, she told us the "angels of darkness" came and said farewell to her. They told her their mission was complete and left her.

One Canadian Convenient Method practitioner brought his friends to the Chinese New Year's festival to introduce Master's teachings to them. He told us Master's teachings had made a big impact on his life. He became more loving, more content and calmer. He regularly comes to the group meditation sessions and is currently enrolled in a vegetarian cooking class.

He also introduced Master's teachings to one of his friends who is currently in prison for life. Although there are very strict prison regulations about reading materials such as newspapers and magazines, the Supreme Master Ching Hai News reaches his friend each month without any problem.

This reminded us about our fellow initiate in another Canadian city. He works as a prison chaplain and expressed his touching feelings after reading the story by Korean brother Kim, who was also in prison. He said that the prison could become like an ashram if everyone had the right mind. Maybe in the future, Master's News magazines and Her teachings could be known to more inmates in Canadian prisons.

Besides these above mentioned activities, the Ottawa initiates now have the opportunity to serve others by distributing the Supreme Master Ching Hai News magazines. By doing the work, we have come to appreciate very much all the work that goes on before Master's magazine reaches the recipients. A working team has been formed which now sorts, packs and mails the magazines within one or two days after receiving them. We sincerely thank Master for all Her help and blessings.