| Life with the Master Hua On the surface life with Master Hua may seem difficult because most of his left home disciples ate once a day and slept sitting up, as did the Master. Also, the day began at 3:40 AM and ended at 10 PM, constant meditation, ceremonies and work. I fasted twice over a month, and once over two months, on only 12 ounces of water a day, as did others, all as an offering for world peace. I vowed to never handle money, and kept it for ten years. Some kept vows of silence; all engaged in extreme discipline. But, the real work was keeping up with the Master's constant effort to make us grow inwardly and attain realization. He had tremendous spiritual penetrations and compassionately used them to peer into his disciples' minds, undermine their clinging and attachment, and root them out. This is what many found unbearable; few could take it; most left. But, those that put forth the extra effort could take it, and grew. |
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| I contemplate all the world as equal, without this or that and without thought of love or hate I have no greed or attachment or limitations or obstacles Constantly, for everyone, I speak the Dharma equally Equally for one as I would for a multitude I constantly expound and spread the dharma and have no other work coming, arising, sitting, or standing I never grow weary filling the entire world with the moisture of the Universal Rain |