On Sunday, October 13, 2019, our Beloved Supreme Master Ching Hai graciously took time from Her recent retreat to address the gathering of our Quan Yin practitioners, at the New Land in Taiwan, also known as Formosa, in celebration of the happy news from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

United Nations climate change experts call for urgent reduction of meat consumption. In its “Climate Change and Land” report recently approved by world governments in Geneva, Switzerland, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) urged for an immediate decrease in meat and dairy consumption as a key policy response to the global warming crisis. The panel of 107 leading scientists examined over 7,000 research studies and found that the vegan diet is highest in carbon mitigation potential, followed by the vegetarian diet. Notably, livestock rearing led to almost 75% of worldwide deforestation and massive production of heat-trapping methane gas. However, a plant-based diet can free up millions of square kilometers of land for carbon-absorbing forests and reduce up to eight gigatons of carbon emissions annually by 2050. Our gratefulness for your comprehensive study and vital recommendations, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. May all governments take swift and bold actions to promote the Earth-saving vegan lifestyle to their cherished citizens, in Heaven’s abiding care.

In Her overflowing love for the world’s artists, Supreme Master Ching Hai invited celebrated artists who have worked with our Supreme Master Ching Hai International Association and Supreme Master Television in the past for a special friendly gathering on Tuesday, October 1, 2019.

UNITED KINGDOM provides humanitarian aid to Zimbabwe, Rohingya refugees receive safe drinking water system, Denmark inaugurates one of the world’s largest electric ferries, Unites States scientists invent new technology to raise solar cell efficiency, couple restores forest in China, Israel-based online platform to develop vegan economy and Australia takes measures to protect elephants and rhinos.

“Death has no power the immortal soul to slay, That, when its present body turns to clay, Seeks a fresh home, and with unlessened might Inspires another frame with life and light.” Like moonbeams trembling on water, truly such is the life of mortals. Knowing this, let duty be performed. Bathe in the river of the soul, O man, for not with water is the soul washed clean. The pure soul is a river whose holy source is self-control, whose water is truth, whose bank is righteousness, whose waves are compassion. The spirit it is, that, under the myriad illusions of life, works steadily towards its goal; silently, imperceptibly, irresistibly, moving on to divinity.

The Mayan calendar in the Mayan world is the center of the universe; this is where it all starts. It starts every day with giving thanks to the energy of the day and giving gratitude to ourselves for being here to be of service. That’s what the Mayan calendar is all about: it’s to be of service to the people. The whole planet is in danger of extinction right now. So, if we don’t return into balance, if we don’t respect the balance of Earth, and the animals, and all the kingdoms, it’s very difficult, really, to return to balance. It’s like the ancient people always say: we’re all brothers and sisters, we have to return into that place, that an ant is not less evolved than I am. We’re all brothers and sisters, and if I get into that place of respect and love, we can create a new Earth.

In today's show, “Sharing the love through food – Loving Huts in Oceania,” we are featuring the Loving Hut vegan restaurants across Australia and New Zealand. Many Loving Hut owners started their restaurants as amateurs and have strived to learn how to organise accounts, cook vegan food, perfect recipes and train staff to manage the business successfully. “We’ve been coming here for the last (Eight years.) This one is awesome, even price-wise, taste-wise.” Well done, Australia and New Zealand, for creating heaven on Earth in your Loving Hut oceanic locations. Together with all Loving Huts around the world, you have made “Loving Hut” a reliable name for those who are seeking pure and tasty vegan foods.

Everything is about us, us, us. You have to turn it around. That’s why I teach them to offer to the Buddhas before they eat, not ask for something all the time. Turn around. Offer something. Be thankful. Always “bless it, give it, give me, give me.” That’s wrong. Now, the next monk. “The Pure Youth Moonlight.” “‘I reflected upon how throughout the body the essence of water is not in discord.’ ‘I saw that the water in my body was not at all different from that in the world outside – even that in royal lands of floating banners with all their seas of fragrant waters. At that time, when I first succeeded in the contemplation of water, I could see only water. I still had not gotten beyond my physical body. I was a bhiksu then.’”

Qatari charity constructs village in Kosovo, Korea assists rice farming in Ghana, research highlights European green energy possibility, Philippine scientist creates eco-friendly bioplastic, Australia invests in healthcare in the Pacific, United Kingdom retailers increase plant-based offerings and compassionate Bahamian woman rescues homeless dogs before hurricane.

“Gems from the East: A Birthday Book of Precepts and Axioms” was written by Madame Blavatsky and published in late 1889. With selections from famous scriptures and books to introduce the months, and Oriental precept or axiom is given for each day of the year. Spirituality is not what we understand by the words “virtue” and “goodness.” It is the power of perceiving formless, spiritual essences. The discovery and right use of the true essence of Being – this is the whole secret of life. “The mind, enlightened, casts its grief away!” – It is not to be known by knowledge! man knows it not by wisdom! learning vast Halts short of it! Only by soul itself is soul perceived – when the soul wills it so! There shines no light save its own light to show Itself unto itself!”

The UK company, Skipping Rocks Lab, based in London, has developed a packaging alternative for drinking water and other beverages that eliminates the need for plastics. The process encapsulates drinking water in a flexible membrane or blob made of brown seaweed that is completely biodegradable, edible, and vegan. Besides eco-friendly inventions that reduce waste on land, brilliant inventions have been created to remove trash from bodies of water. Mr. Trash Wheel is a trash interceptor invented by Mr. John Kellett in 2008 that removes trash from the Jones Falls River at Inner Harbor in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. The waste collected is recycled or goes to waste-to-energy facilities.

There are many other transparent animals in the ocean including the sea salp, glass sponge, transparent sea cucumber, ghost shrimp, glass squid, glass octopus, transparent-headed barreleye fish, juvenile surgeonfish, sea angel, sea walnut, and more. Research shows that these majestic beings play an important role in removing the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Scientists found one swarm of salps covering 100,000 square kilometers of the sea surface and consuming up to 74% of the carbon-containing plants on the surface per day. The salps’ waste is heavy and sinks and this particular swarm sent up to 4,000 tons of carbon daily to the seabed.

You think my merit is immense. It’s true. But the world is immense, too. And your karma is more than immense. The people, not just yours but the humans’ karma is more, more than immense. Because life after life, generation after generation, the blood line, the DNA keeps continuing to revolve inside the next generation. Therefore, the more I save, the better – the more I can give. And the merit, I cannot take it from Heaven, no. I have to earn it right here. Many lifetimes here earning and giving at the same time. And in this lifetime I also had to earn and give at the same time, but too much, too much giving, earning little.