SPEECH ON THE 14TH ANNIVERSARY OF UHBE, CALIFORNIA
Respect Great Master Dasira Narada,
Respect second master Narada Mahathera
Respect Master Thuon and Co Hai
Dear brothers and sisters, UHBE members,
Today we are together from everywhere in the world came to celebrate our 14th year of the creation of UHBE.
Mỗi người trong chúng ta ai cũng có lúc rơi vào vủng lầy đau khổ tuyệt vọng, hay bối rối hoang mang trước khúc quanh của cuộc đời, và tôi cũng không ngoại lệ.
Tôi mất mẹ từ khi lên một tuổi. Và tôi đã được trưởng thành trong tình thương yêu vai mượn của mọi người, không có ai để giải bài tâm sự, và cũng không có ai quan tâm hay hỏi han tôi điều gì, cho nên tôi trỡ thành ít nói. Bây giờ tôi phải mượn giấy và bút để giải bày tâm sự của lòng mình.
Thật không có gì hay bằng khi có một cách tay tình thương đưa tới cho ta dựa vào để truyền thêm sức mạnh, để vết thương trong ta được xoa dịu, để nguồn sống trong ta được đánh thức và giúp ta vượt qua được những đoạn đường nghiệt ngã.
When I heard of my name as one of the students for Level 6 Class, I was happy and nervous at the same time. I was happy because I am blessed to have the opportunity to learn more and to take a further step in my spiritual cultivation path. I was nervous because I was fearful that I might be faced with similar challenges as when I attended Level 4 and Level 5 Classes.
When I came to UHBE I brought with me my Christian Spirituality, as taught to me from an early age. As I got older I started to ask question about what I had been taught. Sometimes my parent s would answer these the best way they could.
Other time I would get into trouble for asking. Telling me that I would understand better when I was older. As I got older even more questions would come up and still the answers just where not there.
In January of 2008, I was suffered a massive stroke. At the time one of the doctors said that I wouldn't walk or talk again. I lost quite a bit of function, I was completely paralyzed on the right hand side of my body. I couldn't talk, read or spell, and my vision wasn't quite right. I suffered many other set backs, but these were the biggest. Through diligent and hard work I managed to take steps to slowly getting better in all of these areas. In May I was released from the hospital while I still could not do very much, so I was open to all areas that could possibly improve my situation. In June, I was told about the UHBE center and decided to go and see if they could help me. After my first visit to the center, I was convinced i needed to go there as often as I could.
