Lisa A. Cross, Celebration of The 165th Birthday of The Founder Grand Master DASIRA NARADA, Ottawa

34B_Celebration of The 165th Birthday of The Founder Grand Master DASIRA NARADA - October 24-2011
Lisa A. Cross – Ottawa Center

It is a pleasure to be here with all of my brothers and sisters of our UHBE family, warmest greetings to all of you.

We are gathered together, bonded forever by our spiritual family ties. We are here to pay homage to our Founder Grand Master Dasira Narada on the celebration of His birth 165 years ago. We are also here to celebrate and give thanks to our most beloved teachers Thay Nguyen Duc Thuan and Co Nguyen Ngoc Hai as the only true representatives and present day Masters of this truly auspicious and unique lineage of teaching. It is 15 years since our Masters Thay Thuan and Co Hai brought the Founder Master’s teachings to North America.
We welcome and thank all the distinguished guests who are here to celebrate with us today.

From the bottom of our hearts we thank all the Orange County UHBE members. In keeping with the tradition of Love from Seattle Center Headquarters, you have diligently organized and supported the newest classes of Level V and IV in the spring and fall of this year. We appreciate the hospitality and kindness that you have extended to all of us over the last few days and for this wonderful celebration.

Like all of you, I have read and reread the biography of the Founder Grand Master many times in the Level I&II UHBE manual. For some reason along the way, I did a little mathematics. The Founder Master was born in the City of Columbo in Sri Lanka in 1846. When he completed his PhD in Eastern Philosophy at the University of Nalanda, he was only 25 years of age. Impressive! Following the footsteps of his father who was a diplomatic official, Dasira Narada worked for the Sri Lankan government until 1893. Suddenly, he left his professional success, a bright future in a position many others desired, all the comforts of his family wealth as the only son. He left all of these material things behind him! He was 47 when he departed for the Himalayan Mountains. Somewhere in those 18 years of unimaginable drive and dedication for his own spiritual liberation, Dasira Narada achieved Cosmic Consciousness. Through his profound realization of the Ultimate Truth he contemplated deeply and developed a vast, deep array of teachings and methods that have formed the Spiritual Science of our discipline Divine Dharma Meditation. The Grand Master was 65 years of age when he returned from the Himalayas to begin the teaching of Divine Dharma Meditation! This is an age when most of us are long retired! He taught for 5 years travelling extensively until 1916. When our Grand Master was 70 years of age he began to train his successor. This was another 8 years! By the time our beloved Founder Grand Master left one final time in 1924, he was 78. Truly, even these small historical chronological details speak volumes about his remarkable life. It is no wonder that his exceptional teachings as well as his extraordinary virtue and merit have truly inspired and transformed us in such profound ways.

Our own most beloved Masters Thay Thuan and Co Hai were the only two disciples fully trained by the 3rd lineage Vietnamese Masters who were 4 men and 1 woman. Their teachers had been instructed privately from 1972-1974 by the 2nd Grand Master. When the time was right, our own beloved Masters Co Hai and Thay Thuan came to North America in 1996. We have so much to honour and thank them for. They developed the UHBE discipline and established the Seattle Meditation Center, which became as a spiritual home for all of us. Since then they have travelled extensively around the world many, many times. They have opened countless classes, initiated thousands, taught meditation and principles of energy treatment. Anyone over 18 years of age, regardless of race, culture, language, religion or socioeconomic class has the opportunity to learn this discipline. Their classes are taught with love, wisdom, and are always free of cost. There are now over 40 meditation centers worldwide. Thay and Co have trained instructors whom we trust and admire whose example we attempt to follow. More recently, the Masters initiated another 15 instructors to help with the growing demands. The Masters have actively encouraged and supported the massive job of translating the Founder Master’s teachings into many languages. There are now manuals in Chinese, English, French, Cambodian, and Spanish. This past September Thay and Co gave their blessing and support for the Ottawa Center in Canada to have the first Level I&II class in which the primary language of instruction was English. It was successful, another milestone for our discipline. Thay Thuan and Co Hai continue to provide ongoing spiritual guidance and support to all of the meditation centers small or large, new or older. They have supported us through times of difficulty and struggle, explaining the Founder Master’s Dharma with ever wider and deeper spiritual meaning. Every human problem that we experience within our meditation centers or in the world at large, the Founder Master’s Dharma provides very clear comprehensive answers. As we let go of national, cultural, political and personal attachments both past and present that create barriers within ourselves, each other and others, Thay and Co patiently teach us the lessons and language of Universal love and altruism.

Over the last 15 years most of us in this room have had the precious privilege of being in the Masters’ home in Seattle. Some of us have travelled with them to their home in Vietnam. Some of us have accompanied them as they have taught in cities other than our own. We have trained with them, meditated with them, received energy treatment and help from them. We have had meals and laughter, shared our sorrows and disappointments with them. Do we really know how lucky we are? Indeed, we have been blessed to experience very personal relationships with them. Because of their exceptionality, as true authentic masters, even language or physical distance has not been a barrier to their ability to transform our consciousness.

As our organization grows ever larger and expands wider, the opportunity for newer disciples to have this kind of personal contact with the Masters will undoubtedly be different. We will look back some day upon this time now and appreciate how blessed we are to receive the preciousness of their gracious gifts. Over the coming years, our duty is to love and give to the newest of students in the same way Thay Co our dear teachers give to all of us. This will keep the bond of love continuous and the transmission of the Founder Master’s teachings pure and strong. This is the best and only way to adequately thank Thay and Co for everything.

Happy 165th Birthday to the Founder Master’s children all over the world.

Heartfelt respect, loyalty, and gratitude to you, Thay Co for the past 15 years of spiritual guidance given so lovingly, generously and wisely. We look to the future with you. I am privileged and humbled to be one of your students.
Thank you, with Love to all.

Toi xin chan thanh cam on Thay Co va than ai chao mọi nguoi.
Lisa Diệu from Ottawa Meditation Center.

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