Lightandsoundmeditation

Songkran Festival 2013 Under The Grace and Blessings of A Living Master

Master Ruma is a living master born in Vietnam. Over the last years, he has propagated the Dharma in several nations of the Southeast Asia and all over the world, bringing the universe’s compassion to the people living there. “Master Ruma” is such a popular name to those devout citizens of Theravada tradition from Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar… During the trip of propagating the Dharma in 2013, on the occasion of Lao people’ traditional new year, Master Ruma visited Vientiane capital and wishing the Lao people always in peace, becoming wealthier and wealthier.

Picking up Master Ruma on the afternoon of 14^th April 2013 at Wattay International Airport, Vientiane, there were Lao monks from Sokpaluang Buddhism High School, the president of the Lao Red Cross, Mrs Sisalieu along with her family, plenty of Lao government’s officers as well as many Laotian, Cambodian and Vietnamese people currently living in Vientiane.

For the last few years, in Vientiane together with other regions of Laos, there have been many practitioners learning meditation from Master Ruma. They all have found inner peace and contentment in their soul while their health has been improved. Master Ruma has visited Laos several times and together with his international students, he has also carried out plentiful charity activities and events for the vision-impaired children of eye hospital, Hansen’s disease (leprosy) village or the Disabled Rehabilitation Center, etc. Especially he really gives care to the education of Lao monks.

The Welcome Ceremony for Master Ruma was touchingly organized by the Vientiane citizens in such Lao People’s custom. They respectfully presented all of t

he best wishes to the living Master. On behalf of Master Ruma’s disciples who live in Vientiane, Mrs Somchit said that:

"Dear Master Ruma, our beloved master!

Dear all the Buddhist priests and all

of the fellow-practitioners presented here. I am Somchit Soukvongsai and I am very honored representing the Lao fellow-practitioners to have a few words respectfully offering to Master Ruma. In the jubilant atmosphere of Laos’ Songkran, we are very delighted to welcome the visit of Master Ruma. Today we have all gathered here, with all of our deferential heart offering to Master Ruma, who has brought the liberation method for Lao people, delivering the love and compassion from Heaven to bein

gs who are still living in the ignorance, while helping them achieve enlightenment so as to help them escape from suffers. He has showed and directed us the way back to our origin in order to live in eternal happiness forever.

Dear beloved Master! Based on the habits and traditions of Laos, New Year occasion is an opportunity for us, the Lao people, to express our respectful devotion to our parents, to those who granted us favors and to people who are closed to us. Today, we are really delighted to welcome Master Ruma in the traditional custom of Laos. I would like to represent the fellow-practitioners to wish that our beloved Master would always be healthy so as to help the living beings receive the Grace of Buddha - Bodhisattva. Wishing the world would always be peaceful and especially our nation Laos would always receive the Grace from Heaven."

Responding the sincere hearts of the devout Vientiane citizens, Master Ruma along with those people had their eyes closed and prayed for Laos’ inhabitants and the whole nation, in this New Year, would receive great blessings of Buddhist Bodhisattva, wishing all beings on earth would always live in peace, prosperity and happiness. The Lao people together held a white thread, starting from Master Ruma’ hand and extending to each individual. They all felt Master Ruma’s power of compassion and immortal merit that he transmitted to them through this mystery thread; their faces showed true happiness.

Master Ruma tied the thread to each individual while blessing them. Today, for the very first time, the Lao people have heard Master Ruma talking about the sacred meaning of the white thread connecting everyone with the Master as well as the meaning of the wrist-tying thread. These are the stories from the time Buddha was still living 2,500 years ago, and have been conserved and developed into a beautiful tradition when a new year comes.

Before, the buddha used the long white thread to link all of the people who were his predestined affinity to take away their karma and suffering. And thr

ough that long white thread, which connected the Buddha with his disciples, he used his power to give them the blessing from God
In 2013, the visit of Master Ruma with his wishes for Laos has awaken the inner soul of its people. It brought them back to the glory days of 2500 years ago, where the magic and miracle were recreated. Besides that, it also made Laos people show more respect and sincere to their traditions. Vientiane citizens, one after the other, sprayed scented water on Master Ruma's hand with the best wishes to express their respect and gratitude to the visit and blessings of Master Ruma.

We believe that with all of Lao People’s faith and devotion for Master Ruma, the living Buddha of the 21st century will bring this nation a change. From now on, the Lao people and their country will receive the grace and blessings from Heaven.

“The Light and Sound Meditation Method is a spiritual meditation method, contemplating on our internal vibrations, i.e. listening to the vibrations of our inner sounds. Light and sound are both from God. Light represents enlightenment. Seeing the light in meditation means we are enlightened. You can experience this when you are initiated."

“You can more easily follow the dharma if you can harmonize the real life work and your inner spirit. It is difficult to achieve this if you do not follow the five precepts.”

“You are busy the whole day with your work. You have various thoughts wandering around, and you are very busy earning your living and trying to support your family - how then could have enough time for meditation? However, if you do not meditate everyday, it is very difficult to make a true progress.”

“The main purpose for compliance with the Five Precepts is to cultivate the purity of your Movement-Word-Idea continuum in the way you communicate, your ideology, and your actions in your daily life. You need to be very prudent and aware in all aspects and you should not do things like lying, stealing or harming others.”

“ We must approach all people with our noble compassion, our bright wisdom, our immense affection, and pure action and ideology. This is the way of all disciples of the true Dharma.”

“If you want to properly follow the Five Precepts you need to achieve absolute serenity. Everyday, we have the self-check the three essential aspects of “ideology, word and action” and evaluate if we have achieved genuine virtue. We need to be sincere with ourselves, our parents, siblings, spouse, children, friends, neighbors, fellow disciples, and everyone we meet.”

“When you make a mistake you should sincerely admit and confess to yourself. Confession does not mean you torture or fine yourself, but rather that you make a conscious effort to understand what you did wrong, what you need to do to correct it, and how you can try to avoid such a mistake in the future. This is the way of the enlightened mindset.”