like THE CLOUDS UP IN THE SKY

Traces of Previous Life

...I wanted to believe like the faithful, yet so far away from Your sight.

I wanted to be devout, yet kept on with my sinful deeds...

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This may be the first time that Au Lac cultural observers witness this revolutionary approach to poetry by a spiritual practitioner. The journey from ignorance to enlightenment, which the poet The Supreme Master Ching Hai embarked on, depicts the often bitter,enduring and dramatic struggles between the alluring, yet ephemeral, worldly temptations and spiritual devotion that any Asian woman would have to deal with if she wishes to reach the shore of enlightenment.

Thu Phong