like THE CLOUDS UP IN THE SKY
...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 firsttime that Au Lac cultural observers witness this revolutionaryapproach to poetry by a spiritual practitioner. The journey fromignorance to enlightenment, which the poet The Supreme MasterChing Hai embarked on, depicts the often bitter,enduring and dramaticstruggles between the alluring, yet ephemeral, worldly temptationsand spiritual devotion that any Asian woman would have to dealwith if she wishes to reach the shore of enlightenment.Thu Phong