The following wonderful story demonstrates that anything can happen through Master's mercy.

On the afternoon of February 21, 2005, I was just about to quit work when a Quan Yin messenger whom I knew called asking me to go to the Budapest Center as quickly as possible to pick him up and then take him to our rural center, which was used only for summertime retreats.

At first I thought it was a joke, but since I recognized his voice I followed his instructions. He added that his plane had just landed and he wished to go to the center in thirty minutes. I was very excited and could not imagine why he wanted to visit our snow covered center in the countryside, and especially, what he was planning to do there. As usual, traffic was very heavy in the city, and my wife, who is also a disciple and was sitting in the passenger seat, told me to go faster so I drove as fast as I could. You can imagine what I was going through inside although I did not even suspect what was waiting for me there. I just felt a kind of unexplainable excitement.

Upon arriving, we drove by a taxi parked in front of the Budapest Center and saw the QY messenger and a sister sitting in the taxi. The messenger got out of the taxi and asked me to translate his words to the driver. After getting into the taxi I spoke to the driver and from the corner of my eye saw that the "sister" in the back seat gave him a lot of money and in a gentle voice thanked him for waiting. Then the realization struck me like lightning: This familiar, melodious voice with its Heavenly vibration was the one that has continuously filled my life with happiness. I turned back and could not believe my eyes. Master was sitting there! Until then I had only seen Her in videos and in dreams, but now She was sitting nearby and I felt like I was in a fairytale. The first time I realized I was not dreaming was when Master got out of the car and embraced us. (In my dreams I usually wake up before the embrace.) And I was elated because I never thought that I would physically embrace my beloved Master.

The day had begun gray and cold, but upon seeing Master everything blossomed in our hearts and the sun even shone. Due to our immense happiness we had chills all over because we knew we were the luckiest people in the world. Then Master briefly toured the Budapest Center, sat in the chair set aside for Her, drank some mango juice and traveled with us to the countryside center.

Along the way Master spotted a Chinese restaurant and invited us for dinner. In the restaurant She told the owner that we were Buddhists and ate only vegetarian food, and explained how to cook a vegetarian meal for us. She then ordered food for everyone and in the meantime asked us to invite a few more disciples who lived nearby. Of course, we did not tell the sisters and brothers why they should come to the restaurant but left it as a surprise. While waiting for the others, we started eating dinner and Master lovingly handed the food to everyone. We also happily cracked jokes. Meanwhile, the other disciples arrived one by one and our beloved Master embraced them all. Many could not believe their eyes when they saw Master and everyone was extremely touched. After dinner we did some shopping and drove off to the rural center.  Then several days later, through Master's grace, we participated in an incredibly uplifting retreat.