Ching Hai: Supreme Master…Of Hypocrisy
Posted by keith on March 31st, 2008
If I’m not here tomorrow, do not weep, I will have been struck down — in my disrespect — by Ching Hai, Supreme Master, and self-styled “God’s Direct Contact”. A mere lightning bolt will not be sufficient: I expect a plague of SUVs.
A few days ago I received an e-mail from Shaam Ven, presumably a follower of GDC (well, if the leader of the industrial West is GOP, then why not?) and a believer that any message of concern is a good message:
Hi.
I read about your website. I wanted to email you immediately about Supreme Master Ching Hai’s efforts to halt global warming. Supreme Master Ching Hai is a God-Realized, living, enlightened Master, who initiates Truth Seekers into the Quan Yin meditation. To learn more about Master and the Quan Yin meditation, please go to www.godsdirectcontact.org or www.godsdirectcontact.com.
Master’s message is simple: if we human beings don’t take steps to halt global warming within the next two years, after that, it will be too late and we could see all of life vanish from this planet by the year 2012.
The fastest way to stop global warming is to become a vegan. It is not difficult to do considering all the veggie food out there that tastes, looks, and smells exactly like meat and seafood.
Please consider going to one of the above websites, click on the red SOS link, and read the flyer and if you are so inclined, please put this flyer on your website or a link to one of the above websites. Thank you.
Shaam
As a vegetarian, and one of the first people to point out the above point about veganism — maybe Supreme Master read my article — then I’m all for this kind of message, regardless of the source. With my Greenwash Radar on, though, I scanned the site and it didn’t take long before I found some words worthy of Shell or Ford at their most hypocritical. Immediately I wrote back:
Dear Shaam
Thank you for this information. It is good to see the increased uptake of the most vital message for humanity - in pragmatic terms - by religious groups; that humans are changing the planet in a dangerous and potentially irreversible way.
This statement on your web site ensures that things will continue to get worse (http://godsdirectcontact.us/sm21/enews/www/123/pw3.htm):
“The more we develop this world, the more Heavens there will be. We will create a new Heaven. It is just like when we go to a very deserted land with no water or trees, and we begin to dig wells, and we plant trees, vegetables, etc. We make a useless wasteland become a fertile, green, beautiful place. Then we create a new park, a new garden or new living quarters that otherwise had not been there. It did not exist before we came. And from a lousy place, with all kinds of shrubs and thorny bushes growing all over, we make living quarters, a small paradise.”
“That’s how we better the world. Similarly, we will do it on a greater or larger scale. As we move along spiritually, we will move along in helping the world, in beautifying the environment and helping with the poor and the needy. We have to help the whole world, not only one nation. And that is our vision of the future.”
In other words, “The changes humans make to the world are better than those which nature bestows on the planet.”
I find the use of the phrases “useless wasteland” and “lousy place” abhorrent.
The mixture of sensible science (meat production produces excessive greenhouse gases), and bizarre unfounded statements (”if we poison our systems with intoxicating things or impure foods such as meat or animal products, then the cells of the body and the brain will also become contaminated and confused”) ensures that any followers of your ideas will remain in a confused state.
Regards
Keith Farnish
Surprisingly I have yet to receive a response, so I have to assume that it came as a bit of a surprise 
And what about that picture of her glowing Supreme Master-ness? Did God put those highlights in (she was originally dark haired) to make her look even more ethereal? Were they done at the heavenly hairdressers? I demand answers.
March 31st, 2008 at 8:36 am
This is familiar to me. Here in America in the 19th century there was an ideology which said basically the wilderness is the devil’s land, to which man has been relegated since he was cast out of the Garden of Eden. Therefore it followed that the more man “reclaimed” the earth, the more he destroyed the wilderness, the closer he was bringing himself back to god.
Politicians here don’t openly talk like this anymore. I think James Watt was the last to regularly do so. But I imagine alot of them still think it.
March 31st, 2008 at 2:24 pm
Very interesting… more than 10 years ago I found Master Ching Hai’s work because one of my friends, a back then atheist decided to switch and she became one of her followers. Since I was 7 years old (I’m 31 now) I wanted to become vegetarian but for obvious reasons I couldn’t until I finally started studying about Buddhism.
At the beginning, I really thought and considered Ching Hai a good role model, I became vegan and started digging for info about her ministry. I first knew that she was really into charity and all that but she started changing her appearance. She was first wearing Buddhist clothing and she shaved her head but then she started wearing nice clothes and jewelry with diamonds and other precious gems. Hmmm, i didn’t like it. That was totally against Buddhist principles: “attachment to material world.”
I decided that was not a role model to follow. Unfortunately, i think she got totally into the demagogy and the economical power that that brings with it. There are several websites that unveil the nature of her ministry. it is sad that those people with a magnetic personality only use it for money at others’ expenses.
I think your message was clear and I honestly don’t expect they reply it. When somebody accepts to give money to soembody else just because “god” says so, a lot of brainwashing has been already performed, I mean, how can you justify that the religious leaders :(including the pope and other gurus) wear silk and gold while an overwhelming percentage of people live with less than a dollar per day and have “no heaven” because actually people like the religious leaders and their followers (rich and insensible) destroy the ecosystem and it becomes “wasteland?”
Im very mad now, damn, religion is consistently making more harm than good!
March 31st, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Very astute comments. The more I look at organised religions, the more I realise they reflect and assist the strengthening of the Domination Culture. Domineering, imperial powers have always needed strong power structures - having a single deity at the top, be it supernatural or human, makes the job of control far easier.
Keith
April 19th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
I am an Initiate of Master Ching Hai and lives in South Africa. I am suprised by what people allege and so religiosly propagate as what they know about the Master. Forgive maybe I am also indoctrinated, but apart from having found the way to God through Her, nothing about me has changed. I have never donated and was never asked to donate any money or anything to the Her or the Organisation. Maybe I am too far to be requested, but I have been in her presence and her message about giving is that if one has more than enough, then they may give to those less fortunate, in our own backyards and our streets. My life has only experienced bliss I must be honest. If anyone is to say Master or any of her desciples asked for donation, let them please inform me. If anyone does not beleive in her message, if you believe in the Almighty God, it is sufficient. Master only provides the faster and easier way to God in return for nothing, this has been my experience.
April 19th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
I didn’t say Master Ching Hai took money from people - I suspect you are making a knee-jerk reaction to the normal criticisms of cults. I personally don’t care which god you subcribe to; all I want is honesty and truth. The bible was written over centuries and, not surprisingly, it is full on contradictions: www.godsdirectcontact.org was written over a couple of years, and is equally full of contradictions. I think Master needs a good editor
April 20th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
faster and easier way to god? lmao! I highly doubt it. CH is primarily a combination of bad theological mixes with a guru in tow…
i liked your photoshopping.. great!