On Thrusday, September 24, 2009 at 5:45 p.m., consular of Taipei Economic and Cultural Office of Seattle had visited Grand Master at Ling Shen Ching Tze Temple. He brought moon cakes along with him to celebrate ahead the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival with Grand Master. At about 6:00 p.m., Grand Master treated Consular Liao to dinner at the ``Grand Cafeteria`` of Ling Shen Ching Tze Temple. The Dharma Instructors and fellow devotees on duty had prepared various dishes of Taiwan delicacy to serve the special guest; red bean soup and fresh durian fruit were also served after the meal. The compassionate Shimu introduced to the guest saying: ``the `Grand Cafeteria` of Ling Shen Ching Tze Temple adopted health-conscious methods to cook delicacies using the least amount of salt, sugar and oil and with no MSG at all, hence are beneficial to health. ``They chitchatted on casual subjects eloquently yet humorously in the midst of the dinner, thus brought forth a very warm and harmonious atmosphere. Consular Liao not only can speak fluent Mandarin, Taiwanese and English, fluent Cantonese is no exception either. He is inherently very multi-dialect talented.
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After dinner, Grand Master presented Consular Liao books by Grand Master, Enlightenment magazines, True Buddha Newspaper and moon cakes as Mid-Autumn Festival gifts.
Next, Abbot Acharya Der-Huey Master invited Consular Liao to the main temple on Ling Shen Ching Tze Temple campus to offer incense and pay homage to the Buddhas. Recent Dharma activities were also being introduced to Consular Liao. Then, Grand Master along with Shimu came to the temple`s main hall to lead the company of followers, including Consular Liao, in a full push-up style of prostration before the Buddhas. Following that, Grand Master took the whole group of followers to the basketball court in the rear of the main temple to perform the usual 42-move and 24-move Tai Chi Chuan exercise. Lastly, Grand Master took the whole group of followers to circumambulate around the perimeter of the main temple thrice while chanting the Buddha name ``Namo Amitabha`` repeatedly.
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Consular Liao sighed in admiration that ``This is indeed a very healthy way of spiritual discipline which is of great benefit to the body and mind.`` At that moment, Acharya Shimu remarked, ``On a daily basis, we follow Grand Master in the same routine of exercises: we do the push-up prostration to the Buddhas after the meal, then the Tai Chi Chuan exercise, and lastly the circumambulation around the temple perimeter while chanting; all the same daily.`` Consular Liao praised in admiration, ``That`s amazingly progressive! Amazingly progressive!``
Meanwhile, Consular Liao looked up the sky adorned with twinkling stars and glittering moon, and spoke to Grand Master, ``Look, how bright and awesomely beautiful the moon is! ``
Consular Liao said to everybody upon leaving, ``Coming here today to felicitate the folks on the Mid-Autumn Festival and to understand the progressive way of daily spiritual discipline being practiced: it is indeed a very healthy way of life. All of you are very fortunate to have such a highly accomplished Grand Master to enter upon the path of spiritual discipline with, are really blessed with meritorious privileges.``
After everybody bade greeting to each other on the Mid-Autumn Festival, Grand Master, Shimu, all attending Acharya Masters, Dharma Instructors and fellow devotees sent off Consular Dong-Zhou Liao to his departing car. All the attending persons expressed warm welcome to Consular Dong-Zhou Liao wishing that he comes regularly to Ling Shen Ching Tze Temple on a pilgrimage and that he be served at the ``Grand Cafeteria`` of Ling Shen Ching Tze Temple.

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