My enlightenment process actually happened in three stages. I met Master Sha for the first time on October 15th, 2000. Within two days all my energy centers, all my chakras opened. It was a totally amazing, shocking, extraordinary experience. Little did I realize that this was just preparation for what was yet to come.

However, at this, our first meeting, we did not talk only about energy issues.

Master Sha asked me, "Doctor, why did you come to see me?" I said, "You know master, there is some evil force which is destroying my life. It has been sabotaging* me throughout my life. I understand that this is the karma, but I do not know how to get rid of it." Master Sha looked at me and said, "There is not an evil force, it is you. it is the result of your wrong doings of your past lives in this life, and that is what is coming at you to make you suffer."

This answer shook me to my core, but it rang true because it did reflect some wisdom from Buddhism, I accepted what he said. I asked, "What can I do to dissolve my karma?"

Master Sha gave me an answer which didn’t make sense to me at the time. He said one sentence, "Ask God to forgive you."

I couldn’t understand this; it seemed too simple. I had read in the holy books how to sit and meditate, do special practices, and suffer to clear karma. I was thinking, "My goodness!" A saint like Sakhyamuni Buddha sat in a forest, tortured himself with ascetic practices for five years and almost died, then sat under the Bodi tree for forty-nine days until he became enlightened. Milarepa sat in a cave for twenty-five years; he had to spend so much time to become enlightened. It did not make sense to me that dissolving karma could be as simple as sincerely saying one sentence, "God, please forgive me!"

In a few hours, I had such a powerful opening of the Third Eye that I had hemorrhages in the skin around my eyes. I looked like a raccoon. The beam of light entering my forehead was incredibly powerful and literally left marks on my skin.

The following day,I could see a small golden Buddha sitting between my chest and my lower abdomen. I finally met my soul. I knew who I really was.

Soon after, I went to the state of full cosmic consciousness. My soul left my body and traveled between star systems.

Over those two days, my perception of spiritual practice totally changed. I realized what was missing. The part that was so necessary, yet so elusive, and had been impossible for me to gain without the presence of an exceptional master.

What I was missing was Presence. What I was missing was Divine Love and Light. Throughout my life, I had meditated many hours, studied many books, and practiced diligently for years, but that all was just preparation. Once I was in the incredibly powerful spiritual field of Master Sha, my full opening happened within hours.

In October, 2000, when I left him, I was totally changed. I had received the connection to the Divine realm and, from that time on, my meditations were at a completely different level.

Any time I would start chanting a mantra, the flood of light would immediately envelope me. I was able to harness the light with such intensity that it was literally blinding. Over the next several months, my entire being began to transform.

We first met that Saturday, October morning at the airport and then drove to his apartment. We did not talk much; we both were trying to get a sense of each other, who the other person was, how far we could go and what we could do in our interaction. It was a solemn time and neither of us wanted to break it with idle chatter without a purpose.

When we came to the house, after a short discussion, we started meditating.
I just couldn’t believe what was happening, it was an incredible experience. I had read books about enlightenment and I knew that such experiences could take twenty to thirty years of work in some remote place, in seclusion in a monastery or a cave.

Yet, here I had just arrived in San Francisco and during those first few meditations, I experienced my entire energy systems completely open up. We meditated on one energy center after another, one Chakra after another. As we moved from one to the next,they completely opened.

The first meditation on the lower Dan Tien warmed me up thoroughly.

During the second meditation, while we were focusing on the Heart Chakra, also known as the Message Center, a beam of white light about 40 cm. wide suddenly came from Heaven directly to this center and opened it up. This light shot into my heart and my body. Then, from my heart, a similar beam of white light went up to the Heaven!

I was totally shocked. What was going on? I had never seen this when I was at home meditating. There, I got very excited when I was able to see a bit of colored energy, as I had seen the light. But this was like a waterfall. This was not a little light; this was like Niagara Falls. So much light! I couldn't believe it. The beam of light was so powerful that it literally scorched the skin in the middle of my chest.

When I told Master Sha what had happened, he just shook his head and said, “Oh, Heaven likes you very much!” So that was the start.

That meeting with Master Sha on October 15, 2000, was one of the most remarkable days in my life. I finally met the man I had been searching for. For many years, I had been trying to find a teacher who would guide me, but the spiritual guidance I received from God never approved anyone except for Master Sha.

When we met for the first time, I felt right away that he was an unusual person. I felt very comfortable and very happy in his presence. What was strange or unexpected to me was that he was not dressed like a master. I had read many books about Taoist masters, and in the pictures, all of them had strange clothes, a hat of some sort, and would hold a symbol of power such as a fly whisk.
And here was Master Sha, dressed like a normal person, wearing trousers and a red sweater, and smiling and laughing. He didn’t look like the serious masters I saw painted in books. He was like everyone else and he was always happy.
This was so very different! Nevertheless, I treated him with great respect because I had read in books that students were supposed to show great respect to their teachers.

With the many personal experiences and knowledge that I have gathered during my studies, it is quite clear to me that this is a problem many spiritual practitioners go through.

We are dedicated. We want to reach enlightenment. We have such a sincere desire in our hearts and souls. However, traveling alone, without good supervision, makes the journey towards enlightenment a very dangerous one. It is not as simple as it looks!

I had to go through a similar situation. I was doing a practice that was too advanced for me because I didn’t have a solid foundation. Why had I continued like that? Because karma was blinding my mind!

During our first meeting, Master Sha explained to me the reason for the repeating karmic pattern in my life. As well, I learned what the problem was with my fatigue and the reason I kept getting sick. Master Sha explained to me that when we are on the spiritual journey, we need to build a very solid Lower Dan Tien and Snow Mountain. If we did not have good and strong energy, then we get drained and ill.

Finally, my wife came across a filmmaker , Francisco Garripolli , who was making a movie about Qi Gong masters from China. Francisco told us that he could arrange for me to meet another Master. He said that he was about my age and a doctor as well, so we would probably resonate with each other. The name of that doctor was Dr. Sha.

Among the tools we have on the Spiritual Journey, our connection to the Divine is the highest. On our connection to the Divine depends if we can receive light for blessing and healing or we can receive guidance for our actions. This makes a difference how much purity we can achieve.

By 1999, I had become convinced that my life was not going in the right direction. My spiritual practices were not progressing anymore and I could not figure out why. As well, I had become dissatisfied with my work. I asked Divine: "is this the right place where Divine wants me to help people?" The answer was no. My next question was: "Should I get out of here now and go somewhere else to help people in another place?" Divine again said no, so I stayed at my workplace. About eight months later, in the summer of 2000, I asked these questions again.
I asked Divine if I should leave this place now? This time the answer was yes. I asked a second question as to whether I should find the master to lead me to enlightenment and the answer was again yes.

After years of practice, I found very advanced Daoist techniques and was diligently practicing, though not entirely in the right way. I sincerely wanted to reach enlightenment, but I did not have a teacher to explain to me all the necessary details. Because of wrong practice, I started to feel weak. Initially, I just thought that I was tired from work and I continued the practices. However, after two or three years of such practices, I became so weak and tired that I couldn’t breathe properly; I sweated easily; I was fatigued and dizzy. This kept getting worse and worse. I would catch colds very easily and, as soon as I caught one, I would cough for three to five months.

Obviously, there was something very wrong, but I didn’t know what changes I should make in my practice. I had the idea that I was struggling for enlightenment, for achieving something good. Now, if I had been womanizing, drinking, cheating or stealing, then I could understand that Heaven would want to somehow ‘punish’ me or teach me a lesson. However, I thought, that I was doing something very noble; I was trying to become enlightened, so everything should then be okay. I simply couldn’t understand why I was getting more and more sick from the meditations and exercises I was doing for a noble cause.

I tried to find that teacher. I went to several places. I met some Qi Gong teachers, but God would always tell me, “No, this is not your teacher. Don’t study with this one; don’t study with that one, your teacher is someone else.” Eventually, I received the message that my master was in Vancouver so we planned to move there.
Yet, by the time I was to move, Master Sha had already left Vancouver for California.

Why did I want to study with a teacher? What was the change? What made me want to look for a teacher?

The Search for Master Sha

The spiritual journey towards enlightenment, under the training of Master Sha over the last nine years, has been an absolutely amazing and beautiful part of my life. It was very difficult and very challenging, yet, at the same time, very beautiful. My meeting with Master Sha was pre-ordained by Heaven. It was not something that happened by chance.

From childhood, I was exposed to sad struggles of human beings. I wondered how such conflict could be possible when the Holy books spoke about love, about teachings to turn the other cheek and forgive if somebody hit you on one cheek. That sounded so beautiful, but when I saw the reality around me, it was a very different story. However, people around me behaved very differently from the way described in holy books. I was extremely disappointed with all this contradiction. When I went to the churches, I didn’t feel comfortable. I didn’t feel the love; I didn’t feel the light. I felt threatened. Adults would always hush up even the slightest noise. It all seemed to be so stifled, so unnatural.

This type of spirituality was not something that suited me, so I started searching for something else and found Buddhism and Taoism. I read many books and I tried to practice the art of meditation on my own. It was a long journey until I came to Canada. As soon as I arrived in Canada, I wanted to learn about spirituality as much as I could. Because I had learned from books all my life and had become somewhat attached to that mode, I continued studying spirituality from books. However, I did also attend a church.

There were so many books available in Canada. I started reading about Taoism and its practices, of practice in remote mountains and secluded places, about hermits and recluses and so forth. I read stories about masters and their disciples, their training of students, life inside Buddhist monasteries. All that was very mysterious and very appealing to me. From about the time I was thirty-two years old, I realized I wanted to learn from a master, to have one guide me like the old spiritual masters that I had read about in books.

The condition for enlightenment is not something many people understand. I have to admit that I did not understand it until I met Master Sha. My understanding of this issue is still growing, all the time. At every workshop, I learn and see something new.

As we travel around the world with Master Sha, we meet many different people in varying conditions. I can see very clearly what is meant by the conditions for enlightenment. Some of these points are very well known.

The first one is this: “When the student is ready, the guru appears." This signifies that some basic conditions have to be met before we can meet our destined teacher.

The student has to be ready to accept teachings. The student has to have already reached a certain level, and some groundwork already been done.

Until the heart is pure enough and until the soul is pure enough, the student cannot see the teacher, even if the teacher is standing right there. A student can recognize the teacher only when the heart is pure enough, when the heart is open enough.

What is less known, however, is that the higher the level of the teacher, the higher the level of student has to be too. There are not many high level masters, but not many high level students either.

There is another side to it expressed in a sentence not that well known: “A teacher can teach only ready students.”

I love my heart and soul. It feels so good to love and be loved. Actually, when I told my heart for the first time I love it, it become really happy! I could see how it changed its color to beautiful red. Since, we become very good friends. I am so happy when I see my heart so happy. And I see that my heart appreciates this and is happy that I appreciate it. Over the years since I started to love my heart, it has become a very different heart. It has changed and I have changed with it. The more I love my heart, the more loving person I become. It is fascinating. Love your heart and love your soul. They will love you in return. It feels so good to love someone and our heart and soul are the closest around. They will love you beyond your comprehension. A lot of love to you all.

When I was with Master Sha in Sheffield, England, at St. Johns Church, one of the biggest churches there, Master Sha cleared karma to one lady. When I looked into her Akashic Records, I found that she was an executioner for one of the kings in England several centuries ago. She had been chopping heads off with an axe. When I told her what her job had been, she started to cry and sob. She opened the top of her blouse to show a huge, ugly scar on her neck. She said she’d had a thyroid tumor, and had to have surgery, which had been complicated by a big infection, and she almost had died. The heaven gave her an ugly scar like this so she will suffer everyday for what she did before. Everybody was quite amazed.

When I was with Master Sha in Lake Junaluska, I received a transmission of power from Kwan Yin. One after another, I received about thirty large jolts of silver light, like a soccer ball. My body was just vibrating like crazy! I was shaking so much because my body was not used to such a high frequency. It was incredible, and, because of the frequency, my body was not used to it. Suddenly, after a few minutes of shaking, it all stopped. I have not had anymore shaking ever since. As soon as my body got used to the new energies, the energy started to rotate in my body, and cleared up all the blockages; and that’s it. The same with rotating, twisting, and rocking movements: If your body starts to rock; you rock. If your body doesn’t rock, you don’t. If you get warm today; that is fine. If tomorrow, you don’t get warm; that’s fine too. Sometimes you see energy which is blue; sometimes you see energy which is purple. That is all fine. The universe is changing all the time. The Dao is in constant change; it is in flux. So, it is the same with the results of your practice changing. You must not get attached to past experiences, and you must not have any expectations of what will happen.

When practicing anything in spirituality, be it Chi Gong, meditations, prayers or communication with Divine, it is very important that you do not expect anything, and that you do not have attachments to the results of your practice.


I, myself, got quite distressed when witnessing a Chi Gong demonstration in 1989. There was a teacher and his two students who had come from Hong Kong to show their style of Chi Gong. They were standing in Horse Stance, and in about one minute, they started to shake. During the whole Chi Gong presentation they were just shaking - ten minutes of shaking. When they stopped, the teacher said, “It is so good.” Someone asked, “Is this is what is supposed to happen when doing Chi Gong?” The teacher replied, “Yes, this is how it should be.” The teacher shook much less, because, he said, that he had been practicing already ten years, and so, therefore, by his explanation, he now just gently shook. “But, If you are a beginner, you shake like crazy,” he reported. When I heard that, I became quite scared, and I stopped practicing anything related to Chi Gong for the next ten years. Now, after having experience of several decades of Chi Gong, I know that it is normal to shake at some point in your development, and when there is a blockage in your energy flow, you shake until it opens up. But, you must not think, “Oh, now I was practicing my first year of my Chi Gong, and I wasn’t shaking, and now I am shaking, so it means that I am progressing.” I spoke to my teacher, and he confirmed, “Yes, fantastic! Open the blockage.” But, if the next day you are not shaking, and you think, “Gee! I‘m not shaking, what is wrong? Yesterday was good; today is wrong. I need to shake,” then, consciously or subconsciously, you will make yourself shake, and then the following day again, and then you will keep shaking for another ten years