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!"