 I was born in China, in the city of Yangzhou, it's close to Shanghai, about 300 kilometers away, and I was raised up in the countryside. Before I, you know, know something about Buddhism, I have no, you know, religion background. I have never, you know, studied or learned or practiced other religions. I have a master of law degree. I studied in Peking University, and I got bachelor degree and a master degree in Peking University from 1984 to 1991, seven years in that university. I used to be a lawyer in China, so I was in Zhejiang province to deal with the, you know, a case, you know, and my client is in that small town, and we visited our clients, and there's a small temple just by the river, and that is the first time I met with the master. But after 10 years, you know, he did the master contact me again, and he said, oh, I would like to visit Beijing. I've never been to Beijing before. So, okay, I said, okay, you're more than welcome to visit Beijing. I can accommodate you. I can pick you up at the train station. So the master left in my apartment for one week, and he told me something about Buddhism, and oh, I realized that Buddhism is not as I imagined it before. Oh, they have some, you know, they have some wisdom in it. So I began to learn, I began to explore, and I began to visit many, many masters all over China, and also I went to Taiwan to, you know, learn from them to ask questions. Yeah. At the very beginning, I had no interest to learn, you know, something more about Buddhism, because, you know, before when I was in high school, when I was in university, some people told me that, you know, religion is not good things. So I just, you know, want to, you know, stay away from religions, you know. But when the master came to Beijing, and he told me something about Buddhism, I found that things is not as I imagined it before. The first thing I learned from Buddhism is that, the master told me the goal of Buddhism are two things. One is be free from, you know, some bad things. For example, you have to, you know, you don't have to worry about something. The second thing is that you can have much more wisdom. Oh, these two things, you know, I love it. So, you know, I began to study. I have been practicing Buddhism for more than 20 years. So in the first 10 years, I read a lot of books, I visited many masters and asked questions, learned from them. But I still find that, you know, it is very difficult for me to break through. And finally, I got a chance to live in a temple in Taiwan. I, you know, concentrate myself. I forget about anything else. I just concentrate myself. And suddenly, I realized something. And I also realized that I have to do something for the whole world. Because I found, I realized that we human beings have big problems because we are on the wrong direction. So when I came back from Taiwan, I, you know, meditated a lot, you know, and many, many times at the end of my meditation, something came to my mind. It was a new idea. It's an excellent idea about our human society's future and how to solve the problems. So in 2014, I established a foundation in China. Well, you know, I wanted to promote something. And in 2017, I wrote a book. It was also published in Taiwan. In my book, I summarize the essence of Chinese traditional culture. I summarize what's the fundamental problems of our human society. And I also proposed some solutions to those problems. And I made it, I made up my mind to pray for people all over the world since that time. This style of praying is traditional style of praying in China. It is called three steps and one bow. In Chinese, it is called three steps plus one bow. Okay. So it is very common in China. But, you know, when I, you know, when the idea came to my mind that I should pray for people all over the world, it also came to my mind that I should pray a distance that is equal to the radius of the earth. So it is about, you know, 6,372 kilometers. Okay. So in order to, you know, achieve the distance, you know, I also, you know, got the idea that, you know, I should pray in each city for 999 times because I, for each time I walk three steps and one bow. So in each city, it will be about, you know, three kilometers. So in together, in order to pray 6,372 kilometers, I have to pray in 2,124 cities. Okay. So I, and then I, I, you know, I explore which city I should pray in and I found that the United Nations, they have a list of cities with a population of more than 300,000. There are more than 1,700, this kind of cities in the world. Okay. So this is the main part of cities I will pray in. But in some countries, for example, for in United States, I also made up my mind that I have to pray in each capital city of all states. Even their population is not, you know, as big as 300,000. Yeah. So altogether, more than 2,100 cities. Portland, I pray in Portland because, you know, there are many, many Portland's in the world. For example, in Oregon, there is another bigger Portland. But that Portland, the city's name is came from this Portland. So that's the reason, because Portland is a well-known city name. So I decided to pray in Portland. I also pray in Augusta. Nearly 50 countries all over the world in six continents, like, you know, China, India, Australia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Somalia, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Singapore, Thailand, and many, many European countries. Of course, United States and Canada and Mexico. Yeah. I also pray in Greenland, Iceland, you know. I also pray in Trumso in Norway. It's within the Arctic Circle. I studied in April the first, 2018. This whole mission will take more than 21 years to accomplish. So far, I have been prayed in 334 cities in Oregon City, Portland. It's 334 cities I pray in. So in this city, I have accumulated 1,000 kilometers of praying on road. It will be done in 2039. Still 18 years left. When I get there, I will be more than 73 years old. When I was in Ethiopia, there was a civil war there, people that killed each other. And when I was praying on road, I was got by some armed people. They pointed a gun at me, but they cannot speak English. I cannot say local language. But I understand that they want to take me away. So I just follow them, one person leading me and the other person holding a gun. They took me to their camp, a huge camp. And fortunately, the commander, I came to a very strong man. He can speak English. I told him what I was doing, and he asked, wow, because of the pandemic, it's so serious. I was daring to pray all over the world. I was still traveling all over the world. Okay, I told him I want to pray for people. I don't want to stop. And finally, he said, okay, you are a good person. So he just let me go. When I prayed in the capital city of Bolivia, because in that city, most residents are local Indian people. So almost every family, they have dogs. So the day I went to pray, the civil dogs, they just came to me and bark. And one dog and two dogs bite me. And I got bleeding on my left leg. And finally, a young man came to come up and he helped me to get the dogs away. And I had two options at that time. One option is to go to the hospital right away. And the other option was to continue with my praying. But a voice from my heart said, it's okay, you can continue. So I just continued praying. After I finished praying several hours later, I feel my left leg was paralyzed. But because I'm a practitioner of Buddhism, I know how to deal with this situation. So I just sit down and meditate for hours. I remember maybe when I meditated for about two hours, the paralyzed just disappeared. Everything is okay. And I know no problem at all. When I pray on the road, it's kind of like you lost yourself. You are not doing anything. So you will never feel too tired. But in some cases, for example, the temperature is too high. It is difficult for me. But for today, for example, today the temperature is not very high. Okay, it's more comfortable. So in this situation, I just feel like I lost my body. Now, I have immersed with the whole universe. So I don't look around. I just let it be. Things like that. I pray for three things. First, I pray for people's happiness and self-improvement. Second, I pray for thousands of ideas to be communicated and integrated. Third, I pray for the human society to be on a virtual cycle of development. I pray for these three things. When I pray, first, I count the number because I pray 999 times. So from 1 to 999. So I count the number. But at the same time, especially when I bow and I touch my forehead on the earth, I pray. I recite these three prayers in my heart. I go to 100 cities all over the world each year. And in each city, I spend three days. First day to arrive. The second day to find a road that is about, you know, at least three kilometers long. And the road condition is suitable for praying. And the third day to pray. So in each city, I spend three days. So in total, I spend more than 10 months on road every year. Basically, I don't have enough time to accompany my family. And I don't have time to earn money. But, you know, I learn a lot from traveling, from, you know, communicating with local people. Because, you know, in order to save money, I usually use, you know, Airbnb. I live in residence instead of, you know, hotel. Because living in residence gave me opportunity to make food by myself. So that is also good for me to reach local people, to see their real life, to communicate with them, to know what they are thinking about. So I learn a lot of things from this experience. It is a good way to practice Buddhism. Because you have to face many, many challenges, you know, language barrier, culture barrier, and many, many difficulties. You have to keep your heart calm. You have to keep your calm to deal with all these kind of things. So it is not just, you know, learn from books. We learn from the real life. So it is very important for our Buddhists to learn from life, real life, not only books. So I think, you know, this travel experience gave me very good opportunity to learn from real life. At the same time, because, you know, I also have something in my mind. I was thinking, what's the problem of our human society? How can we solve the problem? Before I started praying, I have already have some idea in my mind. So I wrote those things in my book. But I have to go, you know, go to everywhere, go all over the world to communicate with people, to talk to people, to tell them my idea, and get some feedback from them to improve my idea. So it is very helpful. The most important thing I learned that, you know, people's, you know, idea, people's mind, or people's thought, is just like the world we live in. The world has three dimensions. One dimension is a line, two dimensions is square, three dimensions is cube. So we can find that things happen in higher dimension is difficult to be understood for lower dimension. For example, there is a basket with some apple in the basket. If we want to take out the apple from the basket, it is very easy in three dimensions. We just, you know, put our hand in and get the apple out. But it is difficult or impossible for two dimensions because on square, if you want to get the apple out from outside of the basket, the brim, it is not impossible unless you break the brim. Okay. I learned that, I realized that our human beings, you know, thought is also half dimensions. So I used the thinking level to describe these kind of things. You know, the first level of think, the formula is that if it is A, it must not be. For example, we can say Portland now is daytime. When I say it is daytime in Portland, it must not be nighttime now. So you only have one. You have to choose one. This is the first level. The second level, the formula is also A, also B. For example, a paper has both side A and side B. Side A is not side B. Side B is not side A. But side A and side B, they cannot exist without the other side. They are always together. Okay. This is the second level of thinking. The third level of thinking, the formula is that A is B. B is A. They are the same and together all the time. So in China, we have a saying, water can carry a boat, can also overturn a boat. So we see everything, both good and bad. For example, food. Food is good, but if you eat too much, it will damage your health. Okay. So everything is both good and bad. So we have to find out the balance point, the middle point in Chinese traditional culture. Okay. So this is the third level of thinking. The fourth level of thinking, the formula is not A, not B. Okay. We just mentioned that day and night. Okay. It is important for earth, for our human being also for other living on the earth. But if we ask, is it now day or night in solar system, in galaxy or in the whole universe, we have no answer. Because day and night are phenomena of planets that are rotating by themselves. So everything has a scope. Day and night is in the scope of planet rotating by themselves. If we jump out of this scope, if we leave this scope, these kind of things doesn't exist. We cannot talk about it. So this is the fourth level. So I think our human beings many many of our human beings problem are caused by lowest level of thinking. We have to move up. We have to take advantage of higher level of thinking to solve our social problems. In a practicing Buddhism, especially meditation will help you to realize, to achieve higher level of thinking. It is very important. I wrote a book and today I made a declaration, summarize the problems and my proposal to the solution. So I will tell people my idea. When I pray all of the world, I will communicate with local people and share with them my idea so that more and more people realize that, oh, we have problems. We have a better way to improve it. We deserve a better world in the future. For the first level, if our thinking is on the first level, first level formula, if it is A, it must not be. So people will fight each other because if you get this, I will lose. So it is a get and lose way of thinking. So there will be many many disputes, many many fights on the world. If our thinking moves to the second level, we will realize that also A also B. We are in the same boat just like in the side A and side B work together. So we can compete, but at the same time we can cooperate. We can make things happen together, not just fight each other. Okay, for the third level of thinking, something in our life that happened, we cannot change the result. But everything has both good and bad. For example, yesterday, we cannot manipulate the camera. That is a bad thing, but it is good because if you solve the problem yesterday, you will do things better today. So everything, if you cannot change the result, we have to look at both sides, both good and bad. We can take advantage of good side. For example, if we suffer something, we cannot change that result. We can also learn something from suffering. We can also grow up from suffering. Suffering actually can help you better to grow up. Okay, this is the third level of thinking. Okay, fourth level of thinking, everything will pass away. Good, bad, success, failure. Okay, as time elapses, everything will go away like a wind. You don't have to worry about it too much. Take it easy.