Water Flows, Flowers Bloom — Master Yang Ning has not written an autobiography. This can be considered a partial account of her personal journey, covering a major turning point in her spiritual path.
Born in 1968, Master Yang Ning began her practice at age 23 (1991). She experienced immediate awakening during meditation upon first meeting her master, who told her, “Observing the mind is Buddha.”
Following this, she spent years in practical realization, undergoing multiple solitary retreats. At the height of her 15-year practice, she contracted pneumonia in Tibet, which led to severe bronchial adhesions (#22695). She was hospitalized for seven to eight months, underwent several surgeries, and received five critical condition notices; she spent many subsequent years in recovery and treatment.
In truth, this major illness became the very catalyst for her Buddhahood (#51328). In her video, she explains that a single “discriminatory thought” allowed “toxic energy to invade the lungs” (#21782).
Editor's reflection: This is directly related to the fulfillment of the "Great Compassion Sacrifice Merit Water" in another dimension, as mentioned in The Star Path.
She noted that her focus was solely on 2012, mentioning in videos that she performed certain tasks that year (related to the Mayan prophecies of a global catastrophe). At age 44 (2012), she began spreading the Dharma and benefiting sentient beings at the Dojo in Zhuhai, Guangzhou. Over ten years (until 2022), the “Zi Gui Jia” (Children Returning Home) website hosted tens of thousands of her teaching videos. During this time, fearless of life or death, she saved countless beings across dimensions and averted worldly calamities. By the power of her vows, she is omnipresent, protecting and supporting disciples with karmic affinity on their path to enlightenment. She is currently in retreat. This year (2026), she is 58 years old. (Of course, she is already of Infinite Life and Infinite Light, Buddhahood.)
All connected disciples trust that she is Avalokiteshvara (Guan Yin Bodhisattva), feeling her presence and help everywhere despite the distance—whether they meet her in a dream or in a state of meditation.
Master Yang Ning’s compassionate blessings and exhortations: to leave no being behind on the path to liberation.
I dedicate all the merit of my practice, my teachings, and my acts of compassion to you. May you live in peace, health, happiness, and joy — and may you be liberated from the cycle of rebirth.
It is through my continuous intention that you sit beside me today. Each intention was born from love, and it is because of that love that you have found me in this lifetime.
You are me, and I am you — we are, at our core, one. I have watched you journey through life after life, through hardship after hardship. In the places you cannot see, I have quietly watched over you. I understand every one of your silent struggles. Night after night, I have guided and accompanied you in dreams, witnessing your growth, step by step. Though you cannot see me, I know everything about you. May you awaken soon — and when you do, I will return.
If I attain enlightenment, I will certainly be by your side to protect you — no matter whether you are near me, no matter whether we can speak. If you believe this, I am already there.
Vows of Master Yang Ning
- May I attain unsurpassed, perfect enlightenment at an early date. If I become a Buddha, may every sentient being bound by pain, affliction, and difficult circumstances, upon thinking of my name, immediately feel inexhaustible warmth and strength, overcome every affliction, hardship, and demonic force, and emerge from desperate situations.
- If I become a Buddha, may every sentient being who wishes to attain ultimate liberation through the Buddhadharma, upon hearing my name, immediately give rise to right faith and right thought, and at once experience a sudden radiance of mind, illuminating the heart and seeing one’s true nature.
- If I become a Buddha, may every woman suffering because of love or emotional entanglements, upon seeing any book, image, object, belonging, attendant, or anything else in the Saha world connected with me, instantly receive within her heart boundless peace and forbearance.
- If I become a Buddha, may every person in the Saha world who sincerely does good deeds and gives rise to wholesome intentions, regardless of the depth of his or her foundations, encounter me in samadhi, in dreams, or in moments of unexpected stillness, and may I personally teach and guide that person toward the path to Buddhahood through all kinds of skillful means.
- If I become a Buddha, may every sentient being who cultivates the true Dharma, by reciting and upholding my name, be able to transform adverse conditions around them into favorable ones, become filled with Dharma joy, and receive unceasing supportive conditions on the path toward spiritual accomplishment.
Text of Gratitude
Throughout the cycle of rebirth over lifetime after lifetime, every thought I have had was for my own sake and for the sake of my loved ones. I have given very little to sentient beings and to this world, yet I have received much from this world. I was never satisfied, nor did I ever understand how to repay what I received. Now I give thanks, and I give thanks for everything I have been given. From this day forward, I vow to stay far from evil dharmas and unwholesome thoughts, to diligently cultivate the noble path, to widely practice good deeds, to form many wholesome affinities, and to dedicate the merit of my cultivation to my loved ones throughout lifetime after lifetime, and to all sentient beings. May sentient beings soon be freed from the many sufferings and tribulations, and from the cycle of birth, aging, sickness, and death.
Text of Repentance
Throughout the cycle of rebirth over lifetime after lifetime, whether intentionally or unintentionally, I have harmed very many sentient beings.
Because of my own greed, anger, and ignorance, I have created all kinds of evil causes that lead to downfall. Now, before the Buddha, with utmost sincerity and single-pointed heart, I repent and confess. May sentient beings forgive me and transform the adverse karmic ties between us into wholesome ties. I will repay you through the merit I continuously establish.
May all Dharma protectors not abandon me because my karmic obstacles are heavy, but instead help me in this very life to cultivate the true Dharma smoothly, attain Buddhahood soon, and benefit sentient beings throughout the three realms.
Text of Dedication of Merit
With utmost sincerity, I bow in homage to our Fundamental Teacher, Buddha Shakyamuni!
With utmost sincerity, I bow in homage to Amitabha Buddha!
With utmost sincerity, I bow in homage to Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara!
With utmost sincerity, I bow in homage to Guru Yang Ning!
May all the merit from lifetime after lifetime of hearing the Dharma, cultivating and realizing it, repenting, reciting the Buddha’s name, upholding mantras, chanting sutras, and all the merit from benefiting oneself and benefiting others,
be dedicated to sentient beings in the three realms and six paths,
be dedicated to all human beings harmed by the epidemic,
be dedicated to all sentient beings harmed by human habitual tendencies, desires, and ignorance;
May sentient beings be universally illuminated by the light of merit of all Buddhas;
May all sentient beings receive the deliverance of all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas;
May all beings who have been harmed joyfully be liberated from fear, hatred, and the wish for revenge;
May all humanity believe in cause and effect, cease evil and cultivate goodness, and become complete in merit and virtue;
May all humanity cut off bad habits, purify body, speech, and mind, and bring forth wholesome karmic results;
May there be no epidemics, wars, earthquakes, floods, fires, or disasters in the human world;
May all sentient beings live in peace, health, happiness, and joy;
May all sentient beings in the Saha world believe what the Buddha taught and soon attain the great freedom of life;
May all sentient beings who vow to be reborn in the Western Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss have their wishes fulfilled and be reborn there smoothly;
Namo Fundamental Teacher Buddha Shakyamuni!
Namo Amitabha Buddha!
Namo Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara!
Namo Guru Yang Ning