super intelligence, what's the use?

While in Penang recently, something during the seminar we spoke in blew my mind.

two kids waving their hands over a card to determine its contents - blind-folded

After our speaking session, was a last minute addition where two "qi-gong" masters spoke about the power of the qi and it ability to transform ordinary children into super intelligent kids. Wow!

After speaking, he got 2 kids up on stage and blindfolded them. There were given flash cards (chinese characters) and playing cards to be identified its content. Blindfolded, the kids would "feel" the cards and announce the content. One of them got most of it right and the other got some wrong. Sorry, I did not keep count.

What went through my mind was. "What's this has got to do with Dharma schools or its teachers?". While most of the speakers spoke of the need to improve ourselves to understand and overcome issues confronting our children such as managing stress and bringing up children's potential - but here we have something quite different and in my opinion, threw the topics off balance. Anyway, if the kids did get 100% correct, so what? This presentation blew my mind!

After the talk and presentation, Wai Leng witness the mother of one of the kids scold and beat this boy for not getting correct answers! When I was told of this, I was horrified - all that we spoke about seeing respecting our children as Buddhas (see previous post) seems to have come to naught!

When Wai Leng approached this mother and told her that a child needs time to be nurtured and guided, she stop the scolding. It was a good thing. Will it stop there? I pray and hope so for the sake of this young kid.