how are you guys? (good.) good? you look all very healthy.(thank you, master.) and clean. okay. i see that you havesome questions here. tell me. i’d like to share one experience and reportthree pieces of good news with you, master. last winter,
when i meditated, i felt master pull me up and fly with me. we kept flying and flyinguntil we reached a very high place. i didn’t know where that place was. master was wearing a white chiffon dressand looked very graceful and beautiful. after we reached that place,master beckoned me to stop. then master took outa shiny wand about one foot long and held it in the front,signaling me to go over there. i quickly obeyed and went over there.
after that, master stoodwith me side by side and i became as beautiful as master. everyone likes it.(thank you, master.) everybody likes to hear that. okay. and then? i would like to shareanother thing with you. i saw a piece of news on a public bus. beijing now has adopted electric busesfor their public transportation. with the battery swapping system,
in just nine minutesthe bus can operate again. the news said thatthis kind of eco-friendly device reduces carbon emissions, and they will promote the use of itin the next few years. all the buses will use this kind of device. this is a very good piece of newsthat i wished to tell you. congratulations. then, the second news is that the company i’m going to work foris making a kind of heating device.
it collects the power not used at night, solar energy, and wind energyin an electrical energy storing device, then uses it to provide heat. it replaces coal heating. this way, it conserves energy,reduces carbon emissions, and turns waste into a valuable resource. all heating devices can be replacedby this kind of equipment to provide heat. okay. good, good.
but the device that collects, does it cost a lot of money? it shouldn’t. to make this device in a large quantity,they will buy a lot of equipment and set up assembly lines tomanufacture it themselves. that’s it. okay, okay.(it’s like that.) okay, okay. like that. i have another pieceof good news to share with you.
in beijing, there are communities, residential communities that havebought equipment for sorting garbage. all the households in these communitiessort their own garbage and participate in waste management. within their own communities,the garbage is sorted and processed. most of the garbagedoesn’t need to be carried somewhere outside to be buried. (okay.) it has a huge impact in beijing. all of the residential communities
and property management companiestry to follow suit. they want to go to these communities to learn and visit andpopularize this equipment. it will reduce garbage pollutionand protect the environment. okay. very good. that’s all i have to share.thank you, master. wishing master good health. thank you. wish you good health, too.
hallo. master, i’d like to share with you a storyabout how you saved my life. i was initiated in 2004. in 2009, i was planting600 mu (40 hectares) of potatoes, and i was exhaustedfrom such hectic work. while escorting a motorcade, i fell asleep. i fell asleep riding the motorcycle. when i woke up,i was flying over a valley. at that moment i had a thought.
i said, “master, you must save me!†then, i let go of the motorcycle. if i didn’t let go of the motorcycle, i would have rolled downthe mountain with it. when i woke up after some time,i am not sure how long, i woke up and saw my motorcyclehad been crushed into pieces. my helmet had also beencrushed into pieces. i was on top of four giant rocks. those rocks were very sharp.
i tried to move my arms. i knew my arms could move,but my legs and my feet couldn’t. then i screamed.i said, “master, save me! someone must come.god, master, save me!†my head was covered by sweat suddenly. then many people came to my side. some of them i knewand some i didn’t know. it was almost impossibleto find anyone in that wilderness. i was in such a deep valley that it seemednot possible for anyone to be there.
but people appeared. they pulled me up from the valley. when they pulled me up,because my body is particularly fat, it took them seven hours to pull me up. so you should knowhow deep that valley was. wow! then, after they took me homeand gave me an injection, i couldn’t turn my body on my own.i couldn’t do anything. but i had faiththat master would save me.
the internal organs...but it felt like the organs weren’t mine. it felt like my body was torn apart.i also felt an unbearable burning sensation. but after a week,i felt master gave me a kind of power. no matter whom i talked to, i could recite the five namesin my mind constantly. even if people speak to me now, i can still recite the five namessubconsciously inside. one day, after a week, i woke up at 4 am. maybe i was given a powerby master in my meditation,
i cried out, “master,please let everything heal! make everything heal completely!†after crying out, i could get out of the bedand move around naturally. you know how blessed i felt.(okay.) in that split second,i knew how powerful master’s love was. i know master gives me strengthall the time, as if you are with me. thank you, master. you are welcome.
only a week that you couldn’t walk? yes. i couldn’t even turn my body. injections didn’t work. the doctor said my internal injurieswere too serious. they said my liver andspleen were all shattered. but i felt they weren’t shattered. but it’s the crying out a week later… every time i cried out,a miracle happened. okay. congratulations.
it’s good that you are here. it’s good that you are still alive,so why are you still crying? still more questioners. usa. aulacese (vietnamese).what is it? dear venerable master, i am hã o. i know, a doctor.is there anything, doctor? dear master, after 26 years,you have delivered me from the shore of illusionto the shore of enlightenment. you said master is always inside us,which i truly feel all the time.
however, every time i see you, my heart is still overwhelmedwith indescribable happiness. it’s beyond words. i sincerely thank you, master. (really? okay.)and the second thing is, you said that we just practiceand we’ll have everything inside. and i’ve gradually realized that. dear master, i wrote a four-line poemin which i was inspired
through my meditation practiceand your teaching, thinking of you. i have a nephew who canwrite beautiful calligraphy, and i asked him to embellish this poemabout master on a ceramic plate. i brought this plate with metoday to offer master, to show you my love, my happiness,which you have granted me. not that i dare to offer you anything. (okay. thank you.) the poem goes like this: “my master has boundless compassion.
transforming the entire creationwithout a single movement. her physical body is small and fragile who would knowshe houses zillions of galaxies!†i had my nephew putthese verses on this plate and today, i would like to offer it to you, master. okay, that’s okay. bring it to the office,so they can hang it up for everyone to see. i don’t live here often.my house is small. also, master wrote four verses,
and brother christy buì€isent them to me, as follows: “this evening, i returnedto the home of my youth. into winter, fall has turned. looking at my mother's gray hairand weathered face, tears of sorrowful remorsedripped from my soul.†it’s my poem! who stole it? brother christy buì€i sent this poem to me. (i wrote it for my mom.)he said that is master’s poem.
it’s so beautiful, so he sent it to me. okay, and then? now you send it back to me? since master has taught me… before, i majored in math, but now,suddenly i can also make music. (you can also write poems.)since i can make music, i set that poem into music,to offer to you, master. i recorded the musicinto this cd to offer you. that’s all.i respectfully bow to you, master.
i don’t know what elseto say, except to thank you, (thank you, thank you.) and for the rest of my life,i wouldn’t ask for anything else. (okay, thank you, thank you.)i sincerely thank you, master. thank you, thank you. if every day, each one of youwrites me a poem or a song, i wouldn’t be able tofinish listening to them all till old age. okay, thank you, doctor, all right? thank you. thank you, master.
okay, now, we leave it in the office. have to bring it to the office. because i live in a cave. i don’t have room for myselfand for my three dogs. anybody who has seen the cave knows it. so don’t, please, don’t bring me anything. i have only a small corner to sit. i have to share my bed with the dogs. one up with me or one down under the bedand the other two in the front. understand?
(yes, master.) i told you a thousand times,you never understood. of course, i have houses,but i don’t go and live there. what for i bring your thingand then hang it there and nobody looks at it? so, we put it in the office,cd, whatever, we put it here. okay? wherever i go, we’ll put it there. i live in a cave! i’m a cave woman!
you really understand or not understand? do you know what a “cave†means? like 2 by 2. two square meters. got it? two square meters! thank you, all of you,everybody who wants to bring me gifts. food and photos, painting, where do i put? and even if i have houses elsewhere,i have a small car,
full of dogs’ beds and gifts for people. gifts for people, like cakes and candiesthat i put in the cars, in case i pass by some garbage collectors,garbage, street cleaners, i give it to them. my car doesn’t have roomfor your gifts for me, either. i really mean it. oh, my god. you think i’m joking, don’t you?(no, master.) no!
it’s maybe funny to you,but it is the truth. okay? (yes, master.) cave woman! when i come here, i dress up for youto please your godly eyes. to please your saintly heartsin this little miserable world. i make it a little more colorful, i make jokes to make you happy. but when i’m at home,i stay alone in my cave. even my driver, my assistantare not to come near me.
except when i have toask them to bring the dogs. nobody comes and chat-chit-chit with me. they think they come near me and then they can see me all day like here,at least every two, three hours per day. candy, cakes, story, laughing, and,“you’re good, good,†and… i’m here, precious time, okay? i spend time with you,i make the best for you. when i’m at home,i’m very strict with myself. sometimes i feel hungry,i don’t go to eat even.
i need to meditate to go up higher. okay?(yes, master.) and when i’m sick sometimes,i don’t even get up to get medicine. if it’s an important meditation,i don’t get up. and i don’t have room for anything. just a few pairs of simpleclothes to wear there only. and meditation blanket and a small bed. bachelor bed. like this. so i cannot move around too much. to make sure i don’t move.
and my bed is highso that the dogs can sleep under. so don’t criticize me if you see it. because you heard buddha saiddon’t sleep on a high bed and a big bed. i do. i confess. so, everything i need is in the cave. everything else i don’t need, outside. this thing, i love you very much,and i thank you for your love, for your expression of love.
this is your right to do that. but i have to tell you,if i don’t take it home, please don’t get hurt. okay? i have to also simplify my life. whatever you give, okay,maybe if we need it for here, you have to take money for it. okay? and this kind of thing,of course, we don’t pay, but i leave it here. okay? so everybody can enjoy.
all right? and if you want to make a poem for me,make your own, don’t copy mine. i wrote it for myself, “to mother.†is that your mother? i said, “to my mother,†no? i have only one. and don’t share my mother, either. you want to share everything. my dogs, my house, everything is yours.
my mother is only one. okay? never mind. it’s just a joke. you can share my mother also, but unfortunately,she’s not here, no longer. she’s on the high heaven,happy with my dad up there. let them alone. you guys are funny. all right.
any more questions apart from this? eldest sister? with permission from master and allinitiates coming from around the world, today we can see master,like once in a thousand years. what do you meanonce in a thousand years? we just met last year. it has been a very long time, master,that i could see you. sorry. (very long? just last year.) there is nothing better to say nowthan wishing god to be safe and sound.
god is always safe and sound,my dear sister. (yes.) only i am not safe and sound. how come you are so beautiful?this time, you areso young and beautiful. (maybe god loves me.) what did you do to lookso young and beautiful? (god’s arrangement.) more than 70 years oldalready, look at that. look at her. turn around and see. walk around for them to see.
seventy-six years old. seventy… (…six.) six. does she look like 76 to you? (no!) now, with your permission, master,there is nothing better than this. everyone can gather happily around god. in the boundless love of god,we enjoy together all the same. today, i would like to offerto master a composition. here we go again! all this time, you havenever written poems.
now you do. poem or song? master, i’ll sing a songbecause i can’t write poems. (okay, sing.) i’ll sing the song “tell me.†(okay.) tell me those endearing words, let us love each otherlike those heavenly days. life is full of vitality. life is vague.
what else can we dream of in this world? who else can we love in this life? let us wrap our love in pretty paper, make it a gift for each other,today and tomorrow. let us nurture our embraces,soft as velvet. let us create a mythical realm of affection, wow. life is full of vitality. (sorry, sorry.) i don’t rememberyou singing so beautifully like this before.
how come you singmore and more beautifully each day, eldest sister! you must have meditated well. do you meditate very well?i wish you safety. (thank you.) then, i will sing another song. i don’t have time to listen all the time. all right, you sing and put it on a cdand send it here, okay? you can sing many songs,but record it on a cd and mail it here, so i can keep it longer. okay?
(thank you, master.)thank you, eldest sister. my god, how come you look youngerand more beautiful each day, and sing very well too? would you let me go upthere to hold your hand? (later. later.) and you give me a hug. later, later, later. wait for me a little longer, eldest sister. i am working, okay? is there anyone else?anyone else want to ask a question?
yeah. i just want to share some good signs of a new peaceful eracoming in korea. (yeah.) this year in april was very tensefor all of the world, and especially for korea. and the new presidentin korea is a female. and she allowed to help north koreathrough the different channels, but ngo (non-governmentalorganizations). so we can (provide)some support for the young children,
and also the medical curein different ways. so it’s a very big stepforward to the peaceful era. okay. it’s very good. (thank you.) are you still sick, mexico? (no. i feel good, but just in case.) why do you wear like that?(just in case.) in case what? (protect everybody from...) it’s too late! oh, well. it’s unavoidable when too many peopleare together like this.
and they always open their mouth,“master, hallo!†when i walk out and walk around them,the chinese, they always have to talk. it’s tradition. politeness. but if many hundredsof people talk together like that, all the air isfull of… what? (germs!) germs! yeah. wow. and it always lands on me some. generously share some. whenever group meditation like this,i always get something.
even though during more than a yeari haven’t seen you, i haven’t got like this. of course, i was sick differently,but not this kind of “common interest.†common interest. okay, anything else? yeah! this is my first time to see you. me, too! first time to see you! thank you for your love and kindness.
and if you remembertwo weeks ago, you gave a little gift to my boyfriend, the support for openinga vegan restaurant in indonesia, jakarta. i would just like tosay thank you before i leave. so, you’re from indonesia also? (yes.) how is the restaurant now? maybe three months,the renovation is almost finished. okay. okay. and then? what is it your question?
just i would like to say thank you. brothers and sisters fromindonesia will leave soon, at 7:30 in the morning. okay. how long have you been here?(seven days.) okay. if i have time,i see you later. okay? i mean the indonesians. all right? we have best regards for your health,and we hope you can get well soon. i’ll be okay. yes, all brothers and sisters from indonesialove you so much. thank you.
this one. master mentioned on several occasionsher intense meditation, and i was wondering if youhave some advice for us, how we can intensify our meditation, too. everyone is different. you just do your best. every minute that you’re free, every second that you’re free,try to remember. and of course, always recitethe holy names to protect yourself.
and try to always go insidewhenever you can. not when you’re driving, please. otherwise… that’s it. meditate as much as you canand help people. help the one who needs. that’s all i can say. some of you are too burdenedwith worldly works, some people have to take care of family. some people have to take care ofsomebody else’s family.
some people have to take care oftheir wives, their husbands. some people have to take care ofsomebody else’s wife and husband… or husband. you try to do your best, okay? just take care of your wife, your husband. it’s enough, okay? don’t love the neighbor, understand? i mean, “love thy neighbor.†yes, of course.
but different way. general love. don’t misinterpret the bible. “love thy neighbor.†neighbors! neighbor or neighbors. but with god’s love. that’s it?(thank you very much.) you’re welcome. okay.
i forgot to bring my mask. my sister wants to hug me,and i don’t have a mask. anybody have a mask for me?(we can get you one.) you can get me some?please. yeah, okay. okay, anybody else? thank you for yourspecial love to our country. when she felt the crisis,she felt afraid of something. what is she afraid of? she was worried about the invasion ofnorth korea to south korea.
but i told you already, it will not happen. i told you when i had interview withsupreme master television. after listening to your explanationabout the korean situation, she felt very peaceful, peaceful mind,and she was very happy about that. okay, okay. good. yes. through your song and your words,she felt very peaceful. and she felt she is very healthy again. so, very thank you about that. that’s it, huh?
you’re welcome. because i am so nervous,so i say just a little. (okay. that’s fine.)i am sorry. (that is okay.) i have to take medicine to calm down.(you do, huh?) master, please get well because youworked so hard and caught a cold. yeah, it is like that all the time.it’s bad karma. okay, you sit here.can you sit here? (yes.) are you tired? (i am okay.) how come you lookso healthy and young?
my sister. she is very simple. heart is very, very simple and very pure. like a kid, like a kid. don’t laugh at her, okay?(no, master.) she’s very simple at heart. very, very, very pure and very young. full of love. like children, like a child. aulacese (vietnamese)?
(yes.) this time lots of you came.(yes.) see you later, okay?(yes!) why are you sick? i don’t think it’s the weather, no? it’s the transmission of germs in the air. if you’re sick, you wear the mask. okay? like this, yeah?keep everybody happy. i also got it.i also got some of your souvenir.
aulacese (vietnamese),chinese? (chinese.) all chinese? (yes.) raise hands. (chinese.) chinese, raise your hands. all of you! wow, my god! taking over other people’s land. you are becoming younger and prettier.(really? thank you, master.) very bright, very bright.
that’s why people say “piao liang,â€meaning bright and beautiful. (master, you are more beautiful.) all of you have been here before? i mean you have seen me before? (no.) not at all? only once? you just saw me the day before yesterday?(we came today. just arrived today.) you just arrived today?(yes.) okay. do you have more good questions to ask? or do you want to say anything?(no. we just want to look at you.)
look at me! okay, fine.i will sit here to let you look. how about singing? the high-pitched ones. love you. how lovely! i like it very much! i can sing it. i can sing itif i have the sheet music. i can sing. the chinese beijing opera.
it’s pleasant to watch and hear. but we can’t sing the aulacese (vietnamese)songs like that. strange! it seems that it is onlyfor the chinese songs. it’s very nice. do you know how to sing? anyone has the courageto stand up and sing? sing and let themthrow biscuits and candy. throw for him!
don’t be afraid, we don’t have tomatoes. we have no tomatoes, so don’t be afraid! are there still many peoplewho like it? (yes.) still do? (yes, they still do.) do most of the young people like it?(no.) no, huh? (not many.) not many young people like it. old people, like me, are fonder of them. it’s difficult to sing like that.(it takes training.) they have to be trained for a long time,
and they perform livein front of the public, not just lip-synching. not like having someonesing for you backstage, you only need to open your mouth.(right, right, right.) in the west, people used to… i am not sure if they are still doing it now. in europe and america,some people couldn’t sing, but they had good figures and pretty faces. so they used to performin the front, “blah, blah…â€
opening their mouths like this. and another one at the backwith a beautiful voice would sing. sometimes… sometimes, some peoplesuddenly opened the curtain, right? on stage, they use a velvet curtain. or sometimes, he disliked the persondoing the lip-synching, so he opened the curtain and let everyone know thatanother person was singing for her.
that is dangerous. if one day the singer was sick, what to do? and then couldn’t go,or something happened to her, then the one in the frontwould be in trouble. many people did that. nowadays, people usea kind of machine to adjust the voice, so anyone can be a star singer. if you don’t have a job, you can try. it’s a lucrative job.
do you have anything to share? good things? good news? everything has been reported, right? reported by the previous group. now you just come and look at me, right? so easy! just come sit here to look! it’s easy for me too. where do you live now?
jakarta or singapore? (jakarta.)still in jakarta. is your wife here today?(yes, yes.) of course. how can she not be here?wherever you go, she goes too. (yes, yes.) i don’t see her. that’s why i ask. (yes.) mao, mao! is she not here? (she is here!) downstairs, maybe? she should be here because i just saw her. maybe not here, maybe just stepped out.
you two are like those inseparable lovers. this couple is quite strange. here she comes. i remember thatwhen they went to retreats, they both looked at each other like this,like discussing business or something. nothing. i just want to say hi.i dare not wake you up. i thought you wereover there staring at him. i was wondering whyi didn’t see you this time. the two of them are so cute. okay.is everything going well? (yes, yes.)
okay. take care of yourself.you should take care of her. ah, you can’t! you’re over thereand she’s over here. (yes.) yes, sometimes she comes over. you’re no longer a “weekend husband� (no, no, no.) that’s great. your kids have all grown up? (yes.) they all graduated? do they have jobs? (yes, they have.)(they’re helping him.) they also work there?(my daughter is helping me.) how about the boy?(my son is in singapore.)
what does he do?(he is also in the same profession.) okay. (he accompanies his mom.)okay. good, good. okay. (thank you.) how come you don’t gazeinto each other’s eyes today? how come you don’t do it today?(we’re tired of it.) tired of looking. i understand. before, becauseone of you was here, and the other was there,so whenever you met, you sat like that. now you’re living together,
so the way you lookat each other is different. so to keep the romance alive,it’s better to keep a little distance. (it’s better that way.)is the business going well? (it’s okay. thank you, master.) okay, if there’s nothing else, let’s go outsideand meditate, okay? (okay.) the air is fresher there. (okay.) over there, at least we don’t feel closed in. inside the walls.
i don’t know about you, but i don’t like... i prefer nature. i like tents, and living in caves. it’s more comfortable, isn’t it? (yes.) but some people criticized us. they wrote articles criticizing usfor making you pitch tents. i don’t have money! i don’t have money to build a big temple. if you guys don’t want to pitch tents,then go and meditate in a big temple.
they have buildingsand people to take care. here, i don’t even accept donations. you know, yes? (yes.) and then… i don’t have much money,so whatever i have, i offer to you. if you don’t like it, you cango elsewhere. right? there are many masters who are richand have all kinds of houses, right? some temples are big and comfortable. why bother coming here? when you come here,
you have to bear it yourselves. okay?(okay.) do any of you have any complaints?(no. everything is good!) good! what’s wrong with living in tents? many people don’t evenhave tents to live in, like the refugees. right? the african refugeesand the people in haiti. they’ve been suffering for years,and they still haven’t had houses rebuilt. some houses have been built, but they are not enoughbecause there are millions of them.
the number is large. some people can only wait,as they can’t build houses fast enough. at a lot of places, people stilllive in temporary shelters. the african refugees don’thave a place to live at all. they don’t even have tents. tents are very comfortableand luxurious already. when i went to the himalayan mountains,i didn’t even have a tent. i sat under a coat or an umbrella to meditate.
i didn’t even have a tent at that timeand i lived like that for several years. if there was a house, theni stayed with other people. it was really crowded! one hundred people,squished into one house. the house was smallwith only a few bathrooms. it was worse in the himalayan mountains. there weren’t any bathrooms. sometimes there were andsometimes there were not. if it’s outdoors, there weren’t any.
if i went somewhererelatively not in the city, then not every place had a bathroom. they even saved that stuff for fertilizer. yes, they don’t use bathrooms. they even collected cow dung, dried it and used it as fuel for cooking, heating, and plastering the walls. okay! so most of us are very lucky,you should know it.
you are lucky no matter what. even if you have to live in a tent,it’s only for a few days. seven or eight days, right? (yes.) and then you go home,and you have your own place. no matter how comfortableor uncomfortable it is here, it only lasts for seven days. it’s for retreat.then you go back to your own places. also, you can change your clothes. you are fine if you get wetin the rain. right?
besides, a lot of people like tents. it’s like camping, right? it’s relaxing. you don’t have to clean the house. there are houses here, so every day you have to get upand take turns to do cleanups. if we have tents, we don’t need to clean. it would be so comfortable. therefore, you should notlook at the negative!
you have to focus on the positive side. look at the sunny side. sunny side. that’s how i go on living. otherwise, there were times that if i had reacted to things normallyand didn’t think positively, i would not have been able to survive. there are pressures coming from all sides. even when i am sick,
i’m very grateful to god for not having a serious illness. if i’m seriously ill,i’m still grateful because i’m still alive. i still have medicines to cure me. i still have doctors to operate on me. if i lived in an isolated placewithout medicine, doctors, and good hospitals, it wouldhave been worse, right? so no matter what, staying at this place or your countryis already very comfortable.
many times, i was seriously ill. if i wasn’t in a good area,i would have died. i could not have survived. being that ill, i couldn’t have survived. so no matter how bad things are, you should knowthat they will only last for a week or two, or a year or two. for me, last time it lastedfor two years and it got better. normally, it lasts for a couple of weeks,a few months, or a few days.
so when you see mewith a cold and a runny nose, you say, “oh, poor master!†i say this is nothing. it’s a small thing. it’s nothing to worry about. i am just tired. sometimes i’m too lazyto take care of myself. when i have to get up, even though i don’t want to,i have to get up to take medicine.
i have to eat evenwhen i don’t feel like eating. i have to get up and eatso i can take my medicine. so that’s why i feel a bit annoyed,but i don’t complain. i feel annoyed but i’m not complaining. i am still grateful to godthat i have medicine to take, warm blankets to cover myself,and warm water to shower with. it’s comfortable for the body. it’s very good already. i live in a cave but i have warm water
because it’s easy to getwarm water nowadays. just buy a small electric water heater. you can plug it in to heat water. and then you add coldand hot water into a bucket, and then you can take a shower. right? because the small electricwater heater cannot continuously supply hot water. it’s strange.some of them are not like that. maybe the person who makes itdoesn’t know how.
but i have a way. i put the water in a bucket,a water bucket, then it will work. because if you keep the water running,the hot water will be gone. if you store the hot waterand mix it with cold water later, it’ll be okay. this method is still betterthan having no water. some people don’t have water to drink. someone suggested, “oh, master, how about buyinga bigger water heater for you?â€
i said, “a bigger water heaterwill bring other issues, so never mind. using the bucket is fine.†with a bigger water heater, the watercan be heated continuously. you don’t have to wait. however, i figured thatwith a larger water heater, there might be other issues,so in addition to buying it, we have to reinstall itand it’s going to be a hassle. i’m fine with having hot water already! i bought several buckets,two buckets, and put them there.
it’s really simple. so there’s nothing to complain about. i think my life is too luxuriousand too comfortable. i am getting old, so it’s okayto enjoy some luxuries. it’s nice to have hot water. when i was young,i bathed in cold water in the himalayas. now i don’t dare to do that. maybe i would dare,but it’s not necessary. i do different things now.
at that time, i did everythingin order to become enlightened and to find god. i wasn’t afraid of the cold. i ran, i climbed mountainsand crossed rivers. i wasn’t afraid. now i’ve found god,i am getting to know hirm better. i’m doing other things. i have to meditate more. now it’s not climbing mountainsand crossing rivers anymore.
just like you. when you’re newly married,things are very comfortable, but you will get to knoweach other better with time. you will get to know each other better. so that’s why some marriagesget better and better, right? like mao and her husband. right? yes, it’s like that,it’s like that. okay? it’s the same with spiritual practice. at initiation, you becomea bit enlightened.
then slowly, you learn moreand become more enlightened. okay. let’s go to meditate, okay?(okay!) i’ll go out and meditatewith you in a while. okay? master, i love you! thank you! thank you! i know. everyone loves me. if you don’t, who else do you love? hey, mao. bring these to everyone, one per person.
one per person, okay?(okay. share these with them?) yeah. one per person, okay? master, i love you. it’s just a token of love,not for filling up your stomach. for that, there’s the kitchen, okay? we can’t buy a lot because we don’thave enough staff to shop all day long. it’s not because of money. okay. (thank you, master.) everyone just havea little bit, for fun, okay?
bye-bye, master. master is so beautiful. i don’t see any other master and disciplestalk so much like this. master talks a lot. and disciples also talk a lot. and don’t even have anythingto say, also say something: “master, you walk slowly, okay?†“master, you take care, okay?â€â€œmaster, you’re beautiful, okay?†“master, you drink water, okay?
“master, you take medicine, okay?†what is all that for? never mind – i love you. thank you, dr. hã o.(thank you, master.) okay. you still working? yeah? you still working? (yes.) a lot of patients? (yes.) less now, master. i don’t work as much, i work just a little bit (understand.)to save time for meditation.
okay, did your wife come with you? how come two of you stay youngand live long forever like that? how about quang, he didn’t come? quang!(quang cannot come, master.) why can’t he come? now he has opened a vegan restaurant. restaurant, huh? (yes.) business okay, huh?(yes. very good, master.) wow. everybody’s busy.(thanks to your blessing, so…)
blessing! blessing and he doesn’thave time to see me? okay. it’s good, it’s good. if you work for the public, it’s good. he’s seen me many times already. he has seen me many times already. quang has seen me many times already. does he work with that lady, his wife? the whole family is working? (yes.)the family over there? (yes, yes.)
okay, good, good, good. congratulations.