Everybody [gets] half or what? Alright, [let’s see] if they have enough food for you. Not bad. Enough for everybody? (Yes.) If not, what do you do? You ask people. Right? You go in the kitchen and ask? (Yes. Yes.) OK. Help them. Because sometimes they eat more than they cook for themselves, they can never cook enough. Sometimes the food is good so you eat more of it, so you have to tell them if they don’t have enough. (Yes.) Good. You are so fast! Not bad. (I don’t want to miss any of Your videos.) Well, you’re faster, faster. You’re better than before.
Is it OK? The food? (Yes, it’s very good.) It looks a lot like ginger. (Ginger.) Yeah, not bad. How come here has more food than on the boys [side]? Wow, the fruits are better here than at the boy’s [place]. Discrimination. It’s discrimination. Look at that. All this food is much more than at the boys’ place. Normally the boys don’t have this. The boys don’t have that. The boys don’t have this. The boys don’t have. What’s that food that you have inside there? And the boys don’t have this kind of soup either. I don’t know what happened. Discrimination against boys. (Yes.) Alright, I will see. When I lecture, you always sit… pressing the boys so that they sit back far. And when you eat, you take all the food. Poor boys. Poor boys. Alright, let’s see what we can do for the boys. Poor boys. For now, please take your food. I’m sorry I had to come. I’m sorry, but I’ll go slowly, so I don’t make a lot of dust for you. (Thank You, Master.) (Thank You, Master.) See you later. (Thank You.)
This looks better. Otherwise, every day you squeeze, you squeeze up to there. I don’t know why. What is the matter with the microphone! What’s wrong with you? Everything goes wrong. So tired, [making] mistakes all the time. We’ll make some jokes so that we can survive. OK. You know what? I’ll tell a few jokes. (Yes.)
There’s a saleswoman. She tried to sell some perfume, new shaving lotion to some of the customers. And the customer said, “Oh, this I have already at home.” And then she said, “How about this?” He said, “Oh, I have that also.” “And how about this one?” “Oh! I have loads at home, I have so many at home. And don’t worry, I don’t need any more perfume.” She said, “But this is a new one, you should buy it because it will attract a lot of women.” Well that’s all the men think about. I don’t know. So, and the man said, “But why? What makes you feel so confident about this new perfume, that it would attract women?” So the saleswoman said, “Well, because it smells like a credit card.” Nice, huh? (Yes.)
There was a kindergarten, and so many children just like you sitting around here. And then it was the first day of school. So after the teacher told them, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah and then played around with all kinds of painting, and after they smeared themselves all over, and then the time was over, and the children went home. One of the boys went home and the mother asked, “Did your teacher ask you anything today? Did you learn a lot?” He said, “Oh yes, I learned a lot.” “And did your teacher say anything special?” And the boy said, “No. But she asked how many more are children like myself at home.” And so the mother said, “And what did you say?” Did I make myself clear? (Yes.) The teacher said, “Are there any more children like yourself at home?” So the boy said, “No.” And the mother asked the boy, “And what did your teacher say then?” And the boy said, “The teacher put her palms together, looked up at the sky and said, “Thank You, Supreme Master Ching Hai.” It means one is enough for her. Must be a terrible kid. Well, she should have known, I have a lot here.
There were some children having Christmas holidays and they went home to see their grandparents. So the grandparents were trying very hard to please them, especially grandpa. Grandpa was very fond of the boys and took them aside and played with them. After he played horses, he played buffalo for them to ride on, etc., etc., there was no more program. So he started to take his wig off so the children could see. All [of them] said, “Wow, beautiful, wonderful! We have never seen anything like that in the city.” And then after that, he took out his teeth and brushed it while he was singing. So the children were thinking: “Wow, grandpa was great. He’s terrific. We haven’t seen anything like that before.” So, he put back his teeth, put back his wig, and the grandpa said, “OK, anything else I can do for you?” So the children said, “Why don’t you take your ears out and let us have a look!” Children. It’s nice. Is it not good? (Yes.) (It’s nice. Yes.)
There was a person, an American, well, a tourist perhaps, went to Russia for sightseeing on holiday. So it happened that he conversed with a Russian citizen just at random at the holiday place in Moscow. So the American tried to kind of impress the Russian with all the good things about America. And he said, “Above all, freedom. Freedom is our most cherished goal in America. Every American citizen, doesn’t matter how high, how low his position, how much his income, he can freely criticize the American government. No problem, anytime.” So the Russian said, “Well, no big deal. Here, we also have the same freedom. Every citizen in Russia can freely criticize the American government anytime.” That’s very good! You got it? (Yes.)
Photo Caption: “Still Beautiful at ‘Down Time’!”
