 
            
            
 
            
  There 
              once was a kid who went out with his mother onto the beach and saw 
              a seagull lying dead on the sand. So he said to his mother, "Mother, 
              what happened to this bird?" The mother said, "He died and went 
              to heaven." And the little boy thought for awhile and said, "And 
              God threw him back down here?"
There 
              once was a kid who went out with his mother onto the beach and saw 
              a seagull lying dead on the sand. So he said to his mother, "Mother, 
              what happened to this bird?" The mother said, "He died and went 
              to heaven." And the little boy thought for awhile and said, "And 
              God threw him back down here?"   
            
 Spoken 
                by Supreme Master Ching Hai Geneva, switzerland
				
 May 3, 1999 (Originally in English)
                
                Illustrated by 11-year-old sister initiate Yifam Luo, Indiana,
                U.S.A.