Spoken
by Supreme Master Ching Hai
Los Angeles, U. S. A. March 14, 1996
(Originally in English)
There
is a machine that was invented by someone specifically to measure people's
IQs. So if you want to know how intelligent you are, how high your IQ
is, you just have to put your head in the hole of the machine, push
the button and wait for the answer. So for example, if Steve puts his
head in the machine, the machine might say, "Steve, meditate more!
Your IQ needs more vitamins." Then another person comes, and shoves
his head into the machine, its empty chamber, and pushes the button,
and then probably the machine will give another answer. And it's very
exact. It can tell you how high an IQ you have, maybe one point nine
or one hundred and forty. It might tell you that you have the IQ of
a genius, and then you will be happy. Once, one person was watching
people use this machine all the time and he said, "Wow! That's
fantastic!" The last thing he heard from it was, "Oh, your
IQ is that of a genius." So he was very excited, and he put his
head inside and pushed the button. And then a long silence came from
the machine, and then came a sigh like this, "OOOOHHHHH...."
And then there came a voice saying, "Please don't make such a joke.
Please don't put a stone in the machine!"