Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai, Florida, U.S.A.
June 13, 2001 (Originally in English)

There was a thief who broke into a house and started collecting things. Suddenly, he heard a voice coming from a dark corner saying, "Jesus is watching you." So he looked and looked, but he didn't see anyone. He thought maybe his ears were deluding him. So he continued collecting items in the house. And then there came a voice again: "Jesus is watching you!" This time it was louder. So he realized that his ears were not wrong. He followed the voice to find its source, and he found a parrot sitting there. So he asked the parrot, "Was it you who said that?" And the parrot confessed, "Yes, I was just trying to warn you." So the thief said, "Ha! Who do you think you are?" And the parrot said, "I am Moses." So the thief laughed and said, "Ha! What kind of stupid people would name a parrot Moses?" The parrot was very shy, but he said, "Well, probably the same people who named the Rottweiler dog 'Jesus'!" (A Rottweiler is a first-rate guard dog. And this one's name was Jesus. And he was watching the thief from somewhere. He weighed about 150 pounds.)