Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai, Florida, U.S.A.
December 27, 2001 (originally in English)
Videotape No. 734

There was a man who repaired typewriters, and one day he was called into a building to do a repair. So he went there, but when he looked for a parking space, he couldn’t find one. In the big city sometimes it’s difficult to find a parking space. So he parked in a no parking zone and put a note on the windshield of his car that said, “I’m Joseph Goldsmith, working inside the building” to let the police know that he had to do some work. So when he finished repairing the typewriter, he came out and saw another note next to his note that said, “I’m Jeremy Flagler, police officer, working outside the building.” With the note was a ticket.

 

 

Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai, Florida, USA,
December 28, 2002 (originally in English)
Videotape No. 735

There was a shop that sold chickens and a woman came in and wanted to buy a chicken. So the shopkeeper brought out a chicken and gave it to her, saying, “This one’s twenty dollars.” And the woman said, “Oh, that’s too small. Don’t you have something bigger?” But the man didn’t so he took that chicken and weighed it again somewhere and then said, “Here’s a bigger one. This one’s thirty dollars.” So the woman said, “OK, I’ll take them both.”

 

 

 

Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai, Florida, U.S.A.
December 27, 2001 (originally in English )
Videotape No. 734

A man kept praying to God to win the lotto. Every week he prayed to win the lotto, but many years passed and he never won the lotto. So then one day he began crying to God, saying, “I’ve been praying to You for years just to win the lotto so that I could build my house. How come You’ve never answered my prayers?” So God asked him, “Did you ever buy a lotto ticket?” And the man said, “No.”