Ashes to Taxes

There was a businessman who was dying so he called his friend and said, "Please, after I die, can you do me a favor? Can you cremate me?"

And the friend said, "OK, yes. But what shall I do with your ashes?"

So the businessman said, "You can put all my ashes into an envelope and send them to the tax office of the IRS, with a note saying, ‘Now you have everything!'"

Publish or Perish!

Two friends were talking together, and one asked the other, "What have you been doing lately?" And the other friend said, "Since last year I've taken up writing full time." So the first friend said, "Oh, really, writing full time? Have you sold anything so far?" And the other friend said, "Yes. I've sold my car and I've sold my house."

Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai,
Florida, USA, December 28, 2001
(Originally in English)
Videotape #735