Master Tells A Joke
The Disillusioned
Dream About Marriage
Spoken By Supreme Master Ching Hai, Hsihu Center, Formosa
February. 4, 1996. (Originally in Chinese)
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I had a female attendant who once told me: "Master, I had a dream that You married someone."
I asked her: "Who was that person?"
She answered: "I don't know! I just saw him." She said that the man was very good looking. So I began looking for him everywhere, but I couldn't find him.
Later, wherever I went, I took her with me and asked her: "Look! Is that him?" (Audience laughs.)
She then told me that the man had a moustache. So when I saw someone with a moustache, and he was tall, handsome and had a fair complexion, I always asked her if that was the guy.
I asked her if he was a Westerner or an Oriental man.
She said: "He looked to be of our kind." But what is our kind? Even talking about marriage, she would connect me to the Chinese! She would not let me go anywhere else. Even in her dream she would not let me go.
She said: "He seemed to be Chinese, and very good-looking."
I said: "Really? Okay! Let's go look for him. (Audience laughs.)
So wherever we went, we would ask each other: "Well, is this the one?"
Because I saw some very good-looking men who did not have a moustache, I would secretly add a moustache on the picture of his face and then ask her: "Is this the one?"(Laughter) She would say: "He doesn't look like that one. That one was thinner...," and things like this.
One day, we found a man, who was tall, good-looking and had a moustache. Oh! We did not feel that he totally looked like the one, but since he was tall, good-looking and had a moustache, why should we wait any longer? Moreover, he was Oriental, and she also said okay!
So I tried. It turned out that - do you know? Oh! When we started to talk for the first time, it was very romantic of course! However, his breath was full of the smell of onion and garlic (audience laughs), and I couldn't bear it. But I thought, let it pass! Maybe he has a cold today and had to take medicine to cure himself.
I heard that onion and garlic can cure a cold. It is true, but they are just one of the ingredients in the medicine. You do not simply eat garlic just like that! Some people are very lazy and eat it raw.
Our first meeting was very romantic, just the smell wasn't; but that's okay, I forgave him.
When we talked the second time, I saw that he had bits of salad and green vegetables stuck between several of his teeth. (Audience laughs.) Oh! Well, I let it pass again.
We should not be that intolerant! I could make him brush his teeth, and it would be fine. No need to be picky! I then thought I could maybe catch him on the day that I taught a beauty class, and make him attend for a trimming. I thought it would be fine like this, so I did not say anything.
Later, the third time we talked - gosh! I found that we couldn't communicate at all. For example, we had very good things, but he said that they were not good. Yet the unclean things outside which were very bad, he would say they were very good. Things like that.
Then I gave up. I told the attendant that even though he had a moustache, we should "shave" him off. (Master and audience laugh.)
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