I have loved eating pineapples since childhood. I love to eat them as fruit, cooked in soup with assorted ingredients, stewed with bitter gourd, stir-fried with lantern peppers, barbecued with other vegetables, blended with celery as juice, brewed in water as natural fruit syrup, or in any other way imaginable.

One day, at the Tian Shan Center in Hong Kong, Master dipped the pineapple slices in a batter and then deep-fried them in oil. While they were still hot, we dipped them in cinnamon sugar. They tasted really delicious. They were like a serving from heaven that is rare in this human world. Everyone enjoyed this delicacy, and I especially. I made it a point to remember how it was prepared and was determined to cook some for myself later. Just as I was enjoying the deep-fried pineapple slices, Master suddenly said something shocking. She said, "Bai Jie could kill for a piece of pineapple." Though that was only a casual remark, it shook me to the depths of my soul!

A few years have passed but this remark remains fresh on my mind. I have seen people wage wars for food, killing each other and forgetting to seek their "true self". I have seen them waste their lives just for money, without a goal in life. Like the rootless duckweed, they drift in whichever direction the current takes them. I thought that I had probably incurred heavy karma because of food. Had I not met Master in this life, I might have walked on the same path as others and remained trapped in the cycle of transmigration. Tears of emotion surged in me and welled from my eyes as I came to this realization, "No one knows me better than Master."

On another occasion, also at the Tian Shan Center, we were having a barbecue with fellow practitioners from Hong Kong. I prepared barbecue packets for Master, wrapping chunks of pineapple, vegetarian meat and assorted vegetables in aluminum foil and then roasting them in the fire. Minutes later, I served the roasted food to Master. Having sprinkled some Maggi sauce over it and tasted them, Master remarked, "This is delicious! Bai Jie has added some pineapple chunks in here. All right, I shall confer the title of Pineapple Chancellor on her."

Most probably I killed someone for pineapples in my last life. Fortunately, in this life I have received an honorary title from Master that has given me the comforting thought that I have redeemed my sin.

(* It was more fun when Bai Jie told it personally. Written words often kill the funny tone of a story!)

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