Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai, Florida, U.S.A.
October 3, 1999 (Originally in Chinese)

An elderly man came to a bar and asked the bartender for ten glasses of beer. He started to drink from the first glass to the last one. After downing all the beers, the man said, "Okay, give me another eight glasses." The bartender did as he was ordered. From one to eight, the man drank them all. Then he shook his head and said, "Not enough, not quite. Give me six more." So the bartender served him six more glasses. From one to six, he finished each glass in the same way. Again he shook his head, saying, "Well, not enough, not quite. Four more glasses should do it." The bartender gave the man four glasses of beer, and he gulped the beer down and shook his head again, saying, "Strange! Two more glasses should do it." So, the bartender gave him two more glasses and he gulped them down. Still he shook his head and slapped himself: "Strange! Let me have only one more" So the bartender handed him a glass of beer and he drank it. Having finished, the man tried to stand up but staggered. He couldn't keep himself straight. At last, he sat down again and said to the other clients in the bar, "Man, it's so odd. The fewer glasses I have, the drunker I get."

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