There
once was a kid who went out with his mother onto the beach and saw
a seagull lying dead on the sand. So he said to his mother, "Mother,
what happened to this bird?" The mother said, "He died and went
to heaven." And the little boy thought for awhile and said, "And
God threw him back down here?"
Spoken
by Supreme Master Ching Hai Geneva, switzerland
May 3, 1999 (Originally in English)
Illustrated by 11-year-old sister initiate Yifam Luo, Indiana,
U.S.A.