Spoken
by Supreme Master Ching Hai, Florida, U.S.A.
June 13, 2001 (Originally in English)
There
was a thief who broke into a house and started collecting things. Suddenly,
he heard a voice coming from a dark corner saying, "Jesus is watching
you." So he looked and looked, but he didn't see anyone. He thought
maybe his ears were deluding him. So he continued collecting items in
the house. And then there came a voice again: "Jesus is watching
you!" This time it was louder. So he realized that his ears were
not wrong. He followed the voice to find its source, and he found a
parrot sitting there. So he asked the parrot, "Was it you who said
that?" And the parrot confessed, "Yes, I was just trying to
warn you." So the thief said, "Ha! Who do you think you are?"
And the parrot said, "I am Moses." So the thief laughed and
said, "Ha! What kind of stupid people would name a parrot Moses?"
The parrot was very shy, but he said, "Well, probably the same
people who named the Rottweiler dog 'Jesus'!" (A Rottweiler is
a first-rate guard dog. And this one's name was Jesus. And he was watching
the thief from somewhere. He weighed about 150 pounds.)