All the heads of state in the world should read about "The Warring Period of China," or the "Feng Shen Pang" (Honor List of Deification), or "The Three Kingdoms." Maybe they would learn something. But maybe they'll think, "Oh! The Chinese again! They have a great imagination." They probably will not believe that there is some truth in it. When I read "The Warring Period of China," there were many fantastic things that are just like what we have nowadays. For example, in "The Warring Period of China", it describes something about those highly qualified or wise persons involved in the Warring Period at that time who used magic to destroy each other. They had a method of receiving news. For example, a person just meditated there or sat in his house or in his mansion or in his cave. And suddenly he heard a strange wind passing by him. And then he let the beginning of the wind pass, and then he caught the wind and listened to the news. What could that be? You can read the story, and you'll know. You'll know if you read it. If you haven't, you'd better read it. It's a fantastic book. It is one of the six Chinese kinds of treasure literatures. And I read them when I was very young. And even at a young age, at six, seven, it was already fascinating to me. I read it day and night until my father chased me out of the fairy business. (Audience laughs) But then I hid somewhere and continued, or waited until he was gone. Because it was so fascinating. I did not know it was a famous Chinese book of literature. I just loved it. And I read almost all of the Chinese classics, I think all of them. Whatever Chinese classic was very famous, I read them all, when I was very young. By the age of seven, I had finished all the Chinese kingdoms, conquered them all. (Master and all laugh) (Applause)

So you see, history repeats itself again and again. We always say that, but we don't know. And we don't try to control history. Many leaders of nations nowadays still try to make history in the same drastic way and try to write history again with blood.

I hope one day we all will be awakened to the Truth. Even if we don't practice the Quan Yin Method or anything, we should live in peace with each other. Everyone says peace; every government is just screaming at the top of their voice, "We are for freedom, democracy, for the people and prosperity, liberty and brotherhood, equality, everything, everything!" But look at what they do to their country and their people: It's a laughingstock. I don't know how they can say that and then sleep at night, while they tell white lies or black lies and they don't even feel anything about it. Or perhaps they're so fanatic in their minds that they can't even see their own mistakes. Perhaps they were born with such a quality that it is natural to them, just like it's natural for the fish to swim in the sea or for the bird to fly in the sky. Some people are born killers perhaps, born bad, born negative, born masters of murder and mass murderers. If you kill a person here, you're in trouble. But in the war, they direct guns at thousands and millions of innocent people and children, and no one ever prosecutes anyone. They just say, "Too bad." And after all this separation of families and friends, all the damage of property, youth, intelligence, and human life and treasure, no one says anything. Maybe later there's a little bit of an apology, like "Sorry," or not even that.

Just like nowadays, people still press Japan to say "sorry" for World War Two, but they still keep their mouth shut. They don't say anything. And for all the people's sorrow and suffering, no one cares. They say they care, but who does care? If they did care, they would have taken care of more of the refugees in the world instead of driving them home mercilessly using all means. If they did care, they would stop war and never start it again. But most of the leaders, why do they start wars? Because it doesn't affect them that much. It doesn't matter how many people die or how much national property has been damaged, they are okay! They still have enough to eat all the time, and they still live in luxury. They still have their limousine, their private airplane, their bodyguards and whatever else until the last minute perhaps, when they lose. Then they take the whole national treasure with them on the private airplane and say, "Goodbye." They still survive like a king somewhere else, just without a kingdom, that's all.

Therefore many leaders don't care whether there is war or peace. Because they are not really leaders. They just use the position to amass wealth, power and dictatorship for themselves. That's why we must be very careful in choosing our leaders. Of course, you can never find a perfect one or the one we expect, but at least the best and the least harmful. At least if he cannot do any good, "Oh! Please, just don't do any bad!" (Master and all laugh) "If you can't protect us, just at least don't kill us!" That's all. So at least it should be like that. And that's why it doesn't matter what they say; you have to see what they do. Whether it's really good for us to have such and such a president, or such and such a king, you have to know. The president you can change, but a king, you'd better think twice! If you make a revolution, you are the one who first gets your head chopped off. Luckily, nowadays we don't have that many dictator kings.

Before, a King meant God. Nobody could oppose him. Just if your mouth had not yet closed, your head was already gone! You couldn't even say anything or look directly at him. Every time the king rode outside somewhere, you had to kneel on the floor with your head down in the dirt. If you looked up, your head was gone. Before you looked at his face, your head was already somewhere. (Audience laughs) It was that strict everywhere. And it didn't matter how many people suffered from hunger or starvation or any kind of discomfort. Whether cold and heat or disaster, the king was always well off. So were his thousands of concubines, wives and eunuchs. They were never in trouble. That's why they didn't know what suffering is.

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