Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai,
Florida, USA, April 18, 2001 (originally in English)
Videotape No. 729

Audio : Aulacese, French, German, Portuguese, English, subtitle

On their wedding day a new wife said to her husband, “From today, we’re one; we’re married. So I don’t want you to say, ‘It’s yours’ or ‘It’s mine.’ We have to say, ‘It’s ours.’” And the husband said, “OK.”

The next morning, they were in their honeymoon suite, which had only one toilet: It’s romantic to share everything, but the wife was desperate to go to the bathroom since the husband had been in there for a very long time.

So finally she said, “Honey! What are you doing in there? Why are you taking so long?” And the husband said, “Oh, I’m sorry! I’m having trouble shaving our beard today because yesterday you used our razor to sharpen our eyebrow pencil.”

 

Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai, Florida,
USA, December. 28, 2001 (originally in English)
Videotape No. 735

There once was a young man who went to his girlfriend’s house and said to her father, “Sir, may I ask your permission to marry your daughter?” And the father said, “No way. There’s no way my daughter is going to marry an actor. That’s final!” But the boy begged him, “Please, before you make a final decision, would you at least go to see me perform tonight and then decide?” So the father said, “OK, fair enough.” So that evening the father took his daughter to the theater to see the young man perform, and after the performance, he took his daughter backstage into the young man’s dressing room and said, “OK, you can marry my daughter, no problem.” The young man was beside himself and so happy that he said, “Yes, sir, but why?” And the father said, “Because you’re no actor.”