Wishing Dad Could Live Forever

 

Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai, Cambodia,
May 12, 1996 (Originally in English) Videotape #544

There was a man who had a son who was already twenty years old. But this son was absolutely, terribly, horribly lazy. He didn’t do anything and didn’t want to learn anything. He just ate and slept all day and lived off of his father.

Then one day an astrologer passed by, looked at the appearance of both the father and son and suddenly said, “Oh! Your father will live until he’s 80 years old and you’ll live two years longer.”

So the son started wailing, beating his chest and crying like crazy with tears rolling down on the floor.

At this the astrologer was very surprised and said, “I didn’t know you were so filial! Is it true that you love your father so much, or did you misunderstand me? I said that your father would die first, not you! So why is it that you’re crying so much?”

And the son replied, “What do you think! If my father dies two years before I do, who will make money for me during that time?”

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The Personal Physician

Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai,
Florida,USA, February 4, 2003
(Originally in English) DVD #754

There was a farmer who fell and broke his hip while he was plowing, and his horse immediately galloped five miles to the nearest town and returned, carrying a doctor on his back. “That’s a pretty smart horse,” the farmer’s friend later observed. “Well, he’s not really so smart,” the farmer said. “The doctor he brought back was a veterinarian!”