My mother was a good example for me. She worked very hard. And she was very frugal. I remember she was selling materials for clothes, but she herself wore some patched clothes. She was a very simple woman, worked hard for the family, but not for her own comfort. She worked so hard, but she sacrificed everything for us. Now I appreciate it more. […] I learned generosity from my father and hardworking from my mother. […]
I think she’s a beautiful woman, fantastic. No wonder she had such good experiences. Before she even knew that I am a so-called Living Buddha, she already had inner experiences, just by thinking of me. She saw one time I came home at night in her dream, and the house was full of Light. My body was full of Light too. So, in the morning she woke up, she called the whole house, and said, “Oh, She must have become Buddha, because I saw Her last night full of Light, coming home here and blessed me, and all this, and I feel so wonderful this morning,” and blah, blah, blah. […] She was always very virtuous, very faithful, and sacrificed for the family all her life. I guess that’s what earns her the vision, that she has seen in her dream. […]
I was never tempted by jewelry, even when I was a child. I feel burdened wearing them. That’s why I don’t even have a watch. And I have earholes, but I never wear anything. I do sometimes, only for half an hour or two hours, then I come home and immediately tear them off, throw them out. These earholes, because when I was young, everybody “pierced” their ears. So they gave me an instrument to pierce them, and I was so stupid to do the same. And I did not know that I’d have a mark for all my life. But never mind. It shows that I’m feminine, at least. So, just to remind you that I have not changed my sex after enlightenment. […]
