The people with the empty envelopes, please bring them here to me, so I remember who has an empty envelope. This morning, I gave some awards with some empty envelopes. I have not had the time to write the award articles. So please bring them here now for me quickly. The ones with already written inside [envelopes], don’t have to bring. Just the empty envelopes. (Coming.) Lights. Empty [ones]. Wait, wait, one at a time, please. You can wait there. Look at me.
I don’t think I need to stamp, just write the name. Paris, right? Paris, Chinese, right? Other people can go to sleep if you wish. I only want to write the awards that I owe them this morning due to time shortage because you haven’t given me enough time. Here, Paris, Chinese. According to what I wrote inside, you make a copy to Miaoli Center, and they will send it to you. And any special request, you can also write therewith. Each Center is a little bit different.
I’m sorry I came a little bit late. I know it’s my fault, but you see, my sisters and my family members came from Texas and other states to see me at the party. I didn’t have time to talk to them then, so I invited them to my house, and so we settled some of the family affairs, chatting and all that and hugging, you know what. And then they never wanted to leave, of course. If it hadn’t been for you, they’d probably keep me there until now. So I said, “Sorry, I have a lot of other relatives waiting, thousands of them.”
So I write this to you just for a souvenir also. It’s not the award alone, it’s my writing that you want, I think. So you make a copy of it, send to Miaoli Center, and they’ll send the award to you because we didn’t bring them here with us. It’s too much luggage, and you don’t want to take all this home also. And it’s specially delivered by post, that way. All the empty envelopes, come back to me, please. I write the intent now. Thank you. The ones I’ve already written inside, don’t bring it to me. Only the ones with empty envelopes, please bring here.
So did you have a good time today? (Yes.) (It was wonderful.) Yeah? (Yes.) (It was a wonderful day.) Was it wonderful? (Yes.) (Greatest day ever.) What? (It was the greatest day.) It is the day of Ching Hai. With love. (Thank You.) What did you say? (We’ll go back to Hawaii each year for the day of [Supreme Master] Ching Hai.) Oh, yeah? (Yes.) You want to come back every year for the day of Ching Hai? (Yes.) Well, it’s a good idea. (Yes.) I don’t know if we can do it. Come to the same place again? Maybe we’ll have another Center or another place. Maybe not, I don’t know, I don’t know! I cannot promise anything.
When I write “one shoes,” it means one pair of shoes. It’s too much problem to write too much. And the portrait will be with my signature. So I will tell the Center, but you send the copy of this, keep the original, and then they will send it to you. Tell them to send it to where? Honolulu, forgot. Today of Master Ching Hai, I have to write there. No, I didn’t write that. I just wrote 25th of October, and everybody knows what it is. Honolulu. They’re good people, the Hawaiians. (Yes.) I start to like Americans. I begin to like the Americans. I begin to like them more.
Come to me, empty envelopes. (I went to Oxford just one month ago.) Oh, so the other one had the Oxford? So he didn’t have Oxford? Oh, I thought… OK, he didn’t have one. “The Oxford” didn’t have one. So “the Oxford” can come up and have another envelope. Or maybe I’ll write and you bring it to him. (OK.) Wait. Which program did you like best? Tell me. (We loved them all.) (Because if You become… working, always working… then so You can stay with us longer?) Sure, I don’t need to leave anymore.
The good thing about being an honorary citizen is that you have all the privileges, but no duties. So I just stay with you, but I don’t do anything. (You do a lot.) (Master.) What? (Congratulations.) Thank you. Congratulations to you for having such a good Master. (Yes.)
So now you know who is who. (Yes.) I don’t think I… I should put a stamp on it, but I don’t need to. Signature is enough. No need stamp. Stamp is for the outside. For the official, like when I sign a check for one million dollars, something like that, I need a stamp so the bank can recognize it. They only recognize stamps; they don’t recognize people. In Oxford, it’s even more funny. Any more empty envelopes, please come up. Men first. If the envelope is empty, you give it back to me. (Thank you.) Empty envelopes, please come. Or you get nothing, except an empty envelope.
Ah, Paris. Paris has three envelopes, isn’t it? (Yes.) There are already two that have been given back to me. Now, there is another one, right? So, I write it here and you bring it back? (Yes.) For him, OK? (Thank You.) You’re welcome, nothing at all. Is it the envelope of the Aulacese (Vietnamese)? (Yes, Master.) Ah, OK. I’ll write “Vietn.”? (Yes, Master. Thank You.) So where are you going tomorrow, all of you? (Oh, today.) Today? (Yes.) Oh, yeah? You’re all leaving me. (We’re still here.) (We’ll stay here, still here for a while.) Tomorrow, I mean today, at 11 o’clock, I have to see the mayor to pay respect to him for what he has done today because we didn’t have time to talk much to each other today, due to the noise and also, he had to go home early. Paris. Paris. Please. Alright. It’s ready.
Photo Caption: Opening the Heart With Gratitude
