Oh, that’s her? (Yes.) Can you still see the chicken(-people) now? (I don’t see it anymore.) Don’t see it anymore. (Yes, it’s different.) Saw something else, very interesting? (Yes.) Let’s hear it, tell me. (The day I meditated at Sandimen, Master.) Yeah. (I saw Master flying out from inside a cave where Master stays. When Master flew out, five flowers flew in. Master caught the five flowers, and right then, Celestial maidens dropped more flowers down. Oh wow, it smelled so good. I sat there breathing it in for half the second day. Yes, yes.) Really? (Yes.) In the Buddhist scriptures, it’s also said that wherever there’s a Buddha, sometimes Celestial maidens also make offerings. (Yes.) But when we don’t see it, we think it’s not real. You have to go inside to see it. We think the sutras talk about something mythical, like how could Celestial maidens come to offer flowers. But it’s real, right? (Yes.) You saw it clearly, huh? You’re a witness, a witness. (Yes, on the second day.) The second day. (Yes, I saw it at Sandimen.) Saw it clearly. OK. That’s it. So now you see that everything written in the Buddhist scriptures really exists. It’s not some fantasy or myth made up to entertain children. It’s real. (Yes, thank God and Master.)
Bye-bye. I see you around. Where are you? Ah, do you want to come along? (Yes, Master.) (It’s fine to go along too.) Hallo. Yeah, I like it. (Thank You.) (So happy to meet Master.) Is the baby bigger now? (Yes, Master.) Did you bring them here? (Yes, Master.) Where are they? Where are the kids? Bring them here to sing a bit. (Master.) Wow, your skin looks so nice. (Master.) Oh, you’re beautiful. Beautiful. Is this your mother? Really beautiful. You will have it, tomorrow. OK? Tomorrow. You want to get initiation because of this? No. Can she be vegan? (Yeah. Vegan.) Beautiful. (Has been vegan since birth.) Yes, yes, yes. So beautiful. (You want one? You ask from Master. Don’t wear mother’s.) It’s alright. Tomorrow. You lend her a little bit. After tomorrow... Alright? So beautiful. (Master’s Blessing.)
Handsome guy. Handsome guy and handsome ladies. You know me? Oh, no, let him sleep. It’s alright. The kids who eat vegan are really beautiful, right? (Yes.) The children are so lovely. (This one was born vegan.) Oh, this one too, right? (Yes.) (Yes, vegan since childhood.) Will [their] father come at some time? ([Their] father will come tomorrow. I hope some time. Tomorrow, some time, I hope I can get him to see You. I try my best.) Oh, no need, no need. If he doesn’t want to, it’s OK. (I think he might.) No, I will meet him if he comes to see her. (Master, I came from Âu Lạc [Vietnam]. I really hoped to see You.) Oh, really? Are you doing well here? (Yes.) Do you have a job yet? (Not yet, I just came last month.) Oh, I see. Try to study English diligently. (Yes.)
Oh, this is the one? (Yes.) Ah, so beautiful. What is your name? You know me? I’m this one. I’m the one in the photo. You know me or not? I’m right here. Don’t you know? What’s all that noise about? Where’s (…)? I don’t see (…) anywhere. (Master.) (There, that’s […].) Was just standing over there, right? (Yes, here I am.) (Yes.) (Yes, I’m here.) Oh my, such a “heavy blessing.” You even had a plane ticket but still couldn’t go? OK. Alright. (I wish Master a good night!) Thank you, thank you. I wish you all a good night too. I’ll see you around. Thank you.
(Good night, Master!) Kiss. Oh, is this the baby? Oh my, you’ve grown so much! Is that you? (Yes.) Wow, so big. Every time I see you, you’re covered. We always hug every time she sees me. She just runs over to hug me. This time she is blocked. You’ve grown so big, haven’t you, dear? (Me too, Master, I’m always a baby.) Go home and tell your father that eating (animal-people) meat will rot his guts and he won’t get to Heaven. OK. Take care of her. (Yes.) Otherwise she’ll get crushed. Please move gently so the little ones don’t get pushed, take it slow. I’m leaving now, see you tomorrow? (Yes.) (Good night, Master.)
Is your old mother well? (Yes, my mother is coming up tomorrow.) Really? (Yes.) This place is not for fellow practitioners, right? Those people cannot come, right? (Yes, some of them.) (Some people will receive initiation tomorrow.) Are they allowed to come? Are they coming this time? (Yes, they will be allowed to come.) Yeah, Hòa is coming too. Goodbye. Goodbye then. Why are you down here? (Master.) (It’s too crowded over there.) Too crowded, huh? (Yes.) (Master.) Hallo. Are you OK? Two of you? (Yes.) Go upstairs to get some candy. There’s no candy down here. (Yes, thank You, Master.) OK. Farewell. (Goodbye, Master.) So handsome.
After Midnight (April 3, 1993)
Oh, that’s OK. That’s OK. The king took off his clothes and walked around the streets. People saw him but dared not say anything, they lowered their heads and avoided him. Then the king thought that he was truly invisible, and so he become more and more... He showed off his territory [body] more and more by the day. He ran everywhere. And he passed by an area with children, small children. The children feared nothing, they were honest and said, “Ha! The king is naked, the king is naked!” By then, the king realized he was deceived. This girl also, all afternoon everyone kept praising her. Praising doesn’t cost money, right? They kept complimenting how beautiful she looks, and so she kept circling back and forth. What a beauty, head like an upside down mug. Like a coconut hat.
(They also criticize me like that.) What? (The nun closes her eyes, she dared not criticize.) What? (Earlier she didn’t dare criticize, but she said, “Why is your head so short?”) You’re a practitioner, but you still talk diplomatically, it’s tiring. (Just now, monk also complimented that person’s shirt.) Oh, that guy, a practitioner and still that way. (“How come hair’s so short?” Now he dares not criticize anymore.) (Dare not say it directly.) If you dare not say it, then don’t say. No one forces him to say anything. Right? If don’t want to say anything, then keep mouth shut. No one asks them to say anything, but still speak short and long. (Just now also complimented me.) That lady is the same. Oh God! What kind of Bodhisattva behaves that way. Miserable! Only my head is the nicest. (Yes.) I heard people say that. The kids that dare not criticize said so. Dare to talk any nonsense. Ah, the hat, that hair? (Yes.) So now these two kids copy everything? Comb on both sides exactly like a girl. (They took the hat and plan on tapping to it.) Ah. (Now we have too many candies, they brought it down here.) Oh, that’s why people say Buddha Nature is neither male or female, right?
So your husband was crying at home? (No, my husband waits for me in Seattle. I drove with several fellow initiates.) You didn’t let him come up? (It’s because he could only get two weeks off, Master.) Oh. Just to Seattle? (Yes, he went to Seattle, then from Seattle we drove to Colorado.) (This time, Master is in America, so we come along.) So tired, tired. I don’t like to fly, not that I don’t like to visit initiates. So tiring, keep changing from one place to another, not enough time to rest. (Yes.) But even if I stay there, I wouldn’t be able to rest anyway. (Yes.) Wherever I go, the whole group follows. I have little time, but people keep coming every day. No time, no time to restore to normal life. But it’s OK, just die, who cares. (You won’t die, Master.) I won’t die, live forever? Oh God, that’s very miserable.
I forgot to call the old “chicken” lady back. The “chicken” lady. This time she didn’t see chicken(-people) but she saw Bodhisattva. Saw fairies scattering flowers everywhere. Where did she find these cheap flowers to scatter everywhere. (Paper flowers.) Flowers in Heaven are cheap, huh? The old lady talks so funny. Doesn’t see the chicken(-people). “I don’t see the chicken(-people) anymore.” She said that, right? (Yes.) I forgot to call her back earlier. Did you call her? (No, Master.) I forgot. If she comes back, she will keep crowing. (She crows for Master [to hear].) No problem. I like her very much. But I like that lady, she crows but it’s fun, huh? (Yes.) Speaks honestly. (Very honest.) Yes, talks like a child. (Honest, Master.) No hassle. That lady and Ms. (…), if they crow together, oh no. The whole country will wake up. Cannot sleep.
(Then she’ll say, “O dear, Ms. […] has a friend now.”) Ah, has a friend. (What Master said, I feel embarrassed.) (Does Master think I look pretty today, Master?) What a beauty, like an upside down pot. (So true.) The pot, this one is upside down, and that one is right side up. (I told my husband to take me to get a [hair] perm to go greet Master.) Oh, man! (So that I would look prettier when I greet Master.) The more perm, the uglier. Who asked you to get a perm? The previous day you looked better without the perm. (Next time I will leave it long.) That’s OK. I’m only kidding with you. (Yes.) Don’t need to perm, still look pretty. Is that right? (Yes.)
(The Caucasian guy who studied with 4,000 monks and later met and followed Master, he fell into the pool and pulled me with him.) What? (The Caucasian guy that…) Ah, that guy. Yes, yes. (Yes, that guy.) Pulled you down with him? (Yes.) Did you change your clothes in time? (Got all wet.) But got all wet… (I saw that when he pulled me down, I noticed his hand looks like Master’s hand.) Is that right? (I’m 61 years old this year, “5 years old.” Master blessed me, I don’t have any illnesses.) No illnesses at all. Otherwise… (This morning, I phoned, I was going to take a shower then run out, but then he…) Oh. (One day, he took a shower at 10 PM but did not get sick, instead felt very well.) The whole body bathed in nectar water. (But that American guy is hiding somewhere.) (I always tease him about that.) Love the pool so much, you jump in. (If died, Master will save.) Luckily, it’s not the ocean, otherwise once you jump in, you’re gone for good. Go to Nirvana.
(Ms. Hà said, “Oh God!” She is the one who saw Master is [Lord] Jesus) Reincarnate. (reincarnate. She said, oh God, she wanted to run, to fall down, but how come she could not.) Wanted to fall but couldn’t fall, huh? Yea, it’s fun to see the Aulacese (Vietnamese), huh. This person says this, the other says that. The lady Hao was so funny when she talked, I almost died laughing. She spoke half Aulacese (Vietnamese), half English, I almost died laughing. “I saw a hand and then they gave me a cup, Master, then let me drink the water from it.” Remember? (Yes. She said that.) “I saw a hand and then they gave me one cup.” Cup. Where is she now? (She is in Hawaii.) Hawaii? (Yes.) She came from there, from Hawaii? (Yes. She is not here?) So funny, the way she talked was so amusing. Every day run here and there like a “crazy” person: “I love You, Master, I love You.” (She’s like Ms. [...], the mother of monk [...]. I used to visit before.) Oh, really? (Looks similar.) Oh, kind of look alike, right.
I called (…) back earlier but she did not come. She’s gone, gone somewhere. Is she outside? Is there anyone outside? (There are Dhama guards out there, Master.) OK then, it’s fine. The chubby kid earlier, whose kid is it? (Her name is [...] Master.) Ah, (...)’s daughter? That chubby and big? (Yes.) Really? Oh, let her in. Oh God! (She waits in the car, Master.) Call her inside. Sleeping already? (Maybe she’s sitting in the car.) I asked earlier, but how come no one knows whose child she is? I kept asking and no one answered. OK, go call her inside, tell her she cannot sleep now. (She’s not out there, Master.) Not there? Call her in and give her (vegan) candy to eat. Otherwise, tomorrow she will have nightmare in her dream.
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