You can come around here. Newcomers? (Yes.) Newly welcomed. Hi. How come all the people don’t sit there? You’re OK? Everybody can sit here if you want – if you want to see me. If you don’t, then sit there. OK, sit behind there, under there, anywhere. Oh my God! Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa. Brother, next time, that thing of mine, push it behind. (OK.) So they can all sit. (Master, do You want us to move it now?) If you don’t mind. And the people behind can stand up “for your rights.” OK. You don’t have to all sit because if you sit there, you cannot see me. But you can stand, alright? If you can stand me, you can stand. Alright?
Now move. Move my table. Push. 1, 2, 3. No, no, no, no. Don’t push it in there. (Lift up please. Lift up) Oh yeah, that’s how it happened. Now, the truth... the truth comes out. It’s OK; it’s only leaves, so it doesn’t matter. Leave it like that. (We don’t mind.) You don’t mind? (No.) Some people might take them for souvenirs. You never know. They do that. Anyhow, so it’s better now? (Yes.) If you cannot sit, then you stand.
The newcomers, raise your hand so I can… OK, OK. Welcome home. Yeah, you sit here. You sit here – room at the front. Yeah, sure. (Thank You.) Here or there. Yeah, sit there. Welcome home. Where from? USA. (California.) California. No wonder you’re so beautiful. Beautiful pinky-apple cheeks. Newcomers, any problem? (No.) Better not. If you cannot, then you move over because people don’t know what they do. (OK.) You have to move (Yes.) to suit yourself.
Anyhow, you see how I have to build a bigger temple now? This is my temple. Nice, huh? (Yes.) Yes, of course. The best in the whole world. You have never seen such a beautiful temple and so big before. The biggest temple in the world. No roof and all the whole sky is yours, your roof. The whole Earth is your floor, the ground. So, we have no problem.
You are OK with your ears (earphones)? Your “magical ears.” You’ve got some ears? No? You don’t need ears. I speak to the foreigners usually in English. But sometimes, just to pull your legs, I speak Chinese also. You can sit anywhere you want – next to here if you want to. If not, you can stand up like that. And take turns, OK? If your legs get tired, you pull the next guy up and sit down.
Yes, before we had a roof over our heads. You remember? If some of you came before. So, after some trouble with the… Not our trouble, the trouble internally between perhaps the owners or the neighbors. So, they decided that we should be the target. Instead of themselves, they made trouble for us. So I said, “Welcome.” That means God decided that our temple was too small for us, so Hes decided to give us the biggest temple in the whole world. So that’s how we have the open temple right now in front of you.
The best and the one and only ashram in the whole world where everyone brings their own temple. Now buildings are springing up like in Hong Kong. Actually, when it was just… how to say… dismantled? The roof? Dismantled the roof? OK. When it was “disroofed”… A new word for you. When we “disroofed” the first time, people were worried about rain and sun and all that. I said, “Don’t worry, don’t worry. We will invent some equipment for all weather.” Like a poncho, like a personal raincoat? I guess you have seen the tape. Translated or not? No? OK, never mind. It will be translated sometime if we have enough personal translators. People say the Guru’s feet are very nice. So, I was wondering whether I have the foot of a Guru or not. I keep looking all the time, checking it out. I better hide it. Otherwise, all of you want to look.
Anyhow, so I said we would design something like a tent, but personal tent, and then equipped with pockets for everything. Like a pocket for Quan Yin cloth, and pocket for shoes, pocket for chopsticks, and for the Westerners, some small pockets for forks and knives and things like that. And then your your cup, steel cup. So we shouldn’t worry. If it’s raining, we just roll down the four sides and tie them up inside. And if it’s sunny, we roll them up, and we have a net inside for mosquitoes. And some net windows – in case if it’s raining, you have air and things… perfectly designed. But it never came into being because we don’t need it.
Also, because we have a lot of buildings around, small buildings. Not really buildings, small roofs. Still some roofs there. I said, ""Well you can hide yourself. Whatever roof you find, you just hide underneath whenever it rains.” My voice is a little funny today. My voice… Is it my voice, or is it the microphone? (Microphone.) Microphone? Funny, huh? But they told me, “Master, we have only a few small roofs, sometimes over 10,000 people. How can we all hide inside?” I said, “Never mind, you take turns.” Take turns to get wet. “When you’ve stayed outside long enough, and you feel cold, you pull the other one out and say, ‘Now, you come out.’ Like this, everybody gets wet.”
Anyhow, so, up to now, nobody got wet. Not bad. Did you get wet? (No.) Not? And the ones who stay long… (No.) (No.) I had a wet experience. Wet look, no? Nobody stays that long? (Yes.) Couple of days only? The old ones have gone home, I think – the ones who experienced the rain. (Not yet. Still here.) You are still here? (Yes, still here.) (Still here.) The wet looks? (Yes.)
OK. Sometimes it rains here. But this time of the year is not the rainy season; it’s typhoon season. If one day you wake up and find yourself and your tent in a very strange area, somewhere far away from the ashram, oops! You know. “Oh. That’s it. It’s over!” And then, you have to equip yourself with a map of Hsihu, and then you have to hike yourself back home – with your tent, of course. So, that’s why I always advise you not to bring too much stuff here, just enough to survive: a few clothes so that you can change and a sleeping bag in case the weather turns “cold-zy.”
Are you alright so far? (Yes.) At night it’s cool? (Yes.) But in the daytime, don’t attempt to sleep in a tent. OK? You’ll be baked, well cooked. Actually, it happens. Today, a newspaper printed very strange news, but it is the truth. A man in England baked himself to death. Can you believe that? England! Oh my God! In Âu Lạc (Vietnam), perhaps, but England? But it’s true; it’s a true story. Well, the newspaper said so. You have to take newspaper news 50/50, and then divide it into four, and take one quarter of that 50, then you’ll know the truth. That’s what somebody told me. Sometimes they print the truth. Some of the newspapers are very honest and truthful. But if you want to survive, that’s not the only requirement – the newspapers.
Photo Caption: The Rain from Heaven Gives Cleansing 2 All, Whatever Opens to Receive It
