News
154, Master Tells Jokes
Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai
International three-day Retreat in Phnom Penh, Cambodia • March
28, 1996
(originally in Chinese) Videotape 541
When
a very miserly man nicknamed the “stingy ghost” died and
went to hell, the Yama King reproached him, saying, “You stingy
ghost! When you were alive, you clung hard to everything and wouldn’t
give to anyone. Even when you saw others in poverty and misery, you
refused to offer them help. Also, you didn’t take good care
of your parents, relatives or friends and let them suffer and starve.
For your evil karma, you’ll be dumped into a pot of boiling
oil.”
The
ghost wardens then escorted the man to the pot of boiling oil, and
when they arrived, he looked at the pot and said, “Hey! Wait
a minute! There’s so much oil in it. What a waste! Please drain
out the oil, sell it and give me the money. Then, you can simply dump
me in a pot of boiling water! There’s no need for oil. You’re
using too much oil to cook one person anyway!”
