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153, Master Tells Jokes
Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai
Cambodia • May 13, 1996
(originally in English) Videotape 547
There
was once a very poor person who was also very stingy. But his manner
of praying to God must be one of the most famous, even more so than
the Bible’s “Give us this day our daily bread.”
(Matthew 6:11)
So
the old miser was heard saying his prayers like this: “Oh, my
God, my Lord! My Almighty! If the Almighty — may Your holy name
be blessed forever — if You gave me a hundred thousand dollars,
I would immediately give ten thousand to the poor. I promise I would!
You know that, don’t You? And if the Almighty — may Hes
be blessed — does not trust me about my promise, then please
deduct the ten thousand in advance and only give me ninety thousand.”
