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144, Master Tells Jokes
Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai
Florida, USA • October 6, 1999
(originally in English)
There
was a man who was walking to a train station with two friends at his
sides. Because the train was delayed, the three of them sat down for
a cup of coffee. And then they also drank some alcohol. After a while
they forgot all about the train. So they drank and talked, and talked
and drank. But then they heard the final announcement that the train
was leaving so the three got up and ran. And the man who was walking
between his two friends had drunk too much and fell a little behind
and couldn’t catch up. The other two caught the caboose and
went away with the train. Then the man, the one who had been between
his two friends, stopped there and laughed and laughed again. Everyone
around the man began to look at him and said, “What are you
laughing at? You missed the train, you know?” And the man said,
“Yeah, Yeah, I know I missed the train, but I’m laughing
at my two friends because they had supposedly just come to see me
off!” 
