(Well, they recently… when they first came, they turned vegan for six months, and they found us, so they come lunch and dinner, lunch and dinner.) OK, OK. Anything else new? (And recently we hired four college students and it’s their second job, but they tell us that they enjoy coming. They feel the atmosphere, a nice atmosphere.) OK. (They just feel it, and it’s a privilege for myself, too.) Congratulations. (Thank You, Master.)
Hallo. (Hallo.) So many new people. I have a problem with being a woman again. Thank you. My nails. How many new? Good. How come you come so late? (Loving Hut.) Loving Hut cannot come? Oh yeah, I know. They made a wrong message. I understand. I remember. I remember. I think they are doing a good job. And I am also doing a good job, my good job, and they are doing their job very well. They’re doing a “good” job. And I’m still doing my good job. I don’t know how, but I do, because in the situation that I have been in, I don’t think anybody can survive. Oh! So many questions today? You don’t care about my wet nails? I have to do this? OK!
Vancouver. Vancouver, Canada. So, all the brothers are gone? Now, sisters have to work? Tell me. (It’s just a story with my family, my sister, and everybody eats [animal-people] meat. I used to eat [animal-people] meat too, and most of us did. And over the past 18 years, I have been quietly “harassing” her a little bit.) You’re “harassing” them? (Yes.) Making them feel guilty? (Sending information about [going] vegetarian [vegan] that they didn’t really want to know, or have,) Yeah, yeah, yeah. (and they thought was silly. So, I’d send something and then I’d say, “Well, did you get it?”)
Your microphone is working? (Testing, testing, one, two, three. Test. Working? Is it working?) Why are they laughing upstairs? (I don’t know. You or me, Master.) What? (It’s either You or me, I don’t know.) I think they laugh at me, at my nails. Come on. And then, you’ve been “harassing” them. (Yes.) Is that legal in Canada to do that? (I’m not sure. So I’d wait a few months, and then, I’d send them something else, maybe a flyer, or an email, something new about vegan and… no way… Oh, poor Master!) Oh, God! I was OK at home. And when I come here, I don’t know what’s wrong. OK.
You sent them information, emails, and then what happened now? (Not interested. Nothing, nothing, nothing.) Nothing happened? (No. For 18 years.) Eighteen years?! (Yes.) Wow! You are a saint! (My sister and also a girlfriend, both. Nothing, nothing.) Nothing happened for... (Seventeen years.) for 17 years of “harassment”? (Yes.) Wow! They are also saints, – your family of saintly people! Patience is a saintly quality, no? I don’t have it. You take it all from me. So, what happened? Tell us the happy ending. Quick, quick!
(So, sometimes I’d get angry or sometimes I’d get disgusted, and then I’d quit for a year or so, and then birthday or Christmas I’d send again something included and try again. So anyway, my sister got kind of sick and that slowed her and made her think a little bit. So I said, “Well, you know you get a lot of diseases from eating [animal-people] meat and so on.” And she said, “Well, I talked to the nurses about that, and they didn’t seem to think so.” So, I said to her, “Well, they don’t have any training in that.” And then she understood. Because she has a bit of medical training, so it kind of hit a chord with her. So anyway, the 17th of August, the day before I arrived here, I was planning my trip. It was my birthday.) Your birthday, today?
(Ten days ago or something. the 17th of August I was planning my trip here, and my sister called me, and she said, “I was thinking this morning, you would be proud of me.” She said, “I made myself a vegan smoothie,” and she said, “I’m thinking of going vegetarian, and I’m going to try a lot.” I always send her recipes, and I think she puts [animal-people] meat in them.) So, what happened? (But now she’s changed, on my birthday, it was a really good gift!) Yeah? (Yes.) Wow, after 18 years, I should think... she ran out of patience, so she said, “Might as well.” (Yes. So, I...) Congratulations! Eighteen years of hard work. My God! If I had the patience like you have, I think I would’ve initiated the whole world already, but I don’t have. Give me some of your patience. So, good now? Yeah! That’s it, huh?
Anything else? (Yes, and my girlfriend, the same thing. And the birthday card on the same day two weeks ago, she, too, is more interested all of a sudden.) You mean, your friend, girl, or your girlfriend? (I’m not gay.) Nowadays, it’s very difficult to make definitions of everything. (Yes.) I told you already last time. (I have to be careful.) OK, good, good, good. Yes. (Thank You, Master.) They’re using up all kinds of words. Now we’re short of vocabulary. We can’t say, “Oh, I’m feeling so gay today!” I can’t say that because they might misunderstand. And if you’re a boy or a girl, when you say, “my girlfriend,” they all think of something else. (Yes.) So, you have to say, “my friend girl.” We have to invent new things.
How about you, other guys? Busan, Korea. (Hallo, Master.) Hallo! (There is one good news from Korea. We had a vegan fur fashion show last December 25th, and that was very successful. And one of the VIPs who came for the show, he suddenly got impressed from what we did and suddenly suggested to us to make a second vegan fashion show in Korea this year. He offered a place because he is the owner of the biggest art center in Korea. So now we are preparing for the vegan fashion show. And many media got interested about this, so maybe we can make it much bigger than last year.) Good. Good job. Thank you.
Wow, international. Lee from Hawaii. Maybe upstairs? Chinese, right? (I’m here.) Yeah. (I’m here, Master.) Hi! (Master, I have good news.) Yes? (Thanks to Your Grace and Love, the Loving Hut in Hawaii) Excuse me, guys. (is doing very, very well.) Excuse me. (As You know, in Hawaii, we have a lot of ethnic groups like Hawaiian, Samoan, Filipino, and they’re big, big guys. And they’re just impressed with the food in Loving Hut, Your Loving Hut, very, very impressed. They couldn’t tell that it’s not the real thing [animal-people meat], and every day we have new and returning customers.) OK. (And there’s a cute couple that’s local Japanese. They come every day, lunch and dinner, lunch and dinner. No fail, lunch and dinner, lunch and dinner.) What did you put in the food? (It’s all Your Love, Master, all Your Love.)
The Japanese, normally they only eat sushi. (They’re local Japanese, too. Born and raised there.) So, why do they come to your restaurant? (They love the...) Did they tell you why? (Well, they recently… when they first came, they turned vegan for six months, and they found us, so they come lunch and dinner, lunch and dinner.) OK, OK. Anything else new? (And recently we hired four college students and it’s their second job, but they tell us that they enjoy coming. They feel the atmosphere, a nice atmosphere.) OK. (They just feel it, and it’s a privilege for myself, too.) Congratulations. (Thank You, Master.) Thank you to you guys.
Next one, Lee. So many “Lee, Lee” around here. But this is one from Ottawa, Canada. Welcome. Where are you? Why are they sitting upstairs? Old people? (Old people.) How many people upstairs? (About 180 or something.) Hundred and eighty? Oh, so we cannot fit them all in here. (Yes.) You have to do some magic, something, expanding space. Einstein said that space and time are just relative. They’re not really real, so I don’t understand why this is so real! Look at all this. Wow, “ow” even. Relative. Illusion. It all seems real.
I don’t like theater, OK? I’m a very simple woman. Whatever I say, I say it straight and quick. Sometimes it’s not the outside; it’s the inside. I cannot bear. I love you guys very much, all of you. I’d do anything for you. I sacrifice many things, almost half of my life already, for you guys. But I don’t like ego. I don’t like people who jump in and blah, blah around when I’m talking to somebody else. I don’t like you trying to be like a hypocrite in kindness. So, you just be you, genuine, simple. Otherwise, you create a very conflicting energy in the room.
I’m just your spiritual teacher. I’m not a garbage can that you want to throw anything inside, for your ego and your habits or whatever. I am very hospitable, but I don’t like theatre. I don’t like showing off, and I don’t like anything that is unnatural, unreal, and pretentious or hypocritical or showing off. What? (Untrue.) Untrue and unreal and insincere. You’re OK, guys? If I could really accept all that, I would have more than what my meditation center can hold. I don’t have diplomatic skills. I don’t have political talent. I just have a temper!
