They went to another restaurant, another Loving Hut, that cooks some Aulacese (Vietnamese) stuff. Oh! They make beautiful fresh (vegan) spring rolls, just like the Aulacese (Vietnamese) do it! I was surprised, and it was made by a European person. […] And I said, “Wow! So beautiful, it tastes so good! Where did you learn that?” She said she learned it in Loving Hut.
Any other good news? Yeah, behind you. (Master, You tell the truth because people now they already changed a lot.) They changed a lot? (Yes, they changed a lot. At Loving Hut, we cook very good and sell not at very high [prices], so they eat a lot.) Yes. (We have one restaurant in California, L.A. [Los Angeles] Center, in San Diego – always full house.) Yes? You are from the San Diego restaurant? (No, I’m not. In the beginning, I helped there, but I’m busy for another program.) OK, another project – good, good. (But I’m very close to there because they...) Always full? (They’re always full. They will be here next week because I told them to come to rest. Because they are working very tired now.) Understand. (Saturday, they sold $4,000.) Wow! One day. (Very, very cheap.) Understand.
(And they’re very nice and very fast.) Yes. (The people don’t have time to come to wait half an hour to eat phở.) Yes, yes. For good food. (Yes, because not good, but some are very slow. And that store, they know. I told them and we very, very [much] agree together because we opened a store. I told them every business that wants to make money has to sell cheap.) Yeah, must sell cheap. (Not to sell high. Sell cheap, and people advertise, and a lot of people come.) You sell cheap, but you will sell a lot. (Yes, a lot.) But then you have to work hard only, yes. (If you sell cheap and good, when people come to eat, they go home to tell ten more people.) Tell other people, yes. (And ten more people tell 100 more people.) Oh, good, then you should be the manager, or whatever, of that restaurant. (No, no, I’m not manager, but…) You just talk. (Yes, I talk; I have ideas. To everybody, I say,) OK, good, good. (“If you want to make money, don’t sell expensive.”) Of course not! No – none of our Loving Huts should sell expensive. Normally we don’t. (But some start very slow, Master. When the customers come, they wait for half an hour to eat.) No, no, too slow. (Yes, too slow.) I know. Tell them they have to work like me. (Yes, I told them. When I came to Loving Hut to help, I’m very in a hurry. So people [who] work [there] kind of don’t like me.) All the Loving Hut owners must work faster, OK? (Yes.) Alright, we took your advice, anything else?
(And another thing, Master. Whoever wants to open Loving Hut has to learn to cook very good food.) Yeah. Have to learn from the other Loving Huts. (To know first before we open the store. And I want to share…) But they do. They do learn to cook. (I helped a cooking show on television,) Yeah? (the Aulacese [Vietnamese] community) Aulacese (Vietnamese) community, yes. (in California. I cooked. In the beginning, I didn’t want because my voice is not very nice, so I didn’t want to come to the show. And people told me, “You only show them to cook, not to…”) Yeah, not to talk, not to sing. That’s right. (So I did, I did and very successful.) Good! (A lot of people ate what they cooked.) Then you should go work in one of the Loving Hut restaurants. Because you cook very nice. You and she cook very nice. (I don’t think, but because I just depend on God, so God helps me.) God cooks for you? (Yes.) Hes didn’t come to cook for me! I eat lousy food every day! Where is your God who cooks? (I know [from] inside. Master, when I didn’t know the food, I decided to cook. For example, vegan turkey; I didn’t know. I tried many times, three times, but not...) Not successful, yes. (not good. I didn’t want to bring it out to the show. And tomorrow the show comes up, but now I don’t know how. And, right away – I knew how right away. Because I depend on God, so God showed me inside.) Good God you have.
(And another thing, if we show something in a show to everybody, we should show it very clearly. Because I asked them why they didn’t eat vegan before. They said they saw many shows on television, on the internet, but they showed not very clear. Kind of like they don’t want to…) What show was not clear? Why? (Because they showed the cooking, the way how to cook...) You mean we? Our show? (No, no, no.) Or other…? (Somebody...) Other shows. OK, OK. (Other shows. They didn’t watch [Supreme Master] TV.) OK. (And when I showed them, I showed it very, very clearly – exact measurements.) Of course, you’re super! (No, no, I’m not super, I don’t want, but I try, Master, I try.) Understand, understand. (I try my best.) Yes. (Because before I bring the food out to cook, I cook first in my house, and I eat. If not good, I don’t do, and I do it again.) Yeah, I understand. (When I accept, I know it’s very good, then I bring out. So I tell people, “You show... you make it very exact, very clear, how many cups, how much seasoning, etc.”) I see. (Everything exact, and the people who don’t know how to cook, they still can cook.)
How about you? Did you do that? Did you cook well? (Yes.) Yes? Well, I don’t know about other restaurants, but some of the rest… (We do like different [vegan] food from… it’s not Asian food.) Not Asian food? (No, it’s much more...) Much more Spanish? (We do some Spanish, like paella, but it’s lasagnas and curries and wraps and things like this, not so much Chinese.) (Two stir-fry dishes.) (Yes, two stir-fry dishes.) Maybe you should change a little bit. (Well, the Chinese restaurants around there aren’t busy at all. The Spanish don’t seem to go for the Chinese food.) I’m not sure about that. Aulacese (Vietnamese) food tastes very good, though. (Yes.) It’s just the Aulacese (Vietnamese) people, they are not very businesslike, so they don’t open restaurants everywhere like the Chinese. Also, they are smaller in number. Chinese are billions of people, so they spread all over, and wherever they go, they make Chinese food famous.
But Aulacese (Vietnamese) food is very tasty. Not because I’m Aulacese (Vietnamese) – I love any kind of food if it’s good. But some of the restaurants, like one restaurant I know in Europe – owned by Chinese, though, owned by Chinese – the person who works there is a native European. But they went to another restaurant, another Loving Hut, that cooks some Aulacese (Vietnamese) stuff. Oh! They make beautiful fresh (vegan) spring rolls, just like the Aulacese (Vietnamese) do it! I was surprised, and it was made by a European person. And she had never cooked before; she just really learned well – the sauce and everything. I thought it was made by an Aulacese (Vietnamese). I said, “But you told me this restaurant is owned by Chinese, and the person who cooks is European.” She said, “Yes, yes, Master, yes!” I said, “How come she cooks such beautiful Aulacese (Vietnamese) food like this?” “They go and learn, Master, they went and learned, ABC.” It was so lovely, really.
Even one of my attendants, she never cooked for me before. It was the first time she became my attendant. Just because she had European residence, it was more convenient, so, by chance, she came. And she cooked for me – just once or twice. And I said, “Wow! So beautiful, it tastes so good! Where did you learn that?” She said she learned it in Loving Hut. (Yes.) Yeah, but she cooked only twice. Even despite my hint, she didn’t ever cook again. I don’t know why.
They are so much into raw and “fruity-tuttis” (fruits) now. I’m helpless. After I told you guys that I was on “fruity-tuttis,” I didn’t want to look at fruits anymore! I don’t know why. And now everywhere I turn, “I am eating fruits now, Master! I am on a fruit diet. I’m on a raw diet.” They took all my energy for the fruits. And they eat all the healthy food, and now I have to eat the unhealthy food that they ate before. I have experience, but I never learn.
You know, like before, whenever I cooked something nice for myself, I mean original (recipe), and I told the residents, for example. And then they made a DVD, of course. And after that, I didn’t ever want to even look at that again, look at the thing that I enjoyed so much in those weeks or recent months.
And for example, I told you guys that I enjoyed brown rice and sesame, remember? And it was so easy, simple, nutritious, and good enough. After I told you guys, I don't even want to look at brown rice anymore. I can’t even bear sesame. Nada! (Nothing!) (I love sesame.) I know you do! Many of them do.
And now, it’s all “fruity-tuttis”! Like some Taiwanese (Formosan) residents came and sometimes helped me a little bit here and there. And then, even though I didn’t ask, they volunteered telling me, “I eat fruits now, Master! Only fruits.” For example, like that. I was thinking she or he might come to cook for me some old food that I used to love, that I couldn’t bother because there was so much preparation and no time, no mood. And then they said, “I eat fruits, Master!” Yeah, yeah.
After I told you about brown rice, this (meditation) Center began to cook brown rice and even black rice and purple rice for everybody, remember? (Yes.) Why was that? And I told them, “Why do you have to? Why?” At that time, I told you that I was on brown rice and sesame, because we didn’t have time to cook, and that was simple for me. And it also tastes great. And if you can have a little bit of tofu now and then, also fine, or a little fruit. But then, here in the Center, they cook like a thousand dishes! So nutritious stuff. Tofu and pocket tofu, Tofurky, dried bean curd, bean curd strips, tofu... and all kinds of protein. Seitan this, seitan that, and all kinds of vegetables and everything! So no need to even eat brown rice. Of course, you can, but no need to be all fanatic about it. Brown rice is not enough; even put black rice, purple rice together. Jesus Christ! I did that because brown rice and sesame offer minimum nutrition, enough for me to go on. But here, so many things and so many vegetables already, and so much protein already, and still want extra brown rice and sesame and black rice! My God! Please don’t copycat, OK? Have to be flexible. And do it just original. And have to do it the way it’s necessary. Not just copy everything Master does or says. This is a funny business. And it looks silly and makes your IQ stand still.
I’m telling you – the things they do. Sometimes I just shake my head; I have no words to say anymore! For example, I have to move all the time and one time, I moved into a house. Well, it’s not in my name, of course. Sometimes I buy, but I cannot afford to put my name on it. I have nothing. I don’t even have a car in my name. I don’t even have a house in my name. Everybody owns everything – except me. Even this hotel; it was my money, but I don’t own any of it. I don’t even own a piece of grass outside. Understand this? (Yes.)
Now, I moved into a new house, another house, and what happened? They bought me a refrigerator, a smaller one than the one they have in the kitchen – the old one in the kitchen, for the old cooking. So, they bought me a refrigerator and put my things in it. Originally, I said, “Change the refrigerator.” Because it was old, it was all rusty everywhere, number one. Number two, they’d been using it for decades with all (animal-people) meat and fish in it already. And the old model, it would cost a lot of electricity also. For all these reasons I told them to buy a new refrigerator. But they didn’t buy. They bought a small one for me. I wanted a new refrigerator; I got it, about this big. They put it in the living room and still kept the old refrigerator. But I said, “Why...? If you want to keep the old refrigerator, then there’s still a lot of room even for my whatever in there, together. Why had to buy a new one for me and put my stuff in there?” I said, “If you are here all together – 10, 20 people like this,…” They were working in the house, so I came. “If you are here, then I’ll eat with you anyway. So I don’t need my own refrigerator. And if you are not here, I’ll just walk three steps into my own kitchen and cook my own stuff! There’s no need for a separate refrigerator in my living room. It makes noise, it spends more electricity, and if people see it, they’ll think I’m weird.”
Yeah! That’s how people judge me all the time. Like, sometimes I don’t go out shopping, and I don’t know what kinds of toothbrushes they have. And they bought me one before, so I said, “Just buy this one.” Because that’s the only name I knew from a long time ago when I didn’t go shopping that much. And sometimes you go to a different country; you don’t know what kind of different varieties. So, whatever I know, I just say, “Go buy this. Just buy a toothbrush.” And they said, “What kind?” I said, “Oh, maybe this one. It’s fine.” And then they went all over the world just to search for that toothbrush and ignored every other thing. And so, one of your brothers looked at that and criticized me in his head. He told me later, “What kind of weird Master is that? Any toothbrush would do! Why it has to be this one?” I didn’t know anything about it! I said, “I’m sorry, I didn’t really know! They just asked me what, and I just showed them a toothbrush. I was worried they didn’t understand what I wanted; they would buy me a broomstick or something.” Sometimes they do that. You have to really tell them many times and make sure they repeat it! Otherwise, they buy completely different things, and then you’d be surprised. And now, what else is there? Yes. That’s one of the things. I get criticized all the time for things I completely know nothing about!
