http://SupremeMasterTV.com -- Videoconference with Supreme Master Ching Hai and Formosan (Taiwanese) 8th Vice President Annette Hsiu-Lien Lu Formosa (Taiwan), August 16, 2011. Episode: 1808, Air Date: 27 August 2011.
Hallo, Ms. Vice President.
*Hallo Master. Amitabha Buddha.
@Amitabha Buddha. Welcome!
*Thank you.
@Welcome to visiting our small place.
*Yes. Master, today I brought some good sisters from Business and Professional Women of Formosa (Taiwan) (@Wow!) to visit your Hsihu Center. We admire you very much.
@Thank you so much! Thanks for coming. Thank you very much!
@We are very honored to have such a virtuous leader to visit our very humble place. We feel very, very honored and very lucky, very lucky. Very honored to see you, Your Excellency. I want to take this opportunity to send our deep gratitude to you for travelling around to ask people to protect the environment and save the Earth. I know you have a lot of work to do but you continue your work to protect your people. Such a deed shows that you are truly a living Bodhisattva (Saint).
*Thank you.
@According to Buddhist sutras (scriptures), if a person is rich and powerful - like you who have both power and fortune - but is not attached to fame, instead, he/she does meritorious deeds and believes in Buddhism, then he/she must be a Bodhisattva. Buddha said so. Therefore you must be a living Bodhisattva. Formosa (Taiwan) is so blessed (*Thank you, Master.) to have you to lead the multitude.
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Master, I have retired for three years, so I have no power anymore.
@I know.
* I have no power anymore.
@I know, I know. What I have is love, just like you have.
* I only have love towards the Earth and humanity.
@Yes, yes. This is also a kind of power.
*Yes. Right. That's right.
@Because you have this power inside, you think this way.
*Yes.
*I've been promoting the soft power.
@Yes, yes.
*Soft power includes peace, love, and high technology.
@ Worldly power is not everlasting. But we say that once a person becomes a president, he is a president for life. He still has power, just a little...
* Presidents have terms, but one's life is everlasting.
@Yes, yes. You have high wisdom, so you know. We Buddhists who practice diligently and follow Buddhist traditions and teachings all know that the world is transient.
* Yes, right.
@Any power is transient, but you are still respected by the whole nation and the international community. You still have power, a different kind of power. Regardless, you still care about the suffering people in the world and want to save all beings. This is really meritorious.
*Thank you.
@May Heaven and Buddha bless you forever so you can have power, not the worldly power, but the inner power, to continue help the Earth and people in this world.
@We take this opportunity to thank you. Thank you a thousand times. Formosa (Taiwan) is so blessed.
*Thank you. Thank you, Master. You have been spreading Buddhist teachings for a long time, also calling on people to eat vegetarian and refrain from eating meat to save the Earth. I think it's a very extraordinary effort. I would like to ask Master: You have been promoting "Be Veg 2 Save the Planet" around the world. Are you satisfied with the results so far? In what aspects are you going to do more?
@ No, Your Excellency, not yet.
I'm not satisfied yet. It's impossible. You know it very clearly. We still have a lot of work to do and we need to work harder in many areas. Being vegan is still a new concept for the world, so it takes time for people to accept it. Even if they can accept the idea, it's still hard for them to change habits. For example, we Chinese people like to eat rice. If others ask us to eat potatoes or bread every day, we'd also need time to adopt it. It's hard for people to change their habits. If our world has more people like you, Ms. Vice President, we will be able to spread the message wider and faster. If I do it alone, it's more difficult... I work very hard, but I don't have much power.
*You are too humble.
@I don't have much power.
*You are too humble.
*In the international community, do you think it's easier to promote veganism in developing countries or well-developed countries? I think those who are rich eat more meat, so we should target rich people more for the meat-free campaign . Do you agree?
@You've made a very good point. You've made a very good point. We just continue to work.
*Yes.
@But in this era, they develop too fast. Take Mainland China for example. In a blink of an eye, it has become a very developed, powerful country. Mainland China used to eat less meat and fewer people got cancer because they ate less meat. Now they eat a lot of meat, because they are rich. Also, it seems most families have a car, which they didn't have before. Wherever we can promote it, we just start from there. I think what yo
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