the interviewer asked him, what do you remember from your childhood? he smiled and said, they showed me hollywood movies and the ones i liked most were war movies, and imagine, they gave a nobel peace price to someone who like war moves, ha-ha-ha.
his simplicity. stunning. his response to the question, how do you want to be remembered? without any pause, he answered, a simple buddist monk.
someone in the audience asked, do you regret not having family, children? with great compassion and his voice sparkling with humor His Holiness said, i don't have to worry giving them education, i don't have to take care of them when they are sick, i don't have to get up in the middle of the night. then, more of his signature high-pitched, open-hearted laughter.
he's the real thing. it is said that it takes lifetimes of merits to have the great fortune to come into the presence of a saint. have i accumulated lifetimes of merits? i don't know. but, he's definitely a saint. how fortunate i am.
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