Fire in My Kitchen

- Live - in Florida, one evening after dinner together

Spoken by disciples and translated by
Supreme Master Ching Hai
Florida U. S. A. October 9, 1999
(Originally in Chinese & English)

There was a person whose house was on fire. He was very, very panicked and urgently called the fire department, "Emergency, emergency, please, quickly, there's a fire, there's a fire! Come quickly and put out the fire!" Then the fire department chief asked him, "But where's the fire? Where did the fire break out?" "It's in my house," he said, "very urgent! It's in my house! Come quick!" "Yes, I know it's in your house. But where?" He said, "It's in my kitchen!" The fire department chief lost patience and said, "Listen, I know that! But how do I get to your house? Do you understand me? How do I get to your house?" And the man said, "Don't you have cars?"