I promise you, even 10 days, one week, two weeks, you will feel different. You will feel elated. You can prove it to yourself the blessing really exists.
Ms. Julie Bergman Sender (vegetarian): Now everyone is supposed to come up when I announce your name. Soprano, composer and flutist and vegetarian, Ms. Kerry Walsh. Award-winning writer, director, producer and vegan, Mr. Lionel Friedberg. Attorney, athlete, author and of course a vegan, Rich Roll. Educator, composer, best-selling author and a vegan, Dr. Will Tuttle. Award-winning actress and longtime vegan, Ms. Mariana Tosca. International communication coach, Mr. Richard Greene.
Cary Brown (vegan): Julie, writer, producer, director, a wonderfully talented individual and a vegetarian.
Ms. Julie Bergman Sender (vegetarian): To present these noble and compassionate recipients with their awards, please welcome back to the stage, Supreme Master Ching Hai and the Honorable Mayor of Cancún, Mayor Zaragoza.
Supreme Master Ching Hai (vegan): Thank you for being such an example. Oh, my God. I am very humbled. Thank you. Thank you. And how many vegans or vegetarians here? Can you please raise hand if... Thank you, thank you very much. Thank you very much. And all our Association members are vegan. Thank you.
Thank you so much for being a shining example. Not only you are stars in the art field, you’re also the stars in the Universe.
Mr. Richard Greene (vegan): Thank You. With all of the need for leaders around the world to come to Cancún, I want to acknowledge Your leadership on this incredibly important issue, because this is the single most important and easiest thing that we, six and a half billion people across the planet can do to stop climate change from destroying our planet. And I want to thank You for your leadership.
Supreme Master Ching Hai (vegan): We all do what we can. Don’t single me out and embarrass me.
Mr. Richard Greene (vegan): Can I add a number to your numbers? (Yes.) Because I have just written a book based on Albert Einstein on exactly how powerful human beings are. (Yes?)
And you talk about that. And we actually, because of E=mc2, I became fascinated by that, and I did some research. So, when Supreme Master says that you are powerful, you want to know how powerful you are, scientifically? (Please.) (Yes.)
E=mc2. And I wrote a book, “E=mc2 & The New Definition of God,” and I think You would love it. (Yes.) Not quite as good as Your book, I am sure. (No, no, please.) But Albert Einstein’s formula defines exactly how powerful every gram of matter is. And the truth is, it only took one gram of matter to detonate the atomic bomb that was detonated in Hiroshima or Nagasaki. What that means is that, if you weigh 100 pounds (45 kg), since we are talking about numbers here, if you weigh 100 pounds (45kg), you have within your physical body over 45,000 atomic bombs worth of God-force energy inside of you. Scientifically. I am not making this up. This is Albert Einstein. And if you are lucky… (I am blown away.) And if you are lucky enough to be a little heavier and be 200 pounds (90 kg) that’s 90,000 times the power of the atomic bomb that you carry around inside your body. So, Supreme Master, You are absolutely right.
Supreme Master Ching Hai (vegan): I did not know this. Thank you for the information. Oh, my God! Where did you get this Einstein stuff?
Mr. Richard Greene (vegan): Well, I wrote a book called, “Words that Shook the World,” featuring the most inspiring speakers in the past 100 years, and Albert Einstein was one of them. And when I saw the formula E=mc2, I had a vision that it was code for how powerful we are and a whole new definition of God. And if you added up all of the matter in the universe, all of the sands on all of the beaches, all of the 6.5 billion people, all of the 100 billion suns, in a 100 billion galaxies, that is the God force that we are talking about that we are directly connected with. And thank You again so much for what You do.
Supreme Master Ching Hai (vegan): We are so proud. Thank you for this precious information. Did anybody else, apart from me, know anything about this? (No.) Yes? No? No. See, thank you very much. First time I heard about it. It’s really precious. Must read his book.
Mr. Richard Greene (vegan): It’s called, “E=mc2 & The New Definition of God.” And it is a children’s book. And it’s available on the internet. And I hope that people read this to their children, so they understand how powerful we are. And that’s what Supreme Master says, it is, according to Albert Einstein, more true than you could ever imagine. Thank you. And I really appreciate that.
And I just want to say one more thing. I have been very moved to support the work of Sir Paul McCartney and others who talk about having a meat-free or a meatless Monday. Because the vast majority of people in the world sadly still eat meat and sometimes two or three times a day. And if we could all just ask our non-vegetarian, non-vegan friends to do something for the planet as a result of us all coming together in Cancún and just even take one day, just one day to begin… No, She is saying no. All seven days. Thank you.
Supreme Master Ching Hai (vegan): Honey, we don’t have time now. In the beginning, some people who like to practice with me, but they don’t want to be complete vegans, they cannot commit because of, you know, excuses and lifestyle, whatever or habit, or not aware of the consequences, so I say, “OK, please be vegan as many days as you can, at least 10 days a month. Then I also can give you a method, a different meditation technique. Not the full complete technique but a little less.” But now I don’t even do that anymore. If you are not vegan, you are not.
It’s an urgent situation. We all have to rescue our home. If it’s not for you, because some of us maybe don’t care about life and death anyway, but for the future generations. Imagine how many billions you rescue if the planet is still alive. Can you imagine how much merit you earn? If you save a life of a chicken-person, you earn a lot of merit. If you save a life of humans, even more so. I talk about that already, so I am not going on and on here.
Kerry Walsh (vegan): I would like to put in a little plug for something that can help. I think many of us feel very frustrated because we feel powerless, we can’t do enough. Where do you begin? You see all of these things happening around you, but we can all do our little, little bit, and I always think of it as a pebble in a lake and it starts a tiny ripple and then there’s bigger ripples and they go further and further and further. (Yes.)
So, anybody who gets frustrated and feels disillusioned or discouraged, this is a blessing that I went through last year. I was in an accident, and I had to be home a lot and recover. So, I rediscovered my garden. And when I was young, I grew my own vegetables, and this became my obsession last year.
I had pots and little peat things all over the place. And growing your own food is amazing. First of all, it tastes much better than anything else. And not only that, but I have vertigo, so I was always dizzy. And it was sort of my physical therapy to be encountering the smells, and the sights, and the feel of the earth. And sometimes I would just put my hands in the earth and just be there. And then I really felt the blessing of the earth, so powerfully. And also, when you eat, even vegetables, they have souls, too. So, thank them for giving you the honor of providing you nourishment. And when you've grown your own food, you feel even more humble. Not only that, you protect the environment by saving costs on transportation and packaging. So, my neighbor started gardening too. Then we would share garden tools and seedlings and talk about what we were doing. Now we have a whole gardening block. And it’s a beautiful thing.
And I encourage everybody, even if you don’t know how, even if you are in an apartment and you just have to do it in boxes, grow your own food. It really, really helps, and it's beautiful and it’s magical, and you’ll feel the blessings of your planet and your environment. Thank you.
Supreme Master Ching Hai (vegan): I just told you about the blessings. You can even prove it to yourself. Please prove it. OK, from today, if you’re home or in the office, anytime you can, try to be conscious of the blessings. Try to quiet down so that you can receive more. Because if we are running around, for example, if you are bathing, you’re showering your child, and he’s running around all over, it’s difficult. But if he stays in one place, you can shower him quickly and more abundant water. Similarly, we have to find time. I know you’re very busy, busy, but please remember, you are the number one person. You have to first take care of yourself. So, you have to save time, 20, 30 minutes a day, to quiet down, to try to get, assimilate all the blessing that I have told you about. And if you do that, and try to eat less meat, as less as you can. I don’t know how to demand from you, but please, love yourself.
Because the less animal-people meat, the less disease, the more blessing, more happiness. You try it for a while, maybe 10 days, 15 days, with this conscious feeling of blessing, and breathing in whenever you feel too stressed, and anytime, you just breathe. And feel conscious of all the blessing in you, that comes into you. I promise you, even 10 days, one week, two weeks, you will feel different. You will feel elated. You can prove it to yourself the blessing really exists. And if you go on with it, and sincerely, you will see visions of Jesus, Buddha, or Prophet Muhammad Peace Be Upon Him, whoever the Master, or even the present Master somewhere in this planet, will come and teach you more than my words can tell. Please try. Prove it! Prove it!
We let our chief say something for these awarded people.
Jaime Hernandez Zaragoza: Well, sometimes words are not enough to say what I would like to say. But I would like to congratulate you, with all my heart, not only because of the transformation that you have undergone in your life, but because of what you are doing in the lives of others to rescue our planet, for peace, for happiness and joy of all human beings. Congratulations and continue to be an example for many other people so that we can follow you. Thank you.
Supreme Master Ching Hai (vegan): Congratulations! Please give them the awards. One by one for His Excellency to give.
