Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai, Florida, U.S.A.
October 3, 1998 (Originally in English)

A man had a beautiful garden and flower beds, and all kinds of nice things that he planted in his garden. But there was one problem. His neighbor always let his chickens loose, and they ran over to reach the garden to dig out the roots and eat the flowers and make a mess everywhere. And he told his neighbor to keep the hens within his fence. But the neighbor said, "I don't believe in this kind of restriction, imprisonment. I believe chickens are also the creation of God, and they have the right to go wherever they want." And so he just let his chickens run all over. And the chickens loved the flowers and the corn and all the things that the neighbor planted. And so they would visit his garden often.

But then one day one of his friends came back, and saw that the man had all the flowers and everything that he planted still in order! So the friend was very surprised: "How did you do that? How did you convince the neighbor to keep the chickens out of your yard?" He said, "Oh, that's easy. I just hid a dozen eggs in my flower bed, and one day I let my neighbor see that I was collecting them. " After that the neighbor kept his chickens to himself.