The elder brother was smarter, more conniving, and knew more about worldly schemes. The younger brother was not very sensible, but he was kinder, purer and had faith.  

After their parents passed away, they started to divide up the properties. The elder brother was married, while the younger one was not. The elder brother said to the younger one, "It's better to let me take care of these properties. Since you have no wife, no children and you don't know how to take care of these properties, it would be useless to give them to you. However, since I know that you're a very good brother, I'll let you have a starfruit tree. The starfruit tree in that corner is yours and the rest of the properties are all mine.  

"Okay" The younger brother said, "Okay." (Audience laughs.)  

Then, every day the elder brother worked on the farm. He became prosperous and lived well. The younger brother also lived well on his starfruit tree. When the starfruit were ripe, he picked them and sold them. The tree was quite big and bore much fruit. If he couldn't sell all of them, he would take the remaining back to make starfruit juice and preserved starfruit.  

He was quite resourceful. He preserved some in sugar, some in salt and some in vinegar. He produced many kinds of starfruit products, which became very, very famous. Many people liked them and came from faraway places to buy them. So he earned enough money for himself and lived comfortably and contentedly. He wasn't very rich, but he was easily satisfied.  

One day, he went out to buy some things for making preserved starfruit. When he came back home, he saw that almost half of the fruit had been eaten up. He felt very sad. Then he saw a crow stilt on the tree, continuing to eat his starfruit.  

"Oh!" he thought.  

"How can it be?" So he asked the crow, "Why ore you eating my starfruit"  

The crow said, "I'm hungry!" (Audience laughs.)  

It was very simple. The crow ate because it was hungry.  

"When you're hungry, don't you eat?" asked the crow.  

He said, "Of course I eat."  

"Then why did you ask met".  

The younger brother was dumb and didn't know how to argue, so he was a little dazed. He thought,  

"Of course, when the crow is hungry, it eats. Why did I ask? However, this tree is all I have. If it's eaten up, I'll be finished, I'll starve tomorrow and have no food to eat".  

Then he told the crow what he felt.  

This crow was a strange crow; it didn't look like an ordinary one. Its beak was very long. A crow doesn't have ears, but this crow had big ears with an earring hanging there. (Master and audience laugh.) Its feathers were curly and very fashionable. Its clothes were quite beautiful. Although it was a crow, its clothes were of all colors.  

The younger brother said to the crow, "It's not that I begrudge you the starfruit. Of course, you can eat them when you're hungry. You're welcome. However, Frankly speaking, after my parents passed away, my brother left only this tree for me. I have to rely on it to live. I'm dumb and I can't do other things. I would die without this tree. This is my pitiful situation. It's not that I begrudge you the starfruit."  

Upon hearing this, the crow was touched and said,  

"Well! You're such a nice person. All right, all right. It's no problem. Since I've eaten your starfruit, I'll repay you with gold. Is that all right?"  

Then the younger brother said, "All right!" (Master and audience laugh.)  

He could only say "okay' or "all right," nothing else. He wouldn't refuse people.  

So the crow said to him, "Tomorrow, early morning at three o'clock, I'II come here to pick you up. Now you go home and find a piece of cloth to sew a bag this big, this long and this wide. Tomorrow I'II take you to get pearls, jewels and gold." 

"Okay!"  

The younger brother went home and made a bag this big, this long and this wide - no more and no less. The next morning, as expected, the crow was waiting there for him.  

The crow said, "All right. Now you get on my back. I'II fly you across the sea. While flying, you can't speak and can't open your eyes. No matter what happens, you shouldn't disobey my order, or you won't survive."  

The younger brother said, "Okay!"  

After he got on the crow's back and held its neck, it flew.  

Suddenly the crow became very big. The younger brother Felt comfortable sitting on it and fell asleep. He could do Quan Yin there, no--problem. (Audience laughs.) No, he couldn't do Quan Yin; he could do Quan Guang only.  

We spiritual practitioners don't speak if we aren't asked. Besides "okay" and "all right, we shouldn't say anything else. The Bible also says the same thing. When asked, you should only say "okay" and "all right". You shouldn't talk nonsense. This means that we should conserve our speech and not talk.  

This younger brother practiced the Quan Yin Method and was very good. When he was told not to speak, he didn't speak.  

Shortly after he started to meditate, he went into samadhi. Then they arrived at the place.  

Oh! That place had beautiful mountains, beautiful beaches and all kinds of things. Pearls and jewels were piled into a huge mountain. Trees and everything were made of pearls and jewels. The leaves were all of gold and the branches were made of pearls and jewels. Everything was from pearls and jewels. There were no stones, only pearls and jewels everywhere. 

Then the crow told him, "Now you pick all your Favorite pearls and jewels and put them in your bag. Then we'll go home immediately.  

The younger brother said, "Okay!"  

He put his Favorite and the most precious things in his bag, hung the bag on his belt, and lumped on the crow.  

As the crow flew him back, he closed his eyes and meditated again. He entered samadhi, then they were home.  

From that day on, the younger brother was rich. He sold the pearls and jewels, built another house, married a beautiful girl, and then raised a beautiful kitten. (Audience laughs.) He lived a very comfortable life.  

A long time afterwards, upon hearing that the younger brother suddenly became very rich, the elder brother came from a very faraway place to visit him. The elder brother asked the younger one how he suddenly became so rich.  

The younger one said, "Well! It was thanks to you and your merit. It was all due to your blessings. I became rich because you gave me the starfruit tree. Thank you, brother!" Then he prostrated to his elder brother.  

The elder brother asked, "How did the starfruit tree make you rich."  

Of course the younger brother told him everything.  

Well, the elder brother's desire was aroused, "Oh! It was certainly my merit. All right, now you can move to my place to live. The properties are all yours. This starfruit tree is mine. (Master and audience laugh.) We'll exchange now. You've had the starfruit tree for too long. I was going to exchange with you, because we should take care of our parents' properties in turn. I've taken care of them for many years and become weary. Now it's your turn. You go back there. Now I'II take care of the starfruit tree.  

"Okay" The younger brother said, "Okay!"  

He then moved to his elder brother's place. The elder brother set up a hammock and waited under the starfruit tree every day.  

As expected, one day, a crow came and ate the starfruit.  

The elder brother pretended to be annoyed and said, "If you eat my starfruit, I'II starve to death."  

He then "Da, da, da...," imitating his brother's tone.  

Then the crow said, "No problem. Since I've eaten your starfruit, I'II repay you with gold. Okay"  

The elder brother said, "Okay!"  

The crow then said, "Wait here for me tomorrow morning at three o'clock. You should sew a bag of this length and this width. Then I'II take you to pick pearls, jewels and gold. The elder brother immediately went home and cut some cloth.  

However, what he cut was as big as a Quan Yin shawl. (Master and audience laugh.) It was this long and this wide. He put two pieces together and that was it; he made full use of it. (Audience laughs.)  

He sewed a bag this big. Ah!  

He went there to wait at two o'clock in the morning. However, the crow wouldn't come early. It was on time. At three o'clock, it came to pick the elder brother up.  

So the elder brother got on its back. He was told to hold onto its neck, not to speak and not to open his eyes.  

Well! The elder brother was very bad. He didn't practice the Quan Yin Method and wasn't a vegetarian, so his karma was heavy. The crow could hardly fly across the sea. The crow used special magical powers and made it over.  

The elder brother heard "Hu! Hu! Hu!" and felt the wind blowing strongly.  

After flying for a long time, he almost asked, "Have we arrived there yet" (Master laughs.)  

Fortunately, the crow slapped him with its wing then he knew; he remembered and didn't ask anymore.  

Finally, they got there. Well! It seemed to be a very long journey. It was long for the crow as well as for the elder brother. Both of them were exhausted.  

After the crow put him down, it immediately went to take a nap. "You go pick your favorite pearls and jewels. I have to take a nap before I can take you back. What have you been eating to make you so heavy. Were you born in the year of the elephant" (Laughter)  

We were all born in the year of the horse or the rat, but he was born in the year of the elephant. Maybe his karma was heavier. (Laughter)  

After the crow took a nap, the elder brother still hadn't finished picking his pearls and jewels. Whatever he saw made his eyes light up. He wanted everything. He couldn't part with this or that. He kept selecting. After a long time, he still hadn't finished.  

Finally, the crow woke up and said, "You can't do this anymore. Just take anything. Time is up. We can't stay here any longer. If we stay here, we won't be able to get home. Quickly get on my back".  

At that time, he quickly put everything in his bag. Well! It was very, very difficult for him to get on the crow's back.  

The crow said, "No, it's too heavy. You should take some out, or I won't be able to fly". 

The elder brother was greedy, he took only one pearl out and threw it down.  

The crow said, "No, no. It's not enough. Take out some more. So he took out another pearl this big and threw it down.  

"Well!" the crow said.  

"No! If you don't take out more, we can't fly. I can't fly up now. 

The elder brother truly couldn't part with them, but he threw down a handful anyway.  

Then the crow said, "We can't stay anymore. We have to leave. Time is up".  

It took the crow a great deal of effort to Fly up.  

On their way, there was the sea beneath them and nothing else in sight. A typhoon came and it was strong; the crow's wings were not balanced. It tried its best to stay balanced; however, the wind was too strong and the crow swayed and became unstable.  

Then the elder brother said, "If you fly like this, I'II die. What are you doing"  

Then he opened his eyes, "Wow! The sea!"  

Since he opened his mouth and eyes the pearls and jewels slipped from his hands. The elder brother and his pearl and jewel fell down together.  

He was told to make the bag this long and this wide, but as a result of making it too big, of course, the crow couldn't bear the weight.  

We human beings are similar to the elder bother. We're too greedy, so sometime we end up with nothing.