After we practice the Quan Yin Method, our level rises a little higher and we lose a lot of interest in life. We still do things and work, but we don't have as much attachment and excitement about life. Some of us are like that. Sometimes we see there is no use in having a boyfriend, because we have lost interest in sex and everything else; so what's the use? And then when he feels that you have no interest like that, he also feels no interest. Or maybe he feels, " What's the use of having a girlfriend?" if he's not getting anything. So of course he gets bored and you get bored, and both of you are bored, and what can we do? It's okay; just enjoy, and don't be too serious. You forget we are just remembering that we are saints.

Everything else is the same, but just adding into our lives. There's no need to be so serious about being a saint; just enjoy whatever comes. For example, suppose I am a Buddha. Suppose just because I am a Buddha, I don't need to say, "Oh, I don't need all these flowers! These are all ephemeral; these are impermanent; what are all these for? Tomorrow they're gone, so don't put anything here for me. Don't put anything here. They are impermanent. They are all illusion, Maya!" I don't need to do that. I enjoy it; I see that the flowers are beautiful, but my heart doesn't get attached to them. If you give me flowers, it's fine. If you don't, I won't die.

Don't expect anything; or not expect anything; don't expect this way or that way, and then you won't feel bored or disappointed. Go to see movies, enjoy life, take a walk, listen to music, hold hands, walk together in the park, do anything. Just enjoy that moment as long as it lasts; be romantic. Look at the moon together. Write poetry to him, paint his ugly face for fun, whatever. Just hang around.

When I said that I was bored yesterday, it was just one of my passing moods because everything doesn't work in my room, and I am too bored, explaining all the time, wasting my time, and I want to have a lot of time to spend with you. I don't want to spend a lot of time fixing my toilet and my bathroom, and looking for my underwear, for example. Because they arrange things in such a complicated way, and I am bored with all this fuss. But that doesn't mean I'm bored with life. It doesn't mean I'm bored with you. I'm very happy that you came. In every one of you I'm very interested, because I am sure that if I have time to spend time with every one of you, I am sure everyone of you will have a lot of interesting things to tell me. And I can learn a lot of nice stories from you and we will have a wonderful time together.

So it's just that, for the sake of pacifying the world I can't afford to always have a personal relationship with every of you. But each one of us has to develop fast and then also help our neighbors to develop so that our world is not such an unbearable place, or disasters don't come too quickly, so that everyone still has time to remember his God Nature. So therefore I can't afford to spend time with you. Otherwise, each one of you is a wonderful piece of creation, and is a wonderful book of poetry, and life, a real thing, a real creature, with a real history. Each one of you has a real history and you should treasure that. You should treasure your boyfriend's good point of view, and his good qualities, and his wonderful inner wisdom and nature. You must dig that out and enjoy it.

Don't just look at the surface. Don't just think, "Oh, if I become a nun I will be better, a saint or more quickly enlightened. If I have a better boyfriend I will feel better." It's not true. Whatever you put into a relationship, that's what you get out. It's the same with life and enlightenment and everything else. Whatever we put in is what we get out. We are the only ones who really create our own life and experience. Change whatever is necessary to make yourself feel better. Change your hairstyle, change your make-up, change your clothes, change your lifestyle, change something! Make it nice and more interesting. If you are an interesting person, you will never feel very bored, anywhere.