There is an old Korean saying, "Whip the ones you love and feed the ones you hate." Do you understand what it means? It makes perfect sense. Why? In order to maintain the correct tradition...One must become tear-soaked in love expressed through the parental whip. I can understand that, do you?

Everybody, did sweetness come out of bitterness? Or, bitterness out of sweetness? Which came first? [Bitterness.] (Laughter) Of course. The rules of life dictate that. Now, did light come out of darkness, or darkness out of light? [Light out of darkness.] (laughter) Yes, of course. So, if you accept bitterness there is an abundance of sweetness that comes out of it. Those who accept any amount of bitterness can create any amount of sweetness.

Now, love is good, love is sweet, love is bitter, which is it? [Sweet..] That's for the Westerners. For the Asians, it's bitter (laughter). That's right. So the Asians understand true sweetness. But, if you know only sweetness, you don't know what to do with bitterness. Which are more numerous? Those who want to work hard all their lives or those who don't want to work hard all their lives? Which ones? Do you prefer to live without work or with work? [Live with work.]

You know the story of the grasshopper and the ant? Which one do you admire more? The grasshopper who lives off the dew drops while singing and dancing his life away in the warm sun, or the ant who works all day and all evening without rest... Would you really want to be the ant, disfigured and darkened from overwork, not the grasshopper? (laughter) The grasshopper only has a big mouth, just a big mouth.

When you raise your children, do you want them to be grasshoppers or ants? Which ones? [Ants.] But why? Is it so that we can while away our youth as grasshoppers and then work like ants in middle age? Or, is it the other way around, working like ants while young and resting like grasshoppers later in life? Which way? [Working like ants while young.] Really? [Yes.] Could you enjoy singing when you are too old? (laughter) You can enjoy just as much hearing and watching someone else sing.