As we practice the finest martial arts techniques in the world, let's remember our true place in this world. It's not about the techniques or the reputation of the Shaolin. It's about peace & love. Taking care of this world. That is the root of the Shaolin and the root of everything that's good.
Recorded on Dr Conrad Murray's iPhone six weeks before Michael Jackson's death.
Michael Jackson: "Elvis didn't do it, Beatles didn't do it, we have to be phenomenal when people leave this show when people leave my show I want them to say: I've never seen nothing like this in my life, go, go, I've never seen nothing like this, go, it's amazing, he's the greatest entertainer in the world..."
"I'm taking that money, a million children, children's hospital the biggest in the world, Michael Jackson's Children's Hospital gonna have a movie theater, game room, children are depressed, the **** in those hospitals, no game room, no movie theater, they're sick because they're depressed, their mind is depressing them..."
"I want to give them that, I care about them, them angels, God wants me to do it, God wants me to do it, I'm gonna do it Conrad..."
Dr Conrad Murray: "I know you would..."
Michael Jackson: "Don't have enough hope, no more hope, that's the next generation that's gonna save our planet starting with, we'll talk about it, United States, Europe, Prague, my babies they walk around with no mother, they drop them off, they leave a psychological degradation of that they reach out to me: Please take me with you..."
Dr Conrad Murray: "Mmm-hmm..."
Michael Jackson: "I want to do that for them..."
Dr Conrad Murray: "Mmm-hmm..."
Michael Jackson: "I'm gonna do that for them, that will be remembered more than my performances, my performances will be up there helping my children and always be my dream, I love them, I love them. Because I didn't have a childhood, I had no childhood, I feel their pain, I feel their hurt, I can deal with it..."
"Heal The World, We Are The World, Will You Be There, The Lost Children, these are the songs I've written because I hurt, you know I hurt..."
(long silence)
Dr Conrad Murray: "You okay?"
(long silence)
Michael Jackson: "I am asleep..."
As skilled as we may be, in whatever trade, let's remember the talent that no one made.
In karate we say, there's always someone better...
The Lao Shaolin Village was founded on the principle of being an orphanage. A home for lost children.
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