Amrita Nadi: When researching for the Wisdom of Laughter Album (soon coming), I had delight of "meeting" Teresa Hsu, 112 years old, who inspires with her simple messages of joy. "if you love everybody with all the love in your heart, then you’ll be happy, ha, ha, ha,” Below is a wonderful report on her meeting with an audience in 2010, from
the blog of Tsem Tulku Rinpoche

The power of laughter

Teresa Hsu

By K. Kaewuni Dewi

CENTENARIAN Teresa Hsu kept some 200 people in stitches during her talk on ‘Love All Serve All’ at the Malaysian Buddhist Association hall in Penang last Friday.

For the bubbly Chinese-born Singaporean, who is affectionately known as Singapore’s Mother Teresa, laughter is definitely the best medicine.

Born in 1898, the 112-year-old social worker extraordinaire keeps young and active by happily doing charity work.

Kicking off the question and answer session Hsu said she was born “very, very poor” and the toughest part of her life was when she had to pick grass to eat as she was “very, very hungry”.

“It was at that moment I thought to myself that no one should ever go through what I went through,” she said.

When asked the secret to her longevity and good health, Hsu responded, “Ha, ha, ha! Make sure your heart is always happy”

She also said eating one raw egg every day for breakfast could be another reason for her good health.

“Once someone told me that raw egg is poisonous to which I replied ‘never mind, I thrive on poison’,” she said....

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