I know the next Buddha will come a few thousand years from now, but exists currently in a certain heaven "" — that's Maitreya — "" so, I'm going to go on a retreat and I'm going to meditate and pray until the Buddha Maitreya reveals himself to me, and gives me a teaching or something to revive the practice of compassion in the world today. "" So he went on this retreat. And he meditated for three years and he did not see the future Buddha Maitreya.