Speak less but recite Amituofo.
There are boundless benefits of Nian Fo.
There was a poor couple living in
make knives for customers.
Life was hard for him. He worked very hard but earned very little money, sometimes the money was not even enough to support their living
One day, a monk stopped by his tiny steel store, Huang offered the monk to have a cup of tea in his store.
He told the monk about his difficult life, he asked the monk if there was any way to change his destiny(ming yun 命运)。
The monk taught him to recite Amituofo each time he hit the steel.
From that day onwards, Huang recite Amituofo as he worked. Surprisingly, he was not feeling tired and hard anymore. The more he recited the lighter he felt.
He didn’t feel the heat from the furnace bothering him so much now.
He carried on in Amituofo recitation for about three years.
One fine morning, upon waking up, he told his wife that he wanted to go home already. The wife asked him which home he wanted to go as they were so poor and that was the only little hut they had.
Huang said he wanted to go back to
Xi Fang Ji Le Shi Jie.
His wife thought he must be too
tired of his work and just wanted to
make a joke with her.
After his breakfast, he started to work as usual. He recited Amituofo as well.
As he knocked on the steel bar, he recited Amituofo.
He was an illiterate person ( can’t read and write), he called his neighbor to wrote down his saying:
“Ding Ding Dong Dong,
Knock the iron become steel,
All are in peace,
I am going west(Xi Fang )”
(ding ding dang dang,叮叮当当
da tie cheng gang, 打铁成钢
tai ping jiang jin, 太平将近
wo wang xi fang 我往西方）
As soon as he finished his words,
He stood there and stopped breathing already. (wang Sheng already).
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