There was a Zen Master( Wu
Guo Master), he had been staying and practicing meditation in the mountain area
for more than 20 years.
In that 20 year time
Master Wu Guo had been taken care by
a lady and her daughter,
they had been offering food and
necessities for the Zen Master.
One day Master Wu Guo told
the lady and her daughter he wanted to leave the mountain soon to go for further
Dhamma learning.
Upon hearing that, the
lady and her daughter went home and started to sew a sweater for the master so
that he can use it in the next winter.
The lady and her daughter
recited Amituofo while sewing the sweater.
They didn’t sleep for the
night and managed to complete the sewing.
In the next morning, the
lady and her daughter went to the Master's place and gave the sweater to the Master
as a farewell gift.
Beside the sweater they
also offer 4 piece of silver
Yuan
Bao (is ancient money) for the master so that he could buy
any necessities that he needed.
Ancient
money Yuan Bao
Master Wu Guo thanked them
and they left master’s meditation hut.
At that night when Master
Wu Guo was in his deep meditation, he saw (his soul) four boys appeared
with a lotus carriage and has asked him to board in the carriage.
Luckily Master Wu Guo was clear
and firm enough at that moment.
He thought to himself, he
has been practicing meditation all this while. Why there was a lotus carriage
there.
The lotus carriage refused
to move until Master board in it.
At once Master through his
Yin Qing (bell) to the carriage.
The lotus closed it petals
and left.
Yin Qing (Master’s bell)
On the same night there
was a happening in the lady’s house.
The female house in her
stable has given birth to a foal (baby horse)
But he foal died soon
after birth.
The horse sitter found
that the foal’s stomach was bulging with something. So he cut the foal stomach
and found a Yin Qing.
He gave the Yin Qing to
the lady. The lady recognized it.
It was belong to Master Wu
Guo.
She brought the Yin Qing
to Master Wu Guo and told him about the foal story.
Master immediately understood
what has happened.
The Lotus carriage was
actually came to take him to the animal realms.
Luckily Master did not
board in the carriage. Otherwise he would be the baby horse then.
Master Wu Guo said:
A piece of sweater become a horse’s
skin.
4 piece of silver Yuan Bao become four
legs of the horse.
If my mind is not clear and firm,
I will become the horse to
repay your debt.
(because the lady has
supported his living for the past 20 over years.
Master Wu Guo quickly returned
the sweater and the money to the lady and left the place soon after that.
This is a story of
reincarnation.
If we don’t recite
Amituofo, we will be in a dangerous state.
Our future(where we are
going) will be depend on our karmic force.
Positive karmic force will
lead us to heaven realm or human realms.
Negative Karmic force will
lead us to the three lower realms.
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