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An
Irregular Heartbeat (“Arrhythmia”)
•Guru's
Talk•
Translated
and Edited by True Buddha Foundation Translation Team
(TBN # 484, Guru’s Talk in the
True Buddha Wisdom Sword Discourse)
There is a holy disciple who has taken the bodhisattva vows,
read many sutras, who has a very good memory, and who has
learned many Tantric dharma practices and has received
responses with each practice.
This holy disciple is a very well-known medical doctor with
knowledge of both Chinese and Western medicine. When the door
of his office opens, many people come to see him and he has
healed many patients. His reputation is great. Many patients
trust him and so his office is always busy, like a public
market.
Although he is very busy, he knows “the fleeting impermanence
of life;” therefore, every day when he has free time, he
practices the dharma or conducts a Tantric fire offering. If
he is too busy to manage this, then he will chant the name of
the Great Compassionate Guan Yin Bodhisattva. He even silently
chants the name of Guan Yin Bodhisattva as he treats his
patients.
He chants his personal deity’s heart mantra and Guan Yin
Bodhisattva’s name without keeping count. He chants when is
awake, when he is asleep, and even when he is treating his
patients. He doesn’t know how many times he has chanted. Even
if he tried to count the number of times, he couldn’t.
This holy disciple knows that Guru Sheng-Yen Lu is in retreat
at Leaf Lake.
But he doesn’t know where Leaf Lake is.
Whenever this holy disciple would catch wind of Guru
travelling somewhere, he would also take a trip to the same
place for holiday. But this world is a vast ocean of people.
He might have to travel to the far edge of the earth, or to
the farthest corner of the great ocean, or to the middle of a
public gathering place. Looking to his left and to his right,
this holy disciple hopes, even by just a glimmer of a chance,
that he might possibly see Guru appearing suddenly in front of
him. Will he?
He is a doctor, but he still has his own health condition,
which he’s had since birth. He has arrhythmia, an irregular
heartbeat.
One night, Guru entered this disciple’s dream and asked, “Are
you searching for me?”
“Yes!” he replied, weeping with sorrow.
“Do not search for me. I am with you always. I also know that
you have a health condition!”
“Guru, you know about it?”
“No mistake about it,” Guru said in the disciple’s dream, ”I
will help you to adjust it. The winder [like the spring in a
wind-up clock] in your heart is loose and I will help you to
tighten it a little.”
In the dream, Guru took the disciple’s heart in his hands,
massaged it a few times, then put it back.
Guru smiled and said, “Good! Everything is normal! We will see
each other again in the future! Chant the bodhisattva’s name
countlessly. All the Buddhas in the heavens and on earth
praise you!”
The holy disciple was astonished and woke up from his dream.
Every statement that Guru spoke in his dream was very clear,
every statement was understood, and the disciple was very much
moved. The strangest thing is that the holy disciple’s
arrhythmia was cured—his heart was now in good condition. The
life-long problem had been forever removed.
This holy disciple, although he had been searching for Guru
for many years, saw Guru in his dream, in his Samadhi state,
and his illness was cured. He has become even more intensive
in his chanting of his personal deity’s heart mantra and holy
name.
(the end)
《本文譯自真佛報第484期頭版師尊「真佛論劍」文章「心律不整」》 --->回目錄
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