Guru's Talk

(Translated by True Buddha News)
During my spiritual travelling in Samadhi, I saw a husband and wife couple who had piously prayed to the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas to grant them a son. After many years of petitioning, they finally received the response they had been hoping for and a son was born to them. Their son was growing up normally, but he had a physical deficiency. He had been born mute.

The couple had heard people say that if you enshrine and worship a porcelain statue of Guru, you would receive a lot of responses. So they enshrined and worshiped a porcelain statue of Padmakumara. It was because of this affinity that I saw in my samadhi meditation this pious couple who believe in the Buddha. I also saw their mute son, as well.

They were praying to the porcelain statue of Padmakumara. They were greatly distressed and tears poured down their faces. When I saw this, I couldn’t bear it.

I examined their son’s tongue; it was fine.

I examined their son’s vocal chords; they were fine.

I examined their son’s throat; it was fine.

I drew a charm for “opening the voice.” I entered the son’s dream and gave him the charm to drink with water. But, surprisingly, it didn’t work.

I didn’t know why it didn’t work. I thought about it for a while, then I went to see the “Jia-Ling-Ping-Jia” deity birds, who can produce the most wonderful sound. But even though they would have liked to help, they could do nothing.

I had almost given up

Then I thought, perhaps it is “cause and effect.” And if this turned out to be the case, then it would become much more complicated. After investigating this for a while, I learned that in his previous life, he had been a monk who had committed three serious transgressions:

1. He lost respect for his master.

2. He lost his bodhi heart.

3. He lost his precepts.

As for the previous lives of the couple, surprisingly, they were the previous biological parents of the monk. (The tangle of “cause and effect” can go on for many lives.)

When I saw such a “cause and effect,” I was overwhelmed with amazement.

At this point, I almost thought about giving up again. But I was still unwilling to do so. I entered the couple’s dream and persuaded them to chant the “High King Guan Shi Yin True Sutra” one thousand times. The couple, just as I expected, vowed to chant the “High King Sutra” forever and ever—more than one thousand times, more than ten thousand times, even more than one could possibly count, to repent for all of their transgressions and to make a wish for their son. (Chanting the “High King Sutra” a thousand times will eliminate all serious karma.)

This I know:

The son received a response. One day, he stumbled and fell into a river. After he was rescued, he threw up lots of water. Then the most surprising and amazing thing happened—the son began to speak, his voice sounding forth. A mute since birth, after being rescued from the water, could now actually speak.

The couple was very grateful.

This is a great response from chanting the “High King Sutra”!

(The End)

(選錄自真佛報第490期第16版文章「天生的啞巴」)

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