Guru's Talk

(Translated by True Buddha News)
At a large hospital, there was an elderly woman who had been declared dead by her doctor. Her family had been prepared for this and had earlier made arrangements for her funeral.

One of the elderly woman's grandsons was a disciple of the True Buddha School. He chanted intensely "Om Guru Lian Shen Siddhi Hum," one hundred times, a thousand times.

Meanwhile, the soul of the old woman had left her body. She saw a bank of lights, clean and pure. There in the air stood a very youthful-looking Padmakumara, holding a blue lotus flower, ready to welcome her.

Padmakumara tossed the lotus flower and it magically transformed in the air into a very large lotus. It was radiant and had an extraordinary lustre. The old woman seated herself upon the lotus, ready to fly westward [to Amitabha's Pure Land.]

But then she suddenly exclaimed, "Wait a moment! Wait a moment!"

Padmakumara asked, "What is it?"

The elderly woman told Padmakumara that she was very old and her memory was very bad. But now she had remembered two things that she wished to tell her family. Might she have permission?

Padmakumara asked, "What are the two things?"

The old woman replied, "One is personal business. I have some private savings that are hidden somewhere. If I don't tell them where, they will never find them. Another is something sacred-that I am going to ride on a blue lotus to the Pure Land. I have to tell them about this."

Padmakumara then said, "Since that is so, I will give you eight hours. At the end of that time, I will come again to take you."

The old woman was dead and then she came back to life. Her doctor and her family were greatly surprised. The old woman told her family that she was allowed to live for only eight more hours. She had come back specially to divulge two things. The first was about the secret of where she had hidden her private savings. The second was that she had witnessed Blue Padmakumara coming to receive her and that she was going to be reborn in the Western Paradise, without a doubt.

Everyone was surprised and delighted. Her entire family chanted together, "Om Guru Lian Sheng Siddhi Hum."

Eight hours after returning to life, th old woman closed her eyes and this time she was actually gone. Her family prepared her funeral again.

The old woman's grandson usually didn't cultivate the dharma by himself. He just visited a chapter for group cultivations and only chanted Guru's heart mantra 108 times every day, nothing more. Before his grandmother's last breath, he cast some "vajra sand" over her body and gave her a nectar pill to hold in her mouth.

So strange! The old woman returned to life after her death!

(The end)

（選錄自真佛報第495期第3版文章「死後又活來」)
　

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