A touching story Master Zhuoyun talked about the "Ksitigarbha Sutra" at the Great Vow Platform of the Ksitigarbha Hall of Chiayi this time (Fifty-year )，It is said that this temple has a long history of 302 years. When someone went to visit Jiuhua Mountain in Anhui, he invited a statue of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva to come back and built a temple to worship it. For hundreds of years, there have been many supernatural responses.There is a touching story, which I describe as follows.1. Lin Dengzhang was wrongly imprisoned. His wife sold her son and redeemed her husband. A hundred years ago, there was a Mr. Lin Dengzhang who lived more than ten miles from the countryside of Chiayi. He was decent. Unfortunately, he was framed by a traitor and arrested by an official hall. He was imprisoned for her husband. His family was imprisoned for his poor family. He was also in a poor and poor family and asked someone to rescue him. He spent all the money in the family completely, but still could not save her husband from being released from prison.Later, he learned that the official department must have 40 taels of silver to atone for her husband. Mrs. Lin had no choice but to grit her teeth and be cruel to sell her only son for 40 tons to redeem her husband. The introducer took out a three tael of introduction fee, and the remaining 37 taels were left. I don’t know whether she could redeem her husband.At the same time, every time I was imprisoned and sent to the hospital, I was insulted and left trouble by the guards, with the purpose of asking for money.They said, "By the mountain and eat the mountain, and rely on the water to eat the water." Yes, if you go to a lawsuit, don't come in without any money, this is true in ancient and modern times.Every time, Mrs. Lin has to smile, say good things, and give gifts, otherwise she won’t want to go in. “The King of Hell is so good to see, but the little ghost is hard to deal with.” Today, she will pay the silver to redeem her husband, of course, no exception.At that time, the prison was located on the street, which is now Wufeng Road. I bought some betel nuts nearby as a gift to the prison guards. When I was paying for betel nuts, I dropped the thirty-seven taels of silver that I had redeemed for my husband. I didn't know that until when I was an official, I found that the silver bag was lost. I reached into my hand and couldn't take it out for a long time. I was so scared that I couldn't cry out loud. I sold my beloved only son and hoped to redeem my husband back. Now that the money was lost, my husband could not be released from prison, and I had no way out.Before she died, she still did not give up and went back to search along the way. If she couldn't find the money, she had to commit suicide.2. The poor beggar is not ignorant of wealth. Bu Street in Chiayi City is now Guangming Road. There is a Tudi Gong Temple. There is a poor beggar Xu Liangsi. He is not only poor and homeless, but also born disabled. His feet are numb and paralyzed, unable to move, and he walks next to the ground with his butt.During the day, he begged for a living along the street, and at night he took the Tudigong Temple as his home. When he begged for a while on the street, he saw a woman buying betel nuts from a betel stall. She hurried away and her silver bag fell to the ground.He walked forward and picked up the bag. He wanted to chase him and return it to others, but he couldn't walk and couldn't hear the shouting. He sat on the ground and opened the bag and counted it, and there was thirty-seven taels of silver.The poor beggar has seen these white silver!He was shocked at that time, and he did not feel the desire to make money.On the contrary, I felt that the woman was in a hurry and had to have something big to do. She could not take away the money casually. If she found it back, she might commit suicide. I would wait for her to come back here.After waiting for a long time, I saw a woman with anxiety on her face and ran around and looked around on the ground as if she was looking for something.He knew that the owner had been found, so he approached and pulled the corner of her clothes with his hand.She thought the beggar asked for money from her, and she shouted angrily: "I'm so anxious that I'm so anxious. There's still money for you. Come away quickly, I'm going to get back what I've lost."Xu Liangsi was rolled in kindness, but he still asked softly: "Your wife, what happened? You are so anxious. Tell me, I can tell me."This sound called her back from the god of death, and she said in surprise: "Really!"He replied, "Of course, I found something, I will give it to you if you say it right."She said anxiously, "I dropped a cloth bag with thirty-seven taels of silver in it. This is the money I sold my son. My husband was falsely murdered and was imprisoned. He needed forty taels of silver to redeem his sins. He had to sell his son and redeem his husband. The introducer took three taels away. I was worried that the money was not enough, so I knew that it was lost here. In this way, my husband could not be released from prison, and my son was sold, and I had no choice but to commit suicide."After saying that, he cried bitterly.At this time, some kind-hearted people came over to ask questions. Xu Liangsi said without hesitation: "Don't be sad. The money was picked up by me, and it was dropped when you bought betel nut. I couldn't run away and couldn't catch up with you, so I didn't listen to you, so I waited for you to come back here.Now the silver is here, you take the dots."The beggar handed over the money and left without a sound.Mrs. Lin was very happy to find the lost money, but instead forgot the beggar, even forgot her name, and rushed to the official hall to redeem the people.Only then did the officials realize that it was the money sold for their sons. Even the poor beggars were not ignorant of their wealth. How could we have a conscience to ask for money sold for their sons?Therefore, the conscience found out that she let her husband go with pleasure and asked for her money. This made Xu Qier's kind behavior move the officials.After Lin Dengzhang was released from prison, he knew that his son had sold it, except for the introduction to take away three liang.I invited guests and gave gifts, and I spent a lot of money. When I was looking for beggars, I didn’t know where I went. Later, I opened a store on Bu Street to make a living in hardware business.3. The good intentions are rewarded and the more disabled it is, Xu Qier Liangsi returned to Tudigong Temple to stay overnight. The next day was Qingming Festival. He rushed to the cemetery of "Dongkuo Tombs" outside the city to ask people for red tortoise cakes begging for ancestors. Because the road is far away, it is raining, and it is late to go home, and it is slow to go along the way. When he arrived at the city gate, the city gate had already been closed. (At that time, there were four gates in Chiayi )。As a last resort, I went to the Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva Temple near the city to borrow a stay (Now No. 81, Minquan Road )，I beg the Temple Master for compassion and temporarily borrowed the Buddha in front of the main hall and stayed overnight.The temple recognized Xu Qier, so I lent him to him.But he slept until late at night, and suddenly he screamed in the hall with a tragic roar, screaming like someone killed him.The temple man thought he had a nerve attack and scolded him twice, but he still refused to listen. He was so angry that he couldn't sleep all night. He got up early the next morning and wanted to drive Xu Qier away. Seeing that he was sleeping soundly, he called him out of his dream and scolded him for not sleeping at night.After Xu Qier woke up, he jumped up and stood up. He didn't know that he ran to the front of the temple master.This scared the temple master so much that he took a few steps back, wondering how this paralyzed could walk naturally overnight?Asked the question, it turned out that in front of the holy statue of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, in my dream, the Bodhisattva sent two ghosts, one tall and one short in front of the hall, one picked up his upper body, and the other dragged his two paralyzed legs and pulled him hard, which made him scream in pain.But the two little ghosts, no matter how screamed, kept straightening his broken legs, causing him to feel unconscious. Later, somehow fell asleep. Now I don’t know that these broken legs are actually like normal people. In this way, he is happier than when he got the money yesterday.Seeing this miracle, the temple master could not scold him anymore, and he was also happy for him. At this time, he also knew that Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva appeared and treated him for his disability. He knelt in front of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, and bowed down with gratitude and bowed a few times.4. After he recovered from his disability, he sold water to make a living. After Xu Qier recovered from his disability, many people came to congratulate him. Instead, he became worried. He could beg for food and live a life when he was disabled. Now that he was disability, he could no longer go begging to live along the streets. He must be self-reliant. However, in addition to begging, how can poor begs solve the problem of food and clothing?I had no capital to do business, but I still found a way out of my inability to buy two buckets of water for the only remaining money around me, and bought water for others to make a living.At that time, there was no running water. Those with wealthy families were called water carryrs. When they brought water every day, Xu Liangsi changed from beggars to water sellers.5. He was a benefactor who sold water. After he was released from prison, he knew that he had lost silver and the beggar who was not ignorant of the money. He also looked for this life-saving benefactor, but he didn't even know his name and could not find it. They lived in a faraway countryside at that time, and of course they didn't know the beggar's address, so they could not repay the beggar's benefactor who didn't know his name, and they were worried about it.After two or three years, the Lin family's hardware store business is getting bigger and bigger, and the desire to miss his benefactor is increasing day by day.One day, the Lin family asked Xu Liangsi to send him to sell water. Lin Dengzhang had never seen Xu Liangsi before, and his benefactor in front of him did not know each other.At that time, the female family members could not leave the door. When a man came, the woman hid and she couldn't go out, so she had not found the beggar's benefactor for several years. When Xu Liangsi happened to bring water into the kitchen, she was accidentally seen by Mrs. Lin and was very surprised. This person's appearance was exactly the same as my benefactor. Is it him?no!Absolutely not!He is a paralyzed and cannot walk, but why does this person look like him like this?Mrs. Lin asked and answered questions for several days, and Mrs. Lin told her husband about this matter: "This water seller has the same face as that benefactor. I don't know why he is not a paralyzed, but he is a water carryr!You will ask him to come in tomorrow and talk to him in detail to see what he did in the past."The next day, Xu Liangsi still brought water. Lin Dengzhang specially invited him to sit down and have a tea. Then, he asked his noble name, what he did before he started selling water, and who else was in his family. Xu Liangsi said to the truth without hiding, "To be ashamed, three years ago, I not only could not carry water, but also could not walk. I was paralyzed on the ground for many years, and at that time I could only beg for the transformation along the door.Later, on Qingming Festival, one year, I stayed in the temple of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva at night and dreamed that the Bodhisattva asked two little ghosts to treat my illness. From then on, after the illness was cured, I made a living by carrying water."At this time, Mrs. Lin walked out of the room, held her husband in her hands, and knelt in front of her, saying that she was benefactor and accepting the benefactor.They both got off the claw without explaining in advance, and Xu Liangsi was so scared that he shook his hands and retreated continuously. After Lin and his wife explained everything, they realized that it was a day before the Qingming Festival three years ago. At this time, they also knew that Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva showed up to cure his illness because of this good thing. They were really surprised and happy. They sat down and talked for a while and passed by, and wanted to leave, but the Lin couple refused to let him go no matter what.6. Lin Dengzhang thanked the Lin couple and said sincerely to Xu Liangsi: "My kindness saved us couple at that time, of course you don't want to repay kindness;But those who feel the favor cannot think like this. You are alone and have no home and no room. Our store also needs help. You can stay here with me, just like your own family!” From then on, Xu Liangsi no longer sold water and lived in the Lin Family Hardware Store to assist them in their business.In a few years, the Lin family not only had a prosperous business but also had a lot of land, but also wanted to marry Xu Liangsi several times;But he refused.Mr. Lin knew that he was a straightforward person, and he just told him everything.A few years later, Lin Dengzhang received a letter from his uncle from Guangdong asking him to return to his hometown in Guangdong to inherit his ancestral property. He was sick and could not serve the aftermath. He decided to rush back to Guangdong to visit his ancestral property. The property here was fully managed by Xu Liangsi, and he did not dare to give it to him explicitly. He only asked him to manage it on his behalf. He believed that he would come back soon, otherwise Xu would not accept it.Xu Liangsi has been looking forward to the Lin couple returning;But they never came back.After several years, a letter was sent to express their intentions that they would inherit their ancestral property and never come back.All his property was given to him and he advised him to get married as soon as possible. However, Xu Liangsi did not get married and never married for life. He still regarded himself as a steward and managed the finances for Lin Dengzhang.Later, Xu Liangsi gave all the houses in Bujie to Tudigong Temple, thanking him for his favor for living in poverty for many years.During his lifetime, he went to the Ksitigarbha Temple outside the city on the first and fifteenth day of the day to pay homage to Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva and thanked the Bodhisattva for his grace for curing illness.It is said that after his death, there are still 60 places to be accepted by the local government.7. Conclusion: One of the two families of Xu Lin did not want to repay their kindness, and the other was grateful to repay them. They were all worthy of the imitation and respect of future generations. No wonder the older generation of Chiayi talked about this matter with great reputation.He heard that Chiayi Provincial Councilor He Maocai and others went to the spiritual throne of Xu Lin's second clan to pay homage to him in the spring and autumn seasons, and admired him for his kindness.For this matter, I and Mr. Chen Ziqing went to a private hospital on Guangming Road and saw the tablet of Xu Lin Er's family, the statue of the land at that time, and the location of the land temple where Xu Qier lived. When the neighbors around knew that the author came to ask about this, they were all happy to tell me about Xu Lin Er's past.In addition to explaining the supernatural power of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, this story also expounds the kindness of human nature, which is beneficial to the hearts of society, so I am happy to remember it.
