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He embezzled the merit money of the temple and damaged the monk's wealth. After his death, he turned into a meat ball and hungry ghost and suffered all the hardships.

Buddhist stories 2023-08-28

When the Buddha is in Sarvas.Venerable Maudgalyayana often goes to the five realms of hell, hungry ghosts, animals, human world, and heaven to observe the devils suffered by sentient beings, such as: the pain of cold, heat, burning and killing in hell; the suffering of hunger, thirst, burning and burning; the suffering of eating and servitude among animals; the sorrow of people in the world that they cannot seek birth, old age, illness, death, etc., and the misery of corruption before death by heaven and man.After returning to the world, he told people about all kinds of suffering situations one by one, so that they could develop disgust and reincarnation in the samsara and faith in cause and effect.In this way, he often uses this to facilitate the education of sentient beings.

Once, Venerable Maudgalyayana went to the seaside of the hungry ghost world and saw a hungry ghost as big as a house. He had no bones in his body, no eyes, nose and other facial features, and his body was covered with many small iron-mouthed insects. He always bites it. It was itchy and painful, and he was extremely sad.As a last resort, it flew into the air and its body began to burn fire again, which was extremely painful; if it returned to the sea, the insects continued to bite it.Just flew up and fell down like this, and he worked hard without interruption.

Venerable Maudgalyayana used his Śrāvaka meditation intelligence to observe its rewarded popularity. It turned out that it was once a great deacon in the Sangha Buddhist teachings. He used the monks' property, living expenses, money from building pagodas, etc. to his own relatives and accomplices. If there was any extra, a fire would be burned out, because of this cause and effect, it would fall into a hungry ghost.

Although Venerable Maudgalyayana knew the popularity of the past and later, he thought: "If you report this matter to the World Honored One, and the World Honored One tells many family members about the popularity of this hungry ghost, it will benefit more people."At that moment, the Lord Maudgalyayana disappeared by the sea and returned to the city of Sarvas.

At this time, the Buddha was turning the Dharma wheel for many families. The Venerable Maudgalyayana thought this opportunity was very suitable, so he came to the Buddha and asked: "Worldha! Students often go to hell, hungry ghosts, animals, the world, and the heavenly realm to observe the suffering of sentient beings one by one, and then return to the world, telling everyone what they see and hear, so that people can feel disgusted with reincarnation and have a sincere and respectful heart for cause and effect.

This time, I went to the sea of the Hungry Ghost Realm and saw a hungry ghost with a huge flesh ball as big as a house. It has no bones, no facial features, and many small iron-mouthed insects bite it. When it was extremely unbearable, it jumped into the air, and its body would ignite fire in the air, and it was in great pain, so it had to return to the sea; but after returning to the sea, it would continue to be bitten by insects, and it would be so hard.May I ask the Buddha, what evil deeds have committed and what retributions have been received? I wish the Buddha said that we want to hear.”

The Buddha told him: "At the moment when the teacher of humans and gods, Tathagata, and Kashyapa Buddha of Equal Enlightenment was born, there was a monk's deacon in charge of the monk's property, the merits of the pagoda, and the living expenses of the monks. He embezzled and enjoyed a lot.Later, he became ill and couldn't cure it, so he secretly gave the property to his relatives and accomplices.When others saw him doing this, they persuaded him with kind words, but not only did he not change, but instead developed a great hatred and said, "You actually spoke to me like this! Well, I can't get these families, but none of you can get them!" As a result, he burned all the money and property of the monks.

Because this evil karma made him reincarnated as a hungry ghost.Because he embezzled and enjoyed the money of the monks' finances, the merits of the pagodas, and the living expenses of the monks, he turned into a hungry ghost as big as a house; because he burned all the monks' wealth with fire, his current body would automatically burn fire and suffer unbearable suffering.”

After listening to the speech of the Buddha, those families now developed a great aversion to reincarnation and a loyal and worshipful heart for cause and effect.

When the Buddha saw that they could receive the teachings of the Dharma, he taught them the Dharma of response.After they heard the Dharma, some of them obtained the first place in the warmth, peak, patience, and worldly life; some people attained the fruit of precession, the fruit of the first fruit, the fruit of the first fruit, the fruit of the first fruit, the fruit of the Arhat; some people attained the throne of the golden wheel; some people attained the fruit of Brahma and Indra; some people attained the fruit of the pratyekabuddha; some people sowed the supreme Bodhi seeds; some people who did not believe in Buddhism also converted to Buddhism by ariseing faith.

The text comes from "Collection of the Tibetan Ages of Stories"

 

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2024-02-05 18:02
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