Inspiring Stories of Chanting Buddha 37 - Deliver Yourself from Disasters by Reciting the Buddha

(English and Chinese subtitles )念佛感應見聞記 , written by venerable laywoman Kanzhi Lin 林看治居士 (1906-1992 AD) 時刻念佛解脫災厄
Subtitles:
Deliver Yourself from Disasters by Reciting the Buddha at All Times
Indeed, Amitabha Buddha is originally Agada medicine, which can cure all kinds of diseases and eliminate disasters and avoid hardships.
Let me talk about the inspiration of a person who devoutly recited Amitabha Buddha. The laywoman, Fengying Sun, 31, lives in Taichung.
She originally came from Fuzhou, China. She has believed in Buddhism since she was a child in mainland China and planted roots of goodness.
After China won the resistance war and Taiwan was restored, she transmigrated to Taichung and started to chant the Buddha. She participated in the Lotus Society's dual study classes,
and she attended the Sunday sermon every week.
She said to me one day, "Sister, I have inspiration in reciting Amitabha Buddha. Why do people refuse to recite Buddha when I ask them to do so?"
I asked her what inspiration she had received.
She then told me a fact that happened seven years ago.
She said, “There was a big typhoon in July seven years ago. The wash room in my home used to be located by the big ditch behind the house, some distance away from the house.
There is a large banyan tree next to the wash room.
I went to the wash room at nine o'clock that night to relieve myself. When I entered the wash room, I heard someone urging me in my ear, "Get out of here. Danger! Danger!" I heard three or four voices in a row.
“I was so scared that I ran out and into the kitchen in one breath. Suddenly, a dazzling lightning hit the ground, and a loud thunder shocked my ears.
At that moment, I saw the big banyan tree was blown down in a gust and was falling towards the wash room.
If I had been in the wash room, the result would be devastating!
When my husband saw the wash room collapsed by the banyan tree, he shouted to his children,”
“'Go to save your mother! She is in the wash room, if she is crushed, she will be dead.'
Then I came out of the kitchen calmly and said to my husband and children with a smile.
'I am here. No need to panic. Because Amitabha was whispering in my ear, calling me to get out. Danger! Danger! Without pooping, I ran out immediately.'”
“When I ran to the kitchen, the big banyan tree fell down. If Amitabha hadn't alerted me, I am afraid I would have been broken to pieces.”
After I heard the inspiration of Laywoman Sun, I praised and blessed her. And I asked her how she practiced dharma every day. She said, "My husband is a poor civil servant, and we have six children, so we have to live within our means."
I'm lucky to practice this dharma of mindfulness of Buddha, and I can do it without spending any money. Every morning and evening, I burn incense and bow to the Buddha three times. I chant the Buddha when I do laundry, I chant the Buddha when I cook, I chant the Buddha when I sweep the floor, and I'm always mindful of the Buddha. When I see my neighbors, I recommend them to chant the Buddha's names and listen to the sutra lectures. Unfortunately, they don't believe me, and some regard me as a muddlehead.
So I see them talking nonsense all day long, gossiping about people's right and wrong, wasting their time, and I feel sorry for them. Then I reassured her,
"If you practice this way, your mind never leaves the Buddha, and the Buddha never leaves your mind, and eventually you will be liberated. You don't have the eloquence to convert sentient beings now but have the vow to be born in the Bliss Pure Land. When you have perfect eloquence, you may come back to fulfill your wish and convert all sentient beings.
One day, Laywoman Sun told me, "Last summer, I was also blessed by the Buddha and was relieved of a disaster." Then she said, "It happened last May, one night, around 2 am. While I was sleeping, something bit my wrist on the left arm.
The pain pierced my heart, and I immediately wailed loudly, and that wakened my husband and the older child, and they got up.
They turned on the light, and I saw a big bug crawling on my arm. The father and son hurried to catch the bug and nailed it to the wall. At the time, I was in a lot of pain, the bite seemed to have something that would flow around, and it hurt all the way to my brain.
I felt my head swelling like a bucket, but I knew in my mind that if the pain reached my heart, I would die.
At that time, my chest was so stuffed up that I couldn't breathe.
“I thought, I must be doomed to live until this moment, and I am afraid there is no way to save my life. When I was bitten, I felt that my life was in danger, because the pain was so severe that I chanted 'Amitabha Buddha' wholeheartedly and loudly. Even though the pain had spread to my brain and flown to my heart, I kept chanting with all my heart, hoping that the Buddha would come and take me away.” ...