(English subtitles) Layman Youhong Chen, a Taiwanese born in 1960, has seen Amitabha in the Western Pure Land. He tells many stories about his fantastic experience.
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Namo Amitabha Buddha. Put down your hands. Okay. What do you want to ask? Today, we are going to ask you for advice on how to being mindful of the Buddha. Why do you have deep faith in this Buddha's name when you just studied Buddhism? Why can you chant this Buddha's name so well? Can you tell us the cause?
From the incident of 3 soldiers at the land god temple. At that time, there was a pond. During the division confrontation exercise.
1:00
Three soldiers accidentally drove a truck into the pond and were drown. They didn't know it was a pond and thought it was a road. At that time, I had been a vegetarian for 3 months. They came to me. When I was sleeping, I felt there were people. When I got up, I saw them and asked why you were in my house? The ghosts begged me to ferry them. I said: No way. I haven't been a vegetarian for long. How can I ferry you? He said: Yes you can. You are doing good deeds. I said: Don't bother me. I ignored them and fell asleep. Back then, it was midnight. I slept until two in the morning. Then I woke up. They were still there waiting. I said: You haven't gone yet. They said: We beg for your mercy. We are in pain.
2:00
Because after people die, they may not be cured of their illness unless someone ferries them or they did good things while they were alive. They kept begging me, saying they were suffering. This kind of ghost is the lowest, the heaviest karma, and the heaviest Yin qi. They are 5 feet tall, a foot off the ground. They walk like human but faster. On seeing that, people might think they are flying. In fact, they are not. If they go farther, they have to go to the station and take trains like us. Or find out if someone will travel there and take a ride. There is another ghost. Demonic Spirit is more terrific. It suck people's vitality. It is about 7 feet tall, thin and fast. He can be far away in a flash. If the vitality is sucked out, one feels weak. At the time, I had just finished my military service and was still eating meat.
3:00
It happened once I was doing template work and passing the cemetery, my vitality was sucked out. It was raining that day and he came during my lunch break. After he sucked out my vitality, I became too weak to move. I've seen 10 kinds of ghosts, this is most ferocious one. So it sucked out your qi. My qi was sucked. When I returned, my limbs were soft. All my vitality was gone.
Those soldiers kept begging me to ferry them. I asked them how. He said they died at the land god temple, so we had to chant the Buddha there. I said: Ok, I will follow you there. I got up and became two persons, one was still sleeping, the other followed them to the temple like flying.
4:00
What to do now? They told me to sit under the tree and chant Buddha. Suddenly, a ghost came out the big tree. So before we Buddhists want to cut down a big tree, we have to burn incense and tell the ghosts hiding inside to move out beforehand so that they won't be caught by surprise. That tree is big, he came out suddenly, I said: You scared me by coming out so fast. I'm timid. He kept saying sorry. I said: That's ok.
The ghost said: You chant Buddha, that's too slow. You bless us. I asked: How to bless? The three stood in a row. They wanted me to touch their heads. I chanted Amitabha, but they couldn't utter a word. I said: Why don't you chant? We have heavy karmic hindrance.
5:00
Then I told them to stand well again, and I exerted strength: Amitabha. My body radiated light, but the light couldn't enter his body and bounced back. Why is that? Then I came up with an ideal and told the ghost who scared me to block behind me. The three stood in a row as before. I said: You should chant together with me. Actually, they couldn't. Amitabha. After chanting, my body radiated light. The light bounced back and forth. The Buddha light entered their bodies successfully. Their bodies became golden, and they entered a golden ball. The ball floated in the air, and they said to me: Thanks. Our illness had been cured. We are going, thanks for uplifting and ferrying us. From then on, I have faith in chanting Buddha. After I abstain from eating meat 3 years, I started to learn Buddhism.
6:00
This is the first time I've got the inspiring experience. They fly into the air, I have no idea where they go but think they might be liberated. Even if they didn't go to the Blissful World, they might become celestials. Because they were ascending, I don't know where they go. I just became a vegetarian for 3 months. So you just ate vegetarian food and chanted Buddha for 3 months? No, I knew how to chant Buddha when I was in the third grade of elementary school. When I watched opera and puppet show, a monk came out and chanted Amitahba. I thought this Buddhist name sounds very nice.
Subtitles:
Namo Amitabha Buddha. Put down your hands. Okay. What do you want to ask? Today, we are going to ask you for advice on how to being mindful of the Buddha. Why do you have deep faith in this Buddha's name when you just studied Buddhism? Why can you chant this Buddha's name so well? Can you tell us the cause?
From the incident of 3 soldiers at the land god temple. At that time, there was a pond. During the division confrontation exercise.
1:00
Three soldiers accidentally drove a truck into the pond and were drown. They didn't know it was a pond and thought it was a road. At that time, I had been a vegetarian for 3 months. They came to me. When I was sleeping, I felt there were people. When I got up, I saw them and asked why you were in my house? The ghosts begged me to ferry them. I said: No way. I haven't been a vegetarian for long. How can I ferry you? He said: Yes you can. You are doing good deeds. I said: Don't bother me. I ignored them and fell asleep. Back then, it was midnight. I slept until two in the morning. Then I woke up. They were still there waiting. I said: You haven't gone yet. They said: We beg for your mercy. We are in pain.
2:00
Because after people die, they may not be cured of their illness unless someone ferries them or they did good things while they were alive. They kept begging me, saying they were suffering. This kind of ghost is the lowest, the heaviest karma, and the heaviest Yin qi. They are 5 feet tall, a foot off the ground. They walk like human but faster. On seeing that, people might think they are flying. In fact, they are not. If they go farther, they have to go to the station and take trains like us. Or find out if someone will travel there and take a ride. There is another ghost. Demonic Spirit is more terrific. It suck people's vitality. It is about 7 feet tall, thin and fast. He can be far away in a flash. If the vitality is sucked out, one feels weak. At the time, I had just finished my military service and was still eating meat.
3:00
It happened once I was doing template work and passing the cemetery, my vitality was sucked out. It was raining that day and he came during my lunch break. After he sucked out my vitality, I became too weak to move. I've seen 10 kinds of ghosts, this is most ferocious one. So it sucked out your qi. My qi was sucked. When I returned, my limbs were soft. All my vitality was gone.
Those soldiers kept begging me to ferry them. I asked them how. He said they died at the land god temple, so we had to chant the Buddha there. I said: Ok, I will follow you there. I got up and became two persons, one was still sleeping, the other followed them to the temple like flying.
4:00
What to do now? They told me to sit under the tree and chant Buddha. Suddenly, a ghost came out the big tree. So before we Buddhists want to cut down a big tree, we have to burn incense and tell the ghosts hiding inside to move out beforehand so that they won't be caught by surprise. That tree is big, he came out suddenly, I said: You scared me by coming out so fast. I'm timid. He kept saying sorry. I said: That's ok.
The ghost said: You chant Buddha, that's too slow. You bless us. I asked: How to bless? The three stood in a row. They wanted me to touch their heads. I chanted Amitabha, but they couldn't utter a word. I said: Why don't you chant? We have heavy karmic hindrance.
5:00
Then I told them to stand well again, and I exerted strength: Amitabha. My body radiated light, but the light couldn't enter his body and bounced back. Why is that? Then I came up with an ideal and told the ghost who scared me to block behind me. The three stood in a row as before. I said: You should chant together with me. Actually, they couldn't. Amitabha. After chanting, my body radiated light. The light bounced back and forth. The Buddha light entered their bodies successfully. Their bodies became golden, and they entered a golden ball. The ball floated in the air, and they said to me: Thanks. Our illness had been cured. We are going, thanks for uplifting and ferrying us. From then on, I have faith in chanting Buddha. After I abstain from eating meat 3 years, I started to learn Buddhism.
6:00
This is the first time I've got the inspiring experience. They fly into the air, I have no idea where they go but think they might be liberated. Even if they didn't go to the Blissful World, they might become celestials. Because they were ascending, I don't know where they go. I just became a vegetarian for 3 months. So you just ate vegetarian food and chanted Buddha for 3 months? No, I knew how to chant Buddha when I was in the third grade of elementary school. When I watched opera and puppet show, a monk came out and chanted Amitahba. I thought this Buddhist name sounds very nice.





