Master Jianyin - He Saw the Secretary Official of Court Sitting on a Gold Lotus 法院書記官。悟量師。現金色身坐金蓮臺

(English subtitles) Master Jianyin (鑑因法師) Talk Dharma.
Subtitles:
That's vajra platform for the upper top grade. It's purple gold platform for the medium top grade. It's gold lotus for the lower top grade. The gold lotus is for our Master WuLiang when he passed away.
How to call the master who was layman Hu, who was a policeman before? How to call him when he was in JinLu Temple? Master JinGou(pure fruit). Master JinGou piggybacked him up to the ambulance at the Lotus Society. When arriving at the hospital in Wuluan. He piggybacked him into the hospital. Then the doctor gave him first aid.
He made a vow to die during the Buddha 7 session. Really, when practicing the Buddha 7, he was fine on the 1st day, then he died the next day. When it comes to this vow, it's very special. So we have to make a vow to go to the World of Bliss (Sukhavati), and it would fulfill our vow.
Master WuLiang originally held the position of secretary official in Zhang Hua's local court, working as a secretary director, and retired. He usually came to practice with us.
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One day, he left home, went to Master JinXing (pure heart), and became a monk. However, he used to have high blood pressure, which causes heart disease and diabetes. These diseases are incurred by high blood pressure. So he took pills every day. He had high blood pressure, headache, heart attack, and diabetes. He called me one day, “Master Jianyin, May I go back to the lotus society and stay for several days? It's convenient for me to cook medicine and took medicine.”
“Sure, will you master let you go?” I said.
He held the position of the secretary-general of the Chinese Buddhist Association. Master JinXing is the chairman of the Chinese Buddhist Association, and he was the assistant. His writing was very well because he was a secretory official and was knowledgeable. I had been to Kaohsiung to see him when he was sick, and he called back to ask if he could return and live here.
“Wonderful! You are welcome,” I said.
He then returned with his pills. I saw that he was seriously sick.
“You don't need to practice with us in the morning or evening class,” I said. “If you are available and physically endurable, you may practice on your own.”
He was diligent. I often saw him practicing very hard in the hall. He knew he had such diseases that he would go at any moment. When chanting Buddha to aid others, he always ran the first. He enjoyed chanting Buddha to aid others.
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“May I go if I'm available?” He asked. Sure. He didn't cherish his life, never considered his hypertension or heart disease. He never considered that. You may say he was dragging his life and going the Bodhisattva path, and he enjoyed chanting. Later, he asked if he could stay here forever.
“Yes, you may ask your teacher. If your teacher says yes, you may feel free to stay.” I said.
Then he asked his teacher. “How can you do that?” said his teacher. “You are the secretary-general of the Chinese Buddhist Association. You don't come to work. There are too many things for me to do, absolutely no.”
“I can't even tolerate my own disease. How can I deal those stuff for you? No, you pick another one.” he said.
“If we are to pick another, we have to wait till the conference. Where can I pick another one now?”
“Or, you can assign a delegate. I'm really too sick to work anymore.”
He resisted continuing to work. Then there is nothing they could do.
However, he devoted himself to chanting to aid people.
I heard other lotus fellas saying that he told them “If I am to die, please ask Master Jianyin to expound to me.
Those lotus fellas said, “Master Jianyin goes everywhere to practice the Buddha 7. If he is not in, how can he expound to you?”
“I can wait for the Buddha 7 session of the Lotus Society, then I die.” He said.
We hold the Buddha 7 session 5 times a year. He would wait for the Buddha 7 session of the Lotus Society and die. He had this vow, and it would be fulfilled. It happened to be that time on 17 November. Was it that time on 17 November? When was it? It was July.
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July, we usually do rituals in July to give alms to the ghosts. The 1st day, he practiced happily with everyone from the beginning to the end. The next day, after lighting incense, he stood there. Only worshiping 3 times, he told the fella next to him that the couldn't make it and went up to his room.
I was hosting the session, and no one told me, until I was told during breakfast that Master WuLiang got a stroke again. He had a brain stroke again. After breakfast, I circled around the Buddha and hurried to see him. When I saw him, his stroke turned into one leg and one arm.