Master Jianyin - Interesting land deal story 又放光明名寶嚴土地交易趣聞

(English subtitles) Master Jianyin, 鑑因法師 born in 1937 Taiwan, Talks Dharma.
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Basically, I'm a very frugal person, and I've worked hard all my life. When I was 24, I was a director of China Times, which was called Credit News at that time. I've been a director and a reporter. When I was 39, I had saved hundreds of thousands yuan. Money was more valuable back then. Now money keeps depreciating, and it has already depreciated more than ten times. When I saved hundreds of thousands, someone invited me to co-invest in a company. Starting to invest this year, and it ran out of money next year. The company had no money,
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and said it owe somebody money and needed to pay interest. So he suggested a capital increase, and after two increases, he was constantly shouting no money. Then I said I wanted to divest. This is not the business I expected. I can't control it. No matter whether people say having money or not, and I've boarded a pirate ship. All the money I earned from 24 to 39 was depleted by that company. After I cooperated with him, all the funds were exhausted in the second year. Later, I read Buddhist sutras at the age of 41 and began to believe in Buddhism.
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I lack of blessings so that I believe in Buddhism very late, after reading sutra at 41. After reading sutras for 5 months, the more I read the more I was fond of it. Then I began to learn practice. After reading for 6 months, I went to a Buddhist temple and convert to Master Chenyun. After conversion, he taught me how to worship Buddha, how to chant Buddha's name, and I practiced hard accordingly. I still remembered that I woke up at 3 am for practice. I was busy during the day, so I practiced hard in the morning and evening. The harder I practice, the more response I got, the healthier I became, the more vigorous I am. The happier I am, the harder I practice. Soon after I worked hard, good fortune befell me.
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About 3 months after I converted to Buddhism at 41. Others came to inform me this and that, asking if I want to buy land. I replied, I used to be rich, but you didn't come. Now I am poor, but you recommend to buy land. He said, It's so cheap, you don't you want to buy it? How cheap is that? Only 720 per ping (1 ping ≈ 35.6 ft²≈ 3.306 m² ). 720 yuan per 36 ft². How cheap is that. Nowadays, where can you find a cheap land for 720 yuan per 36 ft²? Where is it? It's located at Datong road. At that time, Datong road hasn't been developed, there was a plan but it was not developed yet.
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He said that a big road will be paved in front of this land. How big is the land? 40 x 36 ft². I said, 720 per ping, it's only 288,000 for 40 ping. I said, It seems not very expensive, I will ask if I have money. I asked my pal, Do we have money left? She said, What do you want this for? Someone came and reported there is a land for sale. I used to be very rich, but no one came to ask me. I saved hundreds of thousands but lost it all. How many could I buy for 720 per ping with hundreds of thousands? I could buy 100 pings for 72,000. Now I'm broke, but he's asking me to buy land instead. I would ask if I have money. She said, No money, but we can borrow from the credit union.
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If you need, I will go borrow from them. Okay, you quickly borrow it and we will buy this land. After borrowing the money, I bought this 40-ping land for 28,800. Not long after, the agent came again. He asked, If you want to sell that land? No, since I have bought the land, I will build an office in the future. I bought the first piece of land on Datong Road. The house was only built up to that part, and the land ahead was all farmland. Perhaps the closest building land is the most valuable. He said, the price is very good, are you really not going to sell it? How much is it exactly? Is it good for 12,000/ping? I bought it for 720/ping only, and it became 12,000/ping after a few months.
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On hearing that, I was astonished. How could it be so profitable? I made back all the money I lost all at once. Why is believing in Buddha so good that I never made so much money in one go? I only made a little over 100,000 between the ages of 24 and 39. After changing a hand, I earned hundreds of thousands in several months. Thus, with 12,000/ping, it was exactly 480,000 for 40 pings in total. So I made 450,000 in one go. Not only did I make up for the losses, but also had a surplus. I was very happy and wondered why worship to Buddha would bring such good fortune. I consulted with my pal, and she said, Great, let's sell it. Thus, we sold it at a price of 12,000 yuan per ping. An interesting thing happened.
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4 months later, the person who bought the land came to me again to buy it back. He said, can I return the land I bought from you? No, I sold it to you so you could make money. Why will you return to me? You have bought it more that 3 months, now you may earn a few thousand per ping. Go back and sell it. Don't give it back to me.