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from Master Chin Kung:
我刚学佛的时候，朱镜宙老居士给我讲一个故事，那时我二十六岁，老居士将近七十岁。他是浙江温州人，住在乡下。宣统末年，距离他家不太远的村庄有个举人，非常孝顺父母，虽然中举，没有作官，家庭生活还能过得去。这个举人有一天中午睡午觉时做了一个梦，梦到有个人牵著马，送一个请帖，上面写著他的名字，来敲他的门。他开门看到有人拿请帖给他，他问：‘什么人请我？’那个人说：‘我们家的大将军请你。 ’他的交友场所当中，没有接触文官武将，所以他说：‘你是不是送错了？’那个人说：‘这个名字是不是你？’他说：‘名字是我没错，可能是同名同姓。’那个人又说：‘既然名字对了就请你上马。’这一上马之后，他感觉到这个马不是在地上走，好像在空中飞。
没多久到了一座富丽堂皇的宫殿，很多人在这里谈话议论。他就打听这个将军是什么人，人家告诉他是岳飞。他一想，岳飞是宋朝人，岳飞来找我，那我不是死了。不行！我上有父母，下有妻子儿女，怎么可以！一会儿，岳飞就升帐了，召集大家开会，要请这个举人当秘书，并且讨论北伐打金兵之事。他一见到岳飞，心里想人早晚总要死，死了能替岳飞办事也很光荣，所以他就下定决心，愿意追随民族英雄。他就跟岳飞说，我家里还有父母、妻儿，我总得交代。岳飞同意了，说：‘我送你回去，等到我们出发的那天，我再派人去请你，大概有四个月的时间，你回家去处理后事。’这就把他送回去了。
送回去后，他一觉醒来，觉得这个境界太清楚了，不像在作梦，就跟父母说这个事情。他的父母说：‘这是作梦，哪里可以当真？’但是他自己不把它当作梦境看待，就开始准备后事。到了约定的那一天，他通知亲戚朋友，朱镜宙老居士那时十几岁，也去看热闹，看好好的一个人，又没有生病，怎么死法？他召集亲戚朋友，与大家辞行，说他要走了，就回到房间躺在床上，他的父母在床铺边很难过。没一会儿，他说：‘接我的人已经来了，在门口。’他的父亲大骂，我只有一个独生子，要他去服役，非常不甘心！最后他劝导父母，能够追随岳飞也是非常光荣，他的父亲就下了一个狠心说： ‘好吧，你去吧！’他立刻就断气了。这是当时大家都亲眼目睹的。半年之后，十月十日辛亥武昌起义革命成功。所以，老居士讲阳间还没有开始动荡，阴间鬼已经先去打仗了。这个故事绝对不是老居士编的，是真有。
我们想想看，岳飞那股冤气一千多年都还没有消，他还在饿鬼道做鬼王。我们学佛人听了之后，知道岳飞这个念头错了，如果他这个怨气消了，以他爱国爱民、尽忠报国的功德，决定生天，不至于落在鬼神道，他就是这个念头没放下。
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Originally posted by dumbdumb!:
one thing about buddhism. it's not user-language friendly.
WIth more and more Westerners and English educated turning to Buddhism, the "user-language" friendliness of Buddhism is a lot better than it used to be... Still, more can be done.
Jitkiat's post is on events which took place during late Qing Dynasty, so it necessarily has to be narrated in Chinese until it gets translated.
May be we should enlist the help of volunteers to translate all Chinese posts in BWB.
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Talking about translation ... would like to recommend the following English translation based on Master Yin Shun's 成佛之道.
http://www.amazon.com/Way-Buddhahood-Instructions-Modern-Chinese/dp/0861711335
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Yue fei was a patriot whom fought bravely for his country and also he is the first i think to have his mum tattoo onto his back the chinese words of cos " JING ZHONG BAO GUO " . Just to remind her son to be a patriot to his own country . But sadly one court officials whom i forgot his name was jealouse of him and schemed to get rid of him . Alas Yue Fei was framed by a plot hatched by this evil court official together with his wife and was put to death . Later pple carved the statues of the evil court officials and his wife and put them at a corner of the street to be spit at for causing the death of Yue Fei . However in the recent years due to hygiene reasons , they forbid the habit of spitting on the 2 statues . Hope i did not make any mistake in telling you this .
Erm abt such things , actually i don't really see why as long as the ghost of the deceased are still there , it mean they are in the er gui dao but rather maybe they still have things to be done in their heart or maybe they are helping to shape the future . I personally have a friend whom committed suicide . But days later i made a dream where he came to my house to take back all his " belongings " . In the dream i was fully aware he was already dead and i even opened my house door for him to come in to get his stuff cos he stayed in my house for 1 month before and really still has his stuff with me . And after collecting all his stuff , he never came to my dream anymore . And of cos i wish the best for him . And also maybe you may have forgottten the story of how guan yu sweared to be a dharma protector for 100 years after he was granted a place to stay in a temple . I don't see why pple like to assume immediate that once a person passed away long time ago and is still a ghost must mean he is in er gui dao . If he really is in er gui dao then are you saying that er gui dao ghost are free to go anywhere they like ? And can even host banquets and even fight war ? I don't know which master said that but a story can be explained in many different ways according to different pple . If the person heart only has er gui dao then of cos everything they see in their dreams will belong to er gui dao . Perhaps they themself may even go there after death . The same way as how JI can be formed from islam . We tend to see things the way we expect or want to but have we forgotten there may be other meanings or perspective that we may have forgotten to consider it ?
A person doing charity may be seem as a person having a golden heart trying to help others life become better , but in the eyes of a proud and arrogant person , he may think that this person is trying to show off his wealth or maybe even have ulterior motives for helping them . Which view is true ? That depends on how you judge or look at pple .
Edited by TWE 25 Mar `08, 11:00PM
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Originally posted by JitKiat:
The name of the bad guy is 秦桧。
南宋时，人们听到岳飞被害的消息，“天下冤之，闻者流涕。”下至三尺孩童，都对秦桧怨恨．群众用面粉捏成秦桧形象，放油锅中煎炸，后来简化制作过程，只剩得两条长腿，变成现在油条的样子。几百年来，人们一直叫它“油炸桧”。
I heard that until recently, iron statutes of 秦桧 and his wife was open to visiting public to be cursed, spat and urinated upon.秦桧 and his wife's deed is deplorable and for which I belief they have suffered (or is still suffering) the karmic consequence. However, what strikes me as equally scary is the hatred of the people towards him.
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