Good morning, everyone. Today I'm going to share another Guanyin Bodhisattva's manifestations
story.
Today, in this story Guayin Bodhisattva is going to appear as a senior old lady and she is a beggar.
Let's find out today.
Back in the old times, there was a small village near the mountain.
In this village all the citizens, from the
government officials
to the little children were all very selfish and had no kindness
at all.
They did not share anything
even with their family members.
So Guanyin Bodhisattva
decided
to
bring her teachings to these villagers.
One day
One night
all the citizens
dreamed the same dream.
During this dream
They saw Guanyin Bodhisattva
manifest
with a gorgeous face and body, in a golden
yellow color during the dream.
And she told them
Guanyin Bodhisattva is coming to this village to bring some teachings to them, so those people can have good faith,
and have a good connection with Guanyin directly.
So next morning, all the citizens got together in the market and were very
excited to discuss the last night's dream.
And everyone was hoping they would be
the right one to have a direct connection with Guanyin Bodhisattva.
Actually during the past four weeks,
there was always a one senior old beggar,
and she is was a very old lady.
She has been walking
house to house in this village, begging for food.
On this day
the baker came to one of the
richest families in this village, and she came to knock on the door. *knock knock*
And there was woman from the house with very beautiful luxurious jewelry, and nice
clothes who came out to open the door.
Immediately she realized there is a beggar
in front of her house,
and she immediately told the beggar:
"I'm poor too. I have nothing to spare to you because even though I have tons of
farm land,
no greens or vegetables can grow, because there is already a drought.
We've had no rain for eight months in this village,
so I have nothing to give to you.
Please go to the next house." Immediately she shut the door and kicked her off of the property.
And the beggar continued to go to the next house. She still got the same reply.
Third house, the same. She crossed the whole village, each household,
for almost a month. No one spared her
a cup of grain rice at all.
So
this beggar was a little bit
depressed and upset, and
she felt sad because all the citizens lacked a compassionate heart, with no generosity at all.
And she spoke to herself,
saying:
"No wonder there is a drought
in this village,
because the great compassion and kindness are just like water. They are
essential for all human beings, and for the animals, and all the sentient beings.
Without this compassionate heart
How can the land can flourish
and produce something to give to us?
And everything every day that we do
Actually has results. Our karma is our actions and brings us results."
So during the time when she was speaking to herself, there was a man
who was a middle-aged man, Mr. Liu. He was just accidentally passing by the beggar,
and he heard
this beggar
saying something that was so enlightening.
And immediately Mr. Liu realized
this beggar is not an ordinary human. She actually is Guanyin Bodhisattva,
manifested in a beggar's body.
So he immediately showed his respect. He bent down on the ground
and asked for a second chance to recover all of the bad karma that
all the citizens have done
in this village.
And asked for teachings from Guanyin Bodhisattva directly.
And this senior old lady (we already know she actually was Guanyin Bodhisattva)
immediately replied to Mr. Liu, saying:
"I'm waited and came here to bring a
teaching to all of you.
please call all the citizens tomorrow 3 p.m
near the mountain. I'm going to show my blessing superpower
to eliminate all your suffering,
which has been this drought for six months with no rain at all for all the farms."
So once Mr. Liu got this confirmation from
Guanyin Bodhisattva
He was so excited,
and he spread the news across all the village immediately.
So next day everyone got together close to the mountain around 3 pm.
Everyone saw
on the peak of the mountain there was one beautiful white cloud, showing rainbow colours.
And immediately this huge beautiful cloud
split into halves down the middle, and there was Guanyin Bodhisattva.
She manifested her form of body in golden,
beautiful, gorgeous colours, with
bare feet. On the left hand side, the Bodhisattva held a vase made by white jade.
Inside contained holy blessing power;
blessing water.
And on the right hand side
Guanyin held a willow branch.
Immediately, Guanyin Bodhisattva
spreading the blessing water across space
and all the villages of the land.
And at the same time, immediately from ten directions, clouds got together
above the village. And suddenly
mist came,
and
coming with the rainfall
moisturized all the land in the vicinity of this village.
So all the green plants started to take root immediately.
They saw the fruits start to grow, and the vegetables start to flourish.
So all villagers
saw this super blessing power by Guanyin
Bodhisattva. They were so shocked and so touched.
They felt that this is a great compassionate heart of Guanyin Bodhisattva, to release them from
their suffering for past eight months when there was no water, no rainfall
at all.
So immediately all the citizens bent down themselves on the ground to say to the Guanyin Bodhisattva.
that they did something before, being so selfish to everyone,
it was totally wrong. Then Guanyin Bodhisattva smiled to all the citizens and
said: "Everything we do,
the result comes back to us.
So we need to practice our bodhicitta, our great compassionate heart, our loving kindness.
Without this loving kindness to the animals and to mother
earth,
they cannot
love us back.
Love has to be an exchange;
has to be equally shared.
So
this is a
beautiful teaching by Guanyin Bodhisattva.
And remember I mentioned earlier that
these government officials they were very greedy. They always took money from all the citizens.
And during this thunderstorm, there was a lighting strike, and all the officials
passed away because of this thunderstorm.
So all the village's citizens decided to self-govern their village
by Guanyin Bodhisattva's teaching, which is great love,
unconditional compassion,
having to love mother earth,
animals,
friends, neighbours, and all sentient beings.
So that is the short story
that I'm sharing today.
I hope this story of
Willow Branch Guanyin can bring you a brighter day.
Hopefully with everything and every person we meet every day, we can practice our
compassionate heart to each other. Not only to humans,
we need to practice our kindness and loving hearts to animals,
and to our mother earth. Without this exchange of love
for each other,
our lives cannot flourish, and cannot be colourful and beautiful.
And I hope my
storytelling today brings you some good energy. I hope for the next time, for the next Guanyin Bodhisattva
story
to have you join me. Thank you