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This is what Tathagata Shakyamuni Expounds
Translated by Lotus Cheng
A businessman by the name of Gu Quan had contacted stomach cancer.
He searched everywhere for a cure but his condition showed no signs of improvement.
His illness deteriorated and both the Western and Chinese doctors could do little about it.
On the other hand, his belief in secret remedy had made him spent considerably in
purchasing such prescriptions, but they remained ineffective.
Gu Quan was so desperate he decided to approach the deity and
asked, `If I am cured of my cancer, I`ll vow to build a temple and
serve in the temple as an attendant for the rest of my life.`
The deity replied, `You shall recover.`
Gu Quan asked, `Which godly being can cure my cancer?`
The deity answered, `Shakyamuni Buddha.`
`How can I find Shakyamuni Buddha? Where does he stay?`
`Go look for him at the Buddhist temple.`
Gu Quan had never stepped into a single monastery in his life.
Thus when he arrived at the Buddhist temple, and asked where he could find Shakyamuni Buddha,
the priest told him that the Buddha was in the Precious Hall of the Great Hero.
When Gu Quan stepped into the main Buddha hall, he saw the golden statue
of Shakyamuni Buddha seated in the middle of the hall.
He bowed to the Buddha and made his promise.
But the Buddha remained still and did not treat his condition at all.
Gu Quan became frantic, and asked a monk, `Can the Buddha cure illness?`
`If you`re sincere, things happen.`
`Where can I find Shakyamuni Buddha who can cure illness?`
The priest had wanted to laugh, but held his laughter and replied, `If you`re sincere, things happen.`
Gu Quan then asked, `I want to look for Shakyamuni Buddha to cure me of my illness. Where can I find him?`
The priest replied with a verse, `Do not go the distance to seek for the Buddha who resides in the spiritual mountain.
The spiritual mountain actually lies within thy heart.`
`In the heart?` Gu Quan did not understand.
The priest became impatient after Gu Quan`s persistent questioning and finally told him, `Go find Sheng-yen Lu.`
`Why Sheng-yen Lu?`
`Because...`the priest startled and said, `Because Sheng-yen Lu and Shakyamuni Buddha always enjoy having coffee together.`
This priest had read my books and he remembered my detailing of how I had coffee with the Buddha at a cafeteria.
Gu Quan was thrilled to learn this and exclaimed, `I want to have coffee with Shakyamuni Buddha!`
The priest hurried him along and said, `Go quickly. Hurry up. Go fix an appointment with Sheng-yen Lu!`
Gu Quan actually did come to see me.
I told him that Shakyamuni Buddha was actually the son of the King Suddhodana, ruler of Kapilavatthu.
His mother was Queen Maha Maya. He was born in the Lumbini Park, east of Kapilavatthu, and was named Siddhattha.
In his youth, the Buddha contemplated on the inexorable nature of life,
such as hardships faced by the farmers, the sight of animals killing each other for food,
and viewed the fighting in life with much distaste.
Whiling travelling through the city, he witnessed the phenomenon of birth,
old age, sickness and death. Thus, the Buddha, in his renunciation, became a monk.
For six years he went into ascetic practices and later realized such austerities were not the way to enlightenment.
He later bathed in the river Neranjara and accepted the offering of milk-rice from a village girl.
Finally, he sat in meditation under the bodhi tree, contempleted on the Four Noble Truths and the Twelve Links of Dependent-Arising, and became the Enlightened World-honored One, teacher of devas and men.
Since his Enlightenment, the Buddha had traveled to many places and preached to many groups of beings for forty years.
In the year 487 B.C., the Buddha entered Nirvana under the two Sala trees near the city of Kusinaga.
I briefly recounted the life of the Buddha and upon listening to my narration, Gu Quan finally understood.
Gu Quan said, `I asked the god, and the god said my cancer will recover if I can find Shakyamuni Buddha to cure my illness. Now that I understand Shakyamuni Buddha`s life story, it appears that my cancer is incurable.`
I told Gu Quan, `Not true!`
`You mean you have a secret remedy?`
`It`s not that. You need to have faith when you fight cancer, and there are numerous cases of cancer patients who have survived the ordeal. You can believe in the Buddha, and learn from his teachings. You can find liberation through them.`
`This is how Shakyamuni Buddha heals?`
`That`s right.`
Gu Quan was very inquisitive and asked, `Buddha had died more than two thousand five hundred years ago.
How is it possible that you can drink coffee with Shakyamuni Buddha?`
I asked him, `Do you believe it?`
`I believe.`
`If you trust me, I shall explain this to you clearly. The truth is actually quite simple.
Though the Buddha had entered into Nirvana, his spiritual light spans the universe.
This is similar to Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva who can answer a thousand prayers and appear simultaneously.
The Buddha ranks higher than the Bodhisattva and thus can do likewise.
I, Living Buddha Lian-sheng, Sheng-yen Lu have cultivated the spiritual light and
I can certainly meet the Buddha and drink coffee with him in our spiritual light bodies.
This is Soul meeting Soul, and is actually a very natural thing to do.`
I said, `Besides this, when a person passes away, his body may be destroyed but Soul remains.
When another person dies, these two Souls can meet each other.
I mean to say that the difference between life and death is simply one where a physical body exists,
and one which it doesn`t. Life and death is thus one reality.
In birth one refers to existence in the human world and in death one refers to existence in the netherworld.`
I continued, `I can cultivate to the level of Soul leaving the body,
and as long as I stay concentrated, seated in yoga posture, circulate the Chi, channel, light drop,
and light, and moves my Soul out of the body,
I can enter the Dharma Realm and meet Shakyamuni Buddha himself!`
Gu Quan listened but not quite fully comprehended my words.
But he said, `Since you can meet up with Shakyamuni Buddha,
can you do me a favor and ask the Buddha how can cancer be cured!`
`Ah!` I paused and thought about this before I said:,
`To meet the Buddha depends on circumstances and affinity. It happens naturally.`
`No matter what you must help me!`
`All right!` I nodded my head and said, `But you have to listen to my instruction.
You need to enshrine a statue of Shakyamuni Buddha, recite one sutra,
and chant Shakyamuni Buddha`s epithet with focus and perseverance.
Can you do this?`
`Yes!`
Gu Quan displayed the utmost sincerity as he enshrined the statue of Shakyamuni Buddha.
I taught him how to recite the High King Avalokitesvara Sutra, and recite the Buddha`s epithet.
Gu Quan believed these words, `One is liberated from the suffering of birth and death, and freed from all the many kinds of suffering` as outlined in the High King Sutra.
Gu Quan was even more devoted and sincere in his recitation of the sutra and epithet because of his illness.
This is:
In reciting any sutra one should persist all the way,
Ceasing all thoughts if you may.
In Saha`s Ocean of Suffering one shall see,
The wind and wave is as calm as it can be.
Thus riding in a boat towards the Lotus Land,
One sails steadily.
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