The meaning is very clear. Didn't I say that a few pickpockets were on the bus and the bus full of customers felt uneasy, so wouldn't it be nice to pay them and let them all get off? A bus full of customers no longer has to worry about it, and your responsibility as a police officer has become smaller. There has been no pickpocketing on the bus, and everyone is safe. Isn’t this your bounden duty as a security guard? Qian Jishi explained the truth very calmly.
The policeman didn't ask any more questions, and a smile appeared on his serious face.
Suddenly, a miracle happened. A piece of "Great Unity" worth 100 yuan floated in from the car window. A passenger shouted in surprise, "Hey, why did someone stuff money in from the car window?" There are still people waiting, 1 piece, 2 pieces, 3 pieces... a total of 7 pieces, which is 700 yuan. Now everyone understood that it must be the pickpocket who monk Qian Jishi gave 700 yuan a few minutes ago, and he never returned it.
At this time, no one picked up the seven pieces of money that fell in the car window. The police saw all this and said, "Monk, it's your money, pick it up!"
Qian Jishi then started to pick up money. Before he stood up, some passengers asked, "Monk, what special powers do you have?" Why let those pickpockets who got your money not think twice about giving it back to you every penny?
Qian Jishi straightened his waist and said, I don't have any special powers. I just asked the pickpockets to get off the bus quickly so that the passengers in the bus would not be afraid of being stolen and feel uneasy. So I simply gave them money, and they agreed to my request and got off the bus. Who knew they would give the money back? I didn't consider it either.
Some passengers praised the monk and said, "The monk is good, and he does not hesitate to sacrifice money for everyone's safety. Now he is doing well. His kindness has been rewarded by even the bad pickpockets."
There was a passenger sitting at the window who had been staring outside. Suddenly he turned around and said, "You don't know, I just saw the seven pickpockets getting out of the car and they were about to share the money. A big guy, maybe the leader!" He shook his hand and said to the pickpocket who had grabbed a handful of money and was about to distribute it, "We can't take this money. We have been on the road for several years and have never encountered such a situation. I am worried about this kind of money." It's not good for us to accept it, so return it to him as soon as possible!
The pickpocket winked and said, do you want to get in the car again and return the money to him? The car doors are closed now. Do you want me to knock on the door? The big guy said, why are you staying like this? Just put money in the window. That's the whole situation. But we want to thank the monk, who calmed down the anxious hearts of all the passengers in our car.
The policeman on duty in the car didn't say anything, he just raised his thumb toward Qian Jishi.
Qian Jishi returned to Hualing Temple to teach sutras and recite the Buddha's name every day, full of Dharma joy. One day at noon, a middle-aged man hurried into the temple and said to him with a sad face, "Monk Qian, my father is sick and is about to die. He is receiving an intravenous drip at the Shanxia Community Hospital. I would like to ask you to go to hospice care."
Qian Jishi did not refuse. When he and the middle-aged man rushed to the ward of the community hospital, it was about one o'clock in the afternoon. When he entered the door, he saw the old man sleeping soundly. Qian Jishi took a look and said that everything was fine. The middle-aged man, the old man's son, said that when he first came here, his father had a dead look on his face, and the doctors were unwilling to accept it and asked him to be transferred to a larger hospital. He told the doctor, don't worry, he will bear all the responsibilities. In this way, the hospital reluctantly admitted him, but an intravenous drip saved the old man from danger.
Qian Jishi sat in the ward for a while, and just as he was about to say goodbye and return, the old man suddenly woke up. Qian Jishi asked, why did the old man get sick? The old man answered truthfully, I caught a cold while harvesting cabbage in the cabbage field yesterday...
Said a lot of things. As he spoke, he stared at the door and shouted, "What's wrong, the king of hell, I sent two people from the public security bureau to arrest me."
At this time, the old man's son pulled Qian Jishi aside and whispered, my father has few good roots, few merits, and few karma, so now the king of hell has come to arrest him, right? This is the same as what the Buddhist scriptures say. However, my father thinks that he is not a bad person. He said that the king of hell has arrested the wrong person, and he should not go to hell.
When Qian Jishi heard this, he felt that this matter was a bit troublesome. Then he approached the old man's bed and said calmly, "Old man, I'm telling you, most people won't believe it. How do you say that I, the King of Hell, sent people to arrest you in broad daylight? What is your basis for this?"
The old man replied that there is no basis for this. I can only say this. This is something I have personally encountered. I don’t know, why can’t others see it? Believe it or not.
At this moment, the old man shouted loudly, "Wow!" The people sent by the King of Hell were two tall men, one wearing a black hat and the other wearing a white hat. They clearly looked like black and white impermanent ghosts.
Qian Jishi couldn't argue with the old man, so he asked the old man's son, "Your father said that the King of Hell sent black and white impermanent ghosts to catch him. Did you see it?" The old man's son kept shaking his head.
Qian Jishi asked deliberately, is your dad hallucinating?
The old man's son shook his head again.
Qian Jishi continued to ask: Is your father lying to you? The old man's son still shook his head. Then, he whispered that if I said in front of my dad that my dad was hallucinating, I would be scolded. My dad would plausibly say that I have a clear mind and it is clear what kind of hallucinations would occur in broad daylight. ? If I say that my dad is lying to us, my dad will also scold me. He will say, I can usually lie to you, but now I am dying, why should I lie to you? I will lie to everyone, but I will not lie to you, my son, right? !
At the moment, Qian Jishi thought: If the old man's son said this, the Lord of Hell really sent people to arrest my dad. If his dad didn't scold him, I, Qian Jishi, would scold him. You are an ordinary person with both physical eyes and ghost eyes, so why? Nonsense?
At that moment, Qian Jishi told the old man's son, you didn't see it, so don't confirm or deny it, but I can tell you that what your dad said is absolutely true. The King of Hell really sent two people to arrest him. Your father will never lie to you. He can lie to anyone, but he will not lie to you, his son. As he said, he can lie to you at ordinary times, but he will not lie to you when he dies, so you must firmly believe in these two points.
The old man's son asked, what should we do?
There is no other way to recite the Buddha's name, so don't talk about anything. Qian Jishi said it simply.
At this time, the old man, who was not sick and confused, repeatedly said, I am not a bad person. If the king of hell arrests me, then he must have arrested the wrong person.
Qian Jishi said, if you arrest the wrong person, you must also recite Buddha's name! Recite Amitabha!
So, in the ward, the old man and his son, led by Qian Jishi, began to chant Buddha devoutly. After chanting for a few minutes, the old man suddenly stopped and said, I will not chant Buddha anymore, because chanting Buddha, the handcuffs held by Hei Wuchang The handcuffs couldn't be cuffed on my hands. Once they were cuffed, they fell off again. If I didn't recite the Buddha's name, he would handcuff me and take me away immediately.
Qian Jishi asked, old man, why don’t you recite Buddha’s name anymore? The old man said, I know in my heart, they must have arrested the wrong person. If I am caught and sent to hell, I will not hire a lawyer, and I have no money to hire a lawyer, so I will be my own lawyer, and I will go to court with the King of Hell.
Qian Jishi raised his thumb and said, old man, your feet and hands are shackled by Black and White, how can you still have the confidence? It’s so leisurely! How amazing! I advise you not to talk about this matter and recite Buddha’s name quickly!
oh oh! The old man on the sickbed began to read again. But when he was reading, he always had delusional thoughts: Why do you want to arrest me?
After a while, the old man said again, I don’t want to read anymore.
Qian Jishi asked, why don't you read it again?
The old man said, what should I do if I recite Buddha's name? What's the use? I still have this idea. I want to have a debate with the Lord of Hell. Why do you want to arrest me?
Qian Jishi looked at the old man like this and thought to himself: If he doesn't untie this knot in his heart, it will be troublesome. Then he said, is this good? I'm going to tell you a few words, and you can listen to me. If you don't listen, I'll go back to the mountain temple and leave it alone.
What I am telling you here can be seen clearly by the two gods sent by the King of Hell, Black and White. You, the old man, have this little calculation in your head. If you don’t hire a lawyer, they have arrested the wrong person. I want to own it. Debates, etc., they heard them all.
You, old man, don't even think about it. People already know all the tricks in your head. If they knew they were wrong, they would definitely not arrest you. Why would they still arrest you? It can be seen that there is no mistake at all.
Hearing what Qian Jishi said, the old man was a little surprised and asked, "Well, I didn't do anything bad, I'm a good person." Our village chief should be arrested first! The village chief is a corrupt official, not a good person, who specializes in bullying us villagers.
I have been growing cabbages and radishes all my life. As an ordinary vegetable farmer, what is wrong with me?
What he said is also true. Qian Jishi felt that there was always a reason why Hades sent people to arrest him, so he told him, go to the street and ask, who admits that he is a bad person? All people are like you, they will pat their chests and say, I am a good person! I, the King of Hell, have arrested the wrong person. That’s all he says, how can he be so unreasonable?
