Release story three

Release story three

Zen Master Yanshou of the Song Dynasty, whose family surname was Wang, was from Danyang. He initially served as a tax officer in Yuyao County;Because he often bought fish and released them, he used up his salary and had no choice but to embezzle public funds;When the superior officer sent someone to check the treasury money, he found that he had embezzled hundreds of thousands of treasury money.

According to the law at that time, Mr. Wang was sentenced to death;And Mr. Wang's expression did not change when he was executed;He also said to his friend, Xu Zixin, the then-dead official,: 'I have let go of billions of lives, and today I die without regrets!I am now devoted to rebirth in the Western Paradise. Isn’t this too happy?'After saying that, he just put his hands together and recited the Buddha's name, and was not afraid of death at all.

Just when the executioner waved the steel knife and slashed Mr. Wang's neck, he heard a clang and the sword broke into three sections!The executioner Xu Zixin immediately made a note and reported the situation to the king;This Qian? King was also a merciful person who believed in Buddhism and believed in the memorial, and immediately ordered the forgiveness of Mr. Wang's sins;And he was also restored to his official position.But after Mr. Wang was released, he saw through the world and became a monk and studied Buddhism;Dynasty, conscientiously and diligently practice precepts, concentration and wisdom.Once he dreamed that Guanyin Bodhisattva poured nectar into his mouth, so his wisdom gradually opened up.

He wrote six volumes of Wan Shantong's collection, lived in Yongming Temple, and was later praised as the sixth generation ancestor of the Pure Land Sect.When he was seventy-two years old, he sat upright and chanted the Buddha's name and passed away.Later, a monk worshiped around Zen Master Yanshou's spiritual bone tower every day. Someone asked him why?The monk replied: 'I am a monk from Fuzhou. Because I was seriously ill a while ago, my soul was led to the underworld by a ghost soldier. I saw a picture in the corner of the King of Hell's Hall. I saw the King of Hell pay respectful respect to the portrait.I was curious and asked the judge next to me, who was the picture painted on this portrait?'The judge replied: 'The painting is Zen Master Yongming Yanshou.After all people die, they must pass here. Only Zen Master Yongming will be reborn directly in the Western Paradise, and they will be reborn at the highest level;Therefore, the King of Hell had a special respect for the Zen master, so he bowed to the Zen master's portrait.'It can be seen from this that when you are merciful and reborn in the West, even the King of Hell in the underworld bows to him respectfully!