We see it in “Bodhisattva Sutra” that children praying and vowing for the parents
will be able to receive incredible effect.
The same, parents making a great vow for children
will also achieve boundless merits and virtues.
Even though we cannot save the child’s life,
and his time in the world is so short,
he saves the parents instead and
the whole family as well.
One year,
on the first day of January in lunar calendar
at 8 o’clock in the morning,
Library Director Han received a phone call, and
a little girl was crying and asked for help.
She said she died very miserably.
Director Han was not very happy to
encounter such matter on the first phone call on the first day of January.
She wondered who was making the joke and
hung up the phone.
A few minutes later,
the phone rang again.
Her son answered the phone
and said to
the Director
“It is not right! It’s a voice of a child, probably 11 or 12 years old.”
The Director paid attention to it.
After that, when she arrived at the library,
a Lay Buddhist was waiting there.
He said that
my daughter died in a car accident, and I come to request exorcising the demon from her body.
According to the regulations in Pure Land Library, Jingmei Taipei, no exorcism will be carried out during Chinese New Year.
The Director immediately thought of the little girl on the phone.
She realized by then that the phone call was made by the ghost
instead of a human.
The Director asked me,
why did she call me?
I said,
“You are the Director and have the rights. It is no use for her to find someone else but only you!”
The Director helped her right away and
set up a spirit tablet for her
as well as chanting for her to release her soul.
Because of it,
her family all started to learn Buddhism.
She was the one to save the whole family.
It was all from the knowledge of kindness and goodness in the previous life.
She come to demonstrate it.
Due to her death,
the whole family, neighbors, and friends all started to learn Buddhism
as well as her teachers and classmates.
It is the admirable friendship preached in Buddhism, and
it is a true story.