A Holy Occurrence That I Inadvertenly Saw
A Holy Occurrence That I Inadvertenly Saw
A Holy Occurrence That I Inadvertenly Saw
The following occurrence took place one day in mid-1996. In order to register the car of my Buddha Master, H.H. Wan Ko Yeshe Norbu, a rubbing had to be made of the number on the engine. We were unable to make that rubbing ourselves. Therefore, at 19 Xinhua West Road in Chengdu, China, I reported to the Buddha Master that the car must be driven to the Bureau of Motor Vehicles. They have a special machine there that can produce rubbings of engine numbers. As soon as the Buddha Master heard me say that the car would be driven away, His Holiness immediately interrupted me and said, “Dehe, quickly go and tell Xiaoyu not to drive his car out. Hurry! Hurry! Hurry!”
Hearing such urgency in the Buddha Master’s voice, I rushed out the door. I saw that the car of Xiaoyu and the others had just left. Although I called out to them, they did not hear me because of all the street noise. I ran after the car a short distance but could not catch up with it. I saw that they made a right turn and drove the car away. I returned to the Buddha Master and reported, “I could not stop them. I saw them drive away, but they could not hear my shouts.” The Buddha Master replied, “How terrible. They are doomed.” I asked the Buddha Master what the problem was and whether I could do anything. The Buddha Master answered, “You cannot do anything. Wait for the bad thing to happen.” The Buddha Master did not say one more word after that.
After more than about ten minutes, a phone next to me began to ring. The person calling was none other than fellow-disciple Pingjiang Tang. In a terrified and shaking voice, brother Pingjiang Tang reported to the Buddha Master that a great misfortune had occurred. He said that after their car was hit by a large truck, it crashed into a pedicab, causing that pedicab to fly into a ditch. The back half of their car was gone. He did not know how many people died in the accident. The site of the accident and the ditch were filled with blood. The large truck that hit them fled the scene. Xiaoyu was able to stop another car, got into it, and chased after the truck. Brother Pingjiang Tang hastened to beseech empowerment from the Buddha Master. After the Buddha Master finished the phone call, His Holiness immediately practiced dharma to empower (bless) them.
Around a half hour later, brother Pingjiang Tang telephoned again. He reported to the Buddha Master that a husband and wife were hit in the pedicab and were seriously injured. The husband’s foot was broken and his head was bleeding incessantly. A short while ago he had fallen into unconsciousness and was barely breathing but now has a little bit of breath in him. An ambulance was getting ready to take them to the hospital for emergency treatment. At this time, the Buddha Master exhaled a long breath and said to me, “Living beings are just this pitiable. All we can do is try our best to help them in the hope that they will be at peace.” Although that husband and wife sustained broken legs and ribs as well as serious injuries to their internal organs, in the end they miraculously survived.
This is a true story that I personally experienced. I was at the side of the Buddha Master and did not leave His Holiness. The Buddha Master did not even get up from His seat. The magnificence of the Buddha-dharma is truly incredible. The Buddha Master already knew the results before the accident even occurred. What is even more incredible is that from several dozen kilometers away the Buddha Master empowered (blessed) people who had suffered serious injuries and were on the brink of death, saving them from a life-threatening situation. The Buddha-dharma is truly magnificent. It is truly impossible to describe orally or in writing the magnificent heart of the Buddha Master that takes pity upon living beings and the incomparable power of the Buddha Master that saves living beings. How can we as ordinary living beings understand the state of realization and virtue that our magnificent Buddha Master, H.H. Wan Ko Yeshe Norbu, possesses? In short, we truly are pitifully tiny. The Buddha Master truly is extremely selfless, extremely kind, extremely compassionate, and extremely magnificent!
Disciple: Dehe Li kowtows to the Buddha Master
Written in Vancouver, Canada on August 24, 2007
