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(from TBN # 480, True Buddha Wisdom Sword Discourse)

(Continued from issue 487)

I covered my nose and asked, “Grand lady, whose intestines are you washing?”

The old woman looked at me very seriously and made no reply. She pointed to my side. I looked beside me and was dumbfounded. My eyes opened wide and my mouth dropped open. One of my disciples whom I knew quite well had appeared. His stomach was cut wide open and his intestines were dropping out. The old woman was washing the intestines of my dear disciple.

I almost fainted.

The old woman said, “If one wishes to attain Buddhahood in this body, then all the sinful karma committed in the past must be well cleansed, otherwise, the bad habits will not be removed completely, one will still have leakage, and the body will thus stink. What kind of Buddha would one become? Stinky Stench Buddha? You should take strong warning from this and admonish your disciples.”

“Grand lady, who are you?” I asked.

Just then, the old woman transformed herself and walked toward the sky, wearing a phoenix crown on her head, a cape adorned with the colours of a sunset, and holding a heavenly peach in her left hand and a holy duster in her right hand—she was the one and only Golden Mother of the Jade Pond, the queen of the immortals.

I paid homage to Golden Mother and my tears poured down like rain.

Golden Mother said, “Once cleansed, then all is well. What is there to weep about?”

I was shaken by this and I came out from my samadhi meditation.

My eyes were still filled with tears of gratitude, and after that, I knew that I am no one [compared with Golden Mother].

(the end)

《本文譯自真佛報第480期頭版師尊「真佛論劍」文章「洗刮腸子的老婆婆」》