--- In [email protected], Jue Miao Jing Ming - 覺å¦ç²¾æ
<chan.jmjm@...> wrote:
>
> Since this question was not directly answered, let me give it a try.
>
> About five or six years ago, I was in a restaurant order live fish.
> (Chinese are barbaric. I know. I know.) As always, the waiter brought
> one in a basket to obtain my approval. So I nodded. As he turned
> around toward the kitchen, an acute severe headache occurred within me
> for about 5-7 minutes. Hmm, then I remembered that another senior
> practitioner told me that's exactly what happened to her. And I
> recalled many similar incidents told by other dedicated practitioners
> in our school.
>
> Gradually this incident was forgotten. About three months later, I
> ordered a live fish again, and this headache appeared again. I
> therefore no longer order anything live any more.
>
> I am not an enlightened being. My Teacher is. His ability to detect
> and ferry karma is far greater than what I am able to experience or deliver.
>
> Therefore, I have witnessed that anyone with enough purity in the
> "being" will for sure be hit with karma, especially those were initiated.
>
> Besides, enlightened being has no self. The entire focus, or heart, is
> filled with the suffering of others.
>
> This is my witness.
> JMJM
> Head Teacher
> Order of Chan
>
> Hi JM. Thank you for answering my question. I agree.
May all be happy!
Steve
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