Buddha gave me light

My name is Zhang Lihua, I am 65 years old and a retired worker.

I was born in the old society and grew up in the new society. Since going to school, I have received atheistic education. After half a century of training, I can be said to be an atheist.

In my youth, I read a lot of novels in my spare time while studying and working, covering a wide range of topics. Some of them were books about cause and effect. The books told stories from hundreds or even thousands of years ago. Although they were reasonable, they were unreasonable. The research did not awaken my attention to cause and effect.

This year my wife and I are fortunate enough to live in the Innocence Community. Some elder sisters often rest in the shade in the garden of the community. Grandma Yang, whose surname is Zhang (hereinafter referred to as Jushi Zhang), often tells everyone some stories about cause and effect. I also I heard my wife tell me about it, but I didn’t pay much attention. In March of this year, I accidentally joined a crowd of people and listened to layman Zhang telling stories to everyone. After listening for a while, I felt that they were all real-life stories of good and evil karma that happened before our eyes.

After listening to me tell about my sufferings, lay Buddhist Zhang gave me a book called “Modern Cause and Effect Record”. It was this book that enabled me to break my confusion and become enlightened today, decades later. The teachings given by the old monk Miaofa are really incredible. All the cases and examples that the old monk Miaofa solved for each protagonist in the book are all caused by the karma caused by killing and greedy. It can be said to be like what is written in the book, “Stewing meat and frying fish is to satisfy greed, but you don’t know the heart of animals.” If you don’t give in, the kitchen becomes a slaughterhouse, and you will be disemboweled and go to the knife mountain.” Frying, stir-frying, cooking, and frying are punishments for innocent animals, and they will be punished sooner or later.

I have been suffering from diabetes for seventeen years, with symptoms such as numbness in my hands and feet, and retinopathy. I was diagnosed as blind in my right eye by the Second Affiliated Hospital of the Medical University of this city. The visual acuity in my left eye was only 0.1, and my vision dropped sharply. I was afraid, I was hesitant, and I depressed. Once I lose sight in my left eye, won’t I become blind? In the past, I thought that eating meat would make people healthy, but I was really wrong.

I got inspiration from this book “Record of Modern Cause and Effect” and decided to practice it myself. I vowed never to kill or eat the flesh of any sentient being again. I would also always repent in my heart to the sentient beings I had eaten and recite the holy name of Amitabha. . It has been more than three months since March this year to June now, and a miracle happened. I didn’t spend a penny to go to the hospital for eye treatment. Now, except for the cataract in my right eye, the vision in my left eye has returned to its original state. This article is what I am writing now. If the situation continued from November last year to February this year, my left eye would definitely be blind. Because I eat a vegetarian diet and recite the holy name of Amitabha, a miracle happened. It really came out on me. It was the Buddha and the old monk Miaofa who gave me the light, and I accepted it.

In June of this year, after being introduced, I had the honor to meet Guo Qing, the author of “Modern Karma Record”, and also saw “Fetuses like to listen to the Ksitigarbha Sutra”, “Only by observing the precepts and chanting the Buddha can you benefit”, and “Emotional World” written in the book The protagonists in the three articles were sitting next to me, listening to layman Guoqing’s lectures with me. Why didn’t they convince me?

Now I have followed the Five Precepts and eat vegetarian food. My husband only eats meat and fish food four days a month because he eats with his grandson, and he also eats vegetarian food for the other 26 days. I think I will give up eating meat and fish food for these four days soon. My wife and I are both After applying for the refuge certificate and taking refuge in Buddhism, it is our blessing to study Buddhism and chant the name of Buddha during our lifetime, and to become a disciple of Buddhism and a lay practitioner practicing at home.

Guo Qing’s note: By December, when I saw lay practitioner Zhang Lihua again, I was a completely different person. My diabetes was cured and I had stopped taking all medications.