☆ENGLISH ONLY☆コミュのA robber

I have heard this story from my teacher.
He is a great person.

There was one priest who trained eagerly in a temple
of a high priest.
But this disciple was a robber formerly,
and he had stolen from this temple.

One night, when all persons of this temple fell asleep,
a robber came in.
The robber stole extortions, and was going to run away.
At that time the robber suddenly watched the image of Buddha
of this temple.

The robber was unconsciously paralyzed, and he made
a bow and ran away.
Later on, the robber was arrested.
The police explained the whole story to the high priest.

The priest answered, “Surely one person came and wanted
money and goods, but nothing was stolen from this temple.
The Buddha had watched all things.”

The robber was impressed by his answer, and the robber
had trained as a disciple under the high priest from then on.
We can't explain bonds of human beings by intelligence at all.

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[1] mixiユーザー 05月13日 00:17

I like that story. Surely, we never know what path life will lead us down. I wonder if the robber had ever considered being a disciple of the priest before he robbed the temple.

[2] mixiユーザー 05月13日 00:24

I wonder,what makes him became a disciple?

[3] mixiユーザー 05月13日 17:09

There is another story about a temple to Kannon in Tibet. In Tibet Kannon is known as Avalokita, in China as Quan Yin. But the image of Avalokita looks very different to how the Japanese and Chinese depict Kannon.
A Chinese family had moved to Tibet to take up a small farm. They had been told many frightening stories about the Tibetans and were very scared. One day they went to the temple of Avalokita and looked inside. They saw a fearsome looking god with many heads and arms and were even more terrified.
Hoping to appease this fearsome looking god they decided to make an offering but did not know what to offer. They decided that the only thing they could offer such a fearsome god would be meat so early one morning they sneaked into the temple and placed the best pieces of meat from their evening meal into the bowl before Avalokita.
Later the monks entered the temple and found the meat offering and were outraged, 'how could anyone offer meat to the bodhisatta of compassion'. They stirred up a mob and drove the Chinese family out of the region. From that day every single year, the villagers' crops failed and they were in dire straits. Finally one monk realized that all their problems began after they had driven away the Chinese family. They spent many days fasting and seeking to atone for the injustice they had done to the Chinese family. Within weeks the Chinese government offered the village special assistance to see them through the drought. And the next year the drought broke.

[4] mixiユーザー 05月13日 18:25

I think .....
actually, it was not Buddha that prevented the thief from stealing.
It doesn't matter whether he was aware of it or not, consciousness
in himself stopped him.

[6] mixiユーザー 05月14日 01:55

So what's the moral of this story?

[7] mixiユーザー 05月14日 06:32

6:
That you can make a bow and run away to break unconscious paralyzation, even though being paralized should hinder you significantly by common logic. This is why we cant explain the bonds of humans by logic alone.