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Bodhi Garden

感師悲應續生機
TO LET A LIFE CONTINUE:
IN APPRECIATION OF THE VENERABLE MASTER'S COMPASSIONATE RESPONSE

客塵 文 By Ke-chen

發心學佛進教門  因緣際遇到聖城
逢善知識修善根  法身慧命皆拔拯
一心歸投賢聖僧  再造之恩筆難書
四大幻化雖非真  五蘊不空罪孽增
宿業招感無常風  百八苦痛總相從
險遭不測蒙師救  妙轉乾坤化諸病
起死回生脫苦輪  頓解危厄獲新生
感師悲應彰靈應  勸勉修行當專精
懺除罪業六根淨  勤修法門三業清
照破無明體自性  成就道業入佛乘

一九九一年九月甫出戒壇,即奉命匆匆陪一位師兄回台就醫,醫生熱心亦為我免費檢查一番。結果大為意外說:「腹中長了三個小瘤,應動手術取出。」心想該受報就以歡喜心還了吧!免得後患無窮,商請母親來照顧,安心地上了手術台。費了約三小時,才被送出來。結果第二天,那位主刀的主任大夫堆滿笑容地對我說:「抱歉喔!前日的超音波掃瞄報告弄錯了,開刀後看清楚,那三個是水泡不是瘤。但是你的腸子太離奇了,全部的腸膜和內臟都粘黏在一塊,我們出動了各科主任大夫會診,最後決定以不動為上策,免得後果更不堪設想。以後你就只有靠菩薩保佑,自求多福啦!」就這樣擺了個大烏龍。

腸粘黏是十幾年前一次嚴重腸炎的後遺症,除了飯後時感腹痛之外,生活上並沒有多大的困擾,所以並沒放在心上;次看醫生的神色,好像我是已被判死刑一樣,似乎來日已無多矣。  

因體力復元不錯,一個星期後和師兄雙雙出院。當天為了趕三點的飛機,所以午飯吃得很匆忙,飯後頓覺大事不妙,肚子疼痛異常。最後只好取消行程,下午六點去了一趟急診,醫生打一針止痛劑,馬上不痛,就回去休息。但沒多久又開始隱隱作痛,因師兄也是才出院,不敢驚動他,強忍到半夜兩點,由幾分鐘痛一次到每秒鐘都在劇痛,痛得幾乎要鑽到牆縫裡了;在冷氣房中,汗溼衣被,嘴唇都咬出血了,忍不住喊出聲來,嚇壞了師兄。

三更半夜叫不到救護車,只好打電話驚動一位居士,攔計程車直奔急診室,又是一針止痛劑,然而此藥不靈了,過沒十分鐘,又開始痛得全身顫枓、痙攣。拍了 X光片報告是腸子賭塞了,也許還要再開刀。不久趕來了幾位熟悉的居士,他們一直在旁邊持〈楞嚴咒〉;而我自己腦中只有千萬個痛,念不出一句佛號,心中直喊師父救命!當時值班醫生不敢再貿然處理,說等八點主任醫師上班後再說了。

清晨五點多,主任醫師突然出現,說他感到心神不寧,沒辦法睡覺,直覺急診室有問題。聽過值班醫生報告,他趕過來查看,回頭就罵那醫生:「你簡直要害死人了!腸阻塞怎可打止痛劑?這樣腸子更不動了,會使腸細胞壞死。」接下來是七手八腳地催吐、插鼻胃管…一番折騰,不知是昏了,或睡了。在奄奄一息中,看見師父高大的身形,穿著黃袈裟,拄著手杖,站在床邊,很疼惜地說:「好啦!好啦!已經沒事了。以後要好好拜〈大悲懺〉,我沒見過你好好拜過大悲懺。」「師父您慈悲呀!弟子在學院時因常出公差,忽南忽北到處跑,所以…,但是日後弟子一定會好好拜懺!」這一番生死戰,在第四天從鼻中導出綠色的膽汁後才告解除警報。醫生說:「不用再挨刀而能復原,是你命大,更是奇蹟了。」

待續

Resolving to learn from the Buddha, I entered the Gate of the Teaching. Causes and conditions came ripe for me at the Holy City Where I met a Wise Advisor to reveal good roots.
He rescued both my Dharma Body and my Wisdom Life.
With one mind I return and rely on this Sagely, Worthy Sanghan.
His kindness in giving my life a second start can't be expressed in words. This illusory body, made of the Four Elements, although not real, Still hosts Five Skandhas, that make grow my evils and offenses. Past karma calls forth the Wind of Impermanence,
And legions of suffering and constant distress pursue me always. My fate had nearly reached its end- by luck, the Master saved me! A life at the brink got rescued, and I can begin anew.
Turning the world, his wondrous skill cures all diseases.
Appreciating the Master's compassionate vows, I received a fortunate response. He brought back the dead from the wheel of pain,
And exhorts me to cultivate, so I will focus and strive on. I must repent of past offenses til six faculties are pure,
And cultivate this Dharma door, til three karmas have no flaw.
Let radiant light pierce through the dark, and the inherent nature show. May we all accomplish the Way, and ride the Buddha's carriage.

As soon as I took the Precepts in September of 1991, I was told to accompany a fellow sister to Taiwan for medical treatment. Her doctor was very kind-hearted and offered to check me up without charge. Unexpectedly, he found out there were three small tumors in my stomach which had to be removed by an operation. Since the retribution always follows after karma, I thought I would pay my debts happily, so as to get rid of disasters in the future. My mother was asked to take care of me and I went on to the operating table feeling at ease. The operation took three hours. The next day the doctor in charge of the surgery came to me and said with a smile, "I'm sorry! The scanning report was read incorrectly. After we opened you up we found out that it was three water bubbles, not tumors in your stomach. However, your intestines are absolutely inconceivable! The whole piece of membrane has adhered to your other organs. The doctors from each section had a consultation and decided that it would be best not to touch them; otherwise, the result might be even worse. So from now on you can only count on the Bodhisattvas to protect and aid you and seek your own blessings!" The operation I had was unnecessary!

This adhesion of the intestines was the after effect from a serious bout of enteritis ten years ago. I had never paid attention to it because it only bothered me once in a while, shortly after meals and did not cause any big trouble in my life. However, from this doctor's appearance, it seemed to me I had just heard a death-sentence, and I did not have much time left!

After that operation, I soon regained my energy, and so left the hospital in one week with my fellow sister. I ate a rushed lunch in order to catch the plane leaving at three o'clock. Soon afterwards, I knew a major event was about to happen, and I suffered pains in my stomach so serious that it forced me to cancel my flight schedule. At six o'clock I went into the emergency room, and a doctor gave me a shot of painkiller to stop the pain. The effect came immediately which enabled me to rest. However, in a short while I felt a dull pain again, but because my fellow sister was just released from the hospital, I dared not to bother her, and simply endured the pain. At two thirty that night, the intervals of the pain decreased from every few minutes to tremendously painful cramps every second. I tried to squeeze myself through the cracks in the wall. In that air-conditioned room, sweat soaked my clothes and the quilt, my lips were bitten bloody, and finally I cried out, nearly scaring my fellow sister to death.

At midnight, we couldn't get an ambulance and finally had to ring up and disturb a lay person. She got a cab and hastily took me to emergency room. They gave me another analgesic shot, but this time it didn't work. In less than ten minutes I was in such pain that my body trembled and spasmed. An X-ray showed that my intestines were blocked, and perhaps another operation was necessary. Later, a few familiar lay people came and stayed with me, reciting the Shurangama Mantra all the time. There was hundreds of thousands of pains in my head and I could hardly recite the Buddha's name even a single time. In my mind I could only cry for the Ven. Master to rescue me! At that time the doctor on duty dared not to treat my case and said he had to wait for the doctor in charge who would come at eight a.m.

Early in the morning after five o'clock the doctor in charge suddenly appeared, saying he felt restless and couldn't sleep. He had a hunch there was a problem in the emergency room. After he heard the report from the doctor on-duty, he hurried to check me up and scolded that doctor, "You almost killed this patient! How could you inject her with an analgesic for a blockage of the intestines? That would allow them even less to move and would cause necrosis of the cells!" After that came the misery of taking an emetic and inserting a nasal feeding tube. I might have been fainting or asleep, but in my state of shallow breathing I saw the big, tall body of the Venerable Master, wearing a yellow sash and holding a cane, standing by my bed, kindly and sympathetically saying, "Okay, okay, it's all over. From now on you should bow the Great Compassion Repentance sincerely. I have never seen you bow that ceremony properly." "Master, please have compassion! This disciple was constantly going out to do business when I was in the Buddhist Academy, always running from north to south, so I never had time to bow! Nevertheless, this disciple will surely perform the ceremony properly!" My battle with life and death lasted for four days and the emergency was lifted only after a mess of greenish gall-bile rushed out of my nose. The doctor said, "There's no need to undergo an operation, you will recover. You have a long life span; and this is simply a miracle."

To be continued

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