Cheng Tianle wondered, "What else do you ask me for help?" If I get a green card, I can't help it. ”

Yu Fei: "Of course it's not this, it's just a complaint about the green card, and it's not a big trouble." Right now, something is going on in my family, and it's a real headache. …… Mr. Cheng, I lied to you back then, but now I have encountered this kind of thing in the United States, do you think this is retribution? ”

The more Cheng Tianle listened, the more curious he became: "What happened to your family?" ”

Yu Fei: "This time I made an appointment with a few friends to travel to Yellowstone Park, including my boss's family, and my wife would have gone with her, but she suddenly stayed in Seattle. She organized activities with a group of locals, and was also responsible for convening a group of classmates and friends who had met over the years to discuss how to welcome a nun from Taiwan and what to organize a Hong** Virtue Conference! ”

Yu Fei recounted a recent incident at home. He worked for a software company for technical support and on-site commissioning services, and traveled frequently to various cities on the West Coast of the United States. About half a year ago, he found out that his wife Xiao Qin was studying Buddhism at home, and he didn't know where to get back a bunch of Dharma propagation materials, but he didn't pay much attention at the time, because it wasn't a bad thing.

Not long ago, his wife told him that the famous Buddhist master "Master Kuanru" was coming to North America to preach the Dharma, which was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and fate! Yu Fei had never heard of the name of this Kuanru Master, and according to Xiao Qin, this great master was from Taiwan Province of China and was the president of the World Association. The process of enlightenment was very mysterious, and he saw smallpox in front of him while chanting. Guanyin Bodhisattva personally appeared in the Dharma body and ordered her to spread the wonderful Dharma in the world.

So this nun started from Taiwan. I went around Chinese mainland again, and then I came to North America. According to the proclamation of the disciples who enshrined her. Venerable Kuanru is the incarnation of Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva, who has boundless mystical methods that can give you the opportunity to understand life and many stories or miracles.

For example, a certain leukemia patient listened to her ** and took refuge in the "Meritorious Mountain", and he was immediately cured. Another example is how much wealth a certain rich man donated to the "Meritorious Mountain", and then the blessings of the world rolled in. The so-called Meritorious Mountain is a spiritual organization established by this Kuanru Venerable in the name of promoting merit.

Such an amazing character. If you want to come to Seattle to preach the Dharma, of course, there will be its descendants and disciples who will stand in front and organize local believers to prepare for them in advance, and the Chinese circle is their most important area of activity. It is also said that it is a great merit to introduce more people to hear about the Dharma. Yu Fei's lover Xiao Qin is obviously one of the very active activists, she introduced many classmates, friends and neighbors to go, and also dragged her husband Yu Fei away.

Master Kuanru had not yet arrived, and Yu Fei participated in the introduction of the Dharma propagation presided over by Master Kuanru's disciple and said to be a great virtuous monk Chen Mengyuan. Yu Fei didn't have much research on Buddhism, but just accompanied his wife to see the excitement. But the more I listened, the more I felt that something was wrong. Although he didn't know much about Buddhism, he had been in a pyramid scheme gang for so long, and he was very sensitive to some methods of brainwashing and defrauding money.

Buddhism and Buddhism have been passed down for more than 2,000 years. Since ancient times, whether they were true Buddhists or not, they often quoted a few verses of the scriptures when they wrote poems. In today's information age, it is not difficult to gather and organize relevant scripture commentaries and modern explanatory information. They are borrowed by different people for different purposes.

At the festival, the "Dream Wanderer" first spoke about a set of universal compassion and persuasion for goodness, combined with various Buddhist allusions. Yu Fei didn't quite understand the metaphysical philosophical speculation. But he didn't hear anything wrong. At least 99 percent of what Chen Mengyuan said, it is usually difficult for people to find anything wrong. Unless a real mage comes and asks him one by one.

But the remaining one percent of the content made Yu Fei's heart tremble, because this dream monk focused on "merit". Having heard so many of the mysteries of the Dharma, how can you practice diligently and gain inner self-confidence and light? Of course, that requires the so-called merit! When Master Kuanru preaches the Dharma in the world, he makes a great wish to make merit into a mountain, so their cultivation organization is called the Merit Mountain.

If your heart is not peaceful enough, if you are still suffering, then look at your true soul and accumulate true merits. How to do it is actually to donate money. Mengyuan also told a lot of stories that were said to be "real things", and how much someone donated to the Meritorious Mountain, and what the result was.

Someone at the scene said that he wanted to make merits, and Yu Fei even wondered if these people were arranged in advance, but later found out that at least not all of them. One of the classmates he met during his study abroad was a third-generation red and second-generation wealthy who now owns a lot of property in Seattle, USA, and actually said that he would donate a mansion as a "dojo" for Master Kuanru to spread the Dharma in Seattle.

Mengyuan also claimed that the more you donate, the more merit you have, and if you don't have any spare money at hand, borrowing money to make merit is more likely to show your sincerity and get the protection of the Dharma! It was these words that made Yu Fei break out in a cold sweat. The guys on the stage encouraged the believers in the audience to make donations, and they even encouraged people who were not wealthy to go around borrowing money and donating to them, in the name of making merits.

As a "person who has come over", the more he thinks about it, the more he feels that this group of people seems to be engaged in pyramid schemes, but they have changed two skins. After returning home, he searched the Internet for information on the so-called "Kuanru Master" and the "Meritorious Mountain" organization. There is indeed a lot of information on the Internet, most of which are the praise of Master Kuanru by "believers" from all over the world, as well as the propaganda of all kinds of miracles and miracles of this Bodhisattva, which seems to be a Bodhisattva alive.

But Yu Fei also did it, filtered and screened the information, and found that the so-called International XX Association was a non-governmental organization that could be registered by itself for thousands of dollars. And he didn't find any records of Master Kuanru's ordination and ordination, and he was a three-no nun for a long time.

The more Yu Fei thought about it, the more he felt that it was not good, and hurriedly went to check his bank account, and sure enough, in addition to normal expenses, he had inexplicably spent an extra $5,000 recently. Yu Fei's life is not too rich, but after all, he has been in the United States for many years, he has been working part-time during his studies, and after graduation, he also has a fairly stable white-collar job, out of the traditional habits of Chinese, he still has some savings on hand, and he is ready to buy a house in the suburbs of Seattle in the future, but now he has lost so much.

He hurriedly asked his wife Xiao Qin, and unsurprisingly learned that he had donated to Gongde Mountain when he was not at home. Yu Fei became angry at the time and asked her why she donated such a large sum of money without authorization? Mrs. Xiao Qin explained that the students and friends who participated in the festival activities had all donated, and she, the convener, was embarrassed not to take the lead. And under the influence of the atmosphere at that time, she felt that only by doing this was the right pursuit of life, and the so-called money was not important.

Yu Fei couldn't continue to scold Xiao Qin, because he knew what kind and enthusiastic she was, so he had to bitterly talk about his doubts and dissuade her from getting involved in this kind of thing again. In Yu Fei's opinion, Chen Mengyuan and the group of Kuanru nuns behind him were cheating money under the guise of propagating the Dharma. Xiao Qin was skeptical when he listened, and used a lot of "Buddha **virtue" theories he heard at the festival to refute Yu Fei. The debate rose to such a specious philosophical height, and Yu Fei was a little overwhelmed.

But in any case, Yu Fei still begged Xiao Qin not to continue to participate in the activities of the so-called missionary gang. Xiao Qin was actually a little tempted, but she was still very embarrassed to tell Yu Fei, she was the convener of the nearby area to welcome Master Kuanru to promote the Dharma, and she received a lot of praise and attention for this.

Xiao Qin did not have a job after graduation, and usually participated in and organized various activities and parties, not only because of his hobby but also because of a way of life and socialization. She has known many Chinese students during her college years, and after graduation, she has also participated in many gatherings in the Chinese community, and is very enthusiastic about organizing activities, from which she can also find spiritual joy and satisfaction.

Since coming into contact with this "Dharma propagation" organization, she has also convened several small Dharma meetings as a liaison, and has been honored as "Dharma Protector" by the Mengyuan Layman, who is very valued in this small circle, and there are always people who praise her for her meritorious work in propagating the Dharma and her great merits. As the saying goes, it's not easy to go down the stairs if you are picked up, so Xiao Qin still decided to finish the rest of the things, and if there is really any problem, find another opportunity to slowly fade out.

This time Yu Fei went on a trip, and he made an appointment with a few colleagues. As a result, Xiao Qin temporarily stayed in Seattle, because the local Gongdeshan branch organization was going to hold a preparatory meeting on how to welcome Master Kuanru. The content of the meeting is very specific, basically the activists are divided into parts, contact family and friends to participate in the puja, don't miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and it is limited to private communication, the news is not open to the outside world, whoever can come is destined for the Dharma and Huigen.

Yu Fei finally said: "Mr. Cheng, I haven't studied Buddhism or anything, and I know what those people do, but I always can't convince my wife completely." I know that you are a capable person, and you are still known as Master Cheng in Suzhou, can you give me some guidance and tell me what to do? ”

Cheng Tianle frowned and said, "I'm not a master, and I'm not a Buddhist. But I have also seen the real great monks, and it is impossible to be that kind of goods! As for what to think and do when encountering this kind of thing, it is actually not that complicated, just think about it according to the way of thinking of normal people. (To be continued......)