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Merit accumulation brings happiness.
The benevolent millionaire.
Long time ago in Varanasi, there lived a man in a wealthy family. He was brought up as well as a prince. He mastered all the high-level Liberal Arts just at the age of 16.
When his father passed away, the man inherited all the legacy and became a millionaire. He was kind, generous and compassionate. He wanted to help others so he built 6 pavilions for giving food to the poor. Located at North ,East, West and South gate of the City. One at the center of the city and last one in front of his mansion.
Knowing he could not bring anything along afterlife, he donated a lot everyday. He also kept the Five Precepts and the Eight Precepts.
Lord Buddha was not in presence at that era. Still, there was one Paccekka Buddha who, after 7 days of Nirodha-Mediataion, went on almsround. The Paccekka Buddha flew to his mansion because he perceived that the millionaire was the path to be Bodhisattva in the future. If the millionaire performed an act of merit to Paccekka Buddha, who was completely pure, the path would be less difficult.
When a fine meal was being served, The Paccekka Buddha arrived at the mansion.
Oho! what a great opportunity. A graceful monk visited my house.
"Meal is ready, sire."
"I wish to make immense merit today by giving this meal to that graceful monk. You, go and ask for his alms."
"Certainly."
Mara observed this all along.
Seeing this the Mara thought...
"That Paccekka Buddha haven't eaten anything for a week, one more day and he's done for. Besides, this will greatly hinder that millionaire from the path to be Bodhisattva. Ok great! I'll the millionaire!"
"There. The graceful monk. I'll ask for his alms."
"Not a chance. Look at this fire pit and see if you still want to go."
"Ouch ouch! What's this? So hot. I can't see anything."
Determined to stop the millionaire, he cast a spell to create a hellish fire pit as deep as 40 meters.
Red hot cinders burning in the pit. When the servant saw the fire pit he panically ran back to tell the millionaire.
"Sir! Sir! there's a huge fire pit in front of the house. I can't go there."
The millionaire asked other servants but the same happened.
The millionaire then thought,
"This must be a work of Mara. But this Mara doesn't know I'm not afraid of him and his tricks at all. Even a thousand or hundreds of thousand of Mara wouldn't make me flinch." "Today's a good chance to see if Mara or me is more powerful and mightier"
So the millionaire took the food and walked to the fire pit.He looked up above.He saw the Mara then asked if the Mara was responsible for this. He then told Mara..
"Oi! Mara. I will not let you stop my donation nor kill the Paccekka Buddha."
And he said to the Paccekka Buddha..
"My lord. Even if my head drops into this fire pit, I will not stop this. Please, my lord, accept my nourishment."
He then firmly held the salver and ran onto the fire pit.
Suddenly, a great lotus appeared to support his feet.
Lots of pollens flew over the place, dropping on his head and body. As if they were golden dust.
Standing on the lotus, he respectfully put his food into the Paccekka Buddha' almsbowl.
The Paccekka Buddha accepted the food, ate the food, and gave him a blessing.
The Paccekka Buddha threw his almsbowl up into the air and flew back to Himmaphan forest.
The crowd were delightfully astonished.
The Mara, suffering his defeat, teleported back to his lair.
"Gahhh! Not again! I'll win next time."
"Oho! my master's terrific. He's able to do this at last"
Still standing on the great lotus, the millionaire gave a sermon about donation and Precepts to the crowd. They had faith in him and followed his way. Until the end of their lives.
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Great Jakata,I am so glad I found this clip.
Metta.
supawanich00 1 year ago
wonderful budha documentary.... can you please up load some more of this video series in thai version.
threekingsdom 3 years ago
Great video
bevanpalmer 3 years ago