Businessman and Guide

 

Businessman and Guide

 

During the ancient Tianzhu period, a group of businessmen wanted to go into the sea to collect valuable agarwood. The most touching part of agarwood is its "sin", which has a quiet and restrained quality; it is also its "fragrance", which once achieved, will never be lost.

The first condition for entering the sea is to have a guide before you can go. So this group of businessmen searched one after another, hoping to find a guide.

I heard that the Brahmin monk Kelsang once went into the sea to collect agarwood. The merchants paid for Kelsang to serve as their guide into the sea.

Now that the merchants had obtained the guide, they set out together to a wilderness and found a temple in front of them. Gesang was a Brahmin monk. He said to the merchants: "You must sacrifice a living person before you can pass through this place."

This group of businessmen gathered together to discuss: "We are all relatives, how can we kill them? Only this guide Gesang can be used to sacrifice to the gods."

So the merchants killed the guide Gesang as a sacrifice.

After the sacrifice to heaven was completed, this group of businessmen lost their way without a guide and did not know where to go. At the end of the road, they all end up trapped there.

A group of hungry wolves found the dead bodies of the businessmen and their families and had a good meal.

Betty the crow, perched on a branch, saw what was happening in front of her. Crow Betty opened her voice and sang the song "Agarwood Revelation":

 

Agarwood is a symbol of Buddhism,

Need to feel deeper,

Like having a solid heart,

Always emitting high-quality fragrance,

It's like having a settled mood,

Kindness is as clear as the sea.

 

Agarwood is not just wood, right?

Agarwood is also a revelation,

Revelation us in the floating,

In the flashy worldly life,

Keep a deep heart,

There will be an everlasting fragrance.

 

How to move forward in life,

Kindness is your guide in life.

Greedy people are for some benefit,

And will choose to give up kindness.

Once a person loses his way,

You can't find a way out in life.