Gratitude to the Greatly Merciful and Greatly Compassionate Guan Yin Bodhisattva!
Gratitude to all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas from ten directions and three periods of time!
Gratitude to all the Dharma Protectors!
Gratitude to Master Lu!
Gratitude to my fellow Buddhist practitioners!
Today, to save all sentient beings, I will learn from the Greatly Merciful and Greatly Compassionate Guan Yin Bodhisattva to spread Dharma. I pray for Guan Yin Bodhisattva to bless me. I will convince sentient beings to practice Buddhism using my experiences. May Guan Yin Bodhisattva bless me and help me turn my propagation into merits and virtues. I hope my propagation can form positive connections with all sentient beings, transform the right ones extensively, and awaken more beings. I, not my fellow Buddhist practitioners, will be responsible for my own karma! Grateful to the Bodhisattva! Grateful to Master Lu! Grateful to everyone!
I am Shang Shan Ruo Shui. Today I am very honored to share with you my experiences of practicing Buddhism. If there is anything that is not rational or in line with the truth in the presentation, I’d like to pray for forgiveness from Buddha and Bodhisattva. I’d like to seek forgiveness from my fellow Buddhist practitioners’ critique and correction.
My youngest son was diagnosed with Tourette syndrome in the summer of 2015. He was 9 years old that year and I had not yet practiced Buddhism at that time. It was at the beginning of 2015 when I noticed that he always liked to mimic animal noises. He made weird faces, squeezed his eyes, and made other funny movements. At that time, I thought it was a boy’s naughtiness and didn’t pay much attention to it. The situation became more and more serious during the summer vacation. My husband was more careful and said it might be a disease for a child to be like this. We took him to the Child Development Department of our local hospital for a checkup. The doctor looked at him and told us it was Tourette syndrome.
As soon as I heard the doctor’s words my mind turned blank. Before seeing the doctor, I searched the Internet for Tourette syndrome. I learned that there is no optimal treatment program for this illness, and there is no effective medicine to treat it. In addition, there are very few cured cases. Moreover, it directly affects children’s physical and mental health as they grow older. Anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and depression can follow, which is unnerving. The doctor prescribed medication for the treatment and asked for monthly reviews and dosage adjustments according to the situation. I cried back. After taking the medication his symptoms lessened, but his gaze was dull. We dared not give him any more medicine.
The child’s aunt is a medical professional. After consulting with a specialist, she suggested taking him to Beijing and recommended several hospitals there. So we traveled to the Children’s Hospital in Beijing, as well as to the specialty clinics at several other major hospitals in Beijing. The doctors prescribed basically the same Western medications, all for psychiatric disorders. After the lesson learned from the last time, we dared not give it to him again. So, he began a long Chinese medicine journey. Meanwhile, he underwent physical therapy in Beijing. The doctor suggested surgery, but my husband and I disagreed.
From 2016, until the summer vacation in 2018, our local hospital, Beijing’s major hospitals, private professional clinics, Western medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, and physical therapy, he has all tried. Chinese medicine he took was countless, but his condition did not improve. It deteriorated. His illness developed to the point that he could not write and attend school. He would not get up in the morning. He would not let the curtains be drawn. He would cover his head. He was bored with school, had tantrums, and wore his hair in pigtails but ignored it. He took several minutes to wash his hands. He shook his head shook his hands and rubbed his feet. Don’t say how difficult it is for him, but it hurts us as parents to watch. Just as described on the Internet, obsessive-compulsive disorder, cleanliness, anxiety, depression …… and conflict with parents. When he saw us upset, he was not heartbroken. As the saying says, seeking medical treatment indiscriminately when sick. We have repeatedly looked for psychics to see him. Thinking about it now, we were really stupid.
Since the diagnosis, his fear of the dark at night has worsened. He didn’t dare sleep alone at night. Even when he went to the toilet by himself at night, he had to turn on all the lights before going. At that time, I was so foolish that I thought him pretentious and scolded him for not being brave. Seeing his fear at night, I had no choice but to sleep with him at night. A few years later, his illness never improved. Not to mention the financial cost, my spirits were nearly broken. I feel depressed. When I took him to stay at a relative’s house for treatment, I stood on the 12th-floor balcony and wanted to jump off. The helplessness, hopelessness, and depression I felt at that time still haunt me when I think back on it.
In the summer of 2018, he moved from elementary school to middle school. Before he got sick, he was in the top few grades in his class. After he got sick, he could only follow his class into an ordinary class in an ordinary middle school. There was no homework during this summer vacation. Seeing that all the other kids were taking extra classes, I thought, “Even if my kid doesn’t take extra classes, I have to arrange some kind of program for him to get out of the house and be with his peers!” By chance, one of my classmates knew about my situation and suggested that I enroll him in the summer National Academy’s classical reading program. I love poetry and I also wanted my child to be immersed in traditional culture. So, I took him along to enroll in the program. He did not object. At first, he couldn’t sit still, but slowly he was able to sit there and read seriously. He could recite the whole piece like the other children.
Near the end of the summer vacation in 2018, the child’s aunt suggested bringing him to another hospital in Beijing for another checkup. I explained the situation to the teacher who led the class in reading and took a leave of absence. When the teacher heard what I said about my child’s situation, she suggested that I not give him any medication. Instead, I should take him for a checkup first, and then talk about it in detail when we return. After we returned, the teacher said she had seen many children in this situation. She also said that I could use the Dharma to help him recover. The teacher gave me Master Lu’s Dharma Gems for free. I saw hope when I read it and really grabbed a life-saving straw. I too wanted to save my son through my own efforts, just like in the videos posted by my fellow Buddhist practitioners, so that he can study and live like a normal child. Since then I have been connected to the Guan Yin Citta Dharma Door.
My fellow Buddhist practitioners, knowing my situation, instructed me on how to recite Buddhist scriptures. They sent me videos of Master Lu’s enlightenment and offered me Dharma gems. They also took me to perform life liberation. They told me how to practice Master Lu’s “Three Golden Buddhist Practices” to regulate my child’s health. They comforted me and told me not to be anxious. As long as we practice diligently, Guan Yin Bodhisattva will bless us. The child will get well soon. I began daily recitations. The most difficult thing for me was memorizing the Great Compassion Mantra. Seeing how skillfully my fellow Buddhist practitioners mastered the Great Compassion Mantra, I recited it over and over again. I listened to the recordings, and soon I memorized it as well. I insisted on daily recitations for my child, the Great Compassion Mantra, the Heart Sutra, the Eighty-eight Buddhas Great Repentance and the Xiao Zai Ji Xiang Shen Zhou. I also instructed my child to recite Buddhist scripture alone. He and I read Buddhism in Plain Terms together. I listened to Master Lu’s recorded enlightenment with him and studied the cases of karma and reincarnation enlightened by Master Lu together so that he could know the cause and understand the effect, and so that he could understand that to do anything good; do not do anything evil.
At the end of 2018, I made a vow to become a vegetarian. My child also said that he would try to be more vegetarian each month, not eat living creatures and not kill them. I made a vow to help him liberate 5,000 fish in a year. When I performed life liberation, I took him with me when I had the chance in order to cultivate his compassionate heart. I vowed to recite Little House to his karmic creditors. Since I just learned Buddhism and couldn’t recite that many, I made a vow to recite a set of 21, and then 49. After practicing Buddhism for one year, I made a vow to recite 800 Little Houses to his karmic creditors, to be completed within two years. I vowed to help him print Dharma Gems. I want to set my refined Buddhist practitioners as examples, cherish every opportunity to make merits and virtues and help new practitioners to set up Buddhist altars with my fellow Buddhist practitioners. I helped Buddhist practitioners in need of Dharma treasures and offered them Dharma treasures for free. I performed life liberation in accordance with karmic conditions for my child and family every month. When it was not convenient to perform life liberation in person, I asked my fellow Buddhist practitioners to help me do it. I burn and repay Little Houses to my child’s karmic creditors whenever I can depending on his situation.
When he was a freshman in high school, he was often late for school. I got used to it. As long as he can attend school, that’s fine. Whenever he did not want to go to school in the morning, I would pull out all the Little Houses I recited immediately to burn and repay his karmic creditors. Then I prayed to the Bodhisattva to bless him and give him wisdom and energy so that he could get up and attend school. With the Bodhisattva’s mercy, not long after the Little Houses were burned, he got up and repaired himself and said he would go to school. Gradually, he missed school less and less, was late less and less, did weird movements less and less, was much more cheerful, and no longer liked closing the curtains. At night he did not scream in fear any more.
After winter break in 2021, he said, “Mom, I wish to change my seat in class. I want to study and I want to apply to The First High School.” I was happy. I encouraged him to talk to his teacher on his own, tell his teacher what he thought, and follow his teacher’s instructions. When he returned from school, he was so happy that he was transferred to a side seat in the first row as he wished. This is what I did not expect. Because he is the tallest in the class, it is almost impossible for him to move to the side seat in the first row. I am grateful for Guan Yin Bodhisattva’s compassion.
In May of the same year, I set up a Buddhist altar and invited Guan Yin Bodhisattva to my home as I had wished. The Buddhist altar was set up at the new house, and we didn’t move there yet. I told Guan Yin Bodhisattva that I would continue to offer morning incense every day until we moved in. Except for business trips and emergencies, the weather cannot stop me from offering morning incense on time.
The kid’s midterm was coming up. His grades in the past are clear to me. He studied for less than a year in three years of middle school. We were satisfied that he has stayed in school and hasn’t left school. Finally, he was admitted to an ordinary high school. After enrolling, I tentatively asked him if it was okay for him to live in the school. He nodded his head and agreed without thinking. After school started, he quickly adapted to campus residential life. He happily persevered through the one-week military training. He also got along well with his teachers and classmates. All subject teachers liked him very much, saying that the boy had a positive learning attitude, was kind, polite and respected his teachers. One year after entering high school, he honorably joined the Communist Youth League. In the final exam of his sophomore year, he won the prize for academic progress in his grade. He was honored by the school.
After >4 years, he had stopped all medications and physical therapy. By practicing the golden Buddhist practices of the Guan Yin Citta Dharma Door, my son has become a positive optimistic sunny teenager. His weird movements, anxiety, compulsions, cleanliness, and depression have all completely vanished.
After he recovered, I spoke with a professional at a treatment facility. She said that obsessive-compulsive disorder, along with anxiety and depression, is the hardest to eradicate. Recovery without medication is almost impossible. But we did it because of our persistence. Master Lu enlightened us that as long as you persevere, there is always a time when the water boils. It was the Guan Yin Citta Dharma Door, Master Lu, and the Greatly Merciful and Greatly Compassionate Guan Yin Bodhisattva who made this impossibility a reality.
Since I have studied Buddhism for the past few years, I have deeply felt the excellence of the Four Golden Buddhist Practices. I have also felt the truthfulness of Buddha’s teachings. We should know and be grateful for kindness, and we should repay it. Guan Yin Bodhisattva has given us extensive blessings. We have to cultivate our minds to help sentient beings. We have to be one of the thousands of hands and eyes of Guan Yin Bodhisattva so that more and more sentient beings can be transformed.
If there is anything that is not rational or in line with the truth in the presentation, I pray for forgiveness from Namo Sakyamuni Buddha, the Greatly Merciful and Greatly Compassionate Guan Yin Bodhisattva, all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, Dharma protectors, and Master Jun Hong Lu.
I, not my fellow Buddhist practitioners, will be responsible for my own karma!
Presenter: Shang Shan Ruo Shui, Gratitude and Namaste!
Posted: 2023-06-21
Translator: Frank
Published: 2023-10-12
Source: Master Lu’s blog – Feedback from Buddhist practitioners of Guan Yin Citta Dharma Door
Statement by translator
The story was translated from Chinese into English by meaning, not word by word. If there is anything that is not rational or in line with the true meaning of the Chinese version, I pray for forgiveness from the Greatly Merciful and Greatly Compassionate Guan Yin Bodhisattva, all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, Dharma protectors and Master Jun Hong Lu.
PROPAGATION
It would be greatly appreciated if you would forward this presentation to all sentient beings you know, sick or healthy. You will accumulate immeasurable merits and virtues. Saving a life is more meritorious than building a seven-floor pagoda！
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We will show you how to do the five golden Buddhist practices of Guan Yin Bodhisattva Citta Dharma Door: (1) making vows, (2) reciting Buddhist scriptures (sutras and mantras), (3) performing life liberation, (4) reading Buddhism in Plain Terms, and (5) repenting. You will personally witness how you and your family can achieve physical and mental stability, relief from illness and grievances, wisdom growth, academic progress, career advancement, and family happiness through Dharma.
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原文如下：
通过“五大法宝”让我得抽动症不能正常上学的儿子恢复了健康
感恩南无大慈大悲救苦救难广大灵感观世音菩萨摩诃萨！
感恩十方三世一切诸佛菩萨及龙天护法！
感恩师父！
感恩师兄们！
请大慈大悲观世音菩萨保佑，我今天为了度众生，学习观世音菩萨千手千眼救度众生，所以我现身说法，请观世音菩萨和师父慈悲加持我，保佑我今天这个弘法转为功德。希望我的分享能广结善缘，广度有缘！我自己的业障自己背！不让师父背，不让师兄们背！感恩菩萨！感恩师父！感恩大家！
我是上善若水，今天我非常荣幸能与大家一起分享我的学佛感悟，在分享过程中有不如理不如法的地方，恳请诸佛菩萨慈悲原谅，请师兄们批评指正。我来分享一下自己的亲身经历。
我的小儿子在2015年暑假检查出抽动症，那年他9岁，那时的我还没有学佛。那是在2015年年初时，看到小儿子总是喜欢学动物的叫声，喜欢做怪样子，挤眼睛等小动作特别多，当时以为是男孩的调皮没太在意。暑假的时候情况越来越严重，我先生心比较细，说孩子这样可能是一种病，带他去我们当地的地区医院，儿童成长科进行检查，医生看后告知是抽动症。当时听到医生的话我脑子一片空白，因为去之前我在网上搜索查看了关于抽动症的介绍，知道这个病目前医学上没有治疗的最佳方案，找不到起因，更没有特效药治疗，痊愈的病例也是很少的，而且这个病会随着年龄的增长直接影响孩子的身心健康……焦虑症、强迫症、抑郁症会随之并发，让人不寒而栗。医生开具了治疗的药物，要求每月去复查，根据情况调整药量。回来的路上我哭了一路。服药后孩子的症状减轻了，但孩子目光呆滞，我们不敢再给孩子吃药了。孩子姑姑是医务人员，她找专家咨询后建议带孩子去北京，并推荐了北京的几个医院。于是我们去了北京的儿童医院，还有北京其他的几个大医院的专科门诊，医院开出的西药基本相同，都是治疗精神类疾病的药物。有了上次的教训后，我们不敢再给孩子吃，于是开始了漫长的服用中药的治疗过程，同时在北京进行着物理治疗，医生建议进行手术治疗，我和先生没有同意。
自2016年开始，一直到2018年暑假，我们当地医院、北京的各大医院、私人的专业诊所，还有西药、中药的药物治疗、物理治疗，都尝试了，中药吃了不计其数，孩子的病好好坏坏，不但没好转且越来越严重，发展到无法写字，不能上学，早上不起床，蒙头不让拉窗帘，厌学，乱发脾气，头发留的可扎小辫但就是不理，每次洗手要几分钟，甩头甩手搓搓脚，不要说他自己有多难受，我们做父母的看着心都疼，正像网上介绍的一样，强迫症、洁癖、焦虑症，抑郁症……和父母顶撞，乱发脾气。和我们顶撞时，看到我们伤心，一点儿都不心疼。俗话说有病乱投医，我们也多次找通灵人给孩子看，现在想想那时真的是傻得不能再傻了。自确诊后，孩子晚上怕黑更严重了，晚上不敢自己睡，就连晚上自己去厕所也要把所有的灯都打开后才敢去。当时的我很愚痴，认为是孩子矫情，还呵斥孩子不勇敢。看到孩子晚上害怕的样子，无奈之下晚上陪孩子睡。几年下来，孩子的病始终没有好转的迹象，经济上的付出不说，我的精神也几近崩溃，感觉自己也抑郁了。在一次带孩子借住在亲戚家进行治疗时，站在12楼的阳台上，很想就这样跳下去。往事不堪回首，那时的无助、无奈、抑郁，现在回想仍是心有余悸。
转机是在2018年的暑假，那年孩子小升初，生病前孩子在班上成绩是前几名，因为身体的原因，只能跟班进入一所普通初中的普通班学习，这个暑假没有作业。看到别的孩子都在补课，我想，孩子不去补课，总要安排些项目让孩子走出屋子和同龄人在一起吧！机缘巧合，我的一个同学知道我的情况，建议我带孩子报名参加暑假国学堂的经典读书活动。我很喜欢诗词，也希望孩子能接受传统文化的浸润，于是带孩子一起去报名参加。孩子没有反对，开始孩子坐不住，慢慢地孩子能坐那认真地读书，并且能和其他的孩子一样整篇地背诵。暑假快结束时，孩子的姑姑建议再带孩子去北京另一个医院检查，我和带班读书的老师说明情况请假，老师听到我说的孩子情况后，建议我不要给孩子吃药，先带孩子去检查，回来后再细谈。回来后老师说孩子这种情况她见过很多，可以用佛法来帮助孩子恢复，并结缘了师父的法宝给我。我读后看到了希望，真的是抓住了一根救命的稻草。我也想像师兄发的视频里的一样，通过自己的努力救我的儿子，让他能像正常孩子一样学习、生活。自此结缘心灵法门，师兄们知道我的情况，指导我如何念经，发我师父的视频开示，结缘我法宝，带我放生，告诉我如何运用师父的“三大法宝”来调理孩子的身体，安慰我不要着急，让我放心，只要我们努力，菩萨妈妈看得到，会保佑我们，孩子会很快好起来。我开始每天做功课，最难背的是大悲咒，看到师兄们背得那么熟练，我反复念，反复听录音，很快也能背下来了。坚持每天给孩子做功课，大悲咒、心经、礼佛大忏悔文、消灾吉祥神咒等；也指导孩子自己念经；坚持在读诵《白话佛法》，并且带孩子一起读诵，和孩子一起听师父的录音开示，一起听师父讲的因果轮回的故事案例，让孩子知因懂果，让孩子明白做人做事要众善奉行，诸恶莫作。2018年底我许愿吃全素，孩子也说每月尽量做到多吃素，不吃活的生物，不杀生；我许愿一年内帮孩子放生5000条鱼，放生时有机会就带孩子一起参加，长养孩子的慈悲心；许愿给孩子的要经者念诵小房子，因为刚刚学习念不出那么多，就先许愿念诵一拨21张，然后许愿49张。学佛一年后我许愿给孩子的要经者念诵800张小房子，两年内完成；帮孩子助印法宝。我要多向精进的师兄请教学习，珍惜每个做功德的机会，和师兄们一起助缘设佛台；坚持学习《白话佛法》；帮助有需要法宝的师兄结缘法宝；每月坚持给孩子和家人随缘放生，不方便亲自去放生时，就在网上让师兄们帮忙代放；随时根据孩子情况给孩子的要经者烧送小房子；孩子读初一时迟到是经常事，我也习惯了，只要能去上学就行。每当早上孩子耍的不想去上学时，我就把已经念出来的小房子马上给孩子的要经者烧送，有几张送几张，然后求菩萨保佑他，给他智慧和能量让他能起床去学校读书。菩萨慈悲，小房子烧送后没多大会儿，孩子就自己起床收拾说去上学。孩子耍的次数也越来越少，迟到的次数越来越少，动作越来越少了，性格开朗了很多，不再总喜欢拉着窗帘，晚上也不总喊害怕了。
在2021年的寒假过后，孩子说：“妈妈，我想换个座位想学习，高中想去一中读书。”我很开心，我鼓励孩子让他自己去找老师谈，把想法告诉老师，听老师的安排。回来后孩子很高兴，如愿调到第一排的侧边位，这是我没有想到的，因为孩子是班上个子最高的，去第一排就是边位也几乎是不可能的，感恩菩萨妈妈的慈悲。在同年的5月份我如愿设了佛台，把菩萨妈妈请回了家，因为佛台设在新房子那边，暂时没有搬过去住，我和菩萨妈妈说在搬过来住之前每天坚持上早香，除了出差和他的情况外，任何天气都阻止不了按时上早香。紧接着孩子中考，孩子的成绩我清楚，三年的初中也就学了不到一年，能坚持上学没有离开学校我们已经很满足了。孩子成绩下来后，去了一所普通的高中，办入学的一切手续都特别地顺利，报到后，我试探的问孩子住校可以吗？孩子没有考虑地点头同意了。开学后孩子很快适应了住校生活。一周的军训孩子很开心地坚持了下来，和老师同学相处得也特别融洽，各科任老师都很喜欢他，说这孩子学习态度好，善良、懂礼貌，尊敬师长。入学一年后光荣地入团，成为一名团员。在高二的第一学年期末考试中，获得年级学习进步奖，得到学校的表彰。至此四年多的时间，孩子停掉所有的药物和物理治疗，通过运用心灵法门的几大法宝让我的儿子变成了一个积极乐观的阳光少年，孩子的动作、焦虑、强迫、洁癖、抑郁，在孩子身上已荡然无存。
孩子恢复后，我和一个治疗机构的专业人士交流，她说一个人的强迫症和焦虑症、抑郁症，是最难根治的，更何况不服用任何的药物能恢复几乎是不可能的，可我们做到了。是我们的坚持，师父说过，只要你坚持，水总有烧开的时候，是心灵法门，是师父，是大慈大悲的观世音菩萨让这个不可能变成了现实。
这几年学佛以来，我深切地感受到了“四大法宝”的殊胜，感受到了佛法的真实不虚。人要知恩，感恩，更要报恩。观世音菩萨妈妈给了我们莫大的护佑，我们更要好好地修心度众，做菩萨妈妈的千手千眼，让更多的有缘众生得度。
以上分享如有不如理不如法之处，祈请南无释迦牟尼佛慈悲原谅，祈请南无大慈大悲救苦救难广大灵感观世音菩萨慈悲原谅，请诸佛菩萨及龙天护法菩萨慈悲原谅，请师父慈悲原谅，我自己的业障自己背，不让师兄们背！
分享人：上善若水
2023-06-21 发布
来自：师父博客《心灵法门网友反馈》2023-06-21：通过“五大法宝”让我得抽动症不能正常上学的儿子恢复了健康
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