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　　 None of you should act as if this doesn”t concern you. If you have something to say, speak up. Now is not the time to enter samadhi!

　　Disciple: Maybe the Sixth Patriarch had affinities with Yaxian Chen and wanted to give him an opportunity to give. If he gave a large piece of land, then he would have a lot of merit and virtue. He wanted to help Yaxian Chen create great merit and virtue.

　　Venerable Master: If I gave you an opportunity to plant blessings now, would you plant them

　　Disciple: Yes, thank you, I would.

　　Venerable Master: Who else has an opinion

　　 Hurry and speak! Don”t wait for me to call on you. We”re in a democratic country, and people can say whatever they want. There are no restrictions. Use your wisdom to speak about true principle.

　　The problem is that when the Sixth Patriarch asked for land from Yaxian Chen, he took out his sitting cloth and asked for only enough ground to sit on. As a left-home person (a monk), he should not lie. Yet when he opened the sitting cloth, it covered not only Nanhua Monastery, but all the land within ten miles of where they stood. And it”s said that the Four Heavenly Kings appeared and stood guard in each of the four directions. People say that when Earth Store Bodhisattva asked for land from Lord Wen, he also opened his sitting cloth, and it covered the entire Jiuhua mountain range. Basically, as you can see, the sitting cloth is not very large--not even ten square feet. Yet when he opened it, it covered an area of several tens of miles. In my opinion, a Patriarch should not tell such a blatant lie. What are your opinions

　　Earlier the layman said that the Sixth Patriarch probably had affinities with Yaxian Chen and wanted him to plant a lot of blessings, and that was why he asked for such a great gift of land. I responded by saying I wanted to ask for a small gift from him, and I asked him whether he was willing to plant blessings. He said he would. Now how great are the blessings he planted

　　 I don”t know. But it won”t be as great an area as the Sixth Patriarch covered with his sitting cloth. The City of Ten Thousand Buddhas is nearly five hundred acres, which is not a small place. But I don”t have that kind of power, and I don”t have a sitting cloth that can cover so much area, so what do you think I should do

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