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Updated Monday, December 8, 2008 9:36 am TWN, By Joe Hung, The China Post

Moginlin IV

A few days after he had started his life as a starving hobo, Moginlin came to a small forest. He was tired, needing rest. So he sat down under a tree, fast falling asleep. Then he had a dream. In dream he saw an old man coming into the forest to collect firewood. The old man had a hatchet. He used it to cut off twigs and small branches. Strange as it might seem, however, no twigs fell though he wielded the hatchet vigorously. So Moginlin asked the old man, “Dear Sir, how come no twigs fell under your hatchet?” The old man answered, his left hand stroking his long beard under the chin: “If you don’t want the twigs to fall, try to learn from me how to let them stay. But if you want to enter Hell (to rescue your mother), you had better study the Dharma with me.” (Incidentally, dharma means the law. Sakyamuni Buddha and his disciples call the religion he started Dharma. Buddhism is the name the Westerners give the religion of Dharma, just as Islam (submission) is wrongly named Mohammedanism after the founder of that Judeo-Christian religion.)

Moginlin knew the old man was a guru. So he knelt before the old man and bowed deeply to request that he be made a disciple. But as he called “Master,” Moginlin awoke. There was no old man there. But there was the hatchet right before where Moginlin had fallen asleep.

It was near nightfall. So Moginlin picked up the hatchet and started to look for somewhere to pass the night. As he plodded on, he was able to see some light afar. So he quickened his pace, and came to a very small thatched house. He knocked at the door, calling “Is anybody in?” The door was opened. And out came an old neighbor, Xiao-qing () or Little Blue. Surprised, Moginlin asked the girl next door he knew very well, “How come you are here? All alone in the middle of nowhere?” “I didn’t want to stay at home in the village,” Little Blue replied. “There’s nothing to do at home,” she said, adding: “I’d better come here to stay away from home.” She appeared frivolous and flippant.

Something must be wrong, Moginlin said to himself. Xiao-qing used to be a good girl, very obedient to her parents from whom she could not run away. “The Xiao-qing before me may be a devil, who wants to seduce me,” Moginlin told himself. So he tried to hack her shoulder with the hatchet the old man had left him. As the hatchet fell, Little Blue disappeared into the thin air. He could only hear a long laughing sound. Then he heard someone sob. The sobbing was that of his mother’s. “Mother,” he called. She did not appear at his calling. He cried, knowing full well his mother was suffering in Hell, but he could do nothing to help her. He cried himself to sleep, then.

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