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- Touring the Fifth Tribunal
Again
Visiting the Gouging Heart
Prison
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- JiGong:
In Chinese culture, morality is the outcome of the
consummation of the vigours of Heaven and Earth, and
the longer the history of the culture, the newer is
the result; this evolution has been in existence for
a very long time past and will not stop even for
more than 10,000 years to come. Unfortunately, the
Chinese of today crave for the materialistic world
and despise their own Chinese culture in preference
for Western culture and civilization, thereby
creating among themselves and society unfortunate
cases of lawlessness like low morality, robbery and
gangsterism, drug addiction and so forth. These
types of people always run down their own Chinese
culture and claim that Western culture is much
better thus putting to shame their own original
ancestry started by Emperor Huang DI (The Yellow
Emperor). Especially, scientists today claim that
science has progressed to such an extent that they
are like a tiny millet in a vast ocean: They claim
to be able to destroy the art of Nature which,
unknown to them, will ultimately bring destruction
and calamity to the whole world. If people escape
from Nature, their life will be unnatural and so, I
would like enlightened people to consider if this is
in fact true. Today we will tour Hades again. Yang
Sheng quickly get up on the lotus flower platform.
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- Yang Sheng:
Yes, Sir. I am safely seated. We can start now…
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- JiGong:
We have arrived; quickly get down.
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- Sen Luo Wang:
Welcome to you, JiGong and Yang Sheng for visiting
our Tribunal again. The journey must have been quite
bothersome.
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- JiGong:
Oh no, the journey was quite O.K. I am afraid we
have come to disturb you again today. May I request
Sen Luo Wang to show us the works of your Prison?
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- Sen Luo Wang:
I had already stated earlier that I intend to show
you the Gouging Heart Prison, so therefore follow
me.
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- Yang Sheng:
Thank you, Sen Luo Wang, for undertaking to sponsor
us. In front of us are the 16 small Gouging Heart
Prisons and I can hear cries of great grief. I think
this is some sort of bloody execution ground.
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- Sen Luo Wang:
The hearts of these souls have become so evil that
we have no alternative but to gouge out these evil
hearts and try and cure or cleanse them.
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- Yang Sheng:
The Prison Officer has come and so I will go and pay
respects to him.
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- Officer:
My humble respects of Sen Luo Wang, JiGong and Yang
Sheng for coming here. We have received information
that Tai Zhong Sheng Xian Tang’s Yang Sheng and
Western Heaven’s JiGong will be coming to our Prison
today. In case I fail to entertain you sufficiently
well, I hope you will kindly overlook any
shortcomings.
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- Yang Sheng:
Officer, no need to offer excuses. Today I follow my
dear Master to your Prison so that I can write a
book on what I observe here.
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- Sen Luo Wang:
Order the Generals to quickly open the gate.
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- General:
Yes, Sir….The gate is open, please enter.
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- Yang Sheng:
Ayoh! I cannot bear to hear the sorrowful screaming
of the souls. The devil imps are splitting open the
chests of the souls and gouging out the hearts,
exactly like in the animal slaughter house where
they cut open the stomach of pigs and extract the
hearts and intestines. The souls are strapped to
pillars and the bare chests are slit open and the
souls emit a shrill cry and faint right away. What
sins have they committed when alive?
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- Officer:
I will sprinkle the soul recalling water to revive a
few souls.
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- Yang Sheng:
Oh! It’s so wonderful and mysterious. As soon as the
soul recalling water is sprinkled, the souls
immediately revive and the chest wounds close up,
return to normal and in good condition.
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- Officer:
I will summon a few souls so that they can tell
their own stories to you.
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- Sen Luo Wang:
Here, sinful souls, listen carefully. JiGong and
human being Yang Sheng of Tai Zhong Sheng Xian Tang
have come here following the receipt of Heavenly
Order to investigate the circumstances of your
presence in this Prison. When you were alive on
Earth, what sins did you commit? Say truthfully and
don’t tell lies, so that they can report in the
Book, for human beings to read and to learn
therefrom. Don’t disobey my order.
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- One Soul:
O.K; O.K; but I would request your Highness to
mitigate the punishment inflicted on me. Can you do
it?
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- Sen Luo Wang:
You tell your story first and I will decide later.
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- One Soul:
Very well then. When I was alive, I was quite a
learned man, having read a lot of books. When I went
to university, I was interested in current events
and was much influenced by Western civilization and
culture. In the university, there was a professor
who was a Christian; he persuaded me to become a
Christian and to study English language very hard so
that at a future date I could go to the West. I was
very much impressed and so became a Christian.
Whenever I could spare the time, I often went to
Church to listen to preaching and to pick up more
English language through the preacher’s speaking. In
the congregation were many young people who wore
western dresses. I soon mixed with the many
youngsters and learned many Western ideas and
habits. There was much socializing and activity
which I liked very much, which led me to be
baptized. I despised my parents who continued to
worship idols, were old fashioned and were behind
time. They prayed to wooden figures and were
superstitious. During the summer vacation, I
returned to my native village, bent on converting my
parents and family to Christianity; I told them to
stop worshipping to wooden figures but they would
not listen to me. I got very angry and taking hold
of the ancestral tablets, threw them to the ground.
My parents were much taken aback and took hold of
the chair and hit me. I then ran away from home.
After graduation I followed my Christian preacher to
preach Christianity from place to place. One day, I
met with an accident and subsequently died. My
Christian God did not bring me to Heaven; instead,
two evil spirits brought my soul to the Fifth
Tribunal where Sen Luo Wang sentenced me to this
Prison. I beg Sen Luo Wang to forgive me for my
sins.
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- Sen Luo Wang:
It is not an offence to believe in any religion and
to be converted; but in your case, you forsook your
old religion for a new and what was even worse, you
threw away your ancestral tablets which action is
totally unpardonable. In addition, when you went
preaching, did you think about
“drinking the water and
giving a thought to the fountain which supplied the
water?” Your preacher told you not to worship
wooden figures but you never understood the truth.
The wooden cross, the bible and the preacher are all
like wooden figures; why did you worship them?
People say “clear off
wooden figures”
– this means that you should look through the mask
of humanity and must not be greedy for the pleasure
of the flesh but must aim at the filling of empty
spiritual life with worthwhile undertakings and
actions. “Clearing off
wooden figures” also means respect spiritual
faith for eternal life. You misunderstood the true
meaning and thereby destroyed the ancestral tablets
thus destroying the morality of your ancestors. I
ask you: where did your body come from and what was
your surname? All these were given by your
ancestors. Heaven is “great God” and ancestors are
“small God”. You forgot your origin and cheated your
ancestors thereby going against your Maker’s heart,
that’s why God did not bring you to Heaven and
therefore you were dropped into this Prison. Now,
because you were truthful in your story, I am
prepared to reduce your sentence by two months. When
you have finished your term of penalty, I will send
you to be reborn as one of the six stages of
rebirth.
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- JiGong:
Belief in any religion is to cultivate the heart and
self-culture and it is the ignorant people who
always reject other people’s religions and say that
theirs is the only and best religion. The Law of
Heaven is fixed; if you say that other religions are
not good and your own religion is the best, it shows
that you have two hearts or selfish motives thus
destroying universal love and mercy. In this way
belief in your own religion is not spiritual
success. If such a person is a spiritual success
then God is unfair because there will be friction
and entanglement in Heaven which will turn it into a
battle field. How then can we say that there is
extreme joy and serenity in Paradise? We are running
short of time; we have to leave but we will come
again soon.
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- Sen Luo Wang:
All Generals, line up and say goodbye to our guests.
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- Yang Sheng:
As we have little time to spare, we will have to
return I thank Sen Luo Wang, Officers and Generals
for your assistance. We must leave now.
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- JiGong:
Quickly get up on the lotus flower platform.
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- Yang Sheng:
I’m securely seated, dear Master, we can start…
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- JiGong:
We have arrived at Sheng Xian Tang. Yang Sheng get
down. Soul, return to your body.
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- End of Journey
No 32
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