20/3/16, 6:07:20 PM: Kwee! Chang: Grace Chew 's actual Proof
It was about 4 years ago in Jan 2012. We received SGM email requesting us to assist a WD member to visit and take care of her daughter in prison. She was caught by KK airport custom for drug trafficking and if convicted, she will be sentenced to death.
When i first visited this YWD with her mother, she was panicking and couldn't stop crying. She was in fear and totally helpless, begging her mother to help her to get a lawyer. Her mother consoled her not to be afraid and encouraged her to chant daimoku. I understand that they have stopped attending gakkai activities for quite some time because of her business open at evening time. When her daughter was young, she joined dancing and singing in gakkai activities, but after she started to work, she totally stopped and even stopped per practice.
Her mother was searching everywhere for a lawyer to help her but most of the lawyers did not want to take up that case. Her mother chanted a lot of daimoku day & night to pray for a good lawyer.
After few months of chanting, she managed to get a lawyer who was wiling to help her but the lawyer fees was very expensive. Her family is only selling 'cha-kuih' in a small store & could not afford to pay the lawyer fees. Her mother chanted again and went to see the lawyer to explain her financial situation with him. Her prayer answered, the lawyer was very kind to allow her to pay them by instalments.
At the beginning, i didn't ask this YWD the details how she was framed by her friends, because i was thinking that i am not the lawyer or the judge, so there is no point for me to know the details. My mission is to encourage her to base on faith and i strongly believe this is the only way to change her heavy karma. We also received an email from the former SGM Youth Chief encouraging us to take care of this YWD, she said that this YWD could be our future patriot as SGM basset to foster 100k patriots by 2030. Her words inspired me, i determined to foster this YWD to become one of our future patriot.
I started visiting this YWD (Voon) every week. At first, i shared with her about karma, the only way to change karma is to chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo and recite gongyo and, shakubuku others is the best way to change heavy karma. So, she started to learn gongyo and chanted everyday and also tried to do shakubuku. Because she could not communicate well in BM, she always got into trouble with the other prisoners and always find ways to bully her. Many times she was punished by the policewoman and there was once, she was bitten for no reason. She could not bear the suffering and felt very pitiful over herself, she even thought of committing suicide. Her mother was very worried for her.
Every time before i go to visit her, i need to chant daimoku for wisdom how to empower her to stand up to fight for her heavy karma, i asked myself......
If i were Ikeda Sensei, what should i do?".....
Then i happened to read New Revolution (Courage), there is a passage quoted by Nichiren Daishonin:
"Those who are bearing the most adverse karma also have the noblest mission. This is the teaching of Nichiren Daishonin's Buddhism... and .... when people awaken to their true mission in life, they can solve all their problems...."
Instantly i changed my thought. That's right!!, I must awaken her to her true mission and break through from her bad karma, she must has vowed in her past existence to prove the Mystic Law and to help as many people as possible especially youth to become happy.
When i realized this, i changed my way of encouragement to her, i said to voon: "All this happening that you suffered is not only because of your bad karma, it is because you have a noble mission to prove the Mystic Law. You have a great mission that is to help many youth to become happy especially those youth who are suffering because of drug. All your suffering that you experienced actually trained you to become a strong person with wisdom. Just like a diamond need refining to make it shine and a sharp sword need grinding to make it sharp. In future, you might become a counsellor to help many youth in society with the same problem like you. Therefore, your life in prison is like taking up tough training in a university to qualify you to become a counsellor. So, diligently chant daimoku with strong prayer, you can definitely overcome all prayer, you can definitely overcome all trials in life."
After such inspiration, she was inspired that she has a noble mission to accomplish and not just a pitiful, helpless prisoner. She accepted her mission and prepared to challenge it. She started to chant with great hope and great purpose in life and view her prison life positively as training in university. She also volunteered to take care of other younger prison's mate, sometimes even teach them dancing and singing and they performed together.
I had sent in about 20 books Cosmic to the prison's library, she repeated reading Sensei's guidance over and over again. She also studies Cosmic (SGM monthly magazine) together with her shakubuku and chant with them.
In these 4 years of prison life, she managed to shakubuku 20 person and also shared Buddhist philosophy with many of her Muslim mates.
Her prison's life was tough but all her experiences became a spring board for her growth and carrying out human revolution.
Because of time constrained, I share today 2 incidents happened to her that inspired me most:-
Bitten by police
I shared with her about Toda Sensei when he's in prison, he was also bitten by policemen but he understood this was retribution of his bad karma and he would be released soon. So, Voon also changed her attitude from hatred to sending daimoku to them with gratitude. She chanted for courage to dialogue with the policewoman who bitted her, and eventually solved the mis-understanding with her, gradually many policewomen became her friends. Whenever her prison mates bullied her, she would say "thank you thank you, my karma has reduced again".
One day when i visited her, she was so happy to say to me "Aunty, now I can understand my mission why I was put in this KK prison".
She said when she went to library to read Cosmic, one of the policewomen asked her whether she can request SGM to be the counsellor in their prison holding "ceramah" (similar to discussion meet) for their Buddhist prisoners. She was overjoyed that she won their trust through her human revolution and inspired them to recognize SGM as their Buddhist counsellor. I quickly gave them the SGM contacts for their reference.
Death of her lawyer
Her condition dropped to hell immediately when the policewoman told her that her lawyer died of accident, she was extremely devastated and frightened when she heard this bad news. She chanted daimoku throughout that night trying to understand why this can have happened to her at this crucial moment.
Then, while chanting, she remembered that I warned her earlier she should not rely too much on the lawyer's ability, everything is in a constant flux, only the Mystic Law is absolute and the power of the Mystic Law encompasses the whole universe, she must focus and put her full trust to the Gohonzon.
When i heard this bad news, I was also worried that this would affect her faith. Fortunately, I warned her about this before the accident happened. When I visited her few days later, I encouraged her again: "Your mission is to prove the power of the Mystic Law and not the power of the lawyer, if you have good fortune, even a not well-known lawyer can help you to win the case. But if you do not have the good fortune, the best lawyer in the world would not be able to help you. It is 'you' that is important."
Later the lawyer's son took over his father's case, it is a tough process to replace with another lawyer.
After few court hearings with this new lawyer, the judge ordered Voon to give her self-defense in court. She knew that the real battle has begun, there was no way to escape but to challenge it on her own. I encouraged her to chant for courage to tell the truth in court and pray that her words will touch the hearts of the judge and all the listeners in court.
She chanted more than 10 hours a day to summon forth her full courage and wisdom to face this challenge and she determined to win to prove the power of the Mystic Law. She deeply vowed in her heart to work for worldwide kosen-rufu. In the morning before the court begin, I told Voon that she's not fighting this battle alone, because at that time many youth in KL, Penang & KK were chanting daimoku for her and fighting this battle alongside with her.
During her self-defence session, she spoke with full confidence and courageously revealed the truth and her lawyer also wisely help her to co-ordinate well in giving out her self-defence, she fought a great battle.
I can feel the judge was satisfied with her self-defence but the court did not announce judgement on that day...
Voon was sent back to prison cell. She continued to do shakubuku and encouraged her shakubuku as if she will be leaving them soon. She also continued to chant a lot of daimoku, she prayed that she must win to prove the power of the Mystic Law.
One month later, the day before the last court hearing, as usual, I visited Voon with her mother. Voon was very happy and sharing with her mother all the joyful stories. Then, I turned to the other side, I saw another young prisoner was crying and shouting with anger while her relatives visiting her. I could see a great difference between these 2 young women, one was full of confidence and laughing, the other one was crying and full of anger. I turned to Voon and said "hey, you were exactly like her when the first time I visited you, non-stop crying and fear, and now, you are a totally changed person, happy and confident... this is the power of Nam-myoho-renge-kyo! She responded with a laugh.
The next day, the judge gave his final judgement, he found Voon's self-defence has rebutted the accused charge and announced her "NOT GUILTY". She was discharged and released on the spot.
We were all overjoyed to witness her victory. Voon shed tears with joy and the first words that came from her was : "Aunty, I have proved the power of the Mystic Law". I was really touched by her words, she finally graduated from this 'prison' university.
From Voon's experience, I once again witnessed the power of the Mystic Law that can change any heavy karma, by chanting with strong ichinen to achieve victory and vow to work for kosenrufu and most importantly, carry out shakubuku, definitely can change poison into medicine i.e. changing heavy karma to a noble mission in life.
After Voon was released and gone back to Penang, I also went back to Sandakan to visit my family. The sister that we have tried to shakubuku for more than 20 years, she has started chanting and learning to recite gongyo with my mother every morning together with her daughter. I was so happy and I knew that it was the good fortune that i gained from taking care of Voon.
Lastly i would like to affirm once again that the more you suffer, the more you need to practice shakubuku because this is the best way to change heavy karma and accumulate good fortune.
To align with our SGM objectives in 2016 for 'Expanding our efforts to share Buddhism with others', lets work to do shakubuku together!
Thank you.
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