In ancient times, there was a lay Buddhist Zhang who practiced Pure Land. He practiced forbearance very well. Once he went out to do business and stayed at an old friend's house for one night, but he didn't expect to be wronged.

In ancient times, there was a lay Buddhist Zhang who practiced Pure Land. He practiced forbearance very well. Once he went out to do business and stayed at an old friend's house for one night, but he didn't expect to be wronged.

His friend had a very expensive piece of clothing. The servant at home was so mean and took the clothes out and hid them first. Just as Mr. Zhang came to stay for a night and wanted to stay for one night, the servant deliberately took Mr. Zhang to the room where the precious clothes were placed. Mr. Zhang stayed for one night and left.

The next morning, after his friend returned home, he found expensive clothes to attend a dinner, but couldn't find it. Thinking about who came the night before? How come this dress is gone? The servant deliberately said, "It must be your friend who stole it." The master was very angry and immediately called Mr. Zhang to pay for Mr. Zhang.

Mr. Zhang clearly knew that he had been wronged, but he did not, like ordinary people, immediately distinguish right from wrong and make trouble with others once he was wronged: "I didn't steal, why don't you even believe me?" Mr. Zhang said with humiliation: "Oh, how much does this dress cost? I'll just pay you for it." He happily gave the rice dumplings offered to his friends.

Later, the servant found out with conscience and regretted it very much. A few days later, he repented in front of the master and told the truth about the matter. Mr. Zhang practiced well and regarded the unlucky thing as the manifestation of Pure Land . In other words, he regarded the good and bad things he encountered in the world as a way to train his mentality.

We encounter grievances and unlucky things in the world. We should think that it is adverse events to train us, which will help us the most. Sometimes too many favorable conditions will make us degenerate, slack, and lazy. Sometimes this kind of adverse conditions will train us, make us awaken and know the suffering, and then we will develop a sense of enlightenment.