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Fortune favors the virtuous: tiger with mouth wide open about to eat monk





Video is about 15min, in Chinese.
A number of famous Chinese monks covered.
A Chinese friend translated, here's my paraphrase of a few interesting events:

1. Mummified remains of 1000 year old monk in sitting meditation posture, with modern medical equipment, they see that his brain is still intact, which should be impossible.

2. Famous Chinese monk lived in a cave, they named him tiger monk after this incident.
One day the monk was sitting in meditation, and noticed a tiger had entered the cave, with mouth wide open about to chomp down and eat the monk.

The monk said to the tiger, (Not clear if there was vocalized speaking, but must have included direct mind to mind conversation which monks with telepathy are able to do with humans and some animals), "brother tiger, I know you've come to eat me in retaliation for a wrong I committed against you from a previous lifetime. But know that blood feuds never end. If you eat me now,  then in a future life I may come after you for your blood, then this cycle never ends. I'm sorry for the wrong I committed against you, but please let's let the cycle end now."

The tiger slowly started to close it's open mouth, and then, amazingly, it prostrated to the monk (verb: lay oneself flat on the ground face downward, especially in reverence or submission).  Then the tiger left the cave. Even more amazingly, not long after, the tiger returned, this time with his family, his mate and cub. All three prostrated and took refuge with the monk.  According to many witnesses, for many years, the 3 tigers could be seen regularly patrolling and guarding the entrance of that cave where the monk resided.

(Any fluent Chinese speakers who watch the video please feel free to correct the details of what I wrote, and also share what's going on in the rest of the video).



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