During
a trip away from home in the summer of 2004, sister-initiates Xiao Guang
and Xiao Ji were injured in a car accident that could best be described
as “a miracle of survival.” While on their journey, the
sisters were crossing a road when they were hit by a white sedan speeding
toward them at 120 km an hour. The impact was so powerful that sister
Xiao Guang was thrown into the air and landed on the road ahead. She
was then struck by the car a second time, and on the second impact broke
the car’s windshield before bouncing off the vehicle and onto
the ground. Meanwhile, sister Xiao Ji landed ten meters away but quickly
got to her feet to see how badly Xiao Guang had been hurt. After noticing
no visible injuries to her sister she spoke softly into her ear, evoking
a mischievous wink in response.
An ambulance quickly arrived along with several
local police officers, who found that the driver was drunk. But they
were mystified at the absence of skid marks, which should have been
left by the car before it came to a stop. While the two casualties were
being rushed to the hospital, the driver who had hit them vanished without
a trace. An examination then revealed that sister Xiao Guang had suffered
a compression fracture in one of her lumbar vertebrae, but the doctor
said that surgery would not be necessary. Sister Xiao Ji had suffered
only superficial injuries but both were hospitalized.
To ease their family’s minds sister Xiao
Ji telephoned her husband the following day and told him that she had
to be away from home for a few more days. Her husband then asked, “Did
you have a car accident? Last night I dreamt that you two were hit by
a white sedan. But at that moment, a white light body stopped the car
with both hands and that’s why you’re OK. It must have been
Master who saved you!” When Xiao Guang’s older brother came
to see her he expressed the same view: “Had it not been for Master,
you couldn’t have survived.”
While the sisters were in the hospital, local
initiates spent time with them and brought them vegetarian meals, expressing
the warmth of the Quan Yin family. During this time sister Xiao Ji received
a message from the inner Master telling her that she would recover and
be discharged in ten days, and sister Xiao Guang rested in bed listening
to Master’s Buddha’s Chanting tapes daily. As a result,
other patients in the vicinity also benefited from Master’s blessings.
For example, some recovered from serious injuries in a few days and
were discharged from the hospital, and several showed great interest
in the Quan Yin Method, were delighted to receive Master’s sample
booklet and said they would switch to a vegetarian diet. Even the hospital’s
head physician called sister Xiao Guang “Mrs. Buddha” for
throughout his thirty-year medical career he had never seen anyone sustain
such minor injuries from such a serious car accident.
Later, the hit-and-run driver was found, and
when asked why he had fled he said, “I was driving extremely fast
when I hit the two women, and I thought they had surely been killed.
That’s why I ran off. It’s inconceivable that they were
only slightly injured. It’s really a miracle!”
Sister Xiao Guang recently recovered and practices
diligently each day. Whenever she thinks about her miraculous car accident
she feels it was a blessing in disguise, and filled with inner gratitude
she said, “We’re grateful to Master for giving us a new
life. Let us now cherish every minute of our lives so that we can pursue
spiritual practice.”