I am a tree god, three hundred years old. In God's world, I am just a little god.
Don't underestimate me, little gods also have magical powers. I can see a lot of things that you can't and I can remember everything that happens in my jurisdiction. For example, people in the village come to worship me every year and pray that I will bless them with adequate food and clothing, wealth and peace. Of course I will do my duty, but what is beyond the scope of my responsibilities has nothing to do with me, and what is beyond the scope of my ability, I can't help.
For example, the man named Wang Gui in the village is honest, honest, fair and just. Therefore, not to mention me, even the villagers of Nanshan Village respect and protect him. I only did one thing for Wang Gui - I blocked the mouth of the hookah of the land reform cadre and made him lose his job.
Besides, the person named Yulan has accumulated too many sins in her life. She is destined to suffer. Before the good deeds come, not even the Buddha can help her, let alone me, a little tree god?
There is also a painful soul that has also created karma, but it has roots of kindness, wisdom, and faith. In the end, it is liberated and lives peacefully.
You ask me: Why do I speak like a Buddhist disciple? Well, let me tell you, I have seen two living Bodhisattvas. One is named Yuan Jing and the other is Zhao Wenchun. They once had a conversation under my branches.
In Nanshan Village, people like to chat under the shade of my tree after dinner, shaking their fans in the summer and warming themselves by the fire in the winter. Many stories in and outside the village are known from their mouths. You humans are transparent in front of me and can be seen through at a glance. Of course I am also transparent, but you can't see or see through me.
Do you want to know these people's stories? God, you have to be patient, and I also have to be patient, and slowly talk to you about good and evil, cause and effect, life and death.
I'm going to start from a winter evening more than seventy years ago, but some people's stories happened earlier...
Intention: Loving kindness is a good medicine for healing.