Dong Zhaozhi of Fuyang County, a subordinate of the State of Wu, saw an ant crawling on a reed in the water when he was on a boat across the Qiantang River one day. He wanted to save it on board, but everyone in the boat disagreed. So he tied the reed to the side of the boat with a rope, and the ants were able to go ashore.
That night, Dong Zhaozhi dreamed that a man in black came to thank him and said: "I am the ant king, accidentally fell into the river, thanks to your help, if you have any emergency in the future, you can tell me."
More than ten years later, Dong Zhaozhi was falsely accused of theft and was about to be arrested and imprisoned. He thought of the dream of the ant king, but did not know how to tell the ant king. One said: "Why don't you find two or three ants on the ground and tell them in the palm of your hand?" Dong Zhaozhi did as he said. Sure enough, at night, he dreamed of a person wearing black clothes saying: "Hurry up and go to Yuhang Mountain to avoid trouble." He woke up and fled, and later met the court's pardon and was saved from trouble.
[Press] The living tortoise does not know its own life or death, and the carapace that remains after the tortoise dies can predict the good and bad for others. Even the saints don’t know the truth about this kind of thing. So do you have any doubts about Ant King's repayment of kindness?
Excerpted from An Shiquan Book "Lord Superior Wen Chang's Tract of the Quiet Way" Generalized Excerpt: Ant King Repays Kindness
Different realms, different "I":
Desire Realm: Be attached to what you see, hear, smell, taste, touch, and perceive, thinking that the body of these feelings is "I".
Material Realm: Be attached to what you see, hear, touch, and perceive, thinking that the essence of these feelings is "I".
The Formless Realm: clinging to knowledge and concentration, thinking that the phase of concentration or constant consideration is the permanent and undamaged "I".
The causes of the "I" in different realms are different, from the desire realm to the formless realm, from the large particle "I" to the subtle "I", all are "I". Compared with the other two realms, human beings in the desire realm have more and heavier "I".
There are two ways to sow the antecedents of having no anxiety and worry: one is to do good deeds, and the other is not to do bad deeds. These two methods are the antecedents of having no anxiety and worry. Therefore, the Shakyamuni Buddha said in the "Non Worrying Sutra": "A wise man will make his body, speech and mind, do only good deeds and good things, and when he dies, he will be reborn into heaven."