Possible Case of Spirit Possession
Occasionally, people ask me whether I’ve had any encounter with ghosts. I usually attribute such “encounters” to psychological issues, but there were a couple of occasions where I believed otherwise. Once after a food dāna, there was a commotion. Curious, I went over to see. A woman was sitting on the floor, speaking loudly in Mandarin in the manner of a little kid. Her elder sister whom I knew well was present. She told me her sister actually didn’t know Mandarin, and spoke only Hokkien and Cantonese. While I was trying to assess the situation, the “little kid” woman said to me, “你说要带我去的嘛, 你都没有带我去!” (“You said you’ll take me there, and you didn't!”) I asked, “去哪里?” (“Where?”) “去西方极乐世界嘛!” (“To the Western World of Ultimate Bliss (Pureland) mah!”) At this point I was pretty sure she mistook me for someone else. Anyway, I decided to assume that it was a case of spirit possession, and asked the elder sister for the woman’s name. Having gotten her name, I called her by her name and ask...