The story of value of reading

In the former time, there was a monk who went to the meditation and lived in the jungle for three nights.

He dreamed about a ghost of a woman came to him sobbingly and ask for the portion of merit.

He had the same dream in the first 2 nights. He started to believe that there must be something wrong near his seat.

Before the third night, he ordered his follower to dig the ground underneath him and there he found human bones. He took that bones for the religious ceremony and later that night, the ghost of a woman came again. The monk asked the ghost “Why are you still coming here.” The ghost said “I come here for thank you.” Why don’t you go to the next life?” “I can’t do that because no one make merit for me, all of my relatives are passed away.”

The monk asked the ghost to help the people on winning the lottery by giving them the number, so after the people won the lottery, they will make merit for her. The ghost can’t count the number, she said. When she was alive, she doesn’t study at all even her parents forced her to.

The monk said “This is bad, if you don’t have knowledge, you will have a hard time doing a labor job even you are a ghost, you can’t give the lottery number to the people too. And there will be no one make merit for your spirit that if you don’t study, you will have a hard time living your life and even you are dead, it is still hard and can’t go for the next life.

This story teaches everyone and the next generation know that, if they don’t study, don’t like to read, they will have a hard time during they are alive and twice harder when they are dead.