Today I will tell you about something I personally experienced.It is the story of some dragons who took refuge with me. When I was in Dung Bei (Manchuria), I had a disciple called Gwo Shun. After following me for less than one year, he became quite advanced in his skill. He could enter samadhi and was able to know all about cause and effect and the principles governing the past, present, and future. Later, he built a small hut twenty feet by twenty feet and requested me to bless it.

Adjacent to his hut was a dragon temple. When I went to visit him, I brought along four more of my disciples to stay together with him in his small hut for a while. One night a certain state manifested. Two of the four disciples, who had opened their Five Eyes, were able to see it. They said they could see ten dragons who had come seeking to take refuge. I said, "How can I possibly give them refuge when my talents aren't even up to theirs?" But the two disciples insisted that the dragons were kneeling down and requesting refuge.

At that particular time there had been no rain for quite a long time and the land was suffering from drought. The area of Harbin, where we were, has a very arid climate. So I made a bargain with the dragons that I would accept them as refuge disciples only if they would bring rain to the local area; otherwise, I wouldn't. They replied that they were capable of making rain, but they first had to get permission from the Jade Emperor (Lord God). I told them to inform God that in that area of Harbin there was a monk who would give them refuge only if they brought rain to a fourteen-mile radius around the hut.

The next day, although the weather had been quite dry for a long time, it rained in a fourteen mile radius around Gwo Shun's hut, just as I had specified. The following day I performed the Triple Refuge ceremony for those dragons and named the two leaders "Quickly Crossing Over," and "Quickly Cultivating." By that I meant that they were to cross over all the dragon kings and their retinues, which they are still doing. Gwo Shun named his hut "Dragon-rain Hut" to commemorate the occasion.

From that day on, wherever I went, there was always enough water for every need. That has been a response from those dragons. And today at the Sagely City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, the dragon kings came here to cool off the weather for us with a little bit of rain.