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Bubbling hot
water exploded in his face but his face
remained intact
Mr. Tan
(Malaysian) was on his way to Genting
Highlands for a holiday. Halfway up to the
highland, he saw steam emitting from his
car's front bumper and pulled over. When he
opened the bumper he realized the steam was
coming from the water-tank, which was
smoking and trembling violently. In his
panic, Tan just grabbed a random piece of
cloth from his car (he cannot recall if it
was a rag or face towel but it was a small
piece of cloth) and opened the smoking water
tank with the cloth.
The next thing
he heard was a deafening 'Bang!' and the
whole metal lid of the water-tank flew up
out of his hand and the piping hot water
from the tank exploded on his face! Tan
barely had time to shut his eyes to protect
them from being blinded and pray that his
face would not be too badly scalded...
But as he waited
with his eyes shut, he felt the water hit
his face but there was not any pain! There
was only mild warmth on his face… He could
still feel the heat from the steam around
him, making the 'fizzing' sound on the
ground but his face didn't hurt! When he
opened his eyes and touched his face, it was
very wet! Why did it not scald him? There
was no logical explanation for it. Till
today, Tan believes it was because the Thai
Buddhist tattoo on his body shielded him
from harm. |
Knife
slashed across his arm but the 'wound' was the size of a
nail scratch
Wong is a
Singaporean chef at a restaurant in a 4-star hotel in
Singapore. One day as he was cooking in the kitchen, 1
of the knife-racks directly above him suddenly collapsed
onto him. You would think that was terribly bad luck,
wouldn't you? Of all the knife-racks around him, it had
to be the one right above his standing position to fall
down? Moreover, the falling knife-rack wasn't empty –
the knives were resting on the rack before it fell!
1 of
the knives for slicing raw fish slashed right down
his left arm. The sharpness of the blade, added to
the pull of gravity, can you imagine how long and
deep the wound would be?
All
the kitchen staff witnessed this but besides
shouting 'Be careful!' much too late, there was
nothing they could do. They weren't near enough (or
perhaps brave enough) to either pull/push Wong out
of harm's way. To be fair, it also happened too
quickly, even Wong himself had no time to duck.
Wong
felt a stinging pain and then he started to feel
warm all over. Then as quickly as the heat came, it
left and Wong felt normal again. Subconsciously his
right hand reached over to cup the wound to stop it
from bleeding. In the background, his worried
colleagues were dashing for the phone to call 995.
Yet when Wong looked down at his hand, expecting to
see a badly hurt left arm, what he saw shocked him
even more! The wound was only the length of a nail
scratch, as if he had been trying to nail a picture
to the wall and the hammer missed the nail causing
it to fall and scratch his arm… There was hardly
any blood and the few spots of it were also quickly
drying up...
Wong
could make no sense of this except that the heat he
had felt must have been the Buddhist tattoo on him
'awakening' in the nick of time to 'take the blow'
for him. After all, isn't that why Thai warriors and
fighters tend to have Buddhist tattoos, because they
believe it makes the skin 'slippery' and impervious
to injury and pain?
He
crashed into a lorry at the speed of 160km/h but
escapee unscathed
This
happened on the Malaysian North-South Highway, close
to the part between Ipoh & Penang. Mr. Shami
(Indian) was in Ipoh for the evening as his
relatives were having a dinner party. After the
dinner he had a few more drinks with his pals before
driving up north to Penang alone.
Due
to the alcohol, he was feeling quite 'high' so he
hummed and sang as he sped along happily on the
highway ... until a loud 'Boom!' woke him from his
drunken happiness with a start! He had driven right
into the back of a lorry and the last he remembered
looking at his speed meter, he was traveling at
160km/h!
The
front of his car (including the driver's seat &
front passenger's seat) were entirely squashed and
wedged into the back of the lorry. According to
eyewitnesses' accounts, from the look of the wreck,
everyone believed Shami had perished. There was no
way Shami could have survived if even the car, made
of such strong metal, hadn't.
After
1 1/2 hours of attempts by the rescue team and
surrounding people, Shami was dug out ... unhurt! Shami
was not only very much alive and kicking but was
also wailing about the damage to his beloved
Japanese car and trying to shirk the blame onto the
lorry for obstructing him and not having the
rear-lights on. Perhaps he was still speaking under
the influence of the liquor.
By
the next morning, he was finally aware of how
miraculous his escape from death was. He went
straight to our branch in Ipoh to relate this story
to the Fo Guang Hang staff in Ipoh and to thank the
Master for the Thai Buddhist tattoo he had done for
him just weeks ago. Shami believes that but for the
tattoo, he wouldn't be alive to tell the story to
us.
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