Story: Beggars often read Buddha and die.

A beggar in Songjiang, Qing Dynasty, whose surname is unknown, lived in a shabby house in Xingqiao, and read the Heart Sutra once every day to ask for a copper coin. If it was money, he would even thank him. Scold, don't mind. To get enough money for a day's meal and meet the needs of chaff vegetables for a day is to recite Buddha behind closed doors.

Cai Xizhai, the political envoy, wanted to pay for the repair of the broken house, but the beggar refused. Chase, a beggar, is lofty and mistook his income for unclean wealth, so he explained, "I give a clean salary, and nothing is greedy income." The beggar said: "I know that adults have always been loyal, but I am worried that I will care too much about food, clothing, housing and transportation, which will affect my practice and divert my ambition to live in the pure land, so that I will cling to things outside me and be unclean." If not, I am willing to use the money and food to repair your happiness. "With this money and food, I went to Zeng Ji to fast, and then I went back to my broken house to recite Buddha as before. During the Jiaqing period, beggars sat without illness.

Beggars in the East Gate, like the breeze and the bright moon, are examples for practitioners. The layman thinks he is poor, but he doesn't know the purity of his heart and the joy of doing nothing. Why do common people, who are bored with things, pursue wealth tirelessly, and can't let go of vanity and scenery, and finally waste their time and leave a bad debt in the afterlife?