Richer than Wang Yung-ching:
It is much rumored among the people of Puli that Mother Chen has supernatural powers. For example, in predicting the fate of a 70-year-old man a week after he disappeared, or the gains d losses of investments made by the children of her followers, the results have always corresponded to actuality. So it is always best to discuss things with Mother Chen in troubled times. "I feel that it is some kind of sense of foresight, a kind of coincidence, that is all," is her reply. But it only increases the faith in her held by the people of the town.
With so many friends, Mother Chen was once able to tour Taiwan on only NT$1. One follower jokes that Mother Chen is richer than the head of Formosa Plastics, Wang Yung-ching, because, "When Wang Yung-ching goes out he has to take money--Mother Chen does not."
With no secretary, accounts or computer, no business organization, and not even bookkeeping or financial management, all that Lianghsien Hall has it equipment for making rice cakes and a group of devotees for whom giving is happiness. There is also the big boss, Mother Chen. The fragrance of rice dumplings wafting out of the Lianghsien Hill at dawn, and Mother Chen's kind heart, all make the beautiful scenery of Puli even more moving.
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Yuching Temple's Lianghsien Hall established by Mother Chen is Puli's main base camp for doing charitable deeds.
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The mechanization of its rice-milling equipment has made Lianghsien Hall's good intentions even more efficacious.
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The success of the rice cakes and dumplings is due to the congregation's rising early and sacrificing sleep to help Mother Chen with her good deeds.
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A service is held at Lianghsien Hall on the 25th day of the seventh lunar month, the birthday of the legendary Monkey King.
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The prayer beads held by Mother Chen were given to her by the monk Kuang Chin. Another devotee once offered her NT$1 million for them, but Mother Chen just replied: "When the Fifth Patriarch gave his robes and bowl to the Sixth Patriarch, Hui Neng, I do not think he wanted money!"
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It is planned that in eighteen months this piece of wasteland will become a children's home with four stories and a basement.
It is planned that in eighteen months this piece of wasteland will become a children's home with four stories and a basement.