Fillable w2 2010 forms

Okay so I’ve been working for my NF for about a month now. In the initial interview, they hadn’t discussed anything about tax information. Then at the end of my first week, DB had caught me in the way out saying that he’ll get his manager to send me a 1099 because it would be “easier for me”. I didn’t have the chance to talk about more in detail as I was literally about to drive away and had somewhere I had to be right after working. But I still haven’t received the form. So my question is that shady for him to mention it briefly at a time where I clearly can’t properly discuss it? I honestly have forgotten about the whole 1099 thing until now because I’ve just been busy and what not and have since read that it’s illegal and should use a W2, so how do I go about this?
Aside from that, is it the biggest deal to quit a few months in? We have had a few issues with pay, and have resolved them, yet I just am not sure if what I’m getting paid is gonna cut it for my bills and whatnot. And yes I know that I chose to work with them, but I guess misunderstood how things were gonna go pay wise. What I mean by that is I told them in the interview I wanted to be paid $20 an hour, he said if we could start at $18 and quickly go up from there. So I said sure, because the way it said it sounded like it would end up being raised to more than $20. Then my first paycheck was given at $16 an hour, and was told I’d get a raise in a few weeks to $18. So I was clearly confused because that’s not what we agreed and told him that so they fixed it. But didn’t pay me the difference until a week later. Another small problem we had was that all my hours for a week got cut, and found out the day before I was supposed to work, so he said he’d give me two days of vacation. Which is great, but didn’t pay me until a week later. Btw our pay day is set for every week. If I do end up moving to another job, how’s the best way to bring it up and how much notice do I give? I know nannying is a little different than a regular job so just trying to navigate it and get some advice because I am worried about feeling guilty about possibly leaving! Thanks in advance to any advice y’all have! :)

New job hasn’t asked for I-9, W4, W2, SSN, background check
Hello,
I started a new job recently and on my second day my supervisor asked the owner if I’m getting paid via 1099 or Zelle (…Zelle!). Owner proceeded to ask me which I prefer. I responded with, “I’ve never done a 1099 for this line of work, only a W2, so I prefer that.” Owner and supervisor made a face but said okay.
I’ve been there since 5/7 and they never asked for any background check, I9 info, drug test, etc. I know that is supposed to be done within 3 days, so I brought it up again on 5/15 stating the timeframe. Supervisor reluctantly said they will ask the owner.
They gave me a W2 form as I was leaving on 5/15 and I was scheduled off from 5/16 until this coming Monday (5/20).
They have asked me to do “homework” in my free time for the job, rewrite the procedures in my own time, and pay for tools I need that should be provided and blame that it is a start up so they don’t have time for that or to properly train me. People’s lives are in my hands and I had 2 days of training and outdated procedures in a game of wtfff.
They also asked me to use my personal computer, which I complied bc I thought it was for training. Supervisor had me download sensitive patient information to my computer which is not encrypted, VPN protected, nor only used by me. I told them that that’s a HIPAA violation and that I do not feel comfortable doing so, so I’m no longer using my computer. In their response, they asked if I did some of the work they wanted me to do on my off days.
I filed out my W2 form they provided but I wasn’t scheduled until tomorrow, now I’m a little skeptical because supervisor is going to scan it and they also use an unprotected personal computer.
They also do not have a payroll tracker, so I’m using a Google sheet that the supervisor won’t let me update at work, I can only do it when I’m off the clock. The owner said I would be on the next pay period which was the week of 5/13 but the supervisor said it’ll be 5/27, yet they still never took any information for that either.
I go back in the morning and part of me really thinks it’s sketchy and doesn’t want to, but I also want to be paid for the time I’ve put in.
Has anyone else had this level of chaos in a few weeks?? Is there anything I can do?

Hello,
I started a new job recently and on my second day my supervisor asked the owner if I’m getting paid via 1099 or Zelle (…Zelle!). Owner proceeded to ask me which I prefer. I responded with, “I’ve never done a 1099 for this line of work, only a W2, so I prefer that.” Owner and supervisor made a face but said okay.
I’ve been there since 5/7 and they never asked for any background check, I9 info, drug test, etc. I know that is supposed to be done within 3 days, so I brought it up again on 5/15 stating the timeframe. Supervisor reluctantly said they will ask the owner.
They gave me a W2 form as I was leaving on 5/15 and I was scheduled off from 5/16 until this coming Monday (5/20).
They have asked me to do “homework” in my free time for the job, rewrite the procedures in my own time, and pay for tools I need that should be provided and blame that it is a start up so they don’t have time for that or to properly train me. People’s lives are in my hands and I had 2 days of training and outdated procedures in a game of wtfff.
They also asked me to use my personal computer, which I complied bc I thought it was for training. Supervisor had me download sensitive patient information to my computer which is not encrypted, VPN protected, nor only used by me. I told them that that’s a HIPAA violation and that I do not feel comfortable doing so, so I’m no longer using my computer. In their response, they asked if I did some of the work they wanted me to do on my off days.
They also do not have a payroll tracker, so I’m using a Google sheet that the supervisor won’t let me update at work, I can only do it when I’m off the clock. The owner said I would be on the next pay period which was the week of 5/13 but the supervisor said it’ll be 5/27, yet they still never took any information for that either.
I go back in the morning and part of me really thinks it’s sketchy and doesn’t want to, but I also want to be paid for the time I’ve put in.
Has anyone else had this level of chaos in a few weeks??
**edit to add another detail:
**adding that I’m a little scared to hand my W2 form they gave me because supervisor also used a non protected computer and my information will be on her computer once she scans it.

https://www.jbt.org.pk/index.php/jbt/article/view/201/180
Financial manipulation refers to the unfair use of someone’s labor and financial resources
The present study aims to find out the role of language in financial manipulation of working women. Financial manipulation refers to the unfair use of someone’s labor and financial resources
.
The objectives of the present study are to explore the reasons behind women‟s financial manipulation.
Women are manipulated into giving the financial power to men who then devalue their earning ability. They often do that to avoid being called selfish. That shouldn’t inherently be motivating but it is. This study looks into why insults and slander are sufficient to let people give up their power and decide for themselves where their money goes.
To find out how the working women are trapped into the alluring web of discourse that leads them to ignore their own needs and put their income in the hands of male members of family
In Pakistan, historically men take charge of all the decisions related to money. Language was used to manipulate them.
The study postulates the hypothesis that in context of Pakistan, the working women consciously or unconsciously fall a victim to the financial manipulation in order to be accepted and adjusted in the family where the male members take the charge of all decisions especially related to money.
In this regard, language is employed as a tool of persuasion and manipulation.
Non-physical abuse was used to take the financial power away from the female earner to the male simply for being male. Non-physical abuse was how this happened, and women acted mainly on fear of not being heaped in with the slander and abuse thrown at those who did not give in.
According to Miller (1995), the types of non-physical abuse experienced by women include psychological, economic, social and emotional ones.
Financial abusers that are male restrict the use of financial resources and refuse to give the power to women even if they were the ones who earned the power. This right to take what is not earned is kept in place through primarily emotional, psychological, and social abuse by the men. Attacks against feminists, calling them selfish or other slander seems to be a big one, especially when these women show they can carry themselves and spend money on themselves and their dreams without shame or guilt. That is a huge threat to them so they do everything they can to slander it.
He has shown that the economic abuse involves victim to be economically dependent on the „perpetuator‟. It includes restricting the use of financial resources and refusing the power to women to take any finance related decision.Evan (2007) has described that in more than half of the abusive relationships women are denied
An access to capital resources and are made financially dependent.
The women of South Asia are economically far behind the men; they have less opportunities for employment and less control on the use of their own income, the very income they made.
Rabbani, Qureshi and Rizvi (2008) studied the various forms of
domestic violence done to the victims in Karachi. It came out that the husbands used tactics like refusal to pay the utility bills and stealing the
Jewels of women. The women in South Asia are economically far behind the men as they have less opportunities of employment and have less control on the use of their own income (Bhan, 2001; Nandi and Platt, 2010 Kishor and Gupta, 2009).
Women again repeatedly gave into to social, psychological and emotional abuse, repeatedly giving up their power simply because of these abuses threatening them and at the ready if they didn’t.
The studies carried so far explored the financial abuse of women in cases where the women are fully conscious of the fact that they are manipulated but there are also the cases of manipulation when the women become sufferers willingly as with the help of linguistic strategies they are made to accept certain roles that they would not have accepted otherwise
Finance is a core need for the survival of human beings. The partitioning of finance for anyone other than the original beneficiary towards men is inherently misogynistic and since it is core to the survival, depending on the amount, a hate crime if distributed to men that aren’t the woman who is the intended direct beneficiary of her own money.
Finance is the core need for survival of human beings and for an active participation in the established social system of the world
.
Men therefore keep their supreme social status over women in place not through merit but using abusive compulsion to force women to give up their power in repeated mechanistic process
It is being observed that women have internalized their duties to earn and to contribute to the financial matters of the family. However the male members of family do impose decisions particularly related to finance
owing to the supreme social status that they enjoy
.
Holding, controlling and destroying bank accounts were seen as part of abusive financial manipulation of someone who considered themselves “in charge” of the woman at hand, whether or not they were.
Littwin (2012) also explains the three types of men who strives to achieve the financial control are
:
Holding of bank accounts
of females
Hold of women‟s money
An allowance of money to the women
Threatening women psychologically is how male members exert their power. Men only seemed to value the women for the underpaid/unpaid work they did in the family, calling it “being the most responsible family member” and showed no appreciation of anything else or any willingness to just show their own responsibility and contribute their fair share.
In case of working women, the male members of family exert their power of discourse to threaten women psychologically. It came out that the women are appreciated less for other traits as much as they are admired for being the most responsible members of family.
Women need financial control to make their dreams come true, but time and time again they were successfully manipulated by slander, psychological abuse, social abuse, and emotional abuse especially vitriol aimed at their successfully financial independent peers trying to make these women seem unappealing or selfish. It worked almost every time, showing lack of solidarity and giving in to gaslighting is a huge threat to female financial independence and the danger of the female misogynist to female financial independence.
The women need financial control in order to make their dreams true. The manipulative strategies are implied to subjugate women and discourse comes out to be the most effective one. The results declared the fact that the women are conscious of the fact that they are economically abused but they were afraid of the old set notions prevailing in the society that defined stereotypical roles of women and announce the superiority of men. Owing to it, the working women hardly resist this manipulation.

Hi, I'm currently attempting to replicate some of the behavior observed in this paper at the 3D level and in CompuCell3D. One of the terms in the energy function is the preferential attachment of cells to elongated cells rather than well-spread cells(equation 3.7 in paper). I was thinking of switching from using the Contact plugin to using the AdhesionFlex plugin but struggling with how to set it up so that it behaves similarly. I had checked previous posts and there was this post that had this same question but I did not see an answer as to how to accomplish the same behavior achieved with Contact plugin.
I have placed below usual XML code I use for the Contact plugin and then XML code for AdhesionFlex plugin for how I'm thinking is how I'll need to convert from the Contact plugin. Within the python Steppables file, I was thinking I'd give a higher "adh_C" molecule density to a cell with an external potential in the x-direction($\lambda_x$) at the Monte Carlo step where it becomes elongated. This will cause higher adhesion between this cell and its neighbors as the cell with an external potential migrates, which should allow for sprouting. Then I'll use the MomentOfInertia plugin to check if other cells have become elongated near the sprout, using a ratio of the max axis to min axis as an elongation index, and then increase their "adh_C" molecule density so that their neighboring cells adhere more to them and the sprout continues to grow.
I'd greatly appreciate any help in switching between these plugins and any more information I need to have a better understanding of how the calculations are done for both plugins.

  Specification of adhesion energies 10.0 5.0 5.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 4   Specification of adhesion energies as a function of cadherin concentration at cell membranes Adhesion energy is a function of two cells in ocntact. the functional form is specified by the user          Molecule1*Molecule2   1.0 5.0 10.0    4  

CompuCell3d Revision="6" Version="4.4.1"
Platform: Windows

Simple question. Emaina annukondi... About 13 years ago, 2010, 2011 aa time lo, there were movies like Inception, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part 1), Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol etc. Movies that had been shot for IMAX. Back then, we in Hyderabad had the facility in Prasads to watch these films in their intended format. The IMAX big-screen cinematic experience had become a staple for films in Hyderabad. Daani taravaata, ye cinema aina, whether it was IMAX or not, we opted to watch it on that massive screen.
Then, something changed.

1. Interstellar became the last IMAX film ever shown on Prasads screen 6, as an IMAX film. To this day, every single time when there is the topic of theatres and Prasads especially, everybody in the city refers to it as IMAX. The road alongside Prasads is called the 'IMAX road'. Prasads screen 6 was the third-largest screen in the world during its initial launch in 2003 and people (film lovers) had literally flown in from other countries to watch films in their proper intended format.

Last year, films like Oppenheimer, Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and EVEN Indian films such as Pathaan and Animal were all meant for IMAX. They were made - FOR IMAX. The whole point of IMAX is for it to completely immerse you into the world of the film. The IMAX screen is that massive, because anywhere you sit in the hall, it manages to cover every part of your two eyeballs, to a point where you have to physically move your head to see each part of the screen. I mean, there is a reason that it is a three-floor screen. Hyderabad is a single city, and the TFI audience is the one audience that I know who will stand by a film. Once we own a film, there is no way we will let that film down. I am only saying, why shouldn't we stand up for the theatre and the experience of that film as well? Hyderabad right now, is the only major city in India without an IMAX facility. This was all because of the conversion to digital projection. We used to get IMAX films in reels that were printed and shipped from the US (and wherever the films were made). When all these countries and major Hollywood industries were sending in massive, 11-mile film reels after printing, packaging and shipping, the costs were just too high when they compared it with digital projection. The projector that we had in Prasads was a proper film projector. A manual projector that didn't manage to adapt to the digital form. Prasads was running the IMAX theatre on a loss in the first place because the ticket price back then had to be much lower when compared to a proper IMAX film cost. All the profit they gained was from the commercial aspects of the mall like the shops and restaurants that were there at the time.
On top of this: there came the shift in location. The entire city somehow gravitated away from the Necklace Road and Tank Bund area. The main booming area of the city (for films especially) are areas like Gachibowli, with theatres like AMB Cinemas in Sharath City Capital Mall, Platinum Cinemas in SLN Terminus, PVR in Atrium, PVR in Preston Prime, and PVR Icon in Next Galleria Mall. When there are five theatres, in the proximity of within 5 kilometres from each of them, not a single one has an IMAX in them. AMB even has screens that are in the 4:3 ration, where IMAX films can be shown, in the intended size. Their screens, 2, 3, 5 and 6 are all 4:3 ratio screens which can show films that are filmed in that ratio. For example, I went to Barbie in Atrium mall, where it was playing within a box, within the 16:9 screen and then I went to Oppenheimer in AMB (to at least watch it in their screen 1, to compensate for IMAX), when I peaked into the next screen (screen 2), where Barbie was playing, The size of the screen was compatible with the aspect ratio that it was shot in - 4:3.
All over India right now (at least in major cities, excluding Hyderabad), PVR has created IMAX screens, but they are all digital IMAX screens that are 68.1 ft wide. Prasads has a 70mm IMAX screen (95 feet wide and 71 feet tall). This is the normal height of a five floor, commercial building. Just imagine that. It is a window into a whole another world. When we have a screen, we do not have the projector, and when others have the projectors, they simply just do not have the screens.
Here is the simple question to conclude it...
Do we want IMAX in Hyderabad, yes or no?

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TLDR: music to cook crack to
I always believed the 3 main lyrical components to Trap Music was drugs, violence, and money. There are way more components (woman/sex/hustle/pimp/rob/cars/jewellery/guns/gangs/crews/neighborhoods/projects/etc) but that's beside the point. When trap was starting it was all just considered Hip Hop but it from the early 2000s - 2010 it grew large enough to become its own sub-genre. In the beginning I would say the easiest way to determine if a song was trap was by the the lyrics. If they were rapping about about cooking crack, selling dope, shooting, robbing, or getting some money it was Trap. My favorite was always the "Cook Music". You could tell how "Street" the artist was by how much knowledge they had about steps, equipment, specific ingredients,and prices. Cooking is an art form in the trap. Anyone get buy work but only a select few understand how to cook, cut, or remix without destroying the product. These are some of my favorite tracks to cook a brick to. Please drop more in the comments!
Gucci Mane "Muscles N My Hand"
OJ Da Juiceman - Cook A Brick
Peewee Longway ft. Yo Gotti - Good Crack
Lil Bibby - Water
Peewee Longway "Egg Beater"
Peewee Longway "Master Peewee"
Future - Itchin'
Tity Boi - Kitchen
Gucci Mane - Same Ol Crackpot
Future - Birds Take A Bath
Fredo Santana - Cook the Dope Up
Gucci Mane - Feel Like Cookin
Kevin Gates - Arm And Hammer
Juelz Santana ft Young Jeezy & Lil Wayne - Make It Work
Young Jeezy - Chickens No Flour
Young Freq feat. Starlito - In Tha Kitchen
UGK - Pocket Full Of Stones
Freddie Gibbs - Crime Pays
Kevin Gates - White Tan
Young Jeezy - All White Everything
Gorilla Zoe - Ring Around My Pot
Bankroll Fresh - Real Trapper
Alley Boy feat. Young Jeezy & Yo Gotti - Four
Yo Gotti - Standing In The Kitchen
Jimmy Wopo - Prime Time
Young Scooter - Colombia
Lil Wayne - Stand Over The Stove
Peewee Longway - Split

A friend is trying to get some pieces of his life back on track after some personal struggles. He hasn't filed taxes since 2018. They have income from being self employed (i.e. contractor doing odd jobs) and also for various companies. He has no forms for records (W2, 1099, etc).
Any advice for where to start? He isn't even 100% sure which years he should have a w2 and which ones he wouldn't.

“This book is on voyages to the North, where Lord Debling intends to travel.”
“Miss Featherington, are you reading about the fabled Northwest Passage?”
(S3 E4 11:16)
Hi everyone! I posted a comment about it right after season 3 dropped, and I have seen a bit of interest in the Northwest Passage on here recently. I thought that for those of you who didn’t learn about it extensively in school in the small corner of Canada that I did, I’d put together a little informative post on the extremely brief (and perhaps even inconsequential!) reference to the Northwest Passage in Episode 4. I’ll provide an overview of the Passage and its history, touch on some characteristics of travel to this region, and conclude with some completely speculative comments on the literary purpose of evoking the passage in this scene in Season 4.
Also, full credit to the other NWP enthusiasts who have been making posts about this and discussing it in other threads.
A quick note on the colonial nature of this post: Throughout this short post, I refer to several colonial expeditions to the land many of us call Canada. Although I attempt to be cognizant of my language, it is important to note that the Inuit people who live in the arctic regions that I reference have navigated the sea ice for thousands of years (Panikkar et al., 2018) and that the written history of this region are often hegemonic and euro-centric narratives that were formed within colonial frameworks.
More information on the Inuit and their culture, language, and traditions can be found here: https://www.itk.ca/about-canadian-inuit/
References are at the end. If you like this post, you might also like the speculative post I made about the influences of the Eros/Psyche quote in the which is also endless academic yapping.
Exploring the Northwest Passage- a bit of context
In August of 1820, Lieutenant Edward Parry, a member of the British Royal Navy observed the dense ice and snow of arctic land and sea that was thought to be the location of the mysterious Northwest Passage. From a simple look, he knew that no ship in existence would be able to pass through ice sheets of such a great thickness and that extended for such a long distance (Brandt, 2011). Despite his pessimism, by Parry’s time, British sailors and explorers had been explicitly seeking the passage for hundreds of years (Williams & Costley, 2010; Day, 2006, p. xxiv), dreaming of exploiting the desirable economic prospect of a Western route from Europe to burgeoning Asian markets.
First encounters: When European sailors first encountered North America, it was in pursuit of a route west to Asia. They were, of course, incorrect about the location of Asia. And although a great deal of interest shifted to mapping the new continent, there was also an acknowledgement that there would be great economic benefits to finding a way around this newly encountered landmass (Day, 2006). Over time, the reasons and methods of locating the Northwest Passage changed and evolved, but interest never truly went away.
Renewed British interest: Notably, at the end of the 15^th century, when the Ottoman Turk’s empire extended into the Mediterranean and eastward, European merchants were no longer allowed to move and trade freely (Day, 2006). Seeking new routes for the Pacific, European (and especially British) explorers turned West. The Northwest Passage was a concept, a theoretical possibility, for European explorers. It was seen as a potential commercial sea route to the trading markets that were already established and burgeoning in Asia. The Passage was a route with phenomenal economic potential, especially as European consumers sought spices, materials, salts, and woods from foreign markets (Williams & Costley, 2010).
Based on their knowledge of the Southern Hemisphere and the potential geography of the world, many believed that a similar passage would be reflected in the earth’s northern pole (Day, 2006). As a result, there was a massive potential for financial gain for colonial governments and individuals, should such a passage ever be found.
Public fascination: The passage became a point of national fascination for many members of the public. In pursuit of this fascination, many enthusiastic researchers “persuaded persons of influence and wealth to send out discovery expeditions” (Williams & Costley, 2010, p. xv). With governments in Europe stabilizing, the emergence of an economy of cheap labour (lower class men who were willing to take on the dangerous work at sea), and the rapid development of ship technology, the 1600s was a prime time to set out on expeditions.
The fascination with the Passage continued for 300 years until a passage was finally navigated by sea in full in the 1900s. Over the course of history, Anthony Brandt describes the fascination with the Passage’s discovery as a tragedy (2011). He writes: “hubris, an all-too-human arrogance and pride that triggered a particular calamity” (p. 5) as being the tragedy of the exploration for the Passage. Despite the fascination of the public with it, the ice “remained intractable, impenetrable, and, for those who challenged it, a kind of fate” (p. 5) George Malcom Thomson reported that the Passage did not exist where popular imagination speculated it must be (Day, 2006). He noted: “the whole enterprise was founded on a misapprehension, a geographical fiction, a fairy-tale … and downright inventions that scholar manufacture to amaze themselves” (p. xxv).
The danger of the passage: Voyages to and in search of the passage were fraught. Many never returned, and those who did survive faced immense physical and mental challenges. There were, of course, significant difficulties with massive ice drifts and shelves. However, the relative location of the expeditions to the north pole led to issues with magnetic variation for compasses. Fog further complicated travel (Williams & Costley, 2010).
There were also extreme mental dangers to pursuing the NWP. MooSmith’s expedition in the mid-1700s reported “potentially murderous quarrels between officers” (Williams & Costley, 2010, p. xvi); John Franklin noted that the things that occurred on his ship “must not be known” (p. xvi); and it was noted that on the McClure, Beckler, and Collinson expeditions, “tensions” erupted “as captains and subordinate officers exchanged threats of court martial, and some officers spend years under close arrest on their ships” (p. xvi).
In the time of Bridgerton: The end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 allowed for greater expeditions by the British Royal Navy (Day, 2006). This would have included surveys of a large portion of the global north and the Arctic. There were a large number of “successful” (depending on how you define it) land expeditions that had made progress in producing surveys and maps of the region. Despite significant ongoing interest in discovering the Passage, in particular, little progress had been made. Later still, despite more advanced mapping by the Hudson Bay Company and expeditions by many notable sailors, there was still no route by the 1820s (Day, 2006).
What does it signify? If a character in Bridgerton was voyaging to the Arctic, it could take them less than a year to reach areas of the Hudson Bay that would be suitable for a scientific voyage. That in itself is not overly dangerous. However, the reference to the Northwest Passage is an interesting literary point. Of all of the places to voyage in the Arctic, even at the time, it would have been an immensely dangerous trip to set out on. The persistent lack of success for a solid 30 years after this season takes place may reference the fact that this is a voyage that Debling is unlikely to ever return from.
It doesn’t help that Debling’s odds are really stacked against him. He does not eat meat, one of the only renewable sources of food for arctic expeditions. There is little to no fresh naturally occurring produce (during the Coppermine expedition, the surviving crew members famously ate lichen to survive once they lost the favour of local indigenous groups and fur traders) and did not do well.
Certainly, it lends a very tragic potential element to the story. The Arctic, if mentioned alone, is not necessarily an overly dangerous location to travel to. Yes, marine travel in the 1800s was still a dangerous endeavour in its own right, let alone in an area as unnavigable by sea as the Arctic. However, the North, in many regions, had active whaling expeditions, Indigenous populations that were willing to trade and work with sailors, and (in some areas) active fur trades. If the purpose of Debling’s travel was only to highlight his unique interests and sense of purpose, the show had many methods of doing so. The choice to reference a notorious and dangerous Northwest Passage, there is an extremely interesting element of danger that is introduced.
What would this potential marriage mean for Penelope? Of course, Penelope’s name is a reference to the wife of Odysseus, who unwillingly takes ten years to return home after the Trojan war. In contrast to Colin, who returns with a steadfast conviction, Debling may represent a kind of eternal limbo for Penelope, should she marry him. Although Debling’s trip is set to take 3 years, it would be hard to prove his death. Likely, she would be a widow for years, if not her entire life, before they were able to locate his ship. The HMS Terror was famously lost in 1845 and not located until 2016(!). As a result, Penelope would likely be stuck at home, awaiting his return, in the same tragic fashion of her namesake in Greek mythology.
As such, not only is there a potential tragic reference to Debling’s future, but there is also a dark illusion to what Penelope’s life may look like as his wife. Of course, this is all based entirely on implication, but it is an interesting act of speculative foreshadowing.
Thanks for reading!
References
Brandt, A. (2011). The man who ate his boots: the tragic history of the search for the northwest passage. Anchor.
Day, A. (2006). Historical dictionary of the discovery and exploration of the Northwest Passage (Vol. 3). Scarecrow Press.
Panikkar, B., Lemmond, B., Else, B., & Murray, M. (2018). Ice over troubled waters: Navigating the Northwest Passage using Inuit knowledge and scientific information. Climate Research, 75(1), 81-94.
Williams, G., & Costley, S. (2010). Arctic labyrinth: The quest for the Northwest Passage. University of California Press.

“This book is on voyages to the North, where Lord Debling intends to travel.”
“Miss Featherington, are you reading about the fabled Northwest Passage?”
(S3 E4 11:16)
Hi everyone! I posted a comment about it right after season 3 dropped, and I have seen a bit of interest in the Northwest Passage on here recently. I thought that for those of you who didn’t learn about it extensively in school in the small corner of Canada that I did, I’d put together a little informative post on the extremely brief (and perhaps even inconsequential!) reference to the Northwest Passage in Episode 4. I’ll provide an overview of the Passage and its history, touch on some characteristics of travel to this region, and conclude with some completely speculative comments on the literary purpose of evoking the passage in this scene in Season 4.
A quick note on the colonial nature of this post: Throughout this short post, I refer to several colonial expeditions to the land many of us call Canada. Although I attempt to be cognizant of my language, it is important to note that the Inuit people who live in the arctic regions that I reference have navigated the sea ice for thousands of years (Panikkar et al., 2018) and that the written history of this region are often hegemonic and euro-centric narratives that were formed within colonial frameworks.
More information on the Inuit and their culture, language, and traditions can be found here: https://www.itk.ca/about-canadian-inuit/
References are at the end. If you like this post, you might also like the speculative post I made about the influences of the Eros/Psyche quote in the Polin sub which is also endless academic yapping.
Exploring the Northwest Passage- a bit of context
In August of 1820, Lieutenant Edward Parry, a member of the British Royal Navy observed the dense ice and snow of arctic land and sea that was thought to be the location of the mysterious Northwest Passage. From a simple look, he knew that no ship in existence would be able to pass through ice sheets of such a great thickness and that extended for such a long distance (Brandt, 2011). Despite his pessimism, by Parry’s time, British sailors and explorers had been explicitly seeking the passage for hundreds of years (Williams & Costley, 2010; Day, 2006, p. xxiv), dreaming of exploiting the desirable economic prospect of a Western route from Europe to burgeoning Asian markets.
First encounters: When European sailors first encountered North America, it was in pursuit of a route west to Asia. They were, of course, incorrect about the location of Asia. And although a great deal of interest shifted to mapping the new continent, there was also an acknowledgement that there would be great economic benefits to finding a way around this newly encountered landmass (Day, 2006). Over time, the reasons and methods of locating the Northwest Passage changed and evolved, but interest never truly went away.
Renewed British interest: Notably, at the end of the 15^th century, when the Ottoman Turk’s empire extended into the Mediterranean and eastward, European merchants were no longer allowed to move and trade freely (Day, 2006). Seeking new routes for the Pacific, European (and especially British) explorers turned West. The Northwest Passage was a concept, a theoretical possibility, for European explorers. It was seen as a potential commercial sea route to the trading markets that were already established and burgeoning in Asia. The Passage was a route with phenomenal economic potential, especially as European consumers sought spices, materials, salts, and woods from foreign markets (Williams & Costley, 2010).
Based on their knowledge of the Southern Hemisphere and the potential geography of the world, many believed that a similar passage would be reflected in the earth’s northern pole (Day, 2006). As a result, there was a massive potential for financial gain for colonial governments and individuals, should such a passage ever be found.
Public fascination: The passage became a point of national fascination for many members of the public. In pursuit of this fascination, many enthusiastic researchers “persuaded persons of influence and wealth to send out discovery expeditions” (Williams & Costley, 2010, p. xv). With governments in Europe stabilizing, the emergence of an economy of cheap labour (lower class men who were willing to take on the dangerous work at sea), and the rapid development of ship technology, the 1600s was a prime time to set out on expeditions.
The fascination with the Passage continued for 300 years until a passage was finally navigated by sea in full in the 1900s. Over the course of history, Anthony Brandt describes the fascination with the Passage’s discovery as a tragedy (2011). He writes: “hubris, an all-too-human arrogance and pride that triggered a particular calamity” (p. 5) as being the tragedy of the exploration for the Passage. Despite the fascination of the public with it, the ice “remained intractable, impenetrable, and, for those who challenged it, a kind of fate” (p. 5) George Malcom Thomson reported that the Passage did not exist where popular imagination speculated it must be (Day, 2006). He noted: “the whole enterprise was founded on a misapprehension, a geographical fiction, a fairy-tale … and downright inventions that scholar manufacture to amaze themselves” (p. xxv).
The danger of the passage: Voyages to and in search of the passage were fraught. Many never returned, and those who did survive faced immense physical and mental challenges. There were, of course, significant difficulties with massive ice drifts and shelves. However, the relative location of the expeditions to the north pole led to issues with magnetic variation for compasses. Fog further complicated travel (Williams & Costley, 2010).
There were also extreme mental dangers to pursuing the NWP. MooSmith’s expedition in the mid-1700s reported “potentially murderous quarrels between officers” (Williams & Costley, 2010, p. xvi); John Franklin noted that the things that occurred on his ship “must not be known” (p. xvi); and it was noted that on the McClure, Beckler, and Collinson expeditions, “tensions” erupted “as captains and subordinate officers exchanged threats of court martial, and some officers spend years under close arrest on their ships” (p. xvi).
In the time of Bridgerton: The end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 allowed for greater expeditions by the British Royal Navy (Day, 2006). This would have included surveys of a large portion of the global north and the Arctic. There were a large number of “successful” (depending on how you define it) land expeditions that had made progress in producing surveys and maps of the region. Despite significant ongoing interest in discovering the Passage, in particular, little progress had been made. Later still, despite more advanced mapping by the Hudson Bay Company and expeditions by many notable sailors, there was still no route by the 1820s (Day, 2006).
What does it signify? If a character in Bridgerton was voyaging to the Arctic, it could take them less than a year to reach areas of the Hudson Bay that would be suitable for a scientific voyage. That in itself is not overly dangerous. However, the reference to the Northwest Passage is an interesting literary point. Of all of the places to voyage in the Arctic, even at the time, it would have been an immensely dangerous trip to set out on. The persistent lack of success for a solid 30 years after this season takes place may reference the fact that this is a voyage that Debling is unlikely to ever return from.
It doesn’t help that Debling’s odds are really stacked against him. He does not eat meat, one of the only renewable sources of food for arctic expeditions. There is little to no fresh naturally occurring produce (during the Coppermine expedition, the surviving crew members famously ate lichen to survive once they lost the favour of local indigenous groups and fur traders) and did not do well.
Certainly, it lends a very tragic potential element to the story. The Arctic, if mentioned alone, is not necessarily an overly dangerous location to travel to. Yes, marine travel in the 1800s was still a dangerous endeavour in its own right, let alone in an area as unnavigable by sea as the Arctic. However, the North, in many regions, had active whaling expeditions, Indigenous populations that were willing to trade and work with sailors, and (in some areas) active fur trades. If the purpose of Debling’s travel was only to highlight his unique interests and sense of purpose, the show had many methods of doing so. The choice to reference a notorious and dangerous Northwest Passage, there is an extremely interesting element of danger that is introduced.
What would this potential marriage mean for Penelope? Of course, Penelope’s name may be a reference to the wife of Odysseus, who unwillingly takes ten years to return home after the Trojan war. In contrast to Colin, who returns with a steadfast conviction, Debling, as a traveler, may represent a kind of eternal limbo for Penelope, should she marry him. Although Debling’s trip is set to take 3 years, it would be hard to prove his death. Likely, she would be a widow for years, if not her entire life, before they were able to locate his ship. The HMS Terror was famously lost in 1845 and not located until 2016(!). As a result, Penelope would likely be stuck at home, awaiting his return, in the same tragic fashion of her namesake in Greek mythology.
As such, not only is there a potential tragic reference to Debling’s future, but there is also a dark illusion to what Penelope’s life may look like as his wife. Of course, this is all based entirely on implication, but it is an interesting act of speculative foreshadowing.
Thanks for reading!
References
Brandt, A. (2011). The man who ate his boots: the tragic history of the search for the northwest passage. Anchor.
Day, A. (2006). Historical dictionary of the discovery and exploration of the Northwest Passage (Vol. 3). Scarecrow Press.
Panikkar, B., Lemmond, B., Else, B., & Murray, M. (2018). Ice over troubled waters: Navigating the Northwest Passage using Inuit knowledge and scientific information. Climate Research, 75(1), 81-94.
Williams, G., & Costley, S. (2010). Arctic labyrinth: The quest for the Northwest Passage. University of California Press.

A father despaired in a private Facebook group that he recently won in court, and while appealing he feels mom is poisoning the children against him.
Here is my reply, edited to maintain anonymity, in the hopes that it helps to protect children from child abuse, parents from domestic violence, and that it serves the interests of justice. Those doubting the authenticity of appeals are invited to join fathers groups on Facebook and observe how sadly common such appeals and posts are there.
I'm not an attorney and this is not legal advice.
You wrote:
(Above)
A motion for contempt of court is one path to seek parenting time and prevent this abuse:

Sometimes a former, or soon-to-be former, spouse or co-parent can make your life difficult by refusing to pay support or cooperate with parenting time or fighting your efforts to resolve your divorce. When inconvenience and annoyance crosses the line into the violation of court orders, you may be able to use contempt of court proceedings to correct the other party’s behavior and get your case, and your life, back on track.
https://nsssb.com/contempt-of-court-in-michigan-family-law-cases/

Minimum standards for child abuse:

Federal law definitions of child abuse and neglect
Federal legislation provides guidance to States by identifying a minimum set of acts or behaviors that define child abuse and neglect. The Federal Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) (42 U.S.C.A. § 5106g), as amended by the CAPTA Reauthorization Act of 2010, defines child abuse and neglect as, at minimum:
"Any recent act or failure to act on the part of a parent or caretaker, which results in death, serious physical or emotional harm, sexual abuse or exploitation"; or
"An act or failure to act which presents an imminent risk of serious harm."
https://www.childwelfare.gov/topics/can/defining/
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/5106g

Possible failure to respect:

"There is a fundamental right under the Fourteenth Amendment for a parent to oversee the care, custody, and control of a child."
Troxel v. Granville, 530 U.S. 57 (2000)
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/530/57/

Promoting hatred of a parent may be child abuse. If the authorities are aware of this and allow it to persist they may be failing to report that abuse:

A person who, while engaged in a professional capacity or activity described in subsection (b) of section 226 of the Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990 on Federal land or in a federally operated (or contracted) facility, or a covered individual as described in subsection (a)(2) of such section 226 who, learns of facts that give reason to suspect that a child has suffered an incident of child abuse, as defined in subsection (c) of that section, and fails to make a timely report as required by subsection (a) of that section, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 1 year or both.
18 U.S. Code § 2258.Failure to report child abuse
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2258

Possible:

18 U.S. Code § 242 - Deprivation of rights under color of law
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/242

Possible honest services fraud:

For the purposes of this chapter, the term “scheme or artifice to defraud” includes a scheme or artifice to deprive another of the intangible right of honest services.
18 U.S. Code § 1346.Definition of “scheme or artifice to defraud”
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1346
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honest_services_fraud

State child support, parenting time, and child protection, and elder abuse are all primarily funded under federal law Title IV-D and Title IV-E. Consider filing complaints.

HHS Office of Inspector General
Phone. 1-800-HHS-TIPS (1-800-447-8477)
https://oig.hhs.gov/fraud/report-fraud/contact.asp
HHS Office of Civil Rights
https://www.hhs.gov/civil-rights/filing-a-complaint/index.html

Failure of the authorities to protect civil rights of parents may be:
Possible cause for a federal civil rights action or lawsuit (often against a municipality, state, non-profit agency, or company) under:

42 U.S. Code § 1983 - Civil action for deprivation of rights
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/1983

US courts provide forms:

Complaint for Violation of Civil Rights (Non-Prisoner)
https://www.uscourts.gov/forms/pro-se-forms/complaint-violation-civil-rights-non-prisoner

Possible basis of a class action lawsuit for similar situated people:

https://centerjd.org/system/files/CivilRightsClassActionsF.pdf

Please keep us updated.
I wish you the best of luck in your search for justice.

Here is a fan made creation on a speculation of the Timeline between Season 4 and 5. Hope you enjoy!!!!

• November 2003- Al Gore gives a White House press conference saying that anyone involved in the Asteroid Heist will be convicted to the fullest extent of the law if they step foot on Earth again.
  
• December 2003- An NSA classified document revealed the harsh interrogation of two Helios employees at Happy Valley Base on Mars during the Goldilocks Asteroid theft by the hands of the CIA and KGB, which ultimately led to the riot that caused one death and multiple injuries, including astronaut Danielle Poole
  
• January 2004- A similar Russian intelligence report revealed the KGB’s interference in both US and Roscosmos space agencies forcing both Madison and Nikulov to trade classified information with each other at the cost both of their careers and lives. The report revealed that forced Madison into an asylum in the USSR and were responsible for Nikulov’s apparent suicide.
  
• February 2004- Administrator Hobson was fired by NASA and former astronaut Will Tyler became the first African-American administrator.
  
• April 2004- The Internet goes public. Facebook, Google, and Amazon are founded that same year.
  
• May 2004- Gore and Korzhenko Riga Summit Talks are a success. They set aside their differences and agreed for the M7 to put billions of dollars into constructing and assembling a permanent mining operation and station on Goldilocks.
  
• June 2004- Ronald Regan dies of Alzheimer's at 82 and the same day former VP James Bragg dies on the campaign trail from a heart attack. the same day. Former POTUS Wilson pays her respects to Reagan. John McCain emerges as the presumptive frontrunner
  
• October 2004- The Boston Red Sox failed to win the World Series as the Mariners beat them in 4-0. Michael Jordan announces retirement from MLB.
  
• November 2004- Incumbent President, Al Gore has narrowly defeated Senator John McCain, 270-268 to win a second term as President. His narrow win comes from easing post-Cold War tensions and advocating for more jobs on Mars and addressing the water crisis in Flint.
  
• December 2, 2004- The “Trial of the Century” ends as Margo Madison was sentenced to up to 20 years in prison and up to an additional 8 years for her role in the asteroid theft in a Houston courtroom in which her trial divided the nation.
  
• December 2004- The Indian Tsunami hits but it saved countless lives as seismic technology sensed activity in the ocean and evacuated people there.
  
• February 2005- Construction at Kuznetsov station commences.
  
• April 2005- Britain leaves the European Union and forms the British Coalition of Commonwealth Countries for Spaceflight (BCCS) with countries such as Canada, New Zealand, and Australia which joins the M7, becoming the M8.
  
• June 2005- Happy Valley undergoes a five-year major expansion that could house up to 50,000 people and families who would be employed to mine iridium on Goldilocks. It will have mass dormitories, cafeterias, gyms, libraries, classrooms, four greenhouse domes with biospheres, a , a theater, and a spaceport with a Mission Control monitoring air traffic.
  
• September 2005- Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans. President Gore ordered a full evacuation of the city before the levies burst and the water rose which saved lives but damages cost over 20 billion.
  
• November 2005- Calypso which is called Starship by the media reached Mars in 10 days with 500 people breaking the speed record and people. It can transport up to 1,200 people at a time and has the space to transport over 50 billion tons of iridium.
  
• February 2006: Brokeback Mountain wins Best Picture at the Oscars.
  
• March 2006- The first supply of iridium is mined at Kuznetsov Station on Goldilocks as partial construction has finished and economists believe that this iridium could lead to an economic boom on Earth in the coming decade.
  
• May 2006- Life found on Mars! Major microbial algae cells found at the Surface of Korelev Crater.
  
• June 2006- The iPhone is previewed at Apple’s 2006 event. YouTube, and Twitter hit the worldwide web.
  
• August 2006- Pluto demoted as a planet.
  
• September 2006- The Crocodile Man Steve Irwin died.
  
• November 2006- The first supply of iridium from Goldilocks returns back to Earth.
  
• January 2007- Brazil, China, South Africa, Indonesia, South Korea, and Nigeria join the M8 which becomes the M14. The United Nations and the M14 Alliancet came up with the Mars Confederation to oversee governmental and everyday affairs on Mars.
  
• April 2007- Virginia Tech shooter Seung-Hui Cho is arrested and convicted to life in prison.
  
• May 2007- Madeline McCain disappears from Portugal.
  
• June 2007- Transformers premieres.
  
• August 2007- Al Gore wins a Nobel Peace Prize for hosting peace talks between opposite forces in the Saudi Civil War, effectively ending the war and his continued environmental activism
  
• September 2007- Prince Charles and Camilla die in a Paris car crash leaving millions of fans heartbroken.
  
• 2008- The global and US economies experience the largest economic boom with the mass deposits of iridium from Goldilocks having multiple effects on government agencies and industries around the globe
  
• January 2008- Dark Knight actor Heath Ledger was found dead in his home.
  
• April 2008- Mining operations begin on Phobos and Deimos.
  
• Summer 2008- Breaking Bad, Lost, Mad Men, Battlestar Galactica, and HBO’S One Small Step (an alternate TV show wondering if the US landed first on the moon) dominate primetime ratings and Iron Man is the biggest summer event.
  
• August 2008- JFK Jr wins the Democratic nomination for President and chooses Barack Obama as his running mate. Later that month, Mitt Romney chose Sara Palin as his running mate.
  
• November 2008- JFK Jr beats Mitt Romney (306-232) and becomes the 43rd president of the United States.
  
• January 2009- US Airways flight 1549 crashes into the Hudson River killing everyone on board in “The Tragedy on the Hudson”
  
• June 2009- Analog television ends
  
• June 2009- Michael Jackson makes a comeback.
  
• August- October 2009- Usain Bolt beats his time, Balloon Boy, and Party in the USA are the biggest pop culture moments.
  
• Late 2009- The 2010 census reports that over 100,000 people are in space with 55,000 on the moon and over 45,000 on Mars.
  
• January 2010- Haitian Earthquake
  
• Feb 2010- Avatar wins Best Picture and Jodie Foster wins her third Oscar for “Ellen and Pam” as Ellen Wilson beating fellow Best Actress nominee and Emma Thompson as Pam Horton and other actresses Sandra Bullock and Gabriela Sidibe
  
• April 2010- An Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico is avoided.
  
• July 2010- Nobel Prize Winners Kelly Baldwin and Aleida Rosales announces a scientific space mission to Ceres in 2013 in order to study outer solar system life form to question whether space travel to the outer solar system is possible and a space exploration to Europa could happen in the end of the decade.
  
• February 2011- Construction of the extended colony of Happy Valley is completed and Kuznetsov Station (is up to par with the S4 flash forward )
  
• February 2011- Tejano singer Selena performs at Super Bowl XLV.
  
• March 2011- Seismic radar senses the Japanese Earthquake plus evacuating everyone and preventing the nuclear disaster.
  
• 2011- South Sudan becomes a new country.
  
• June 2011- Sea Dragon is decommissioned after making its last trip to NASA’S Jamestown base.
  
• October 2011- Old Man Mars celebrates his 80 birthday and Alex Poletov celebrates his Sweet 16 on Mars. John Lennon performs at their birthday.
  
• End of 2011- JFK JR state of the Union address says that “Space Travel is not only possible, but worth it because as my father said, “We chose to go to the moon because it isn’t easy but because it is hard” We have made it far so let’s not sit down and rest. Let’s do this.”
  

Kind of a long shot but hoping someone might have an answer.
I did an "exercise and sell" last year with some ISOs I got from my company, which is taxed on short term basis. This was included in my W2 income and wages, but the cost basis was not captured in my 1099B, so TurboTax is overcalculating my total income, and thus the taxes, since it's counting the income from that sale twice - once on my 1099B and once in my W2.
The answer I've gotten from my brokerage is that I can adjust the cost basis for the ISO sale to include the amount of the sale, since it's already included in my W2 wages. I can indeed do this in TurboTax, however, they also indicated that I need to include a reason for adjusting the cost basis so drastically.
Normally, this would be done on the 8949 form, however, there's not a way to manually edit this form in TurboTax. So what are my options to complete the filing? I've already filed for an extension and made the estimated payment, but I need to file ASAP to avoid any penalties.

I am grateful to the Greatly Merciful and Greatly Compassionate Guan Yin Bodhisattva for offering me this precious opportunity to share my experience of practising Buddhism with you.
I am 62 years old. Today, I can eat, sleep and walk like a normal person. However, did you know that I once was a paralyzed woman who could not even get up from bed, had difficulty turning over, and could not take care of myself? Through practising Buddhism and reciting Buddhist scriptures, I have completely freed myself from the misery of hell. I want to tell you with hard facts that practising Buddhism and reciting the scriptures has not only given me a second life, but has also benefited me immensely. I want to share with you how I transformed myself from paralysis to health within four years without undergoing any surgery! May my presentation plant the seeds of bodhi in your hearts, so that more people will have faith in Guan Yin Bodhisattva who has boundless supernatural power, and recite Buddhist scriptures as soon as possible to be free from suffering and gain happiness!
1. When I was young, I opened two bars so I created bad karma, and karmic retribution is right on my heels!
I am the eldest daughter of my family and the eldest daughter-in-law of my in-laws family. Both my mother and mother-in-law are Buddhist practitioners and urged me to practise Buddhism as well. However, because of my youthful ambition and good fortune, at the age of about 36, I ran two bars and enjoyed the pleasure of earning money, not bothering to practise Buddhism at all. By then, I was young and foolish, in the bars I gained filthy money by means of woman’s charms, which invariably created a lot of bad karma. How many people lost their morals and conscience for my sake of monetary gain? How many families have been broken up behind the scenes? How many people have done many things against ethics and morality under the paralysis of alcohol? I hereby express my deepest repentance to Guan Yin Bodhisattva! Karmic retribution is inescapable. I planted the evil cause so I reap the evil effect. The bad karma I created within two years of running the bars has brought me a tragic retribution 13 years later! (So, dear fellow practitioners, please take this as a warning!)
In 2010, I was 49, my predestined 369 calamity arrived. One day in July, my karma exploded. I suddenly collapsed at home kitchen while stirring frying vegetables. In an instant, I felt that the sky was falling, and I had nowhere to turn for help. An otherwise healthy me entered a life of hell on earth from then on. Every day, I ate, drank, pooped and peed in bed, had difficulty turning over, couldn't wash my hands and face, had trouble swallowing, so it was worse than death. I was paralyzed in bed from then on. The doctor said I had a herniated disc in my lower back. All the bones in my back were misaligned. Both knee bones were necrotic and so swollen. I have visited all the local city and provincial hospitals, big and small, to seek medical care. I almost spent all the several hundreds of thousands of RMB I had gained from my bar business. However, the condition got worse and worse.
2. Since encountering the excellent Guan Yin Citta Dharma Door, I have been practicing Buddhism hard to overcome any obstacles on the way and finally achieved a new life.
Perhaps it was the blessing from my family members who had been making offerings to the Buddha and practising Buddhism for years. Thanks to the mercy of Guan Yin Bodhisattva, I finally encountered the Guan Yin Citta Dharma Door in 2012 when I was in the most desperate situation in my life. The person next door to my bar heard that I was sick and came to see me. She brought me Buddhist scripture, recitation device, Buddhism in Plain Terms, counters and many other Dharma gems. She told me the Guan Yin Citta Dharma Door was very efficacious, and asked me to try it. Although I could not move on bed, I listened all Master Lu's recordings like a thirst. I was pleasantly surprised to hear cases of patients who had been cured of cancer and serious illnesses by practising Buddhism and reciting the scriptures. The recordings of Master Lu's programs were like a bright beacon in the darkness, bringing me hope for life and giving me great encouragement. I felt I was awakened by a powerful energy, stirring up my strong desire to live. I told myself: I must survive; I must save myself! I started to practice Buddhism and recite scriptures as if I had grabbed a lifeline.
I am illiterate, so I had to lie in bed every day and learn to recite word by word with the recitation device. Due to the heavy karma, there was no virtuous and the high-minded practitioner around to teach me how to burn the Little Houses in a rational and lawful way. I foolishly took an ashtray instead of a plate to burn the Little Houses, which resulted in the ashtray blowing up. In order to eliminate karma quickly, I was foolishly reciting the Heart Sutra and Amitabha Pure Land Rebirth Mantra after ten o'clock at night, which resulted in the light bulbs breaking several times (Here, I sincerely remind my fellow practitioners: Master Lu enlightened us not to recite the Heart Sutra and Amitabha Pure Land Rebirth Mantra after ten o'clock at night. Please make sure to read the Introduction to Guan Yin Citta Dharma Door carefully in order to avoid practising Buddhism irrationally). Therefore, we must follow the instructions of Master Lu, and never do what the Master does not allow us to do. The whole process of reciting Buddhist scriptures to eliminate karma is very bumpy. It is really easy to create karma, but very hard to eliminate it! However, I firmly believed that the Bodhisattva is infinitely powerful. As long as I diligently practised Buddhism, my fate would definitely get changed. Hence, I relied on the blissful cases in Master Lu's recordings as my spiritual support. I kept persevering, not afraid of any difficulties, and recklessly recited Buddhist scriptures.
Since I ate, drank and pooped in bed, my aura was very bad. As I could not get up by myself, so I had to lie in bed to recite the sacred Buddhist scriptures. I felt guilty and torn, wondering if this was the appropriate way to recite the sacred Buddhist scriptures. Will it affect the effect of the recitation? Gratitude to Guan Yin Bodhisattva for Her compassion, and I dreamed of Master Lu that night. Master Lu who was dressed in a black suit smiled at me and kindly comforted me: “don't worry.” After I woke up, I was very grateful for Master Lu's compassion. Master Lu knew about my special situation, so this is a sympathy and a condolence to me. After I recited Buddhist scriptures 4 to 5 months late, my neck and head were able to turn significantly. Such a Dharma blissful change thrilled me. All the trials and perseverance I had gone through in the past had not been in vain. Guan Yin Bodhisattva has boundless supernatural power, which had given me a glimmer of hope for recovery! (Here, I sincerely remind my fellow practitioners: In the absence of illness, recitation of Buddhist scriptures must be respectful. A point of respect harvests a point of benefit.)
3. The unique characteristics of attending the Dharma conference and formally acknowledging Jun Hong Lu as my master allow my physical health to improve with Dharma joy
In February 2017, I befriended a fellow practitioner. She invited me to attend the Macau Dharma Convention together. I thought to myself: “can I take the bus by myself?” “Can I attend the conference?” With a strong faith from my inner heart, I attended the conference via keeping reciting the Great Compassion Mantra on the trip. Unbelievably, I arrived at the conference as I wished with the blessing and protection of Guan Yin Bodhisattva, although my bulky legs could only barely support my body in the seat. I was in tears when I listened Master Lu's wise words and saw the holy icon of Guan Yin Bodhisattva. On the night of the conference, I dreamed of Guan Yin Bodhisattva! Gratitude to Greatly Merciful and Greatly Compassionate Guan Yin Bodhisattva for saving me from suffering and giving me a new life. At the end of the Macau Dharma Convention, I instantly made two vows: to be a vegetarian for 15 days per month and liberate 10,000 fish.
Before I attended the Macau Dharma Convention, I had to take a break whenever I walked two steps, and my body was not able to move much. After returning, my legs started to become strong enough to support my body and I could walk on flat ground. Despite they were not very flexible, they were no longer the same as when I was paralyzed like a limp in bed. My whole body is getting better and better in essence, vital energy, and spirit. I was very surprised! Master Lu has enlightened that there are many Buddhas and Bodhisattvas coming to bless attendees at each Dharma conference!
In August 2017, before the Dharma Convention in Malaysia, my fellow practitioners urged me to formally acknowledge Jun Hong Lu as my master. Since I am an illiterate, compassionate fellow practitioners helped me to fill out the application form of seeking discipleship. My fellow practitioners told me that there were so many people wanted to formally acknowledge Jun Hong Lu as their master that I might not be able to reach my wish this time. Then, I had to wait for the opportunity next Dharma Convention. I told myself that whether I could reach my wish or not this time, I would actively participate in Master Lu’s Dharma Convention. Considering my age, it is a blessing for me to attend one more Dharma Convention. To my surprise, one week later, my application for seeking discipleship was approved. Gratitude to Greatly Merciful and Greatly Compassionate Guan Yin Bodhisattva!
On the day of seeking discipleship, I was very excited. During the process of seeking discipleship, I heard a voice in stereo that was very loud. When I opened my eyes, I was surprised to see Tathagata Buddha, and many other Bodhisattvas coming down from heaven. At that moment, I saw that the upper half of Master Lu's Dharmakaya appeared transparent with a huge lotus flower. I was suddenly moved to tears. I was oblivious to the fact that Master Lu had come to my side until the time of issuing the discipleship certificate. Master Lu was very compassionate and empowered me with blessing. Master Lu enlightened, "Because five people opened their eyes during the worship ceremony, they have no lotuses planted in the pure land. But it's okay, when the ceremony is over, you can go to the front and kowtow to ask the Bodhisattva (to plant a lotus)." I then rushed to the front to worship. Before I finished worshiping Bodhisattva, a young fellow practitioner came over. He asked, "How do you feel? Did you see anything?" I said, "I saw Tathagata Buddha." He asked, "How are you sure that was Tathagata Buddha?" I said, "Both my mother and mother-in-law are Buddhist disciples, and Tathagata Buddha has curly hair."
I was grateful for the compassionate blessing from Guan Yin Bodhisattva and Master Lu. When I returned home after seeking discipleship, I made two vows: to be a vegetarian for the rest of my life and never kill (animals). The power of a vow outweighs the force of karma. After I made the vows, Master Lu’s Dharmakaya came to help me heal my legs in my dreams. Once, I saw Master Lu’s Dharmakaya passing by my room while I was half-squinted. Master Lu asked me, "Which foot is uncomfortable? Where is aching?" Instantly I woke up and then I found that my feet didn't feel as heavy as they used to be and I walked more lightly. I excitedly shared the news with my old father, "Master Lu has come to bless me again!" I am grateful to Master Lu for his compassionate care for every sentient being. Every time I dreamed of Master Lu, he would always compassionately endow me with abundance of blessing, and I was always surprised by the improvement in my health.
In a short time, I could not only separate my feet and take turns to walk up and down the stairs independently. Moreover, I could bend back and forth freely with my arms crossed. The bones in my back, which were all misaligned and uneven, were now completely normal again. Previously, I couldn't raise my hands to wash my face, brush my teeth or comb my hair because the bones in my back would pull the nerves and cause severe pain when I raised my hands. In those days, whenever I sneezed or defecated, I felt like to cheat death on pain. In those hellish day I went through unimaginable pain and suffering. Now, however, I can take care of myself completely and move around freely. Sometimes I get a little tired after walking for too long, but I can recover after 10 minutes of rest in bed. Although it is still slightly bumpy while I was walking, if you don't look closely, you can't see it. My family was overwhelmed to see the dramatic change from being paralyzed and bedridden to walking independently since I practised Buddhism. My old father, who was taking care of me at the bedside, complimented me straight away: you have completely changed, becoming healthier and healthier now! I was so excited that I had tears in my eyes. Without the rescue of Greatly Compassionate Guan Yin Bodhisattva and Master Lu, I really wouldn't have the blissful transformation I have today!
In 2019, at the Dharma conferences of Indonesia and Singapore, I pleaded with my fellow practitioners to be merciful to give me the opportunity to volunteer. According to the rules of the Dharma conference, I was already overage. However, I was adamant that I must do volunteer work. Guan Yin Bodhisattva has given me a second life, so I have to serve all sentient beings physically. I am grateful for Greatly Compassionate Guan Yin Bodhisattva who helped me out. When I came back from the conferences, I found that I could bend and squat easily and freely, and I had no problem even sitting on the floor. I am grateful to Guan Yin Bodhisattva for compassionately helping me to eliminate my karma at every conference, so that I can obtain incredible blessings and improvement occur every time.
4. The incredible blessing of setting up the Buddhist altar accelerated my health recovery and created a medical miracle.
From the time I set up the Buddhist altar in 2017, I insisted on offering Bodhisattvas incenses morning and evening every day. At first, the body was still straight and could not bend and bow. For two years, in front of the Buddhist altar, I prayed for Bodhisattvas to bless me so that I could recover my health a little better so I can use my own experience as an example to convince sentient beings to gain faith on Dharma and practise Dharma. Gradually, I was able to stand to offer incense to Bodhisattvas, to bend and bow, and finally to kneel in front of the Buddhist altar to recite the scriptures. I was full of Dharma joy! Initially, my back still hurt from kneeling. With the karmic obstacles being removed, my back didn't hurt anymore. Sometimes when I went out with fellow practitioners to set up the Buddhist altar, particularly on the Buddha's Birthday, I could kneel to recite the Eighty-eight Buddhas Great Repentance for an hour and a half. My fellow practitioners couldn't keep it up, so I was the only one who kept it up until the end. I am so grateful to Guan Yin Bodhisattva for Her compassionate blessing!
At one time, the doctor at the provincial hospital told me that I had to have surgery to put two steel plates into the bone, but I refused. Because I firmly believe that with the of blessings of Guan Yin Bodhisattva and Master Lu, I am afraid of nothing. Buddha is an extraordinary doctor. The only way to recover completely is to repent sincerely and practise Buddhism. I can now move as freely as a normal person. This medical miracle achieved was completely relied on practising Buddhism, reciting scriptures, being a vegetarian, helping new practitioners to set up Buddhist altars, volunteering at Dharma conferences, and actively propagating the Dharma. To improve my family economic financial, I went out to work on construction sites as a helper, do cleaning and housekeeping!
Those patients who were once slightly paralyzed did not recover as quickly and well as I did, even with surgery.
Dear readers, when you see such a dramatic change in me, what are you hesitating for? Hurry up and pick up the Buddhist scriptures to recite! I am the living example, the ironclad evidence. Guan Yin Bodhisattva does exist, and She is Greatly Merciful and Greatly Compassionate, answers any prayers.
Thinking of the bad karma I created in the two bars when I was young, I feel grievously sinful. I have earned ill-gotten wealth, but the karma was produced, and karmic retribution is inescapable. If one hasn't been retributed, the time hasn't come yet. After I got old, all the retribution came to me. Not only did I use up all my money, but I also had to suffer from physical illness and paralysis. I advise everyone to remember Master Lu's enlightenment: Do not do anything that is evil; Do not fail to do good no matter how petty the deed; Do not engage in evil no matter how trivial the deed. Dear readers, please consider it carefully before earning any money, and don’t commit such deep sins as I did for the sake of monetary gain, or else the consequences will follow you!
Without the merciful salvation and blessings of Guan Yin Bodhisattva and Master Lu, I would not have been reborn today! I made a few great wows: honour the teacher and respect his teachings, live an ascetic life for lifetime, be a vegetarian lifetime, not kill, not eat eggs, not smoke, not drink; transcend the cycle of rebirth for good and attain enlightenment in one lifetime. In this life, I will follow Guan Yin Bodhisattva to cultivate my mind and change my behaviour and never quit. I will follow my benefactor, the Compassionate father, Master Lu, to propagate Guan Yin Citta Dharma Door and never stop! Although I am over 60 years, I will continue using my own experience as an example to convince sentient beings to gain faith on Dharma and practise Buddhism. Together with my fellow practitioners, I will get up early and go home late to help set up Buddha altars for new practitioners. No matter how far and how difficult the trip is, I will always be strict with myself. I will go wherever I am needed. Even if I am eating, as soon as I receive a mission for propagating Dharma, I will put down my chopsticks and set off without delay.
Guan Yin Citta Dharma Door is peerlessly efficacious, and Guan Yin Bodhisattva is Greatly Merciful and Greatly Compassionate, saves beings from suffering, has supernatural power, and answer all prayers. As long as we have a devout heart and we persist in reciting Buddhist scriptures and practicing Buddhism, no difficulty can defeat us! My physical changes are the most powerful evidence! May my true presentation give some inspiration to those people who are still suffering from illnesses, so that they can acquire faith to practising Buddhism, and pick up the Buddhist scriptures to recite. May more sentient beings having affinity with Buddha break free from delusion and attain enlightenment, balance egoism and altruism, and free from suffering and gain happiness.
My deepest gratitude to the Greatly Merciful and Greatly Compassionate Guan Yin Bodhisattva!
My deepest gratitude to all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas from ten directions and three periods of time!
My deepest gratitude to the Dharma protectors!
My deepest gratitude to the selfless and altruistic Master Jun Hong Lu!
If there is anything that is not rational or in line with the truth in the presentation, I’d like to seek forgiveness from the Greatly Merciful and Greatly Compassionate Guan Yin Bodhisattva, all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, Dharma protectors, and Master Jun Hong Lu.
I’d also like to seek forgiveness from my fellow Buddhist practitioners.
I, not my fellow practitioners, will be responsible for my own karma!
Shared by: Dharma Practitioner Ganen, Gratitude and Namaste!
Translated by: Frank
Statement by Translator

1. Story was translated from Chinese into English by meaning, not word by word. If there is anything that is not rational or in line with the true meaning of the Chinese version, I’d like to seek forgiveness from the Greatly Merciful and Greatly Compassionate Guan Yin Bodhisattva, all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, Dharma protectors and Master Jun Hong Lu.
   
2. Author Ganen was interviewed by Frank during the translation for the detailed information.
   

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原文如下:
从瘫痪卧床到行走自如做家政，心灵法门创造了医学奇迹
感恩南无大慈大悲救苦救难广大灵感观世音菩萨摩诃萨！
感恩十方三世一切诸佛菩萨！
感恩龙天护法金刚菩萨！
感恩恩师慈父卢军宏台长！
感恩师兄们！
感恩大慈大悲观世音菩萨慈悲，让我能有这个宝贵的机会与大家分享我的学佛经历。我今年62岁，现在是一个能吃、能睡、能走路的正常人了。但是，你们可曾知道，曾经，我是一个连床都起不了、翻身都困难，生活完全无法自理的瘫痪老人！如今，通过学佛念经，我把自己从地狱的苦海里完全挣脱了出来。我要用铁一般的事实告诉大家：学佛念经不仅给了我第二次生命，更让我受益无穷。我要跟大家分享，在这患病的四年里，在没有经历任何手术的情况下，如何让自己从瘫痪到健康的蜕变！愿我今天的分享给有缘人种下菩提种子，让更多的人相信观世音菩萨法力无边，早日学佛念经，离苦得乐！
1. 年轻时开酒吧造恶业，得现世报！
我是家中的长女、婆家的长媳。母亲和婆婆都是学佛人，都劝我也学佛。但是，由于年轻时好胜心强，加之财运不错，36岁左右，我经营两家酒吧，享受挣钱的快乐，根本无心学佛。年轻愚痴的我经营酒吧时靠女色来赚取黑钱，赚的都是不正之财，无形中造了很多恶业。在这种灯红酒绿中生活，我为了金钱利益，让多少人丧失了自己的道德与良知？背后又造成多少个家庭的破裂？又有多少人在酒精的麻痹下做出多少违背伦理道德的事情？弟子在此向观世音菩萨深深忏悔！因果报应丝毫不爽，种恶因得恶果。开酒吧这两年中我所造下的恶业，在十几年后让我得到悲惨的现世报！所以，请大家引以为戒！
2010年我49岁，正逢“三六九”关劫。7月的一天，我的业障大爆发，在家炒菜时突然间倒下。瞬间，我感觉天塌下来，叫天天不应，叫地地不灵。一个原本健康的我从此进入人间地狱般的生活。每天，我吃喝拉撒都在床上，翻身都很困难，没法自己洗手洗脸，吞咽困难，简直生不如死。我从此瘫痪在床。医生说我是腰椎间盘突出。后背的所有骨头都错位。两个膝盖骨头坏死，肿得很大。当地市里、省里大大小小的医院我都看过了。我几乎把我做酒吧生意所赚到的几十万块钱都花光了。然而，病情越来越严重。
2. 得遇殊胜法门，坎坷学佛路中坚持不懈地修行换来重生
也许是家人一直供佛学佛的福德。承蒙观世音菩萨慈悲，在我人生绝境之时，我终于在2012年得遇心灵法门。以前我开店隔壁的人听说我病倒了，就来看我。她给我送来了经书、念佛机、《白话佛法》、计数器等很多法宝。她告诉我心灵法门很灵验，让我试试。我躺在床上虽然无法动弹，却如饥似渴地把师父的录音听了个遍。听到人们通过学佛念经把癌症、重症都治愈的案例，我惊喜万分。师父的节目录音就像黑暗中的一盏明灯，让我看到了生活的希望，给了我很大的鼓舞。在这个过程中我像被一股强大的能量加持唤醒，激起了求生的强烈欲望。我告诉自己：我一定要活过来；我一定要自己救自己！我像抓住了救命稻草似地开始拼命学佛念经。
我不识字，只能每天躺在床上跟着念佛机一字一句地学着念。由于业力牵引，身边没有遇到善知识教我如理如法地烧送小房子。愚痴的我曾拿个烟灰缸代替盘子烧送经文组合小房子，结果烟灰缸炸掉了。为了抓紧时间消业，我晚上十点后还在念《心经》和《往生咒》，结果家里的灯坏了好几次（趁此机会我诚心提醒师兄们：师父开示，晚上十点后不要念诵《心经》和《往生咒》，请师兄们一定要好好看《心灵法门入门手册》，避免操作不如理不如法）。所以，我们一定要听师父的话，师父不让做的就不做。念经消业的整个过程非常坎坷。真是造业容易，消业难啊！但是，我坚信菩萨法力无边，只要精进努力，一定会得到改变的。于是，我依靠师父录音中的法喜案例作为精神支撑。我一直坚持不懈，不怕万难，拼命念经。
由于吃喝拉撒都在床上，气场非常不好，自己又无法起身，只能躺在床上念经。我内心愧疚又纠结，不知道这样念经是否如理如法？会不会影响念经效果？感恩菩萨慈悲，当晚我就梦见师父了。师父身穿着黑西装，一边慈祥地笑着一边安慰我：不要担心。醒来后，我非常感恩师父的慈悲。师父知道我的特殊情况，这是对我的宽容和安慰啊。后来，大概念经差不多4～5个月后，我的脖子和头也能明显地转动了。这样法喜的变化，让我激动万分。我过去所经历的磨难与坚持都没有白费。观世音菩萨法力无边，让我看到了康复的一丝希望！（作者提醒：师兄们，在没有病痛的情况下，念经一定要体态恭敬，一分恭敬一分受益。）
3. 参加法会与拜师的殊胜，让我的身体不断法喜蜕变
2017年2月份，我结识了一位师兄。她邀请我一起去参加澳门法会。我心想：我能自己坐车吗？能去法会吗？凭着内心坚定的信念，路途中我一直念《大悲咒》。虽然我笨重的双腿只能勉强支撑着身体坐在座位上，但在观世音菩萨一路加持护佑下，我竟然能够如愿到了法会现场。现场听到师父开示、看到观世音菩萨的圣像，我泪如雨下。大法会当天晚上，我就梦到了观世音菩萨！感恩大慈大悲救苦救难观世音菩萨救我于苦海，给了我新的生命和生活。澳门法会结束，我当即发愿：一个月吃素15天，放生一万条鱼。参加澳门法会前，只要走两步路我就要歇一歇，而且我的身体没办法大幅度活动。
澳门法会回来后，我的双腿开始变得有力，可以支撑起身子在平地上走路了。虽然还不是很灵活，但是比起原来像软泥一样瘫痪在床的状态，已经不可同年而语了。我整个人精、气、神也越来越好。我非常惊喜！师父开示过，每场法会有很多佛菩萨来加持大家！
2017年8月，马来西亚法会前，师兄们让我拜师，但我不识字。慈悲的师兄们帮助我代笔填写拜师申请表。师兄们告诉我，这次拜师的人太多，有可能排不上队，得等到下一场法会才有机会。我告诉自己，无论这次能不能拜师，我都一定积极参加师父的法会。我这么大年纪了，能参加多一场法会都是我的福报啊。让我惊喜的是，一个星期后，我的拜师申请通过了。感恩观世音菩萨慈悲！
拜师当天，我激动万分。在拜师过程中，我听到一个非常立体、非常响亮的声音。我睁开眼睛时，我竟然看到了如来佛祖，还有好多菩萨都从天上下来了。这时，我看到师父上半身的法身呈现透明状，有一朵大大的莲花。我顿时感动得泪如雨下。直到颁发弟子证的时候，我浑然不觉师父已经走到我的身边。师父非常慈悲，给我灌顶加持。师父说:“因为拜师过程中有5个人睁开了眼睛，所以莲花没有种上去。不过没关系，等拜师仪式结束后，可以到前面去磕头求菩萨。”我就赶紧跑到前面去拜。我还没拜完，就过来了一个年轻师兄。他问我：“您感觉怎么样？有没有看到什么？” 我告诉他：“我看到如来佛祖了。” 他说：“您怎么确定那是如来佛祖呢？”我说：”我家母和家婆是学佛人，如来佛祖头发卷卷的。”
感恩观世音菩萨与师父的慈悲加持。拜师结束回家我就发愿: 终生吃全素，不杀生。真是愿力大于业力，发愿后，师父又来梦里帮我治疗双腿。有一次，我半眯着眼睛看到师父从我的房间经过。师父问我：“还有哪只脚不舒服？还有哪个地方疼痛的？” 瞬间我就醒了，醒来我发现我的双脚没有了原来的沉重感，走起路来更加轻盈了。我激动地跟老父亲分享：“师父又来加持我啦！”感恩师父慈悲关怀着每一位众生。每次梦见师父，师父都慈悲给予加持，我的身体总会有惊喜的好转。
没过多久，我不仅可以分开双脚，轮流迈开步伐独立上下楼梯。而且，我双手叉腰，可以前后自如地弯腰。后背的骨头原本因为全部错位并高低不平，如今完全恢复正常了。原本我没办法把手举起来洗脸、刷牙和梳头，因为手一抬，后背的骨头扯神经会导致剧烈的疼痛。每次打喷嚏或排泄的时候，都有种痛不欲生的感觉，就像死里逃生一样。这种地狱般的日子让我历经常人难以想象的苦痛折磨。然而现在，我的生活可以完全自理并且行动自如。有时候走太久会有一点点累，但是卧床休息十几分钟就可以恢复过来。虽然走路还有一点点高低现象，但如果不仔细看，是看不出来的。看到我学佛念经以来，从瘫痪卧床到独立行走的巨大变化，我的家人无比震惊。当年在床头边照顾我的老父亲直夸我：现在整个人完全变了，变得越来越健康了！我激动得泪眼婆娑。没有观世音菩萨与师父的大慈大悲救苦救难，真的不会有我今天的法喜蜕变！
2019年印尼法会和新加坡法会上，我恳请师兄们慈悲给我做义工的机会。按照法会规定，我已经超龄了。但是，我坚决一定要做义工。观世音菩萨给了我第二次生命，我就要身体力行地为众生服务。感恩观世音菩萨的慈悲，让我能如愿以偿。从法会做完义工回来，我发现我可以轻松自如地弯腰和下蹲，就连坐在地板上也没有问题了。感恩菩萨每次法会上都慈悲帮我消业，让我每次都能有不可思议的加持，变化。
4. 设佛台的不可思议加持，加速我身体恢复健康，创造医学奇迹
从2017年设佛台起，我每天坚持上早晚香。起初，身体还是直直的，不能弯腰鞠躬。两年里，我每天在佛台前上香求菩萨加持，让我身体能恢复得更好一些，能为众生表法。慢慢地，我从站着上香到弯腰鞠躬，到最后可以跪在佛台前念经。真是法喜充满啊！刚开始跪着后背还是很痛。随着业障的消除，我的后背也不疼痛了。有时候和师兄们出去设佛台，遇到佛诞日，我跪着念诵《礼佛大忏悔文》足足有一个半小时的时间。许多师兄都坚持不下来，唯独我坚持到结束。真是感恩菩萨慈悲加持！
曾经，省医院的医生告诉我，必须做手术把两块钢板放进骨头里，但我回绝了。因为我坚信有观世音菩萨和师父两座靠山，我什么都不怕。在因果面前，佛是大药王。唯有诚心忏悔，学佛修行才能彻底康复。我完全靠学佛念经吃素、设佛台、参加法会做义工，积极弘法度人，才创造了医学奇迹：现在和正常人一样行动自如。我甚至去工地做小工，搞卫生、做家政弥补家用！那些曾经轻微瘫痪的患者就算做手术，也没有我恢复得快，恢复到如此好的状态。
读者朋友们，你们看到我如此天翻地覆的变化，还犹豫什么呢？赶快捧起经书念经吧！我就是活生生的例子，铁一般的证据。观世音菩萨真实存在，并且大慈大悲有求必应啊！
现在回想起年轻时开酒吧所造下的恶业，真是罪孽深重。不正之财赚到了，可是，因果报应丝毫不爽，不是不报，时候未到。在我人到老年时，所有的报应一涌而来。不但钱财全部用尽，还要遭受肉体病痛的瘫痪之苦，因果不空啊！奉劝大家一定要谨记师父的教诲：诸恶莫作，众善奉行！不以善小而不为；不以恶小而为之！挣任何钱财之前都要三思，切记不可为了金钱利益而像我一样造下如此深重的罪孽，否则果报如影随形！
没有观世音菩萨和师父的慈悲救度与加持，就没有我今天的重生！弟子许愿尊师重道、一生清修、终生吃全素、不杀生、不吃鸡蛋、不抽烟、不喝酒；一世修成，永断轮回。今生跟着观世音菩萨修心修行，永不退转。跟着恩师慈父卢军宏台长弘扬心灵法门永不停息！我虽然60多岁了，但是我要身体力行地为大家表法，起早贪黑地和共修组师兄们一起去助缘设佛台。无论路程多么遥远，多么艰辛，我都严格要求自己。哪里需要我，我就走到哪里。哪怕我在吃饭，只要接到弘法任务，我一定当即放下筷子，一刻也不能耽误地出发。
心灵法门灵验无比，观世音菩萨大慈大悲，救苦救难，法力无边，有求必应。只要我们有一颗虔诚的心，只要我们坚持念经修行，没有什么困难可以打倒我们！我的身体变化就是最有力的证据！愿我的真实分享给那些还在受着病痛折磨的人们一些启发，让大家生起学佛念经的信念，捧起经书念经，愿更多的有缘众生能够早日破迷开悟，自利利他，离苦得乐！
我的分享结束了，分享中如有不如理不如法的地方，请观世音菩萨慈悲原谅！请十方三世一切诸佛菩萨和龙天护法菩萨慈悲原谅！请师父慈悲原谅！请师兄们批评指正！我自己的业障自己背，不让师兄们背！感恩合十！
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2022-02-28
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