Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

"Its stool is a strong medicine, which can ward off all
four-hundred-and-four diseases. When its stool is made
into a holy pill and kept on one's body, the one myriad
eight thousand calamities will never befall the bearer.
When it is mixed with oil, the stool will cure any kind
of sore."
"Anyone who eats the meat of a Jue Xun after its death
will gain worldly things, while one who offers one of its
feathers may attain the excellent achievement of
Buddhahood. One who sees it or hears it will not fall
from practice. All the people who live in the forest of
sandalwood trees where the bird lives will never be
reborn in the three lower realms."
"This kind of holy bird is very rare. If one's merits are
not great enough, one cannot encounter it. It preaches to
bees and other insects, thus helping them to attain a
good rebirth in the heavens."
"When the chicks grow up, they fly far away and never
return—a kind of renunciation. They build their own
'hermitage' and when the female lays her two eggs, they
then fly away, and they don't build hermitage again.
This is their traditional habit. Even the young chicks are
rare to see, even by those persons free of sins."
"The holy bird resembles an oriole, but its neck is a
little longer. The eggshells are reddish-white, and are
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