The True Story of Kandata: Yu’s Reincarnation

This is an incarnation story of Yu Menglong that he shared with us himself, through one of his secondary souls.

Some of you may have heard of Kandata — the protagonist of the short story The Spider's Thread by Japanese author Akutagawa Ryūnosuke, which became widely known after Akutagawa adapted Buddhist scripture into fiction. But the story he wrote is not true history.

So what really happened?

Beside the lotus pond of the Pure Land, a Bodhisattva looked down with eyes of wisdom upon the suffering beings in the realms of hell below.

The Bodhisattva saw among them a sinner named Kandata. Recalling that this man had spent his life doing evil — a corrupt official, cruel and unjust in his governance — the Bodhisattva also remembered that he had once performed one small act of goodness: he had refrained from stepping on a spider.

And so the Bodhisattva decided to give him a chance.

A single slender golden thread was lowered from the lotus pond of the Pure Land all the way down to hell, with the intention of rescuing Kandata.

But the moment the sinners being punished in hell caught sight of this golden thread, they seized it at once and began to climb.

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