Who said one blessing can outweigh a hundred disasters? This is confusion of cause and effect. Blessing is due to good causes, misfortune is due to bad causes. That one blessing can outweigh a hundred misfortunes is the heretical belief and superstition. Emperor Wu of Liang asked Patriarch Bodhidharma about the merits of building a temple and giving alms. Patriarch Bodhidharma bluntly told him that there was no merit. Emperor Wu of the Liang Dynasty built a temple and gave alms intentionally to do good deeds. He did not do good deeds out of a compassionate heart, but did good deeds with a desire to gain and a desire to climb. The initial intention was wrong, that is, his motives were impure. How much better could the result be. At the same time, when practicing Buddhism, the first thing is not to do good deeds, but to put an end to evil, stop doing evil, and practice good deeds, like fetching water with a bamboo basket. Emperor Wu of Liang was not considerate of the people and made the country a mess. He was lucky to live to be eighty-six years old. It is rare for modern people to live to this age.