..續本文上一頁ven-jeweled pagodas, you”d only be making offerings to the Buddha”s sharira (holy relics). But if you can sit in absolute stillness for even an instant, you”re creating the Buddha”s true body.
靜坐片刻就有這樣大的功德，如果天天靜坐，那種功德更是非算數所能計。你能在一須臾之間不打妄想，清淨其心，久而久之，你的心便能湛然常寂。
So we say that to sit still for just a split second surpasses making pagodas of the seven gems. The merit and virtue of meditating in stillness for one instant is that great! If you meditate every day, then your merit and virtue will be beyond reckoning. If you can be free of idle thoughts for even an instant and attain a pure mind, then your mind will naturally become limpid, pure, and calm.
我們在禅堂裏靜坐，不但對自己的功德是無量，就是對全世界人類的功德也是無量。有人說：「我們的功德，怎能給全世界人類呢？」現在全世界的人，因爲爭名奪利，所以殺氣騰騰，自私自利，你爭我奪，搞得世界烏煙瘴氣。人類鬥爭堅固，一天比一天厲害，一天比一天危險，一天比一天嚴重。如果再不設法挽救世界的危機，總有一天，地球會爆炸的。地球怎麼會爆炸呢？因爲現在科學突飛猛進，大國研究殺人的武器，一日千裏，互相比賽，例如核子武器、死光武器等等，一旦戰爭發生，這些武器便會將地球毀滅，到那時候，真正的末日就到了。
As we sit quietly in the Chan hall, not only is our own merit and virtue limitless, but the merit and virtue that we share with the entire world is also measureless.
Someone may object, "How can I share my merit and virtue with all humanity
" Now, because people all over the world are competing for fame and profit, a killing energy is filling up the atmosphere. We selfishly strive for private profits, fighting among ourselves until the world is gradually suffocated by an unwholesome, stinking miasma. Humankind has locked itself into an age of eternal competition and strife which gets ever more serious and dangerous as the days go by. If we fail to find a way to avert the impending crisis, before long the entire planet will surely explode. Why would the planet explode
It”s because science has run amok with its heedless progress. Great nations invent missiles and weapons with ever-quickening strides; nations compete with each other in building nuclear weapons, laser-cannons, and so forth. If war were to break out, these weapons would blow the world to bits. When that takes place, we”ll really have reached doomsday.
我們在禅堂裏，用功修道，在無形之中能把這些殺氣消滅，世界便沒有危險了。怎樣消滅呢？因爲空氣被汙染，有許多毒素存在，無論是直接的，或是間接的，都會影響衆生的健康，威脅衆生的生命。你們看看，現在奇奇怪怪的疾病，越來越多，使醫生束手無策。這是因爲空氣被汙染了，混濁不幹淨，充滿毒氣。我們修道人，要用電療把空氣消毒，什麼是電療？就是靜坐，從靜坐中放出智慧光，這個智慧光就是電，這種電波放到空氣中，有殺菌的作用；把混濁的空氣變成清潔的空氣，這叫電療世界之病。
When we cultivate vigorously in the Chan hall, our effort can imperceptibly eradicate this killing energy, and then the world will no longer be in danger. How can we eradicate it
The air has been polluted with many toxic substances, which directly or indirectly influence our health and threaten our very existence. Take a look at the many strange diseases that proliferate nowadays, which doctors have no way to cure. Such diseases occur because the atmosphere has been polluted, fouled by poisonous vapors everywhere. We cultivators of the spiritual path should use a kind of electrotherapy to detoxify the air. What is electrotherapy
It means sitting in meditation and emitting a light of wisdom from our meditative state. This light of wisdom is a form of electricity; when these waves of electricity pass through the air, they have the effect of detoxifying it. They transform the contaminated air into clean air. This is what we mean by using electrotherapy to heal the illnesses of the world.
現在有人懷疑這種道理是不可能的：「靜坐怎麼把空氣給消毒呢？」現在來講一個故事：在宋朝戌钗鴗j文學家，名叫蘇東坡，當時有位大禅師，名叫佛印。他們兩人是道友，常有往來。有副對聯說：
出入有僧皆佛印，
往來無客不東坡。
Some people are having doubts about the truth of this principle: "How could meditation detoxify the air
" I”ll now tell you a story to illustrate the point. In the Sung Dynasty, a great literatus named Su Dongpo, "Su of the Eastern Bank" and a great Chan Master named Foyin (Buddha Seal) were good friends in cultivation, and they often spent time together. A matched couplet talked about their partnership:
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