Accomplish Inconceivable Merit and Virtue

　　成就無量功德

　　Talk less and investigate Chan more. If you can be silent, that will be ideal. Once you start to talk, false thinking will arise. Once false thinking arises, you will lose your concentration and be unable to enter samadhi. Time is most precious during a Chan session. Do not casually let the time go by in vain. For every bit of true cultivation, you will have a bit of response. If you are 100% true in your cultivation, you will receive a 100% response. During the Chan session, do not let your mind cling to conditions or indulge in curiosity. You should honestly and earnestly put forth effort to cultivate. The topic, “Who is mindful of the Buddha

　　” is a good way to eliminate all the heavenly demons in heterodox paths. You can use it to accomplish your inconceivable merit and virtue. If you have no false thinking, then you will have inconceivable merit and virtue. If you have false thinking, you are heavenly demon of a heterodox path. That is why all of you should not cheat yourselves and continue to indulge in false thinking. This is crucial.

　　少講話多參禅，能不講話是最好的。因爲你一講話，就有妄想生出來；妄想一有，就不會得到定，不會得到叁眛。打禅七的時間是最寶貴，你不要隨隨便便就丟了，就把它放棄了。你有一分的真實的修行，就有一分的感應；你有十分的真實的修行，就有十分的感應。在打七的時間，切記不要生一種攀緣心，不要生一種好奇的心，要實實在在去用功夫。用「念佛是誰」的方法來袪除一切天魔外道，用「念佛是誰」來成就你的無量功德。你沒有妄想就是無量功德，你有妄想那就是天魔外道。所以各位不要欺騙自己、盡打妄想，這是很要緊的。