..續本文上一頁etinue of demons.Such fools act on their misguided views and further, cause immeasurable millions of beings to fall into pits of great danger.

　　These beings will drift endlessly in the realms of the hells, the animals, and the ghosts. But if they hear the name of Medicine Master Vaidurya Light Tathagata, they will be able to renounce their evil practicesand cultivate wholesome Dharmas, and thereby avoid falling into the evil destinies.

　　If those who have fallen into the evil destinies because they could not renounce their evil practices and cultivate wholesome Dharmas, by the awesome power of the past vows of that Tathagata, get to hear his name for only a moment, then after they pass out of that existence, they will be reborn again as human beings. They will hold proper views and will be ever vigorous. Their minds will be well-regulated and joyful, enabling them to renounce their families and leave the householder”s life.

　　They will take up and maintain study of the Tathagata”s Dharma without any violation, they will have proper views and erudition; they will understand profound meanings and yet be free from

　　overweening pride.

　　They will not slander the Proper Dharma and will never join the ranks of demons.

　　They will progressively cultivate the practices of Bodhisattvas and will soon bring them to perfection."

　　"Moreover, Manjushri, if there are sentient beings who harbor stinginess, greed, and jealousy, who praise themselves and disparage others, they will fall into the three evil destinies for countless thousands of years where they will undergo intense suffering.

　　After undergoing intense suffering, at the end of their lives they will be born in the world as oxen, horses, camels, and donkeys that are constantly beaten, afflicted by thirst and hunger, and made to carry heavy burdens along the roads.

　　Or they may be reborn among lowly people, as slaves or servants who are always ordered around by others and who never for a moment feel at ease.

　　If such beings, in their former lives as humans, heard the name of the World Honored One, Medicine Master Vaidurya Light Tathagata, and by this good cause are able to remember it and sincerely take refuge with that Buddha, then, by means of the Buddha”s spiritual power, they will be liberated

　　from all sufferings. They will be endowed with keen faculties, and they will be wise and erudite.

　　They will always seek the supreme Dharmas and encounter good friends. They will eternally sever the nets of demons and smash the shell of ignorance. They will dry up the river of afflictions and be liberated from birth, old age, sickness, death, anxiety, grief, suffering, and vexation."

　　"Moreover, Manjushri, there may be beings who delight in perversity and engage in legal disputes, bringing trouble to others as well as themselves.

　　In their actions, speech, and thoughts, they create ever-increasing amounts of evil karma.

　　Never willing to benefit and forgive others, they scheme to harm one another instead.

　　They pray to the spirits of the mountain forests,trees, and graves.

　　They kill living beings in order to make sacrifices of blood and flesh to the yaksha and rakshasa ghosts.

　　They write down the names of their enemies and make images of them, and then they hex those names and images with evil mantras.

　　They summon paralysis ghosts, cast hexes, or command corpse-raising ghosts to kill or injure their enemies.

　　However, if the victims hear the name of Medicine Master Vaidurya Light Tathagata, then all those evil things will lose their power to do harm.

　　The evildoers will become kind to one another.They will attain benefit, peace, and happiness and no longer cherish thoughts of malice, affliction, or enmity.

　　Everyone will rejoice and feel content with what they have. Instead of encroac…

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