..續本文上一頁You should realize that the Shurangama Mantra is the most efficacious language in the world--the efficacious within the efficacious, the esoteric within the esoteric! It is an unsurpassed Dharma Treasure--the gem that can save living beings” lives. It embraces all that exists. From the Buddhas of the ten directions to the Avichi Hell, all the four kinds of sages and six sorts of common realms pay homage to the Shurangama Mantra. None of the ten Dharma realms transcends its scope. All categories of ghosts, spirits, Dharma-protecting deities, Hearers, Condition-enlightened Ones, up to the Buddha Vehicle are contained within the Shurangama Mantra. The Shurangama Mantra contains the names of ghost and spirit kings. When the names of those leaders are recited, all the ghosts and spirits in their retinues become very obedient and behave themselves. They don”t dare to make trouble. Reciting the Shurangama Mantra every day can cause demonic beings and weird ghosts throughout the world to settle down and stop harming people. The substance and function of the Shurangama Mantra are all-encompassing. It can be said that within the mantra can be found the entirety of Buddhism”s teachings and meanings. If you can understand the Shurangama Mantra, then you have understood the essence of Buddhism”s esoteric teachings. All the inconceivable wonders and esoteric phenomena in the universe are contained in the Shurangama Mantra. If you master the Shurangama Mantra, then you don”t need to study the esoteric school”s white teaching, black teaching, yellow teaching, red teaching or any other teaching. This is the ultimate method of samadhi and the most esoteric Dharma. Unfortunately no one really understands this esoteric Dharma; no one even recognizes it. Most people study it but cannot absorb it; they can only recite it but don”t know its meanings. Basically it”s not necessary to know the meanings of mantras, you need only realize that they are an ineffable efficacious language.
能念〈楞嚴咒〉就是利益衆生，不能念就不能利益衆生。各位趕快把〈楞嚴咒〉學會，背得出，再研究明白了，才是佛教徒所應有的行爲。想學〈楞嚴咒〉，持誦〈楞嚴咒〉的人最好能發大心，爲全世界誦持，把所有的功德回向給全世界。在佛教裏再沒有比〈楞嚴咒〉更重要了，〈楞嚴咒〉是正法的代表，有〈楞嚴咒〉就有正法，沒有〈楞嚴咒〉就沒有正法，不會背〈楞嚴咒〉不配做佛教徒。〈楞嚴咒〉叫楞半年，天天念，要念半年才會背。我們能誦〈楞嚴咒〉的人，都是在無量劫以來培植大善根的人，才能把〈楞嚴咒〉讀得熟，背出來，永遠也不忘，這就是善根的表現。若你沒有善根，不但不能念，就連〈楞嚴咒〉的名字也遇不著；就算遇著了也不懂，不會念。所以我們現在能念能背，都是有大善根。
Being able to recite the Shurangama Mantra is a benefit to all beings. Not being able to recite it, you cannot offer that benefit to beings. Quickly learn it, memorize it, investigate and understand it! Then you will be doing what Buddhist disciples should do. The very best is for those who want to recite the Shurangama Mantra to do it for the sake of the entire world; transfer all the merit to the whole world. There isn”t anything more important in Buddhism than the Shurangama Mantra. The Shurangama Mantra is a sure sign of the Proper Dharma. The existence of the Shurangama Mantra ensures the existence of the Proper Dharma. When the Shurangama Mantra is gone, the Proper Dharma is gone. Those who cannot recite this mantra are not worthy of being Buddhist disciples. The Shurangama Mantra is nicknamed "six months” stupor" because for most people it takes a half year of diligent recitation to get it memorized. Those of us who can recite the Shurangama Mantra have been planting and nurturing good roots for countless eons. Being able to memorize it perfectly and never forget it is evidence of those good roots. Without good roots, not only will you not be able to recite it, you will never even hear of the existence of the Shurangama Mantra; or if you hear of it you won”t understand it and won”t be able to recite it. Truly, then, those who can recite it by heart do have great good roots!
楞嚴法是百千萬劫難遭遇的法門，我們學得一句，明白一句的力量，便要照著去實行。但也不是聽說法有大靈感妙用及力量，就去用它。你用法，但不持戒，好像一般人什麼都不懂，隨便殺生…
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