..續本文上一頁with cultivation. You must keep your mind on your recitation of the mantra, continuing your recitation without ever letting it get cut off. It should be just as important as putting on clothes, eating food, and going to sleep; you shouldn”t be able to be without it for a single day. It doesn”t matter whether there”s any response, because by reciting every day you will gradually have a foundation and quite naturally the mantra will function.

　　你想成就妙行，得到不可思議的力量，你不要心裏總打妄想，想入非非，總是妙想天開。你誦咒若間斷了，你叁昧就不會成就的。修習楞嚴法門要拿出真心、誠心來修習。什麼叫真心？就是爲修持〈楞嚴咒〉，把時間也忘了，空間也沒有了。是日、是夜都不知道，吃飯、沒吃飯也不知道，睡覺、沒睡覺不知道。什麼都忘了，什麼都沒有了，一念像無量劫那麼長，無量劫又爲一念。要有這種精神，吃飯、睡覺什麼都忘了，只一心來修行〈楞嚴咒〉，一定成就楞嚴叁昧的。不能這樣，就談不到真正修楞嚴法門。不只修楞嚴法是如此，修其他的法門都要如此，行不知行，坐不知坐，渴不知渴，餓不知餓。說：「那不是變成最愚癡的人了嗎？」就是要如此，這才叫

　　If you hope for its wonderful functions and inconceivable power, then you must not keep having false thoughts, always day-dre, , aming and fantasizing. If you cut off your recitation of the mantra, then you will not be able to attain samadhi. You must use your true mind and practice the Shurangama Mantra with sincerity. What”s a true mind

　　 It means that for the sake of reciting the Shurangama Mantra you can forget all about time and even space disappears. You don”t know if it”s day or night; you don”t know if you”ve eaten or not; you don”t know if you”ve slept or not. You forget everything else. Everything disappears and one thought extends for infinite eons, while infinite eons is one thought. That”s the kind of spirit you should have--forgetting to eat and sleep for the sake of cultivating the Shurangama Mantra. In that way you certainly can attain the Shurangama Samadhi. If you cannot be that way, then you aren”t really cultivating the Shurangama Dharma-door. You should be that way not only in cultivating the Shurangama Mantra, but in the cultivation of any Dharma door--walking without realizing you are walking; sitting with being aware you are sitting; being unaware that you are thirsty or hungry. "Well," you say, "isn”t that just turning into a stupid person

　　" That”s right. It”s said,

　　養成大拙方爲巧

　　學到如愚始見奇

　　When you learn to be a big idiot, then you start to have some skill;

　　Studying until you are as if stupid is the beginning of real insight.

　　你若能學愚癡到這個樣子，無論你修那個法門，都能得到叁昧，都會有所成就的。就因爲你沒能愚癡，沒能真正深入叁昧的境界，所以修來修去也不相應。

　　If you can learn to be as if stupid, then no matter what Dharma door you cultivate you will attain samadhi and gain some realization. It”s just because you are unable to be stupid that you cannot properly enter into samadhi and don”t get any response from your cultivation.

　　你用功持誦〈楞嚴咒〉的時候，或者會夢見拜佛，或者夢見佛放光，或者夢見佛來摩頂，或者夢見佛和你講經說法，或者夢見菩薩、緣覺、聲聞、聖僧，或天上的天將，或者夢見自己騰身虛空，或者夢見會飛了，這都是好境界；或者騎馬，或者渡江，種種祥瑞的光，或者有種種非常出奇的異相。假設得到這樣的應驗，你更應該很小心的，你要發菩提心，身、口、意叁業要清淨，更加緊你的功夫來持誦這個咒。可是你不可以對人去宣說，你有什麼感應了，有什麼靈驗，叫人相信你，對你有好感。你有什麼感應，自己知道就得了，你盡炫示自己的功德，各處賣廣告，滿街賣修行，這是不對的。你如果這樣，便有了漏洞，魔就得其便。就好像你有了財寶，不把它放在保險箱裏，你把它放在門口，一定會被人偷去。所以修佛法要很小心，不要讓天魔外道得便。可是和你同道的，就是一同修行，你不是爲了名利，或者爲了令人恭敬我、贊歎我，你可以說的。

　　When you are developing your skill in reciting the Shurangama Mantra, you may dream of yourself bowing to the Buddhas; or in a dream see the Buddhas emitting light; or dream that you see the Buddha come as rub the crown of your head; or dream that the Buddhas speak Dharma for you; or dream that you see the Bodhisattvas, or Condition-enlightened Ones, or Hearers, or Sagely Sanghans or gods and heavenly generals; or in a dream see yourself ascending into space; or dream that you can fly. All of these are good experiences. Or you may be riding a horse or crossing a river and encounter all sorts of auspicious lights; or there may be other extremely rare appearances that manifest. If you do attain responses such as these, then you should be very careful. You should bring forth the resolve for Bodhi; guard the purity of the karma created by your body, mout…

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