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　　This vajra secret language wells forth from your own nature.

　　Inside the Shurangama Mantra is marvelous magic!

　　Then come five eyes and six penetrations and the Way opens up.

　　「奧妙無窮實難猜」，這個〈楞嚴咒〉非常奧妙，它的變化也不可思議，很不容易測度的。「金剛密語本性來」，〈楞嚴咒〉是密中之密，這是金剛來護持這個咒。本性來，它是從自己那個佛性中生出來的。「楞嚴咒裏有靈妙」，〈楞嚴咒〉也叫做靈文，因爲他特別靈，特別有力量，所以說〈楞嚴咒〉裏有靈妙。「五眼六通道凡開」，你若能常持〈楞嚴咒〉，專心一致，心不旁骛，你可以得到五眼六通，可以有不可思議的那種境界來變化莫測，所以不是一般凡夫俗子可能知道的。因爲這個，所以希望大家都能讀誦《楞嚴經》，背誦〈楞嚴咒〉。你一誦〈楞嚴咒〉，爲什麼妖魔鬼怪不敢出來？因爲力量太大了，盡虛空遍法界沒有一個地方，不是有這種祥光瑞氣彌漫著。所以有人誦〈楞嚴咒〉，就是補天地正氣的不足。你一個人念〈楞嚴咒〉，就有一個人的力量；百人念〈楞嚴咒〉，就有百人的力量，這世界妖魔鬼怪都會老老實實的。所以多一點人念〈楞嚴咒〉是好的。

　　Unendingly miraculous and mysterious, it”s extremely hard to fathom. The Shurangama Mantra is quite esoteric and its changes and transformations are inexplicable; it”s not easy to figure out. This vajra secret language wells forth from your own nature. The Shurangama Mantra is the secret within the secret. That”s the vajras who come to protect the mantra. Your own nature--it is born from your own Buddha nature. Inside the Shurangama Mantra is marvelous magic! The Shurangama Mantra is called an efficacious language because of its spell-binding power. That”s what "marvelous magic" is referring to. Then come five eyes and six penetrations and the Way opens up. If you can continually uphold the Shurangama Mantra--single-mindedly without entertaining other thoughts--then you can attain the Five Eyes and Six Spiritual Penetrations. You will then experience the inconceivable, unfathomable changes and transformations that occur which ordinary people are totally unaware of. And that”s the reason why I hope everyone will learn to read the Shurangama Mantra and memorize it. Why is it that the demons, ghosts, and goblins don”t dare show themselves when you recite the Shurangama Mantra

　　 It”s so powerful that there isn”t a place in all of space or the entirety of the Dharma Realm that isn”t flooded with auspicious light. Recitation of the Shurangama Mantra patches up the imperfections in the heavens and the earth. One person reciting the Shurangama Mantra creates power equivalent to one person. A hundred people reciting create power equivalent to a hundred people. And the weird beings here in this world become very well-behaved. So it”s better if more people recite.

　　無上神咒，什麼叫「無」呢？這個無，就是高明無極，也光明到極點了，沒有再超過這種高和光明的，這叫無。「上」呢？是沒有再比這更尊貴、更高尚了，這叫上。神就是不可思議，也就是威靈叵測，這叫神。咒就是感應道交，有一種力量，你念這咒就有感應。「佛頂光明摩诃薩怛多般怛啰無上神咒」，這是說佛頂的光明，猶如大白傘蓋來蔭罩我們一切持咒的人。

　　It”s an unsurpassed spiritual mantra. The negating prefix "un-" actually means "lofty to the utmost; brilliant to the extreme." Peerless radiant illumination piercing the heights is the meaning of "un-". And "surpassed"

　　 Well, there”s nothing more esteemed, nothing more venerated. "Spiritual" is what is inconceivable and ineffable, what is awe-inspiring, efficacious and unfathomable. The power of mantras brings a response with the Way. When you recite mantras, something happens. "Brilliant Buddha”s Crown, Great White Canopy of Light, Unsurpassed Spiritual Mantra." This means that the light at the crown of the Buddha”s head is like a great white canopy that comes to shelter and protect all of us who recite the mantra.

　　這個咒是沒有人明白的，也不能一句一句、一個字一個字去講，不過你如果想要明白它，我可以勉強講給你聽。單這〈楞嚴咒〉，一年也講不完，叁年也講不完，甚至于十年也講不完。現在我把這個咒的大意講一講，它有五會，這五會就表示五方，五方就是東、西、南、北、中。東方就是金剛部，阿門佛爲教主；南方就是寶生部，寶生佛做教主；中央就是佛部，釋迦牟尼佛做教主；西方就是蓮華部，阿彌陀佛做教主；北方叫羯磨部，成就佛做教主，共有這五部。這五部就是管理這世界五方的五大魔軍，因爲有這五魔，所以佛也分開五方，鎮壓這個魔。如果沒有佛，那魔就會出現于世了。所以你一誦〈楞嚴咒〉，這五方的五大魔軍就都俯首低頭，老老實實，不敢違犯〈楞嚴咒〉的這種威力。〈楞嚴咒〉具足這五部，所以這個〈楞嚴咒〉是最妙不過了；可是你要沒有執著，若有所執著，就不會太妙了。

　　No one understands this mantra, nor can they explain line by line and word by word. But if you want to understand it, I can try my best to explain it to you. The Shurangama Mantra can”t be explained in a year”s time, or three years” time, or even ten years” time. Now I will explain th…

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