..續本文上一頁ed, and stupidity, no mantra is going to be efficacious. Our frame of mind is extremely important. We must be kindhearted and filled with goodness, wishing to help others. Our mind should be wholesome.
勾召法：就是遇著天魔外道，你想要把他抓來的時候用。舉個例子，就像世間的警察，把那犯罪的人抓來了；勾召法也是這樣子的，這妖魔鬼怪，他在這個地方害人，做不對的事情，令人生病，或者生災難，然後他跑了。你想要把他抓來，一誦這咒，用這個勾召法，他就相離多遠，這一切的護法善神、天龍八部、八萬四千金剛藏菩薩，即刻就能把妖魔鬼怪抓來。但是抓是抓來，他有時還是不服的，你必須用種種的方法來教化他。你單強壓迫他，來降伏他，是下品法，不是一種好的方法。好的方法，不用任何的勢力來壓迫，也不壓迫他，也不和他鬥爭，不要好像修羅似的，鬥爭堅固，不要學那樣。你明明有力量可以降伏他，也不要用降伏法，要用德行來感化他，來教化他。
The Dharma for Hooking and Summoning is for use when you meet up with heavenly demons and externalists and want to catch them. Just as law enforcement officers catch criminals, so too, the Hooking and Summoning Dharma catches weird creatures, demons, and ghosts. They do something here to harm others or do some bad thing that causes people to get sick and then they run away. But you want to catch them and so you recite the mantra, using the Hooking and Summoning Dharma. Well, no matter how far away from you they are, the Dharma-protecting good spirits, or members of the eightfold pision, or some of the eighty-four thousand Vajra Treasury Bodhisattvas will immediately snatch them and bring those demonic beings back. Even then, sometimes they won”t give in and you have to use all kinds of expedients to teach and transform them. If you use brute force to subdue them, then that”s the lowest grade of dharma, it”s not a good method. The best methods don”t use any sort of power plays to oppress beings. Don”t oppress them and don”t contend with them. Don”t be like an asura--tough and looking for a fight. Even when you clearly have the power to do so, don”t use the dharmas to subdue them. You should use virtuous conduct to influence beings and then teach and transform them.
又有降伏法：魔它也有神通，他也有咒，你念咒，他也念咒。但是你用這個〈楞嚴咒〉，就把他所有的咒，都給破了，把他降伏了。用這勢力把他折伏了，令他老實了。我以前對你們大家都講過，〈楞嚴咒〉其中有幾句是破魔羅網的一種咒，也是破魔咒術的。爲什麼這個〈楞嚴咒〉一念，那個先梵天咒就沒有效驗了呢？就因爲有這個五大心咒。這五大心咒是破天魔外道一切咒術的根本的咒。無論他有什麼咒，你一念這幾句，就都給他破了，他的咒就沒有功效了。我這個法如果要賣錢，幾百萬我也不賣。不過我看你們都有點誠心，我一個 cent(分)也不要，傳授給你們。這就是降伏法。總而言之，無論你修什麼法，你必須要有無上的菩提道心，大慈大悲、大喜大舍。不可以用你的道力，來壓迫任何的人，或來壓迫任何的妖魔鬼怪。
And finally, there is the Dharma of Subduing. Demons have spiritual penetrations and they also have mantras. You recite your mantra and they recite theirs. But when you use the Shurangama Mantra, you break through all their mantras and subdue them. You use the power to quell them and make them behave. I”ve told you all before that the Shurangama Mantra has within it a few lines of mantra that rends the nets of demons. Why was the mantra from the Brahma Heavens rendered useless
It was because of the Five Great Hearts Mantra. The Five Great Hearts Mantra destroys the mantras underlying the demons” and externalists” spells and incantations. It doesn”t matter what mantra they use, when you recite these lines, their spells are smashed and their mantras become ineffectual. If I wanted to market this Dharma, a million dollars wouldn”t even touch my asking price! But I can see that you have a bit of sincerity and so I am transmitting it to you absolutely free. To sum it up, no matter what Dharma you cultivate, you must have the unsurpassed resolve for Bodhi; you must have great kindness and compassion; you must practice great giving and great renunciation. You must not use the powers you gain in practicing the Way to oppress any other person or to squelch any demon, monster, goblin, or ghost.
又有吉祥法：你念這個咒，一切的事情都隨心如意，很吉祥的。這是有這種種的法，我把這幾種法的意思給你們講一講。
Furthermore, the Dharma of Auspiciousness enables things to go your way when you recite the mantra. Good fortune prevails. Now I”ve given you an explanation of these Dharmas.
這個咒如果要說它的好處，那就是說幾年也說不完的，太多了。所有十方一切諸佛都是從〈楞嚴咒〉裏邊生出來的，所以〈楞嚴咒〉可以說是佛的母親。十方如來就是借著〈楞嚴咒〉，得成無上正遍知覺。十方如來能應身到微塵數那麼多國家，去轉*輪教化衆生，在十方給衆生摩頂授記，拔濟衆生的群苦，令衆生一…
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