..續本文上一頁切大小諸橫同時得到解脫，都是憑著這個〈楞嚴咒〉心的力量。假設想得阿羅漢果，你一定要誦這個咒，才能沒有魔事。末法的時候，如果有人能背誦〈楞嚴咒〉，或者叫他人誦讀〈楞嚴咒〉，這樣的人火也不能燒他，水也不能淹死他，無論大毒小毒，都害不了他。一切的毒入到誦持〈楞嚴咒〉這個人的口裏，都會變成甘露味。受持〈楞嚴咒〉的人不會生到不好的地方，就是你想去也不行。爲什麼呢？這個〈楞嚴咒〉拉著你，叫你不要去！不要去！誦持〈楞嚴咒〉的衆生縱然他自己不做什麼福德，十方如來所有的功德都給這個人。你說這便宜不便宜！只念念〈楞嚴咒〉而已。你念〈楞嚴咒〉，就能常常生在佛出世的時候，和佛在一起熏修。

　　I could talk for several years and never finish describing the good points of this mantra. All Buddhas of the ten directions come forth from the Shurangama Mantra. The Shurangama Mantra is the mother of all Buddhas. It was by means of the Shurangama Mantra that all Buddhas perfected Unsurpassed Proper and Pervasive Enlightened Knowledge. The ability of the Buddhas of the ten directions to create response bodies and go throughout the ten directions turning the Dharma wheel to teach and transform living beings; to rub the crowns of those beings and bestow predictions upon them; to rescue beings from their complex sufferings; to enable beings to escape both large disasters and small calamities--their ability to do all that comes from the power of the Shurangama Mantra Heart. If you want to attain the fruition of Arhatship, you absolutely must recite this mantra to keep demonic things from happening. During the Dharma-ending Age if people can memorize the Shurangama Mantra or encourage others to memorize it, well, fire cannot burn such people and water cannot drown them. No matter how potent a poison, it cannot harm them. For those who recite the Shurangama Mantra, poison turns to sweet dew as soon as it enters their mouths. People who recite the Shurangama Mantra will never get born in bad places, even if they want to. Why is that so

　　 It”s because the Shurangama Mantra pulls you back and won”t allow you to go. Someone who recites the Shurangama Mantra may never have amassed any blessings or virtue, but, simply because he recites the mantra, the Thus Come Ones of the ten directions will bestow their own merit and virtue upon that person. Wouldn”t you call that a bargain

　　 That happens based on the recitation of the Mantra alone. If you recite the Shurangama Mantra, you will continually get to be born at a time when a Buddha is in the world and will be able to immerse yourself in cultivation under that Buddha”s guidance.

　　假設你心念非常散亂，沒能專一，而且沒有定力。可是你心裏想佛所說的〈楞嚴咒〉，口裏就誦持。金剛藏王菩薩就用很精真的這種心，跟著你這個散亂心持〈楞嚴咒〉的人，暗暗來催速，一點一點令你這個散亂心就沒有了，一點一點就可以得到定力。就是在默默中幫助你，令你開智慧，心念專一，從前八萬四千恒河沙劫這麼長時間的事情，你就一切一切都明了了。

　　If your mind is terribly scattered so that you can”t concentrate and don”t have any samadhi-power, but you think about the Shurangama Mantra and recite it with your lips, the Vajra Treasury King Bodhisattvas will very attentively watch for ways to invisibly help you gradually until your confusion has disappeared and you develop samadhi. They will imperceptibly help you open your wisdom and concentrate your mind to the point that you become crystal clear about all the events spanning the previous eighty-four thousand Ganges” sands of eons.

　　你若能把〈楞嚴咒〉讀會了，能背得出，就像由你自己心裏流出來的，〈楞嚴咒〉也就是你一個心，你的心也就是〈楞嚴咒〉，得到持咒叁昧，誦得猶如流水似的，源源不斷。這樣子，你最低限度也可以七生都像美國煤油大王那麼有錢，七世都做員外，做有錢的人。說：「這麼好，我趕快學〈楞嚴咒〉，好做七世員外。」你要是境界這麼小，那就不要學〈楞嚴咒〉了，七世員外也是一眨眼的期間。那麼念會〈楞嚴咒〉要希望什麼呢？要希望究竟作佛，得到無上正等正覺。不要境界那麼小，實際上學〈楞嚴咒〉，就是佛的化身；不但是佛的化身，還是佛的頂上化佛，化佛中的化佛，所以〈楞嚴咒〉的妙處是不可思議的。有人真能持〈楞嚴咒〉，在這個地方，虛空裏頭就有一個大白傘蓋。你的功夫若大、若高，你一念這個傘蓋，甚至于幾千裏地以內，都無災無難了；你功夫若小，那麼這個傘蓋在你自己的頭上，也保護著你。你要是有道德，是一個大德高僧，你這一念，甚至于整個國家都得到好處了，都沒有什麼災難了。就有災難，大的災難也就化小了，小的災難就化沒有了。

　　If you can learn the Shurangama Mantra until you have memorized it fluently--so that you become one with the mantra--then you attain the mantra”s samadhi and your recitation will be like flowing water, welling up uninterrupted. If you can do that, then at the very least for seven lives to come you will be as wealthy as America”s richest oil magnates. And you say, "That”s great! I”m going to learn the mantra right…

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