..续本文上一页past without knowing that it was wrong. What can I do now to redress the harm that I have caused
上人：过而能改，善莫大焉。弥天大罪，一忏便消。
The Venerable Master: No wholesome deed is greater than correcting one”s own faults. Even if your offenses are enormous, as if they were pervading the sky, if you sincerely repent and reform, they will be eradicated. 问：请教上人，现在报章杂志上面，时常看到“供养婴灵”，到底婴灵是需要供养呢？还是要超度他往生？
Question: Nowadays, there are many advertisements on “Making Offerings to Infant Spirits” in newspapers and magazines. Can we make offerings to infant spirits, or should they be crossed over instead
上人：这个不能谈到“供养”，因为他不是佛，不是法，不是僧。你要是供养他，那就落邪见。那么超度还可以，超度不是供养，超度令他离苦得乐。但是这个冤孽若深了，也不容易解开这个结，因为这是夺命的一种债务，就要用夺命来还，所以是很不容易解的。虽然不容易解，你若遇到不贪财的真修行人，还可以有机会超度他们的。
The Venerable Master: The term “Making Offerings” cannot be used in this context, because an infant spirit is not the Triple Jewel (the Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha). If you consider making offerings to infant spirits, you will fall into the trap of erroneous views. Rather, it should be called “crossing over.” Crossing over living beings is not the same as making offerings to them, because the act of crossing over enables them to leave suffering and attain bliss. However, the infant spirits” resentment is so great that they are difficult to appease. Given that the debt owed to these spirits involves taking lives, it needs to be repaid with life. However, if such debtors encounter genuine cultivators of the Bodhi Way who are not greedy for wealth, they still have a chance to cross over the infant spirits. 问：有许多人付钱供养婴灵，能解冤吗？
Questions: Many people pay money to make offerings to infant spirits, can these spirits” resentment and grievance be redressed by doing so
上人：不能解。
The Venerable Master: No. 问：现在有很多人借婴灵敛财，有些佛教人士颇不以为然。请问师父您的观点如何？婴灵是否会造成当事者身体不健康，或带来其他方面的困扰？让一些堕胎的当事者因畏惧、害怕，结果花钱为婴灵买牌位。所以，请问师父您对这方面的看法如何？婴灵是否会作怪？又该如何去调伏？才能够让婴灵安心？
Questions: Nowadays, many people take advantage of others by claiming to appease infant spirits as a way to make money. Some Buddhists really frown upon this practice. Venerable Master, what is your opinion
Will infant spirits cause the inpiduals who owe them ill health or other problems
Some people who had abortions are scared into spending money to buy plaques for infant spirits. Venerable Master, what are your thoughts on this
Are infant spirits really able to cause trouble
If so, how do we subdue these spirits
How do we pacify and comfort them
上人：弄个牌位，不如没有位。什么叫没有位呢？根本就是不该去堕胎；不堕胎，就是不杀生；不杀生，就免得多此一举。至于，给婴灵弄个牌位，这叫舍本逐末，掩耳盗铃。能不能超度？是否可以解开这个冤债？这是不一定的。所以，与其悔之于后，不如防之于前；在未婚前，不要吃避孕药，也不要发生男女的关系……，为什么等不了呢？为什么要那么着急呢？为什么要那么馋呢？
The Venerable Master: It would be better to have no plaque than to set up a plaque. What do I mean by this
One should not have an abortion in the first place; by refraining from abortion, one does not kill; by not killing, one doesn”t even need to set up a plaque. Setting up a plaque for fetus spirits is called “attending to the trifles and neglecting the essentials,” and it is like “covering up one”s ears to steal a bell,” for one is deceiving oneself. Can those infant spirits be crossed over
Can the debts be settled
The answers are uncertain. Therefore, it is better to prevent problems from happening than to feel regret afterwards. Before one is married, one should not take birth control pills or have sexual intercourse. Why can”t you wait until you get married
Why are you in such a hurry
问：请教法师，因为世界上，现在有很多堕胎的未婚妈妈及强奸、同性恋等种种的怪现象。家长们应该怎么教育子女，才能在这个时代里，青少年本身心理和生理都有一个健全的人格发展。
Question: Venerable Master, there are many strange phenomena in the world today, such as many unmarried mothers having abortions, rape, and homosexuality. How should parents educate their children in this day and age, so teenagers can develop both physically and mentally into …
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