..续本文上一页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，得到不可思议的力量，你不要心里总打妄想，想入非非，总是妙想天开。你诵咒若间断了，你三昧就不会成就的。修习楞严法门要拿出真心、诚心来修习。什么叫真心？就是为修持〈楞严咒〉，把时间也忘了，空间也没有了。是日、是夜都不知道，吃饭、没吃饭也不知道，睡觉、没睡觉不知道。什么都忘了，什么都没有了，一念像无量劫那么长，无量劫又为一念。要有这种精神，吃饭、睡觉什么都忘了，只一心来修行〈楞严咒〉，一定成就楞严三昧的。不能这样，就谈不到真正修楞严法门。不只修楞严法是如此，修其他的法门都要如此，行不知行，坐不知坐，渴不知渴，饿不知饿。说：「那不是变成最愚痴的人了吗？」就是要如此，这才叫
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,
养成大拙方为巧
学到如愚始见奇
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.
你若能学愚痴到这个样子，无论你修那个法门，都能得到三昧，都会有所成就的。就因为你没能愚痴，没能真正深入三昧的境界，所以修来修去也不相应。
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.
你用功持诵〈楞严咒〉的时候，或者会梦见拜佛，或者梦见佛放光，或者梦见佛来摩顶，或者梦见佛和你讲经说法，或者梦见菩萨、缘觉、声闻、圣僧，或天上的天将，或者梦见自己腾身虚空，或者梦见会飞了，这都是好境界；或者骑马，或者渡江，种种祥瑞的光，或者有种种非常出奇的异相。假设得到这样的应验，你更应该很小心的，你要发菩提心，身、口、意三业要清净，更加紧你的功夫来持诵这个咒。可是你不可以对人去宣说，你有什么感应了，有什么灵验，叫人相信你，对你有好感。你有什么感应，自己知道就得了，你尽炫示自己的功德，各处卖广告，满街卖修行，这是不对的。你如果这样，便有了漏洞，魔就得其便。就好像你有了财宝，不把它放在保险箱里，你把它放在门口，一定会被人偷去。所以修佛法要很小心，不要让天魔外道得便。可是和你同道的，就是一同修行，你不是为了名利，或者为了令人恭敬我、赞叹我，你可以说的。
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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