..续本文上一页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：就是遇着天魔外道，你想要把他抓来的时候用。举个例子，就像世间的警察，把那犯罪的人抓来了；勾召法也是这样子的，这妖魔鬼怪，他在这个地方害人，做不对的事情，令人生病，或者生灾难，然后他跑了。你想要把他抓来，一诵这咒，用这个勾召法，他就相离多远，这一切的护法善神、天龙八部、八万四千金刚藏菩萨，即刻就能把妖魔鬼怪抓来。但是抓是抓来，他有时还是不服的，你必须用种种的方法来教化他。你单强压迫他，来降伏他，是下品法，不是一种好的方法。好的方法，不用任何的势力来压迫，也不压迫他，也不和他斗争，不要好像修罗似的，斗争坚固，不要学那样。你明明有力量可以降伏他，也不要用降伏法，要用德行来感化他，来教化他。
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。但是你用这个〈楞严咒〉，就把他所有的咒，都给破了，把他降伏了。用这势力把他折伏了，令他老实了。我以前对你们大家都讲过，〈楞严咒〉其中有几句是破魔罗网的一种咒，也是破魔咒术的。为什么这个〈楞严咒〉一念，那个先梵天咒就没有效验了呢？就因为有这个五大心咒。这五大心咒是破天魔外道一切咒术的根本的咒。无论他有什么咒，你一念这几句，就都给他破了，他的咒就没有功效了。我这个法如果要卖钱，几百万我也不卖。不过我看你们都有点诚心，我一个 cent(分)也不要，传授给你们。这就是降伏法。总而言之，无论你修什么法，你必须要有无上的菩提道心，大慈大悲、大喜大舍。不可以用你的道力，来压迫任何的人，或来压迫任何的妖魔鬼怪。
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：你念这个咒，一切的事情都随心如意，很吉祥的。这是有这种种的法，我把这几种法的意思给你们讲一讲。
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.
这个咒如果要说它的好处，那就是说几年也说不完的，太多了。所有十方一切诸佛都是从〈楞严咒〉里边生出来的，所以〈楞严咒〉可以说是佛的母亲。十方如来就是借着〈楞严咒〉，得成无上正遍知觉。十方如来能应身到微尘数那么多国家，去转*轮教化众生，在十方给众生摩顶授记，拔济众生的群苦，令众生一…
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