..续本文上一页切大小诸横同时得到解脱，都是凭着这个〈楞严咒〉心的力量。假设想得阿罗汉果，你一定要诵这个咒，才能没有魔事。末法的时候，如果有人能背诵〈楞严咒〉，或者叫他人诵读〈楞严咒〉，这样的人火也不能烧他，水也不能淹死他，无论大毒小毒，都害不了他。一切的毒入到诵持〈楞严咒〉这个人的口里，都会变成甘露味。受持〈楞严咒〉的人不会生到不好的地方，就是你想去也不行。为什么呢？这个〈楞严咒〉拉着你，叫你不要去！不要去！诵持〈楞严咒〉的众生纵然他自己不做什么福德，十方如来所有的功德都给这个人。你说这便宜不便宜！只念念〈楞严咒〉而已。你念〈楞严咒〉，就能常常生在佛出世的时候，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.

　　假设你心念非常散乱，没能专一，而且没有定力。可是你心里想佛所说的〈楞严咒〉，口里就诵持。金刚藏王菩萨就用很精真的这种心，跟着你这个散乱心持〈楞严咒〉的人，暗暗来催速，一点一点令你这个散乱心就没有了，一点一点就可以得到定力。就是在默默中帮助你，令你开智慧，心念专一，从前八万四千恒河沙劫这么长时间的事情，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〈楞严咒〉读会了，能背得出，就像由你自己心里流出来的，〈楞严咒〉也就是你一个心，你的心也就是〈楞严咒〉，得到持咒三昧，诵得犹如流水似的，源源不断。这样子，你最低限度也可以七生都像美国煤油大王那么有钱，七世都做员外，做有钱的人。说：「这么好，我赶快学〈楞严咒〉，好做七世员外。」你要是境界这么小，那就不要学〈楞严咒〉了，七世员外也是一眨眼的期间。那么念会〈楞严咒〉要希望什么呢？要希望究竟作佛，得到无上正等正觉。不要境界那么小，实际上学〈楞严咒〉，就是佛的化身；不但是佛的化身，还是佛的顶上化佛，化佛中的化佛，所以〈楞严咒〉的妙处是不可思议的。有人真能持〈楞严咒〉，在这个地方，虚空里头就有一个大白伞盖。你的功夫若大、若高，你一念这个伞盖，甚至于几千里地以内，都无灾无难了；你功夫若小，那么这个伞盖在你自己的头上，也保护着你。你要是有道德，是一个大德高僧，你这一念，甚至于整个国家都得到好处了，都没有什么灾难了。就有灾难，大的灾难也就化小了，小的灾难就化没有了。

　　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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