..续本文上一页take the true as false, and the false as true. Look at these people: this one writes a book and people all read it. That one writes a book and they read it too. The real Sutras spoken by the Buddha himself are put up on the shelf, where no one ever reads them. From this, we can see that living beings” karmic obstacles are very heavy. If they hear deviant knowledge and deviant views, they will readily believe them. If you speak Dharma based on proper knowledge and proper views, they won”t believe it. Speak it again, and they still won”t believe it. Why

　　 Because they don”t have sufficient good roots and foundations. That”s why they have doubts about the proper Dharma. They are skeptical and unwilling to believe.

　　我们万佛城这儿要立楞严的坛场，最好你们谁发心把这部《楞严经》，天天能读它，或者一个钟头、两个钟头。能把它像读书那么读，能记得又能背得出，把这《楞严经》、《法华经》，甚至于《华严经》都能背诵出来，这是最好的。谁能把《楞严经》、《法华经》、《华严经》若都能背得出来，那世界上这还是正法存在的时候。所以我们这儿万佛城这么好的地方，大家要发大菩提心，做一些个事情。不是说我们和人比赛，我们要出乎其类、拔乎其萃，要做这些事情。

　　Here at the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, we will be setting up the Shurangama Platform, so it would be ideal if some of you bring forth the resolve to read the Shurangama Sutra every day for one or two hours. You can study it daily just as if you were studying in school, and memorize it so that you can recite it by heart. If you can recite the Shurangama Sutra, the Dharma Flower Sutra, and even the Avatamsaka Sutra from memory, that would be the very best. If someone is able to recite the Shurangama Sutra, the Dharma Flower Sutra, and the Avatamsaka Sutra from memory, then it will mean that this is still a time when the proper Dharma exists in the world. Therefore, in such a wonderful place as the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, everyone should bring forth a great Bodhi resolve to do these things.It is not that we are competing with others. We should be outstanding, rise above the crowd, and do these things.

　　我在以前有这么一个心愿，想要把《法华经》能背得出来，再能把《楞严经》也背得出来。在香港有位果一，就是恒定，他《楞严经》能背得出来，《法华经》我教他读，他最后大约没有完全背得出来，这是很遗憾的事情。我们这么好的地方，大家要发大心，把佛经和戒律、《楞严经》、《法华经》和《四分律》、《梵网经》都能背得出来，这是最好的，那我们这儿一定是正法久住了。

　　In the past, I had a wish: I wanted to be able to recite the Dharma Flower Sutra and the Shurangama Sutra from memory. In Hong Kong, there is a disciple named Guo Yi (Heng Ding) who can recite the Shurangama Sutra from memory. I taught him to study the Dharma Flower Sutra, but in the end he probably didn”t finish memorizing it, which is very regrettable. In such a fine place as we have here, everyone should bring forth a great resolve to study the Buddhist Sutras and precepts--the Shurangama Sutra, the Dharma Flower Sutra, the Vinaya in Four Divisions, and the Brahma Net Sutra--until he can recite it from memory. That would be the best, for then the proper Dharma would surely remain here for a long time.

《佛弟子应诵持《楞严经》Disciples of the Buddha Should Recite and Uphold the Shurangama Sutra》全文阅读结束。