Recite The Golden Light Sutra For World Peace(4/May/2007)
Anybody who wants peace in the world should read The Golden Light Sutra . This is a very important practice to stop violence and wars in the world. The Golden Light Sutra is one of the most beneficial ways to bring peace. This is something that everyone can do, no matter how busy you are, even if you can read one page a day, or a few lines and in this way continually read The Golden Light Sutra.
希求世界和平的人都應該誦《金光明經》。要止息世界上的暴力與戰爭,這是很重要的法門。《金光明經》是帶來和平最有利益的方式之一。這是每個人都能做的 事,不論你多忙,就算你一天只能讀一頁,或讀幾行,還是可以這樣持續讀誦《金光明經》。The holy Golden Light Sutra is the king of the sutras. It is extremely powerful and fulfills all one's wishes, as well as bringing peace and happiness for all sentient beings, up to enlightenment. It is also extremely powerful for world peace, for your own protection and for the protection of the country and the world. Also, it has great healing power for people in the country.
這神聖的《金光明經》是經中之王。它非 常有力量,能滿你所願,並帶給一切有情和平、喜悅,直至佛果。對世界和平、保護自己和國家、世界,同樣極具威力。 它有強大的療癒力。For anyone who desires peace for themselves and for others this is the spiritual, or Dharma, way to bring peace that doesn't require you to harm others, doesn't require you to criticize others or even to demonstrate against others, yet can accomplish peace. Anyone can read this text, Buddhists and even non-Buddhists who desire world peace.
對於希望自他都能獲得和平的人來說,這 是不需要傷害他人、批評他人或甚至向他人示威,就能以修行或佛法的方式帶來和平。任何希冀世界和平的佛教徒或非佛教 徒,都能持誦這部經。This also protects individuals and the country from what are labeled natural disasters of the wind element, fire element, earth element and water element, such as earthquakes, floods, cyclones, fires, tornadoes, etc. They are not natural because they come from causes and conditions that make dangers happen. They come from past inner negative thoughts and actions of people, and from external conditions.
它也能保護個人和國家免於地、水、火、 風四大方面的自然災害,例如地震、水災、火災、暴風、龍捲風等等。它們並不自然,因為它們來自於讓危險發生的因緣, 它們來自於人們過去內在的不善念和不善業、來自外在的緣。The benefits of reading this sutra are immeasurable: it is said in the texts that even compared to offering precious jewels as numberless as the amount of atoms of the Pacific Ocean to numberless buddhas, reciting just a few lines of The Sutra of Golden Light creates more merit than making these immeasurable offerings to the Buddha.
讀誦此經的利益不可思議:經中說,就算和供養等同太平洋中的原子數那樣多的無數珍寶給無量諸佛相比,僅僅持誦幾句《金光明經》所造的功德,比向佛陀獻無量 供養的功德還大。Reciting this Sutra directs one's life towards enlightenment. There is so much merit created by reciting this Sutra, everything is taken care of, one's life becomes so easy, whatever one wishes for one receives. This is because there is unbelievable purification and one collects extensive merits. This is how one liberates numberless sentient beings from the oceans of samsaric suffering and brings them to enlightenment.
讀誦此經將你的生命導向成佛。讀誦此經 造下如此多的功德,什麼都照顧到了,你的生活變得很平順,所求願滿。這是因為不可思議的淨業,和累積了廣大的功德。 如此,我們解脫無數有情脫離輪迴苦海,並帶領他們直至成佛。So here, I would like to make this request with my two palms together, to please recite the Sutra of Golden Light for world peace as much as you can.
所以,我在此合掌祈求,請盡量為世界和平多持誦《金光明經》。