黄女士赶走个喇嘛 Laywoman Huang puts paid to a Lama

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《唯一佛乘之净土的呼唤》，佛乘宗第三代法传人李善单居士著
第一部：净土的呼唤 － 大缘精舍里的故事：壹， 因缘一线

This story is excerpted from The Call of the Pureland in the Only Buddha Vehicle, by LI Shan Dan, the third Patriarch of the Buddha Vehicle Lineage, Part One: The Call of the Pure Land — a Story from inside the Great Conditions Temple: I. One Strand of Relationship

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…这次黄女士似乎也有那位教授「实修实证」的心呢？！
…This time Laywoman Huang also seemed to have the mind of “Real practice and real proof” of that (school) teacher!

本门佛乘宗讲的是实修实证，最摒除的就是文字里的搬弄！维摩诘经最后嘱累品里釈迦佛交持弥勒菩萨也说的很清楚－新学菩萨慧根浅短者最爱文字搬弄，而久修菩萨深具慧根这则以实证为一。

What our Buddha Vehicle lineage talks about is real practice and real proof, and what we most discard is exactly a show of words! In the conclusion of the Vamalakirti-Nivdesa Sutra, Shakyamuni Buddha in relating to Maitreya Bodhisattva spoke very clearly — novice Bodhisattvas of superficial roots most love a show of words, but long-practicing Bodhisattvas give first priority to real certification.

「李老师你一定要帮帮我！」 “Master Li, you certainly must help me!”

上个礼拜那位黄女士再度打电话来，是陈师兄接的。「她说已经念了实几万声九字禪，不知道师兄接不接电话?」

When Laywoman Huang called on the telephone last week, it was speaker Chen who took the call. “She says she already some 100,000 repetitions of the nine-word mantra, do you want to take the call?”

精舍里的人都知道，凡是来问世间法的就不要找找听，也不要安排见面。并不是不悲悯众生，而是让有信修行的人能更有时间与机会得益。何者才是真慈悲？

The temple personnel all know that in general, not to ask me to hear it, and not to arrange an interview, when someone asks about worldly affairs. It’s not that I’m not sympathetic to the masses, it’s just to give greater opportunities to allow practicing believers to benefit. What is the necessary condition for real compassion?

縱使是这样尽力挑选，在精舍安排的会面人员上还是会出现：打著「为人群服务」的名号，前来询问医院营运状况的院长，而且不能告诉别人来找过我；曾经到过「尼泊而修行并朝拜过中国四大佛教聖山」，出除世法外「顺便」问了问她那家连锁服饰业的业绩；甚至有远从南部来的出家众，问的却是出国发展好不好?

Although exhausting efforts to discriminate in this way, the temple personnel who arrange meetings have come across this: the caller, under the guise of “service to the people” first enquires about the operations manager of the hospital, and so cannot then ask people to go look for me. It has arrived that “Nepalese practice and ritual surpasses the four great holy mountains of China.” And, quite apart from her mentioning in passing the outstanding achievements of her clothing business chain, it got to the point of a whole tribe of left-home people from down south, and their question was whether it is OK for left-home people to go into business?

人间世，烦恼多少？不明根本，顛沛怎了？

How many agonies are there among the people in the world? If the roots aren’t clear, what can it mean to be ruined? ((The first two roots of this are what has been mistranslated as “Humanistic” in “Humanistic Buddhism” -xp))

「大自在王佛－！」接上了电话，听得那端黄女士出声道：「李老师你一定要帮帮我！」

“Great Independence King Buddha!” When I took the phone call that time, I heard Laywoman Huang say: “Master Li, you certainly must help me!”

「是什么事？」我问。

“What is the matter?” I asked.

原来黄女士的姑妈肺部有问题住了院好久，后来要求黄女士前往持咒灌气加持她！结果，她姑妈是好了点，黄女士可惨了，两、三个月来身体越来月差，五脏六腑的疼痛由前胸到了后背。

Originally Laywoman Huang’s aunt had a problem with her lungs which caused her to stay in the hospital a long time, and afterwards she requested Laywoman Huang to assist her by using mantra to pour vital energy. The result was that the aunt got a little bit better, but sadly Laywoman Huang’s physical condition continued to deteriorate for two or three months, and she had pain in her five organs and six bowels from her chest to her back.

「没办法啊，人家再三拜托。」

“There’s no way, I am begging you for the second and third times.”

「拜托妳就去了？」

“If I beg you, will you go away?”

「情你一定要帮我啊！」黄女士在电话那头说着：「我实在找不到人可以就我了。」

“Please, you must help me.” Laywoman Huang on the telephone said at that point: “I really can’t find anybody to save me.”

「妳以前在那学过？」

“Where did you study before?”

「是某某精舍，跟那里的喇嘛师父学－－。」

“At a certain temple, I studied with a lama there…”

「那又为什么不找他们帮妳呢?」

“In that case, why don’t you ask them to help you?

「有啊！他们骂了我以顿，」黄女士颤着声音急促说道：「但是他们帮不了我，后来就不管我了。」她紧接著相当著急，但她相当诚恳的接道：「情你一定要救我，已经没有人可以帮我了。」

“I did! They just cursed me,” Laywoman Huang said urgently with a shaking voice: “but they didn’t help me at all, and afterwards, they just didn’t care about me anymore.” She was seriously and appropriately worried, but then with befitting hearty energy said: “Please, you certainly must save me, there already is no one who can help me.”

我忍不住摇头道：「那妳又如何知道我可以帮妳？」

I couldn’t stand it anymore, so I shook my head, and said: “Then how did you know that I could help you?”

「我看了那篇报导，」她回答：「我想信你可以－－李老师你什么时候有空告诉我，我就过去。」

“I saw that article in the newspaper,” she answered: “I believed that you could — Master Li, whenever you have time, tell me, and I’ll come over.”

差不多了把？我想。在刚刚的交谈中事实上「声陀羅尼」已经在她起忏悔心之际消了不少业力。

Probably not far off the mark? I thought. In reality, in that chat that just happened, the “sound dharani” already anihilated much of the force of karma, in that she raised the mind of repentance.

((Originally she had called up saying that she had problems, but she wanted to repeat the mantra 100,000 times before asking for help. But the practice itself couldn’t come to fruition until she felt sorry for whatever else went on with that lama. Hence Master Li’s attitude. The bad students for the bad teachers! -xp))

「现在妳左手拿电话坐正，心中默念就字禅－－。」

“Right now sit up straight holding the telephone in your left hand , and silently repeat the nine-word mantra…”

「你要做加持？」黄女士疑感道：「我人不用过去？」

“Do you want to assist? Laywoman Huang said doubtfully: “Shouldn’t I come over?”

「不用，现在做好就好！」三分钟后，我透过电话：「怎样的感觉？」

“No need, It will be all right to do it now!” three minutes later, I called over the telephone: “How do you feel now?”

「很好，业力已全都消除了，你放心吧！」

“Very well. The karmic energy is already completely eliminated, rest assured!

在电话挂断前我再三的叮嚀：「记住，念九字禪不能断，明天起床就好了！」

Before hanging up the phone, I drove it home three times: “Remember, you can’t interrupt the nine-word mantra, tomorrow when you get up in the morning, you will be better!

九字禪「南无本师大自在王佛」是法界一切佛号、陀羅尼、经书之根本总持，具足一切不可思议诸佛共願之加持力，是十方法界众生证入佛果的法性本体啊！

The nine-syllable mantra “Namo Ben Shi Da Zi Zai Wang Fo” fundamentally takes hold of all the Buddha-names, dharani, and sutras in the Dharma Realm, and the total empowerment by the inconcievable collective vows of all the Buddhas, and it is the Dharma-nature’s basic reality by which the sentient beings in the Dharma Realm of the ten directions confirm entrance into the fruition of Buddhahood.

((Li Shan Dan has written elsewhere that he doesn’t care whether you take this or the name of Amitabha Buddha, which is equally all of the above, in my experience. Pure Land practitioners should never go to another mantra. We should consider this entire school as just one vast and on-going commentary on our pre-existing practice -xp))

隔天，精舍打电话到我的住处，说：「黄女士的儿子刚刚拿了功德金来。他说他妈妈完全好了，实在不可思议。又说他父亲也认为这几乎是不可能的事。最后还说，在我们下一期开课母亲要报名来学－－。」

The next day, the temple placed a telephone call to my home, and said: “Laywoman Huangs’s son just now came with a monetary contribution. He says that his mama is all better, and it’s really inconcievable. He also says his father recognizes that this is almost an impossible affair. And finally he says that the next time classes start, his mother wants to apply to study…”

赓续慧命不断，人生莫有大乐胜此！

There is no greater joy in human life than to continue one’s wisdom destiny without letup! ((Especially having been bagged on by lamas! -xp))

「类似这种事情我们遭遇过相当多。」上课时我不只一次的感触说著，「在这世界上，不，就单单台湾吧，想修行学佛的人实在很多，但是却几乎都不得其门而入－－。」

“We encounter plenty of these kinds of affairs.” In classes I have said more than once with feeling “In this world, never, but probably just in Taiwan, are there actually a lot of people wanting to practice Buddhism, but practically none of them find their (lineage) Gate.

更令人感叹的是，有许多的人修行遇上了关卡没法突破，往往一幌眼就是五年、十年甚至二、三十年的时间过去。这简真是断人慧命！

What makes you sigh deeply even more is that there are many people who in their practice arrive at a crunch that they can’t break through, and before you know it in the blink of an eye, five years, or even ten, twenty, or thirty years have passed by. This really and simply cuts off people’s wisdom destiny.

((Tell me about it. It is no different in America. The problem with Zen is that the Asian tradition is clueless about how the crunches arrive, let alone how they present, in the American context. This is why we need broad Mahayana Buddhism in America. We need the mental flexibility, the humor, and yes, the pure blind stupid persistance in the face of anything at all, that is the mark of mainstream Mahayana -xp))

比这点还糟糕的情况是，当修行者的身心出了问题，在束手无策之下往往叫他自生自灭。惨！

And the situation that is even more disasterous than this point is that if physical and mental problems arise right in the midst of practice, in the hands of the utterly planless, they are often left to their own devices.

((Bingo, again, Dharmo Dude nui loa! Taiwan isn’t the only place afflicted with bottom-feeding lamas. In fact, they prefer America, because it’s easier to evade actual Buddhists who are up to their deviltry here. -xp))

「为什么一开始修行时不会找到真正的大乘法之处呢？」我经常感慨的问那些前来求助的同修。

“Why can’t you find an orthodox Mahayana place when you first start to practice?” I often asked with strong feeling to the first fellow practitioners who came asking for help.

「我根本不知道那里好、那里不好啊！」他们几乎都有相同的回答：「我们在当时也没有办法判断－－。」

“I just basically don’t know which place is good, and which is not good!” They almost all had the same answer: “At that time we just had no way to discriminate…”

这真是可悲的一面，是因为现在人类的福慧都太浅断，还是因为贪瞋痴太重以至於修行的心迷失而累出问题？

The really pitiable aspect in this is that, is it because mankind’s merit and wisdom are too insubstantial, and also that greed hatred, and stupidity are so heavy that the intention to practice itself is lost, causing piled-up problems?

「名闻利养，好为人师；断人慧命，落无间狱 .」

The cultivation of name and fame easily guides men; but cutting off the wisdom destiny of the people , one falls into the spaceless hell.

这十六个字可能让许多人在命终之后后悔不已吧！

These sixteen words can make many people have endless regret after the end of their life!

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