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於一念中所有行願皆得成就 - 第262集
All practices and vows are accomplished in one single thought.
「具足謂圓滿無餘」，樣樣圓滿。「《行願品》云：聞此願王」，十大願王，你明白了，你聽到了。《華嚴經．普賢行願品》，「讀」，讀是照著經本讀；「誦」，誦是背誦，念得很熟，都能記得了，就不必照經本；「書寫」，書寫的意思是流通。古時候沒有印刷術，流通要靠手抄，我能夠抄一本，這個世間就多一本，能抄兩本就多兩本，功德無量。
“Repleteness is completeness without excess.” The Chapter on the Great Vows of Samantabhadra states, “Anyone who hears these great vows (i.e., the Ten Great Vows), reads, recites and handwrites it” --- ‘read’ is reading from the sutra texts; ‘recite’ is you are very familiar with the sutra texts and can memorize them without needing to read from the texts; ‘handwrite’ means circulation. There was no printing in ancient times, so circulation of sutras depended on hand copying. If I could hand copy one copy, there would be one more book in this world; if I could hand copy two copies, then there would be extra two books. Hence, the merits accrued are infinite.
現在不必用手抄了，印刷術發達，成本很低，有錢就印經。我們一定是一門深入，長時薰修，一生一部經、一個註解、一句佛號，一直念下去，絕不改變。多少時間能成就？五年、六年就有小成就，十年、二十年就有大成就。
You need not copy by hand now because the printing technology is developed and the cost is very low. You can print sutras if you have money. We will definitely delve deeply into one subject and persevere with it for a long period of time by reciting and upholding only one sutra, one annotation, and one single phrase of Amitabha Buddha’s name all our life. We will never change this way of practice. How long will we take to succeed? We will have small achievement in five to six years, and great achievement in ten to twenty years.
「是諸人等，於一念中，所有行願皆得成就」，這是《行願品》上所說的，說得好，在一念當中所有行願皆得成就，我們看到一個榜樣，海賢老和尚。他的佛號不間斷，他念累了就到床上去睡一會，睡醒了接著再念，沒有第二個念頭，把菩薩這些大行大願全落實了，你在他生活當中看到，在工作上看到，在處事待人接物你處處都看到，難得！這麼一個好樣子。
The Chapter on the Great Vows of Samantabhadra puts it aptly, “All practices and vows are accomplished in one single thought.” We saw one such example i.e., Great Master Hai Xian. He never stopped chanting Amitabha Buddha’s name; he only went to bed to take a short nap whenever he felt tired and continued his recitation as soon as he woke up. Other than Amitabha Buddha’s name, he never had a second thought. You can see that he had fully implemented these great practices and great vows of the bodhisattvas in life, at work and when dealing with matters, people and things. It is rare to have such a great example!