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每天念佛十四萬聲是怎麼念的 - 第84集
How to achieve one-hundred-forty thousand recitations of Amitabha Buddha’s name every day?
「但念佛法門，同於密法，是他力門，屬於果教」。這一句阿彌陀佛是果，法藏比丘證得無上菩提，是佛的果號，我們用果作因。所以「行人發心念佛」，我們用追頂念佛的方法，一句接著一句。
“Only Pure Land Buddhism is a method of other-power like Esoteric Buddhism. It is a resulting teaching from Bhikṣu Dharmakara’s realisation of Buddhahood.” This single phrase of ‘Amituofo’ is a resulting name from Bhikṣu Dharmakara’s realisation of Supreme Enlightenment. We are now using the Bhiksu’s realisation as our causal practice. “Practitioners who resolve to practise Buddha Mindfulness…”. Let’s use the method of chanting Amitabha Buddha’s name unceasingly without interruptions.
黃念祖老居士往生之前半年，就是六個月，他告訴我，他一切放下了，一心專念阿彌陀佛，每天念佛十四萬聲。十四萬聲是怎麼念的？阿彌陀佛、阿彌陀佛、阿彌陀佛、阿彌陀佛，一個接著一個。
Six months prior to Upasaka Huang’s rebirth in the Pure Land, he told me that he had completely let go and had been single-mindedly concentrating on chanting Amitabha Buddha’s name; he chanted one-hundred-forty thousand Amitabha Buddha’s name every day. How did he achieve that? He achieved that by chanting ‘Amituofo, Amituofo, Amituofo, Amituofo.......' unceasingly without interruptions.
我做過實驗，十分鐘念一千聲，二十分鐘可以念兩千多聲，一個小時念六千聲佛號，十個小時六萬聲佛號，二十個小時十二萬聲佛號。如果再加得快一點，二十個小時夠了，二十個小時可以念到十四萬聲。老人休息的時間四個小時，二十四小時，四個小時睡眠夠了，其他時間都在念佛，拼命念佛。
I have experimented chanting one thousand Amitabha Buddha’s name in ten minutes, two thousand names in twenty minutes, six thousand names in one hour, sixty thousand names in ten hours and one-hundred-twenty thousand names in twenty hours. If we increase the speed of chanting slightly, we can recite one-hundred-forty thousand Amitabha Buddha’s name in twenty hours. For Upasaka Huang, four-hour sleep a day was enough. He used the remaining time to chant Amitabha Buddha’s name unceasingly.
需要這個樣子嗎？做給我們看的。二十個小時念十四萬聲，不能有妄想夾在裡頭，妄想進不去，沒有雜念、沒有妄想，半年往生。他也是在表法，表法給我們看的，真正要往生要這個幹法。
Did he need to engage in such an intensive practice? No, he need not do so; he was demonstrating this for us to see. By reciting one-hundred-forty thousand Amitabha Buddha’s name in twenty hours, there was no way for wandering and distracting thoughts to interfere. That’s why he was born in the Pure Land in six months. He was setting the example for us to see. We must emulate him if we really want to be reborn in the Pure Land.
- The name of Amitabha Buddha in a previous incarnation before his enlightenment. According to THE INFINITE LIFE SUTRA, in an earlier age at the time when Buddha Lokesvararaja 世自在王佛 was living in the world, there was a king who upon hearing the Buddhist teachings, arose the mind of enlightenment, abandoned his throne and became a monk. This was Bhiksu Dharmakara who was later called ‘Dharmakara Bodhisattva’. He continued to practise meditation for five kalpas after which he made the 48 vows and became the Buddha of Infinite Life, Amitabha.