听佛经 - 65 地藏菩萨本愿经浅释【利益存亡品第七】宣化上人 Venerable Master Hsuan Hua

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佛经 : 地藏菩萨本愿经浅释。
【利益存亡品第七】

Chinese AI Dubbing ｜ By Venerable Master Hsuan Hua .
Title: Sutra of the Past Vows of Earth Store Bodhisattva .
【Chapter 7 : Benefiting the Living and the Dead】
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现在眷属。利益无量。是故我今。对佛世尊。及天龙八部。人非人等。劝于阎浮提众生。临终之日。慎勿杀害。及造恶缘。拜祭鬼神。求诸魍魉。何以故。尔所杀害。乃至拜祭。无纤毫之力。利益亡人。但结罪缘。转增深重。假使来世。或现在生。得获圣分。生人天中。缘是临终。被诸眷属。造是恶因。亦令是命终人。殃累对辩。晚生善处。何况临命终人。在生未曾。有少善根。各据本业。自受恶趣。何忍眷属。更为增业。譬如有人。从远地来。绝粮三日。所负担物。强过百斤。忽遇邻人。更附少物。以是之故。转复困重。

Sutra:

“Their surviving relatives will also receive limitless benefits. Therefore, before the Buddhas, World Honored Ones, as well as before the gods, dragons, and the rest of the eightfold division, humans and non-humans, I now exhort beings of Jambudvipa to be careful to avoid harming, killing, and doing other unwholesome deeds; to refrain from worshipping ghosts and spirits or making sacrifices to them; and never to call on mountain sprites on the day of death.

"Why is that? Killing, harming, and making sacrifices do not even have a tiny hairbreath of power with which to benefit the deceased. Such acts only bind up the conditions of offenses so that they grow ever deeper and heavier. The deceased might have been due to increase his potential for sagehood or gain birth among humans or gods in his next life or in the future.

"But if his family commits offenses in his name, his good rebirth will be delayed. How much more would that be the case for people on the verge of death who during their lives had failed to plant even a few good roots. Each offender has to undergo the bad destinies according to his own karma. How could anyone bear to have relatives add to that karma? That would be like having a neighbor add s a few more things to a load of over a hundred pounds being carried by someone who had already traveled a long distance and who had not eaten for three days. If that extra weight were added, that person’s burden would become even more unbearable.

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