84000新英譯佛典:《戒正具經》
23 Dec 2021
佛在舍衛城祇樹給孤獨園為僧眾開示「戒」之利益和護戒的重要。佛陀教導言,獲得人身、值遇佛法已是難事,更遑論是又能出家受戒並持守淨戒。人生必有一死,相較於失去一次生命,破戒之果更為嚴重,將於億萬來世中受報。世尊繼而以偈頌讚揚戒律,稱其為修持佛法、達至涅槃之必要基礎。經文最後,世尊以講述追逐短暫世間享樂之愚癡為此經文之總結。
Read more »
23 Dec 2021
佛在舍衛城祇樹給孤獨園為僧眾開示「戒」之利益和護戒的重要。佛陀教導言,獲得人身、值遇佛法已是難事,更遑論是又能出家受戒並持守淨戒。人生必有一死,相較於失去一次生命,破戒之果更為嚴重,將於億萬來世中受報。世尊繼而以偈頌讚揚戒律,稱其為修持佛法、達至涅槃之必要基礎。經文最後,世尊以講述追逐短暫世間享樂之愚癡為此經文之總結。
Read more »
16 Dec 2021
King Śreṇya Bimbisāra of Magadha approaches the Buddha and asks him how a past action can appear before the mind at the moment of death. The Buddha presents the analogy of a sleeping person who dreams of a beautiful woman and on waking foolishly longs to find her. He cites this as an example of how an action of the distant past, which has arisen from perception and subsequent afflictive emotions and then ceased, appears to the mind on the brink of death.
Read more »
16 Dec 2021
摩揭陀國的影勝王前來問佛,為何有情先所造業,臨命終時皆悉現前。佛告影勝王,譬如男子於睡夢中見一美女,醒來後仍癡癡戀慕不捨。有如此例,眾生眼見於色、起貪嗔癡而造作諸業,作已滅壞,至命終時意識將滅,所作之業皆悉現前。
Read more »
9 Dec 2021
佛陀在舍衛城為眾說法,爾時文殊師利菩薩持一寶蓋覆如來上。天人善勝在此會中,問文殊師利於此供養是否滿足。文殊師利答言,志求菩提者供養如來未曾厭足。善勝復問,應為何故供養如來,文殊答之以四事。
Read more »
9 Dec 2021
The bodhisattva Mañjuśrī approaches the Buddha, who is teaching the Dharma in Śrāvastī, and offers him the shade of a jeweled parasol. The god Susīma, who is in the audience, asks Mañjuśrī whether he is satisfied with his offering, to which Mañjuśrī replies that those who seek enlightenment should never be content with making offerings to the Buddha.
Read more »
2 Dec 2021
此經中, 文殊師利菩薩請教世尊,何等福德而能成就如來妙法螺音?世尊以類比倍增的方式說明此福德之廣大。假使四大洲一切眾生皆悉成就轉輪聖王之福德,三千大千世界一切眾生皆悉成就梵王之福德,盡虛空一切眾生皆悉成就菩薩之福德,後者之福聚無量倍於前者。
Read more »
2 Dec 2021
In The Question of Mañjuśrī, the bodhisattva Mañjuśrī approaches the Buddha and asks about the extent of the merit represented by the Buddha’s “Dharma conch,” which here seems to mean the Buddha’s voice. The Buddha proceeds to illustrate the vastness of this merit by means of a cosmic multiplication—sequentially compounding the merit of all beings in a certain realm if they each possessed the merit of a cakravartin, a brahmā god, a bodhisattva, and so forth, each having more merit than the previous one.
Read more »
25 Nov 2021
靈鷲山上,彌勒菩薩參見佛陀,請佛宣講說法之業果。佛陀答言,若有一人向諸佛作廣大無量的財物供養,而另一人僅講授一偈佛法,後者所獲福德遠遠勝於前者。
Read more »
25 Nov 2021
In this sūtra, the bodhisattva Maitreya approaches the Buddha on Vulture Peak Mountain and asks him to explain the karmic results of teaching the Dharma.
Read more »