一體之懺悔 林鈺堂 簡繁轉換 - 繁體
近年以來，全球種種有情飽受新冠病毒疫情、地球暖化及氣候不規則劇變之影響，以及隨之而來的生命喪失、行動受限、經濟蕭條等種種身心之苦。從佛法看來，這是共業深重所導致；欲思挽救，宜多修習懺悔之法，以期業報減緩轉善。 修懺悔之佛法，並不是自以為清淨，並視其餘為罪業深重，而來幫助。佛法在根本上是基於「在直接經驗中本無界限」的體驗，因此了悟「法界一切都是本來無從分割的一體」。因此，所有世間苦難，不論個體有否覺知，都是一一有情分擔的業報，而修習任何佛法，其消業、培福、開慧之功德，都是個個眾生有份的。有這樣不為自我心態所限的了悟，修法纔會產生真正不可思議的功效。 修懺悔的佛法，最簡單的是「持名」——不斷持念一個佛號或佛咒。還有修「拜懺」，就是依照懺悔儀軌，念誦及禮拜（參閱：〈佛說三十五佛名禮懺文〉）。密法裡主要是修〈金剛薩埵百字明法〉（參閱：〈金剛薩埵淨障修法簡軌〉；行者可將此軌中持念之〈金剛薩埵心咒〉以〈百字明〉取代）。
二○二一年六月十九日
Repentance in Oneness Yutang Lin
In recent years all sorts of sentient beings on Earth are fully impacted by Covid-19 pandemic, global warming and irregular and drastic climate changes, and the consequential suffering and hardship due to loss of lives, limitation of activities, downfall of economic conditions, etc. From the Dharma point of view, all these are consequences of heavy and negative public karma as accumulated by sentient beings on Earth, and the way to redeem lies in practicing repentance according to Dharma teachings so as to hope for lessening of and turning toward improvement of consequences of public karma. Practicing repentance in Dharma does not assume that the practitioner is pure, and the rest are sinful, and that the practitioner is granting help. Fundamentally, Dharma is based on the realization that ″there is originally no boundaries in direct experiences″, and hence ″all in Dharmadhatu are originally in indivisible oneness″ is comprehended. Therefore, all suffering and hardship in the world, whether they are awared of or not by a sentient being, are karmic consequences shared by each and every sentient being, while engaging in any Dharma practice, the resulting merits for reducing bad karma, cultivating good karma, and maturing wisdom, are shared naturally by each and every sentient being. Only with such comprehension, not confined by personal mental attitudes and views, can genuine and inconceivable effects come about. For repentance, the simplest Dharma practice is ″repetition″ of a holy epithet or mantra. There is also ″repentance prostration″, namely, to recite and prostrate according to a repentance ritual (Ref.: Thirty-five Buddhas Repentance Ritual). In Tantric Dharma the main practice is the ″Vajrasattva Hundred-syllable Mantra Practice″ (Ref.: Hundred Syllable Mantra, III. C in The Foundational Practices of Vajrayana).
Written in Chinese and translated into English on June 19, 2021 [Home][Back to list] |