Disclaimer: My translations are not official nor endorsed by 2OR, so please just treat it as a ‘fan-based’ translation based on my understanding of his teachings. The Buddha-Dharma is profound. No matter how you convey it, it won’t be completely perfect. Because the Buddha-Dharma is an experience, it’s an awakening 【佛法深奥无比，怎么写，都不会是究竟圆满。佛法是一种悟】. I am not an enlightened being like Master Lu, but I will treat his teachings with my utmost respect and do my best to convey and translate it to the best of my (limited) abilities for my friends and people who can’t read Chinese. Please enjoy, and I hope it serves as a good filler until the official English version comes out.
台长今天跟大家讲一讲《礼佛大忏悔文》的作用。念《礼佛大忏悔文》效果为什么这么好？还有人问台长，为什么十小咒里面还有几个经文台长没有教我们念？你们猜猜看为什么？这是因为观世音菩萨没告诉台长，台长就不敢教你们。过去台长没有教你们《礼佛大忏悔文》，现在菩萨叫台长教你们《礼佛大忏悔文》，所以台长就开始教你们念，你们念了灵不灵啊？《礼佛大忏悔文》的力量非常强大。
What’s the post about? (Post Description)0/320Today, Master will talk about the effect of ‘Eighty-eight Buddhas Great Repentance’ and why is it good? Some people ask Master why does he not teach us to recite the other mantras in the ‘ten short mantras’, why don’t you take a guess? It’s because Guan Yin Bodhisattva didn’t tell Master to do so, that’s why he doesn’tToday, Master will talk about the effect of ‘Eighty-eight Buddhas Great Repentance’ and why is it good? Some people ask Master why does he not teach us to recite the other mantras in the ‘ten short mantras’, why don’t you take a guess? It’s because Guan Yin Bodhisattva didn’t tell Master to do so, that’s why he doesn’t day, Master will talk about the effect of ‘Eighty-eight Buddhas Great Repentance’ and why is it good? Some people ask Master why does he not teach us to recite the other mantras in the ‘ten short mantras’, why don’t you take a guess? It’s because Guan Yin Bodhisattva didn’t tell Master to do so, that’s why he doesn’t dare to teach you. In the past, Master didn’t teach you to recite the ‘Eighty-eight Buddhas Great Repentance’, but now the Bodhisattvas told him to do, that’s why he’s teaching it. After you recite it, isn’t it efficacious? The power of ‘Eighty-eight Buddhas Great Repentance’ is very great.
很多人问，念《礼佛大忏悔文》有什么好处？台长给大家举个例子。比如说，我今天偷了人家的一样东西，这是不是做坏事了，做坏事后，在人的心灵中、在人的脑子里就会形成一团黑气，偷东西可能是一小团黑气，如果是杀了一条狗或者一个人，就会形成一团黑雾。黑雾上了你的身体后，鬼魂可以随时随地进入你的身体，因为黑雾是在身上存有鬼魂阴气的地方。每做一件坏事，就会有一团黑气进入人的身体。台长看图腾的时候，经常看见很多人身上都是黑气，说明这个人做了很多坏事，包括前世做的坏事。黑气越多的人，身体越不好。
Many people ask, what are the benefits of reciting ‘Eighty-eight Buddhas Great Repentance’? Master will give an illustration, for example, today you have stolen something from somebody, isn’t this an unwholesome deed? After you commit an unwholesome deed, a dark aura will form within your spirit and your mind. When you steal something, maybe it will form a lesser dark aura. If you killed a dog or a person, it would form a greater dark aura, when this dark aura is formed around your body, ghosts can easily enter into your body. That’s because this aura is of the same yin nature as ghosts and other spiritual entities. Every time you commit an unwholesome deed, small amounts of dark aura will enter into the body. When Master reads other people’s Totems, he regularly sees people filled with a dark aura, which indicates that the person has done many unwholesome deeds, which also includes the unwholesome deeds done in their previous lifetime. The more dark aura a person has, the worse their health condition is.
大家知道，火药不是黑的吗，就拿火药比喻孽障，火药在身体上积存得越多，等到积存得满了，就是坏事做得很多了，好了，受报的时候就来了。到了这个时候，孽障被激活成灵性，整个身体就会爆炸，等于某人一查出来就是癌症，要不就是被汽车撞死，或者被人家杀死，或者是家里倒大霉，反正是什么事情都来了。台长现在看了很多图腾，没有看见几个听众身上很干净的。你们听过台长的节目吗？当台长看见某个人身上很亮时，台长会很惊奇。这说明现在的人身上有很多孽障，人的坏脑筋动得太多了，整天就只知道怎样来弄人家，来赚人家的钱，来占人家便宜，不知道布施，不知道对人家好一点，这是最大的问题。所以，前世和今世的孽障就会像火药一样储存在身体里。比如十几岁时做了几件坏事，应该到了五十多岁时报应来了，例如腰背酸痛，这就是我们常说的更年期到了。
Everybody knows that gunpowder is black right, so let’s use gunpowder to illustrate karmic obstructions. The more gunpowder that’s accumulated and covering on one’s body, (which indicates the person has done many unwholesome deeds), then when karmic retribution occurs, it will trigger the body to explode. In other words, this person might be diagnosed with cancer, or the might die in a car accident, or be killed, or suffer from series of misfortune, anyhow they will encounter many unpleasant things. Master has read many Totems now, and not a single person is very pure. Have you listened to Master’s radio programmes before? When Master sees a person whose aura is very bright, Master would be very surprised.
更年期实际上就是一个报应期，一般在45岁到55岁这一段时间，事业、身体等都开始走下坡路。当一个人的火药积得越来越多，只要有一个灵性上身，最大的灵性就是黑白无常，一看你全是黑的，你的阳寿到了，这两个灵性上来，一点火药，你就爆炸了。台长要你们念《礼佛大忏悔文》，就是为了帮你们消掉你们身上一块一块的黑气，就是要把火药给抹掉。要记住，你们把火药抹掉得越多，就算晚年还有一点点火药，点一下，也是很轻的，也能过关的。如果你们身上的火药太多，一点火，全身会炸得粉碎。人间的道理就是这样的。台长有时看你们身上全部是黑的，只有叫你们念《礼佛大忏悔文》。
Menopause is also a kind of scheduled retribution period. It’s because typically between the age of 45 to 55, one’s career and health condition start to decline. When a person is mainly covered in gunpowder, all it takes is one foreign spirit to enter into their body (where the greatest spirit is Black and White Impermanence”, when they see you completely black, and your lifespan is almost up, when they ignite the gunpowder, you’ll blow up. Master wants you to recite ‘Eighty-eight Buddhas Great Repentance’ because it can help you eliminate large patches of dark aura, which is like wiping the gunpowder off of you. Take note, the more gunpowder that you clean off, even if when you’re older, and there’s still a bit of gunpowder on you, if it’s ignited, it’s not severe, and you may pass the tribulation. If there’s still a lot of gunpowder on you, when it’s ignited, then you’ll completely blow up. The principle is like that. When Master sees that your whole body is black, he could only advise you to recite ‘Eighty-eight Buddhas Great Repentance’.
念《礼佛大忏悔文》的时候，一定要讲，“请大慈大悲观世音菩萨保佑我XXX消除我肝上的孽障”，或者消除我肺上的孽障，或者消除我腰上的孽障。如果仅仅说消除我身上的孽障速度慢，而且是很难消除的，你们身上已经有这么多的孽障了，如果不指明具体部位，你说这么点药贴在哪里啊。比如说，你从楼上摔下来了，浑身都是摔伤，拿一块膏药，你说贴在哪里啊。你们念《礼佛大忏悔文》的时候，盯着一个地方先念，一块一块地消黑气，这就是为什么现在这么多的听众打电话进来，他们很聪明，很会问，第一个问题就是，“卢台长，我的孽障多不多？”“很多。”“卢台长，您能告诉我在什么部位吗？”台长就告诉他们什么部位。他们就有针对性地念《礼佛大忏悔文》，一个一个部位地消除孽障。另外一个问题为什么一个地方本来不痛的，消到后来这个地方会痛呢？那就是孽障提早激活了。例如等到肝部的孽障在消的时候，就相当于医生给病人治病，病人肯定会痛的嘛，就像剩余的一点火药一爆，就没有了。你这个地方就干净了，你晚年时肝脏就保住了。道理就是这样的。
When reciting ‘Eighty-eight Buddhas Great Repentance’, you must say, “O’ Greatly Merciful and Greatly Compassionate Guan Yin Bodhisattva, please bless me <your name> and help me eliminate the negative karma in my liver.” Or you could say eliminate the negative karma in my lungs or eliminate the negative karma in my lower back. If you simply say to eliminate the negative karma in my body, the recovery speed will be slow, and it would be difficult to eliminate. That’s because your body has so many negative karma that if you don’t be specific, then would should you clean first? For example, you tripped over the stairs, and you have cut all over, you take out plaster, where should you stick it on first? When reciting ‘Eighty-eight Buddhas Great Repentance’, first focus on a specific area and gradually eliminate the negative karma in it. Many callers are quite clever now when they call in; their first question is to ask him, “Master, do I have a lot of negative karma?” “Yes.” “Master, can you tell me which area of my body it mainly resides?” Then Master tells the caller the area then they would focus on that area when reciting ‘Eighty-eight Buddhas Great Repentance’ and gradually eliminate the negative karma there. Another issue is why does an area hurt while eliminating the negative karma there when originally it doesn’t hurt? It’s because the negative karma there is ignited prematurely. It’s like when the doctors start treating their patient’s illness; the patient would feel pain. It’s like when you ignite a small patch of gunpowder, after it’s ignited and blown up, it disappears. Then the area is clean again, and when you the person is old, their lungs would remain okay. The principle is like that.
最近，加拿大有一位听众打电话预约台长，告诉台长，十小咒里的经文他全部念。台长跟他讲，你什么药都去吃好了，看你哪个病会好，就像一个人去了中药店，什么药都去抓一样。要记住，药的成分和用药剂量什么药治什么病，《礼佛大忏悔文》就是专门消孽障的，和消灵性。就是说，当你在念《礼佛大忏悔文》时，这个经文已经可以治愈黑气的时候，而孽障就会提早爆发出来。比如说，今天我不当心，偷了一件东西，一念《礼佛大忏悔文》，这块黑气就没了，也不痛，好了，结束了。如果这个人杀了一个人，仅仅念《礼佛大忏悔文》，就不能解决问题，因为这样的孽障太大了。提早激活的孽障都是没有力量的。比如说，一个孩子不到足月就早产了，这孩子会有力量吗？这样提早激活的孽障需要赶紧念小房子，所念小房子的数量比报应期到来时所需要小房子的数量要少很多。等到报应期来的时候，有时念很多的小房子也不一定能够消灾。这就是为什么病要早看。台长给你们讲的道理，全部是人间佛学行得通的道理。
Recently, a caller from Canada told Master that he had recited all the ten short mantras. Master then explained to him, “If you’re taking all medicines, which of your sickness will get better? Just like going into a pharmacy and taking all the drugs there.” Take note; it’s important to take into consideration the composition and dosage of the medicine. Each specific medicine treats a specific illness. ‘Eighty-eight Buddhas Great Repentance’ is specialised in eliminating negative karma and motivating foreign spirits to leave. In other words, when you are reciting Great Repentance, this sutra is working on treating the dark aura, and the negative karma will trigger prematurely. For example, you have accidentally stolen something. When you recite Great Repentance, this patch of dark aura will be removed, and you won’t feel pain, it’s disappeared. If you killed somebody, then simply reciting Great Repentance won’t resolve the issue, because the negative karma attributed to it is too great. Even if you prematurely ignite it, there won’t be any energy to it. For example, if a child was born prematurely, would this child have enough energy? This kind of premature ignition requires you to hurry and recite Little Houses. That’s why the requirement of Little Houses are significantly lesser compared to the LH required when the time of karmic retribution has come. When karmic retribution has manifested, even if you recite a lot of LH, it may not eliminate the calamity completely. That is why one must treat their sickness much earlier on.
有些人的黑气很浓，有些人的黑气很淡。台长还看见有些人的黑气像乌云滚滚一样，一问，生癌症了。台长看到的就是这么清楚。你们现在打得进电话，一定要珍惜。如果念《礼佛大忏悔文》到一定时候，那个部位痛了，就是那个部位的孽障激活了，激活是一件好事情。孽障激活后，再念几张小房子，这个孽障就能够消掉了。就是说在这个（果子）、这个孽障还没有成熟之前，赶紧把它灭掉。就像长了子宫肌瘤，刚出来就把它割掉，是不是比它长大了再去割掉容易呢。道理是一样的。
Some people have a high concentration of dark aura while some people have less. Master sees some people are covered in a thick fog of dark aura and when he asks, the person replied that they have cancer. Master can see it very clearly. If your call could successfully get through to Master, you must cherish the opportunity. After you have recited Great Repentance for a certain amount of time, that area will begin to hurt; it means the negative karma had been triggered, that is a good thing. Once it has been triggered, you must recite some Little Houses; then it can be eliminated. In other words, before the karmic consequence (the fruit) has fully matured, you must hurry and cease it from developing any further. Just like uterine fibroids, if you hurry and remove it, isn’t it easier than when it has grown bigger later? That’s the principle.
台长看见很多人脖子上长了瘤，大得头都不能动，睡觉时头也不能够偏过去。济公菩萨当年在人间的时候，看到很多人有这种病，他用手一指，这个人的病就没了。这就是菩萨在救人。台长现在教你们自己救自己，台长一个人救你们大家，忙不过来，太累了。你们自己种的因，你们自己去接收这个果。你们把不好的因改掉，你们的果也会好。如果让台长把你们的因动了，不就叫动人因果吗？所以台长把这个方法教给你们，台长不给你们西瓜，而是教你们种西瓜的方法，比如，怎样选种子，怎样选土壤，怎样施肥等。你们种出来的西瓜是你们自己的，如果台长直接抱着西瓜送给你们，台长自己就出毛病了。
Master saw many people had developed a tumour in their neck, it’s so big that they can’t move their heads, and when they sleep, it’s very uncomfortable for them. When Ji Gong Bodhisattva was in the human realm and people with this kind of illness, he would cure it with a touch of his finger. That’s how a Bodhisattva save others. Master is now teaching you how to save yourself. If Master has to save others personally, it would be too tiring for him. You must be responsible for the karmic causes that you have sowed. If you change the unwholesome karmic causes, then our consequences would be good. If Master changes your karmic causes, then doesn’t it mean he has interfered with your karma? That’s why Master is teaching you instead, Master will not give you melons but teach you how to grow melons instead. Like how to choose the right soil, how to apply fertilisers etc. What you grow belongs to you, If Master directly sends you a melon, then Master would be negatively affected.
在礼佛大忏悔文里，有很多菩萨的名字。你们知道天上有多少菩萨吗？很多人很好奇，想知道天上是什么样子的？地府是什么样子的？今天来了一位听众，告诉台长，“卢台长，我到地府去过了，地府还有现代化设备。”你们听了觉得好玩吧？什么现代化，像人间现在这些现代化的东西，下面早就有了，比如，电脑，在地府就是一束光束，随便用手碰碰，图像就出来了，脑子里一想，就会出现你所需要的东西，根本用不着打键盘等。曾经有一位听众，是搞电脑很有名的，他打进电话问台长，“卢台长，为什么我们在数据库里找一个人的资料要花这么多的时间，而你一抬头什么都能看见啊？”台长告诉他，不要着急，台长马上告诉你，你现在脑子里想一想你在中国家里的亲人，家里的情况，不就是一秒钟的功夫就想到了吗？这就叫信息。台长靠的就是这种信息。其实这种功能，你们每个人都该有的，只不过是被那些累世孽障的脏东西遮盖住了，比如财、名、利、色等。
In the Great Repentance, there are many names of Bodhisattvas. Do you know how many Bodhisattvas are there in heaven? Many people are curious, do you want to know what heaven is like? And what the underworld is like? Today, there was a listener who told Master, “Master, I went to the underworld before; it also has many modern types of equipment.” Do you think it sounds like fun? Everything is modernised, just like how the human realm has undergone modernisation, the underworld had been modernised well before the human realm did. For example, in place of computers, the underworld is using a kind of light beam. Images will come up by make a few hand gestures, when the thing that you want to see appears from an intent, there’s no need to open computer files. Before, there was a caller who was quite renowned for fixing computers. He called in and asked, “Master, why does it take a long time for us to look for a single person from so many recorded files, while you can see by just lifting your head?” Master replied, “If you think about your family who lives in China and their living condition, doesn’t the image appear in a second?” That’s information, and Master depends on this kind of information. In reality, everybody possesses this kind of ability. It’s just that it has been completely covered up by the negative karma and defilements that had been accumulated of countless lifetimes, for example, money, fame, wealth, lust etc.
《礼佛大忏悔文》里的所有这些菩萨都是管我们在人间犯罪之后应该让天上知道的各部门的菩萨。很多时候，我们种下了因还不知道，把这么多的菩萨全部念一遍之后，让菩萨原谅我们的罪业，好好忏悔自己过去生中的罪孽。谁没有做过错事？台长给大家讲，一个人在生活中做过错事没有关系，但是一定要诚心地改正。人要学会说“对不起”。人真要说了“对不起”这三个字后，境界就是提高了。
All the Bodhisattvas in the ‘Eighty-eight Buddhas Great Repentance’ manage all the people who commit crimes in the human realm; they are like heads of different departments in heaven. There are many times where we are ignorant of the karmic causes we had sowed, when we recite so many of the Bodhisattvas once, the Bodhisattvas may forgive us for our sins and help properly repent all the unwholesome deeds we had committed in the past of the present life and previous life. Who hasn’t committed any wrong deeds before? Master tells you all, it doesn’t matter if a person has done something wrong in their everyday lives, but they must be sincere in wanting to reform. A person must learn to say, “I’m sorry.” When a person can apologise, their level of spirituality ascends.
不知道改悔的人，很容易被人看不起。人身上的孽障、黑气越少，眼睛就越亮。筋脉不通，就是因为气场不好。念经就是为了消掉我们身上的孽障。做人要有良心。当一个人孽障越多时，首先坏掉的是心脏。心脏病爆发的人，是孽障病比较深的人，因为气不过，想不通，很恨某个人所致。一个人结善缘、结恶缘都是看自己的，做错事了，要有人的道德，就是要说“对不起”，知错就改。同样不知悔悟就会气场不好，灵性容易上身。一个人活在这个世界上，要学会观察，《礼佛大忏悔文》念得越多，心里越来越平静，越来越开心。经文念到后来就是声波光束，就是和菩萨接通了。
People who don’t reform are susceptible to being scorned by others. The less karmic obstructions and dark aura that a person has, the clearer their eyes appear. One’s energy passages are blocked because their aura is bad. The reason for reciting sutras is to eliminate one’s negative karma. We must possess a good conscience. When a person’s negative karma increases, the first area that becomes worse is their heart. People who suffer from heart attacks are people whose karmic sickness is quite severe. It’s because their energy is blocked which induces their thoughts to become blocked, just like when somebody hates a person very badly. When a person forms a wholesome or unwholesome affinity with others, it’s all determined by the person. When one has made a mistake, one must show moral integrity and say, “I’m sorry,” and willing to make amends and reforms. At the same time, those who don’t repent have a bad aura, and they are susceptible to foreign spirits. One must learn to be observant; the more one recites ‘Eighty-eight Buddhas Great Repentance’, their mind becomes calmer and becomes happier. When one recites up to a certain stage, their voice is like light and connects with the Bodhisattvas.
如果你们家里有人不相信，就拿这张纸（信佛劝导升文）填上他的姓名和出生年月日，然后放在观世音菩萨的佛台边上，跪着念七遍《心经》。时间一长，你们看看这个人会不会信佛，这个效果比你们平时在家里给他念《心经》要好很多。这个有一点法力。刚开始的时候不要用这个。如果你先生有点相信了，又不是太相信，这个时候就直接每天念三遍或者七遍《心经》给他，祈求大慈大悲观世音菩萨保佑你先生开启智慧，能够相信观世音菩萨。但是有些先生呢，脾气倔强，嘴巴乱讲，或者你觉得对你的修心有影响了，这个时候就用这个劝导升文。这个不是惩罚他，也不是对他不好，就是用一点法力来让他相信。这个法力实际上就是护法神的力量。这个升文不要烧，每天念完后收起来，再念时再拿出来。
If you have somebody in your family who doesn’t believe, then take an ‘Application for convincing family members’ and fill in their name and date of birth. Afterwards, place it next to Guan Yin Bodhisattva’s altar, kneel and recite the Heart Sutra 7 times. After some time, have a check whether the person starts to believe in Buddhism. This effect is greater than when you normally recite the Heart Sutra to the person at home, plus also there are a few special powers too. At the start, there’s no need to do it. If, for example, your husband believes in a bit but not too much, at this moment, you can recite the Heart Sutra 3-7 times to him daily, and pray to the Greatly Merciful and Greatly Compassionate Guan Yin Bodhisattva to bless your husband and develop his wisdom and faith in Guan Yin Bodhisattva. But some husbands are extremely stubborn and carelessly talk and slander. Or if you think that they are starting to affect your cultivation of the mind, at this moment, you can use the ‘Application for convincing family members’. This is not a form of punishment, nor are you harming them, you are just using a few special powers to make him believe. This special power, in reality, comes from the power of the Dharma protectors. Don’t burn the ‘Application for convincing family members’, every time you finish reciting you can put it away. When you want to recite to make your relative believe, then you can take it out.
现在很多家庭一个人念经，全家都好。但是如果有一个人不相信，嘴巴胡说八道，这个家就好不了。举个例子，一锅白粥干干净净，如果滴一点黑东西里面，一锅粥就全部坏掉了。最好的办法就是先帮助他念，如果这个人实在不听的话，你再用这个方法。很多人问，这样做会不会伤害对方的身体，不会的，但是他会有一点压力。这个压力来自于，如果他坏话说得太多的话，他的报应就大。念经让他相信就是给他一点转念力，或者是让他看到一些东西，把他的脑子里的灵魂念力给拧转过来，或者给他一种强烈的信息。
Many families improved due to one family member reciting. But if there’s a single who don’t believe and slander and defame, their whole family would be negatively affected. I’ll illustrate this with an example; there’s a bowl of porridge that’s very clean. If a single drop of black ink had contaminated it, then the whole bowl of porridge is contaminated and must be thrown away. The best method is first to help them recite, if this person is unwilling to listen, then you could use this method (Application for convincing family members). Many people ask if you do this, would the person get hurt? No, they won’t, but they will feel a kind of pressure. The pressure comes from when they commit too many verbal misconducts, and they experience greater retribution. When you recite sutras to make them believe, it’s to transform their thoughts and intentions, or make them see some things, or to give them a strong signal.
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