Preface 前言
Guru Padmasambhava | 2023-03-21 | Download | AI assisted translation
| 前言 |
Preface |
| 本文根据《中有教授听闻解脱密法》（以下简称《中有》）孙景风居士译本整理。因现行流通的念诵版本多加有现代解释文作念诵，而《中有》原文提到：“中有之身，六根具足，且有业通，聪明灵利，九倍于生前”，所以行法者无需担心亡者无法听懂指引。故本次整理，重点在于全部采用原文念诵。 |
This text has been compiled from the translation by lay practitioner Sun Jingfeng of the Esoteric Teaching of Liberation Through Hearing in the Intermediate State (hereafter, Intermediate State). Because many currently circulated recitation editions add modern explanatory passages for recitation, whereas the original text of Intermediate State states: “The intermediate-state body possesses all six sense faculties and also has karmic powers. It is intelligent and keen, nine times more so than before death,” ritual practitioners need not worry that the deceased will be unable to understand the instructions. Therefore, this compilation focuses on using the original text in its entirety for recitation. |
| 一、本念诵行文以1994年上海书局出版的《中有》为蓝本，按“中有”四个阶段依次摘录。每阶段又分“行法时间”“行法须知”“行法实施”三部分加以说明。 |
I. This recitation manual is based on the 1994 edition of Intermediate State published by the Shanghai Book Bureau. Its selections are arranged in sequence according to the four phases of the intermediate state. Each phase is further explained in three parts: “Time for Performing the Practice,” “Instructions for Practice,” and “Conducting the Recitation.” |
| 二、为方便每天行法，加注了时间的目录索引，行者可根据亡者的死亡时间和天数来查找相应的行法实施内容。 |
II. To facilitate performing the practice each day, a time-indexed table of contents has been added. Practitioners may consult the relevant instructions for conducting the practice according to the time and number of days since the deceased’s death. |
| 三、“行法实施”一栏均采用《中有》原文。文中的加粗楷体橙色字为念诵内容，以便于行法者读诵。 |
III. The section “Conducting the Recitation” uses the original text of Intermediate State throughout. The bold, italicized orange text indicates the recitation passages, for the convenience of those performing the practice. |
| 四、文中图片皆来源于网络，仅供参考。 |
IV. All images in this text are from the internet and are for reference only. |
| 五、行法中须注意的事项和说明等，尽量采用《中有》原文。但为了方便快速阅读和掌握教授方法，整理组将原文个别用语改成了白话，并对原文说明的次序加以调整。 |
V. The matters requiring attention and the explanations in performing the practice draw as far as possible on the original text of Intermediate State. However, to facilitate rapid reading and understanding of the instructional methods, the compilation team has rendered certain original expressions into plain language and rearranged the order of some explanations. |
| 如需了解详尽内容还应学习《中有》原文，及参看元音老人所述《中有释要》一书。 |
For a fuller understanding, one should still study the original text of Intermediate State and consult Master Yuanyin’s Essential Explanation of the Intermediate State. |
| 生死乃人生大事，宜慎终以追远。了生脱死则更是修行人之目标与本分。今仗佛力加持，了知中有险峡如何得蒙救度，我辈更应珍惜眼前，乘今生、借此身，行起解绝的踏实修证，超情识海，越生死河，而非待临命终时，寄望他人超度。若当下鉴得，度亡事毕矣！ |
Birth and death are great matters in human life; one should treat the end with reverence and honor those who have gone before. To transcend birth and death is all the more the goal and proper duty of practitioners. Now, sustained by the Buddha’s blessing, we understand how one may receive deliverance from the perilous passage of the intermediate state. We should all the more cherish the present, make use of this life and this body, and undertake solid, firsthand practice and realization of liberation: transcend the ocean of emotion and consciousness, cross the river of birth and death, and not wait until the moment of death to place our hopes in others’ rites for the deceased. If this is recognized here and now, the work of assisting the deceased is complete. |
| 资料整理组 敬编 |
Respectfully compiled by the Materials Compilation Team |
| 2023年3月15日 |
March 15, 2023 |
