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English version: Increasing blessings and prolonging life in the human realm, if one's lifespan is destined to end at a hundred years, one will ascend to the heavens after death. If one can thoroughly comprehend the Prajna Sutra (wisdom scripture), one can directly reach the other shore of Nirvana (liberation). Or if someone passes away before finishing reading the scriptures, even if they enter the underworld, they will not be detained, but will be judged to be reborn into a blessed and wealthy family, enjoying all kinds of blessings. A woman named Li followed the monk's advice and recited three volumes of scriptures every day. At the age of twenty-four, she was unwilling to marry. Suddenly, she contracted typhoid fever and died three days later. Two messengers led her to see King Yama. King Yama examined her records and found that she had no sins, and saw a Buddha's light above her head. King Yama said, 'Since this woman has the merit of reciting the Prajna Sutra, she should be sent back to life.' Before leaving, King Yama instructed her, 'Your father has a karmic debt of killing, and twelve years will be deducted from his lifespan first. Soon he will be summoned to the underworld for confrontation. Your father likes to cut live fish into sashimi, and now there are more than seven thousand fish suing your father for their lives. Your father dreams of falling into fishing nets every night, and has headaches every day. This is the fish seeking retribution.' After the woman returned to life, she told her father these things. The father was very frightened, so he and his daughter went to Tianning Temple, offered a vegetarian feast to a hundred monks, vowed to abstain from meat and alcohol, and personally transcribed forty-nine volumes of the Diamond Sutra. After finishing the transcription, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang (reigned 712-756 AD) dreamed at night of thousands of children in green clothes coming to pay their respects, saying, 'We were killed by you, each complaining of past grievances, demanding your life. Now, thanks to the merit of your transcribing the scriptures, we have been freed from the suffering of the three evil paths (three realms of woe) and reborn into good realms. Since you have resolved the grievances, your original lifespan has been restored, and your lifespan has been extended.' Emperor Xuanzong was very happy after hearing this, and from then on, he insisted on reciting the scriptures without interruption, living to be one hundred and twenty years old, and died without illness. During the Zhengde period of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 AD), there was a virtuous monk in Nanyue named Chushi, who was proficient in the Tripitaka and specialized in reciting the Diamond Sutra. When people asked him for Buddhist teachings, whether they were wise or foolish, noble or lowly, he would always say loudly, 'Go and recite the Diamond Sutra diligently!' He passed away at the age of one hundred and seventy-one. At the same time, there were also the White Vine Monk and the Boundless Monk, who also specialized in persuading people to recite the Diamond Sutra. The White Vine Monk passed away at the age of one hundred and thirty, and the Boundless Monk passed away at the age of one hundred and twenty-four. Healing Illness Wang Cheng, whose home was in Jinzhou, was stubborn and vulgar by nature. In the fourth year of the Yuanhe period of the Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD), a plague broke out in his family, and all his family members died, but Wang Cheng was lucky enough to escape death. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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。方疾食狗肉。目遂盲。不求医药。惟祷鬼神。数年无报。忽有异僧请饭。谓曰。金刚经能排众苦。居士能受之乎。偁辞以无目。僧劝写之。偁从其言。得七卷。请僧诵之数日梦前僧。持刀决其目。乃惊悟。觉有所见。久而复明。自此终身诵经不替。 勾龙义。间州人。唐长庆中。于郪县佣力。常因邑人有疾。往省之。见写金刚经。义毁弃止绝之。归即喑哑。医不能愈。顽嚚无识。已五六年。忽闻邻人念是经者。惕然曰。我前谤真经。得此哑病。今若悔谢。终身敬奉。可能言否。自后每闻念经。即倚壁听之。月余。偶行入寺。逢一老僧。礼之。僧问何事。遂指口中哑。僧以刀割舌下便能语。因与念经。正同邻人之声。后再访僧。不复见。惟壁画须菩提。乃悟曰。此是也。因写经。画须菩提像。终身礼拜。 昆山处士。周少岳。讳之程。五十丧明。瞳子反背。碧色。自以废人。乃皈心佛氏。用消宿愆。每日清晨。诵金刚经三卷。诵则高声赞扬。客至不为礼。积十五年。一日炯然见物。犹以盲者不能视。妄想所结也。然令人视其目。已见童子摇动。如此两月。清光尽复。比少年。更能了远。少岳感金刚经力。持经益䖍。年至八十考终。 宋。绍兴间。秀州宋承信。得翻胃疾。数年药不能疗。忽夜梦梵僧 现代汉语译本：方某喜欢吃狗肉，结果眼睛瞎了。他不寻求医药治疗，只是一味地向鬼神祈祷，但多年都没有回应。忽然来了一位奇异的僧人，请求施舍斋饭，并说：‘《金刚经》（Vajra Prajna Paramita Sutra）能解除各种痛苦，居士您能接受吗？’方某推辞说自己眼睛看不见。僧人劝他抄写经书。方某听从了他的建议，抄写了七卷。他请僧人诵读经书数日，梦见之前的僧人拿着刀剖开他的眼睛，于是惊醒。醒来后，他觉得能看见东西了，过了很久眼睛完全恢复了光明。从此以后，他终身诵读《金刚经》（Vajra Prajna Paramita Sutra）从不间断。 勾龙义，阆州（Lang Zhou）人。唐朝长庆年间（公元821-824年），在郪县（Qi Xian）做雇工。他经常因为同乡有人生病而去探望。看到有人抄写《金刚经》（Vajra Prajna Paramita Sutra），勾龙义就加以毁坏，阻止别人抄写。回家后，他就变成了哑巴，医生也无法治好。他愚笨无知，已经过了五六年。忽然听到邻居念诵这部经书，他警觉地说：‘我之前诽谤真经，才得了这个哑巴病。现在如果我忏悔谢罪，终身恭敬奉行，还能说话吗？’自那以后，每当听到念经的声音，他就靠在墙边倾听。一个月后，偶然走到寺庙里，遇到一位老僧，便向他行礼。僧人问他有什么事，他就指着自己的嘴表示自己是哑巴。僧人拿刀割开他的舌头下面，他就能说话了。于是僧人教他念经，声音和邻居念诵的声音一样。之后他再去拜访那位僧人，却再也找不到了，只看到墙上画着须菩提（Subhuti）。他这才醒悟说：‘原来是他啊。’于是他抄写经书，画了须菩提（Subhuti）的画像，终身礼拜。 昆山（Kunshan）的处士，周少岳（Zhou Shaoyue），名之程（Zhi Cheng），五十岁时失明，瞳孔反转，呈碧色。他自认为是个废人，于是归心佛门，用以消除过去的罪过。每天清晨，他诵读《金刚经》（Vajra Prajna Paramita Sutra）三卷。诵读时，他高声赞扬。即使有客人来访，他也不行礼。这样持续了十五年。有一天，他忽然能看见东西了，但他仍然认为盲人是不能看见东西的，这是妄想造成的。然而，让人看他的眼睛，已经能看到瞳孔在转动。这样过了两个月，他的视力完全恢复，比年轻时更能看清远处的东西。周少岳（Zhou Shaoyue）感念《金刚经》（Vajra Prajna Paramita Sutra）的力量，持经更加虔诚。活到八十岁才去世。 宋朝绍兴（公元1131-1162年）年间，秀州（Xiuzhou）的宋承信（Song Chengxin）得了翻胃病，多年来吃药都无法治好。忽然有一天晚上，他梦见一位梵僧。
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English version: Fang enjoyed eating dog meat, and as a result, his eyes went blind. He did not seek medical treatment, but only prayed to ghosts and spirits, but received no response for many years. Suddenly, a strange monk came and asked for alms, saying, 'The Vajra Prajna Paramita Sutra can relieve all kinds of suffering. Can you accept it, layman?' Fang declined, saying that he could not see. The monk advised him to transcribe the sutra. Fang followed his advice and transcribed seven volumes. He asked the monk to recite the sutra for several days, and dreamed that the previous monk was holding a knife and cutting open his eyes, so he woke up in surprise. After waking up, he felt that he could see things, and after a long time, his eyes fully recovered their sight. From then on, he recited the Vajra Prajna Paramita Sutra for the rest of his life without interruption. Gou Longyi was from Lang Zhou. During the Changqing period (821-824 AD) of the Tang Dynasty, he worked as a hired laborer in Qi Xian. He often visited sick people in his village. Seeing someone transcribing the Vajra Prajna Paramita Sutra, Gou Longyi destroyed it and prevented others from transcribing it. After returning home, he became mute, and doctors could not cure him. He was foolish and ignorant for five or six years. Suddenly, he heard a neighbor reciting this sutra, and he said alertly, 'I slandered the true sutra before, so I got this mute disease. Now if I repent and apologize, and respectfully practice it for the rest of my life, can I speak again?' From then on, whenever he heard the sound of reciting the sutra, he leaned against the wall and listened. A month later, he accidentally walked into a temple and met an old monk, and bowed to him. The monk asked him what was the matter, and he pointed to his mouth to indicate that he was mute. The monk cut under his tongue with a knife, and he could speak. So the monk taught him to recite the sutra, and the sound was the same as the neighbor's recitation. Later, he visited the monk again, but could not find him again, only saw Subhuti painted on the wall. He then realized, 'It was him.' So he transcribed the sutra and painted a portrait of Subhuti, and worshiped it for the rest of his life. The recluse of Kunshan, Zhou Shaoyue, named Zhi Cheng, went blind at the age of fifty, his pupils reversed and turned blue. He considered himself a useless person, so he devoted himself to Buddhism to eliminate his past sins. Every morning, he recited three volumes of the Vajra Prajna Paramita Sutra. When reciting, he praised loudly. Even when guests came, he did not salute. This continued for fifteen years. One day, he suddenly could see things, but he still thought that blind people could not see things, which was caused by delusion. However, when people looked at his eyes, they could see the pupils moving. After two months, his vision fully recovered, and he could see farther than when he was young. Zhou Shaoyue was grateful for the power of the Vajra Prajna Paramita Sutra, and held the sutra more devoutly. He lived to be eighty years old before he died. During the Shaoxing period (1131-1162 AD) of the Song Dynasty, Song Chengxin of Xiuzhou suffered from vomiting disease, and medicine could not cure it for many years. Suddenly one night, he dreamed of a Brahmin monk. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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曰。汝乃宿世冤愆。遂致今生病苦。汝知否。凡世间男妇。疯瘫痨跛。盲聋喑哑。疾病缠身。经年卧床席者。其魂多摄在阴司。拷较前生今世所作罪恶。因果毫发不差。若有奉施金刚经。或自他书写。或毕世受持。才动念。遂感阴官。较察善功。先放其魂。次遇良医。其病即愈。睡觉省悟。明旦焚香。躬对佛前发愿。许施金刚经一千卷。尔后又梦金刚神。赐药一丸令吞之。次日其病即痊。将养月余。身体复旧。凡见闻者。无不称叹。 生子 秀水庠生。濮可重。妻王氏。有一子一女。相继痘殇。哭之过哀。双目成瞽。遂专心持诵金刚经。数岁不辍。一日诵经次。左目忽流水。痛割如裂。则豁然明矣。右目过数日。复如之。因持诵愈虔。夜梦佛语之曰。汝本无子。以诵经故。赐汝一子。氏忽复娠生子。因名经赐。 施振宇。鄞县人。性好善。年逾四旬无子。师礼天童密云和尚。命名通等。示云。汝欲求嗣。能斋僧持金刚。自然有子。是夜依教。礼佛立愿。梦金刚神。书一兆字与之。归即茹素。手书金刚经一卷。每日䖍诵。寒暑无间。岁岁进山设斋。种种善事。力行不倦。后果得子五。 皇清顺治间。浙江提督。张公名杰。年六十尚未有嗣。夫人陈氏。崇信三宝。日诵金刚。凡属名山。咸往设斋 现代汉语译本： 说：‘你乃是前世的冤家债主，所以导致今生多病痛苦。你知道吗？凡是世间的男女，患有疯癫、瘫痪、痨病、跛足，或者盲、聋、哑，疾病缠身，常年卧床不起的人，他们的魂魄大多被拘禁在阴间，拷问核对前生今世所犯的罪恶，因果报应丝毫不会差错。如果有人奉献布施《金刚经》，或者自己书写，或者终身受持，只要一动念头，就会感动阴间的官吏，考察他的善功，先释放他的魂魄，然后遇到良医，他的病就会痊愈。’醒来后明白过来，第二天早晨焚香，亲自在佛前发愿，许诺布施《金刚经》一千卷。之后又梦见金刚神，赐给他药丸让他吞下。第二天他的病就痊愈了，将养一个月后，身体恢复如初。凡是见到听到的人，没有不称赞惊叹的。 生子 秀水的读书人濮可重，他的妻子王氏，有一个儿子一个女儿，相继因为出痘而夭折。因为哭得太伤心，双眼都瞎了。于是专心持诵《金刚经》，几年都不间断。有一天诵经的时候，左眼忽然流出水，疼痛得像要裂开一样，然后就突然看见了。右眼过了几天，也像这样复明了。因此持诵更加虔诚。晚上梦见佛告诉他说：‘你本来没有儿子，因为诵经的缘故，赐给你一个儿子。’王氏忽然又怀孕生了一个儿子，因此取名叫经赐。 施振宇，是鄞县人，天性喜欢行善。四十多岁了还没有儿子。以天童寺的密云和尚为师，和尚给他取名通等，并开示说：‘你如果想要儿子，能够斋僧、持诵《金刚经》，自然会有儿子。’当天晚上他就按照和尚的教导，礼佛立下誓愿。梦见金刚神，写了一个‘兆’字给他。回家后就开始吃素，手抄《金刚经》一卷，每天虔诚诵读，无论寒暑都不间断。每年都到山里设斋供僧，各种善事，努力去做从不懈怠。后来果然得了五个儿子。 皇清顺治年间（1644年-1661年），浙江提督张杰，六十岁了还没有儿子。他的夫人陈氏，崇信三宝，每天诵读《金刚经》，凡是著名的山，都前往设斋供僧。