【人间祥瑞】——今年117岁的终南山普光老和尚！

人间祥瑞——终南山普光老和尚！

——传喜法师讲述（2013年）

(传喜法师：浙江宁波慧日寺方丈)

诸位师父们、诸位护法菩萨居士，大家阿弥陀佛！

今天佛历二千五百五十七年，我们在这个千年古刹仙岩，圣寿禅寺的大雄宝殿，我们师父加持过的圣地，以佛法两千多年传承在人间的方法，也以我们这个道场历代祖师乃至现前的常住四众不断的晨钟暮鼓的加持力，特别是大和尚也是广闻博学，道参十方，迎请了很多的长老大德在这个道场弘倡佛法，或修戒定，或发定慧的缘起力，我们在这里做一次上供下施的法会。

这段时间，我们佛教中的圣僧，上普下光大和尚也来加持过，长老一生大多数是在深山之中，但他老人家虽然住在山上，同样也受到文革的冲击，红卫兵上山把老和尚绑起来，把他带到山下去游街。老人家虽然住在山顶上，吃树皮、吃草根，但是人间的业力照样也不放过他老人家。

现在老人家一百十三岁了，他叫人瑞啊——人中的瑞象！更何况他还是出家人。八个月大就被送到寺院，然后在师父的抚养下，一生当中清净地在山上修行。他很奇特的，老人家不识字，那这个《楞严咒》怎么学的？是他师父一字一句教给他的。所以他老人家带我们念《楞严咒》，这个《楞严咒》的传承和加持力是非常非常大的。

老和尚念《大悲咒》也是很特别，老和尚念的《大悲咒》是八十八句的。我这次去台湾，在台湾一个三百多年的寺院，那个墙上写的《大悲咒》就是八十八句的，原来古代的祖师是传的八十八句，我们现在一般人念的都是八十四句的《大悲咒》。

这里面还有一个故事：皇帝自己在寝宫里面，忽然从房顶上怎么掉下来一个和尚，把他吓一跳，他以为是刺客。这个出家人就说：你不用怕，我不会伤害你。皇帝说：你从哪里来的？他说：我也不知道哪里来的。皇帝说：那你怎么会到我这里来的？他说：我也不知道，我正念着《大悲咒》呢，怎么忽然就到你这里来了。这位皇帝也是个懂佛法的，就说：你念《大悲咒》怎么会到我这里来呢？他说：我就念到最后这几句的时候，就觉得好象地都会震一样，然后我脑子一懵，就——，怎么到你这里来的我也不知道。

这皇帝一听，哎呀，这《大悲咒》后面几句力量这么大？然后就下圣旨说：后面几句不准念。所以后来传的就成了八十四句的《大悲咒》，末句是：漫多啰，跋陀耶，娑婆诃。

但是我们普光长老这边传的是八十八句《大悲咒》，正好跟台湾的符合。而且台湾的广化老法师，以前亲近过弘一法师，他也是这么说的：念《大悲咒》应该念八十八句那才全。所以在长老身上你可以知道，他很小就由师父这里得到这个传承了，所以说他的传承在佛教界也是很奇特的。就是这样一位老人家，经历了我们人间的劫难，传承着我们殊胜的佛法。

他老人家就是一个你见到了之后，你这个大脑就不得不去思考。我自从去终南山见了老和尚之后，我下山一直就跟大家赞叹老和尚。但是我又很难找到一个准确的比喻，你怎么比喻呢？你说一百十三岁的一个老和尚象年轻人一样，哪个年轻人像他那么好呢？没有年轻人身体那样子的。我们佛教界有好多现在被列为非物质文化遗产，在他身上就有好多非物质文化遗产。

你看他老人家一百十几岁，这个身体好得真的没办法形容，我形容像年轻人，其实哪个年轻人像他那么壮？他那个功夫就是少林金刚罩、铁布衫，他那个身体从头到脚非常好。而且他在年轻的时候就炼就了铁沙掌的功夫，我们很多人都听说有铁沙掌，但铁沙掌到底是什么？你们看看老和尚他那个手指头，每一根手指头如铜柱一样，每个手指头粗粗的，非常不一样。从这角度上来说，老和尚真正保持着我们的中国功夫，一身的绝技在身上。

我在他寺庙看到有一个石头很高，比我们这个大殿还要高，老和尚说：我以前一跳就上去了。他徒弟在边上，我问：你们有没有见过？他们说：嗯，见过的，我们还有录像。不要说这个了，天安门城楼比这个高吧？老和尚说，他以前年轻的时候一纵身就上去了。那些便衣警察啊，看到老和尚怎么跑到天安门城楼上去了？连忙喊：你下来，下来。形象不好嘛，一个老和尚爬到房顶上干吗？天安门城楼哎，哪好随便爬的？他们在下面喊：你下来，下来。老和尚就在上面跟他们说：你们上来，上来。

他师父一直带着他，到他师父去世，那一年他二十八岁。他在我们中国也算是个传奇性的人物了，奇人，在我们佛教界更是世外高僧。不讲他的寺庙有多大，就凭他自己，你说他的身价多高？对不对？他要在国外佛教国家的话，那至少国师级别的，对不对？他老人家你看，一会儿跟你正经的，一会儿又疯疯癫癫的，这个叫游戏人间哪。拿什么利益我们呢？

佛法。佛法的精华是什么？《楞严咒》。我们佛教不管哪一个道场，大清早眼睛揉揉，第一个念的就是《楞严咒》，最长的咒。老和尚说，我们大家念起《楞严咒》，世界就能太平，国家消灾免难，更不要说我们个人了。这一位长老是我们当今，可以这么说，不仅是中国了，他也是世界的宝。我都觉得，我们没办法去赞美，语言太苍白了。

他八个月就到寺院，到现在一百十三岁了，你看，出家一百十几年了，你听到过吗？听不到的。虚云老和尚好了，他十九岁出家，一百二十岁圆寂，他出家一百零一年。我们老和尚出家一百十二年了都，这个了不得的，哪里听得到？听不到的。我们到国外去，泰国、缅甸、斯里兰卡、这个柬埔寨都会打听：你这有没有高僧啊？有没有证阿罗汉的啊？到处打听。请问：这个世界上你要找这样的人，你找得到吗？找不到的，听都听不到的我跟你说。见到？见到不是三生有幸了，哎呀，那是祖辈积德积来的。

老和尚有个一百零四岁的老徒弟，跟着老和尚九十多年了，长这么大都住在山上，从没下过山，到现在都没见过火车飞机是什么样的。有弟子上山，老和尚首先叫他们去给老徒弟磕头，老徒弟一百零四岁了，每个人磕一百零八个头。这样的和尚，这样的师父，你能给他磕头你哪找啊？你想想啊，真是这样的。不要说普光老和尚了，就他徒弟如果现在下山的话，跟你说，一辈子住山的出家人，你找不到的。我都不知道怎么赞叹这位老人家了，是奇僧呢？还是圣僧呢？还是高僧呢？都没办法表达，这个真是很稀有的，真的很稀有！

你想想看，一个人一百多年吃素。一百多年诵《楞严咒》。啊，这个确确实实，这个世间太少了。他老人家现在游化于人间，他说96年之前，他俩人在山上还没有人知道，都是靠自己开垦一点地。我到他山上去了，他那个山上都是石头，也没啥地好开垦，基本上就是他们说的，吃野菜啊，吃树皮啊，就这样。他们两位就是一个茅棚，那个茅棚多大？我看最多就是五六个平方的。他老人家说了这个茅棚，外面下大雪，里面下小雪；外面下大雨，里面就下中雨，几乎就是可以看到天，这样子的一个茅棚。他师徒俩个在里面住了三十八年。他徒弟的性格比较暴躁，他师父就跟他说，你要住在高高的山上啊，越没有人烟，那越安全，所以他就听了师父的教导，师徒俩个就一直住在山上。

96年才开始有人知道他们，才开始有人送吃的来。老和尚现在的膝盖是受伤的，没有半月板，膝盖里是空的，就因为他救一个人，舍了自己的两膝盖。有人听说老和尚武术高强，就来跟他学，不小心就从悬崖上掉下去了。老和尚绑着绳子下去救他，小孩子伤势非常严重，嘴里还有一点声音，就喊：救救我，救救我，我不想死。老人家就两只手捧着他，用脚尖点地这样子的功夫，从山上寺院一路小跑到西安。一百三十多里地，天快亮时赶到医院。

经过抢救小孩得救了，但是老和尚两个腿的膝盖半月板碎了，里面都积水了，后来抽了几十斤水，膝盖就这样伤了。因为小孩不能震动啊，抱着他不能大踏步地走啊，就用脚尖踮着碎步走，这脚尖踮着走非常伤膝盖的，又是山路。因为这样子，我们现在没办法再看到老人家那个神奇的轻功了。

以前这个大殿，他不费力的一纵就上去了。他跟我说：我走路，白天不敢走的，我怕吓到别人，我走路，腰是弯着弓着身体走的，一躬身就是几十里路，一躬身就是几十里路。说：千儿八百里路不经我走的，我只敢晚上走路，我不敢白天走路。晚上天乌黑乌黑的，他却看得很明亮，一点都不妨碍。

你就可以知道，这些高僧大德修行的境界，这不是传记里看到的，而是我们现实生活当中见证到的。现在虽然他膝盖的半月板坏了，但是他铁布衫的功夫还是在的，铁砂掌功夫还都在，你们只要看看他那个手，摸上去就跟石头一样硬，浑身的肌肉硬得就跟石头一样。像这样的桌子根本不经他拍的，一巴掌就碎掉了。可以知道，人确确实实是可以修啊，这一生就可以修成金刚不坏身的，不要说死了之后金刚不坏身，活的时候就可以有金刚不坏身。

——摘自传喜法师130303温州开示

2014年在终南山圆满举行过142天的百日楞严大法会。2015年1月1日开始更是发愿举行长达10年之久每日24小时不间断的楞严大法会，可见老和尚的悲愿宏深。

A total 142 days 100-day-grand summons ceremony of the Shurangama Mantra has been completed successfully in Zhong Nan Mountain in 2014. On 1st of January 2015, Venerable Master Pu Guang has even made greater vows for a continuously 10 years long 24-hour-each day-grand summons assembly of the Shurangama Mantra. Apparently, these vows come from Ven. Master’s ultimate benevolence and mercifulness.

上普下光老和尚出生于一九O一年农历四月初八，母亲是水泊梁山一百单八将林冲的后代，父亲是玉麒麟卢俊义的后代。老和尚自称“苦瓜老和尚”，因为他出生仅八个月，父母就在战乱中不幸身亡，被少林寺老方丈从炮弹坑里救回，从此出家为僧。少林寺老方丈不仅亲手将老和尚抚养长大，还传授其少林武功和佛典经咒。老和尚刚学会说话时，方丈只教其背诵，却不教识字，每天背三句，三句背会才喂一口饭吃。老和尚15岁时，很多佛教中的经典、咒语基本都背会了。之后，老和尚从少林寺众多小和尚里被挑选出来，老方丈将少林绝技铁砂掌、童子功等全部传授给他。

Ven. Master Pu Guang was born on 8th of April 1901 Chinese lunar calendar. Both of his parents were descendants from the legendary Liang Shan heroes. Ven. Master calls himself as‘bitter melon old monk’ because he became an orphan at the very young age of 8 months old during the war period. The old abbot of Shao Lin Temple saved him from a shell hole. He became a Buddhist monk from then. The old abbot not only raised Ven. Master Pu Guang in person, but also taught him Shao Lin Kung Fu and Buddhist sutras. Reciting Buddhist sutras started from when Ven. Master Pu Guang began to learn speaking. The old abbot just let him reciting, not learning the characters. He could have one spoonful food when he was able to recite his each day task – 3 sentences of the sutras. Ven. Master has remembered most of the Buddhist sutras and mantras when he was 15 years old. Afterwards, Ven. Master was selected from all young monks to learn the famous Shao Lin Kung Fu, e.g., Iron Palm, Boy Kung Fu.

1922年老方丈圆寂前告诉他，60岁前不要和人打交道，最好进山好好用功修行，因为“头发能盖住屁股蛋子的（指女人）是老虎的祖宗，咬你一口会让你修行短500年……”“头发盘在头上的（指男人），知道你比他厉害，会下迷子（蒙汗药）害你……”于是，老和尚就带着小他几岁的徒弟离开了少林寺，住进了长白山，按照师父的教导继续苦练武功，勤修佛道。在长白山里制服过吃人的猛虎、恶熊和大猩猩。猛虎不听皈依，还要吃人，老和尚就将其眼睛挖出，天天用烤土豆养活它，直到它八年后死去，老和尚还超度它往生了善处。

Before his Parinirvana in 1922, the old abbot told Ven. Master Pu Guang avoid contacting mundane people before he turned 60 for women would destroy his energetic power while men would hurt him by jealousy. The old abbot urged him better continue practicing Buddhism inside the mountains. Thus, Ven. Master left Shao Lin Temple to Chang Bai Mountain with his disciple who is a few years his junior. In Chang Bai Mountain, he worked hard on practicing Buddhism follows his master’s guidance. He met and brought under the wild animals like the fierce tigers, bears and apes while living in Chang Bai Mountain. Unfortunately, Ven. Master had to excavate the tiger’s eyes as it resisted Tisarana and still wanted to kill human beings and eat them. Ven. Master took care of the unarmed tiger by feeding him with roasted potatoes until it died naturally seven or eight years later. After the tiger’s death, Ven. Master helped it reborn in Three Good by making it a Buddhist soul releasing ceremony.

后来，老和尚发现武功再高也成不了道，而且还容易伤人（看到不平的事情就想管，结果为了救一个好人可能要伤害一百个坏人，冤冤相报何时了呢？），就决定不练了。老和尚说人到30岁再练武功就是执迷不悟了，功夫要从小练，武功再高也了脱不了生死。从此躲进深山，不和人接触，不平的事情看不见，也就没机会“惹事”了。再后来，老和尚听说终南山是历代诸多贤达隐士修行得道的圣地，于是决定前去终南山修行，行走数月后到达。那时候瞎老虎已经死了，猩猩还活着，看到老人收拾袈裟要走，就抱着他的腿哭，不让他走，老和尚只好趁猩猩睡觉的时候，拿着禅杖袈裟，悄悄离开了。终南山不像长白山，不仅没有果树，土质也不好。师徒二人既没有野果吃，也无法和长白山一样种土豆充饥。老和尚却也能牢记祖师的教导，仍不和人接触，天天在洞里持咒修行，夏天吃树叶，冬天吃树皮，这一吃就是几十年，足足尝遍72种树叶和树皮。一直到1996年底才有北京居士往山上送粮。那时侯老百姓家里很穷，农民夜以继日干活一整天才赚2分钱，粮食也很少，老和尚从来不去老百姓家里化缘，干树叶烧成灰，用凉水冲下去果腹。老和尚说72种树都能吃，只要把树叶和树干撵成沫煮熟了都能吃，还很养人。老和尚说“一切唯心造，你说他是树叶树皮它就是树叶树皮，你说它是白面片儿它就是白面片儿“只要肚子不咕噜咕噜乱叫，肠子不粘连在一起能坐住修行不就行了嘛”。

A few years later, Ven. Master found that Kung Fu couldn’t lead him to the ultimate truth. On the contrary, Kung Fu is so easy to hurt people. He always made many others injured by trying to help one person. And karma remains forever. He decided to stop practicing Kung Fu. Ven. Master said it is not wise to study Kung Fu when you already turned 30. And Kung Fu can’t really help people get out of Samsara. He hid himself deeply into the mountain and got no chance to meet any outside unfairness. Kung Fu never brings trouble to him anymore. Ven. Master left Chang Bai Mountain with his disciple because he heard that Zhong Nan Mountain is the sacred place for recluses from all dynasties. At that time, the blind tiger was died while the ape was still alive. When the ape found they wanted to leave, it grabbed Ven. Master’s legs and cried, trying to stop him. Holding their staffs and covering with their kasayas, Ven. Master and his disciple left Chang Bai Mountain quietly at the ape’s sleeping moment. They arrived Zhong Nan Mountain after several months.

Unlike Chang Bai Mountain, there are neither tree fruits for eating nor fertile soil for growing vegetables. Both Ven. Master and his disciple had no fruits and potatoes to prevent hungriness. Nevertheless, Ven. Master still remembered what his master had told him. They kept themselves off from the outside world. They practiced Buddhism in the mountain cave. They ate tree leaves in summer and tree barks in winter. In the following several decades, they have tried over 72 types of tree leaves and barks. At that time, all Chinese people were poor. the income of one peasant’s one whole day hard working was only 2 cents. Ven. Master never bothered these peasants for food.

They burnt the leaves into powder and swallowed with cold water. ‘All 72 types of tree leaves are edible, ‘ said Ven. Master. They also smashed the leaves and barks then cooked them. Their food actually supplies good nutrition. ‘Everything is created from mind. Tree leaves or bread chips, it depends on your own view.’Ven. Master also said, ‘as long as hunger doesn’t disturb your practicing.’ Until the end of 1996, some laymen from Bei Jing started to donate food to the reclusive area in Zhong Nan Mountain.

熟悉了周围的环境后，老和尚开始在终南山寻找适合修行的场所，最终找到终南山观音古洞。观音古洞历史悠久,是历代修行者证悟的道场。老和尚说这里最早是轩辕黄帝的道场，观世音菩萨，韦陀菩萨、伽蓝菩萨，近代的来果老和尚、虚云老和尚都在这里修行过。古洞四周群山环绕，宛如莲花状，古洞就坐落在莲花中间，周边风景优美，云雾缭绕，犹如仙境。古洞是天然生成的，足足有五米多深，冬暖夏凉，附近还有许多石头茅棚，至今仍有遗址。古洞附近有个慈悲洞，诸多高僧都曾在此闭关。慈悲洞里有一个水池，泉水源源不断地从石缝里渗出，闭关修行的人都靠这水源维持生活。老和尚说那是佛菩萨的眼泪，能治百病，来过这里的人都会到洞中求取圣水。

Ven. Master began to seek proper practicing place after getting used to the new environment. Finally he found the Guan Yin Kwu Tung temple above 3000 meters sea level. This was the sacred place for the recluses from many dynasties. The earliest owner of this place of enlightenment was Xuan Yuan, Chinese ancestral yellow emperor. Skanda Bodhisattva and Sangharama Bodhisattva had ever shown their dharma body here. Later, even modern times Ven. Master Lai Guo, Ven. Master Xu Yun and many other eminent monks had practiced Buddhism here. Embraced by countless mountains, the cave is like sitting in the middle of a huge lotus flower. The wreathing mist and the fascinating surroundings makes the cave a wonderland. This ancient cave is natural. It is 5 meters in depth, cool in summer and warm in winter. There are some stone and thatched cottage relics outside. Nearby, there is a Mercy Cave for retreat practice. There is a spring pond inside the Mercy Cave. It supplies water resources for people doing retreat practice. Ven. Master said the water is Buddha and Bodhisattvas’ tears. It cures all diseases. Many people come here seeking this holy water.

上普下光老和尚进入终南山观音古洞修行之后，老和尚靠自己的双手和西安、咸阳、北京的一些居士筹集的有限资金，用尽心血修建出现在的道场，老和尚专持楞严咒，早晚课也都是持楞严咒，发声铿锵有力，振奋人心。在打楞严七期间，老和尚每天至少持108遍楞严咒，最快只用三分钟左右一遍，上山的居士每次都深受感动。山上还有出家多年的老徒弟和一位比丘尼通金师，后来也有不少弟子皈依老和尚，但是受不了山上的苦，都陆续下山了，只有两个老徒弟一直跟着老和尚。

There are 9 dragons in Zhong Nan Mountain. They all converted to Ven. Master. They become his guardians. The dragon guardians spray dew rain on the site where Ven. Master holds the ceremony of Shurangama Mantra Seven. Later on, Ven. Master got a big python under control. The python becomes his another guardian. It practices Buddhism behind the ancient Avalokitesvara cave. Ven. Master said the python assures the comfy living circumstances of the cave. It also makes the tree leaves wuthering to stop the bandits come up into the mountain. Ven. Master chants athe Shurangama Mantra 24 hours a day. The Shurangama Mantra is his morning and evening lesson. His voice is sonorous, forceful and encouraging. During the Shurangama Mantra Seven, Ven. Master chants the Mantra 108 times a day. The quickest time he recites one Mantra is around 3 minutes. This is amazing. Over these years, there are some other people converted to Ven. Master. But they couldn’t endure the tough mountain life and left. Eventually, only these two old disciples accompany Ven. Master.

老和尚一生绝大多数时间都生活在深山之中。1901年到建国初期，国家处于水深火热之中，老百姓家里都很穷，师父从来不去百姓家化缘，只是住在山顶上，吃树皮、草根和野菜，住草棚和石洞，修苦行。1937年，日本侵略中国，战火连天，民不寮生。老和尚在青岛拆卸过日本鬼子的战船，保卫不少寺庙免遭破坏。1966年，老和尚也受到文革的波及，红卫兵追的师父和老徒弟满城跑，几次都是跳进生产队的粪坑才得以逃脱。有一次红卫兵搜山把老徒弟抓住了，老和尚为了救老徒弟也给抓住了。他们把师徒二人带到山下去游街，并送回山东老家。因老和尚没有亲人，他们就把老和尚和他的老徒弟都关进监狱。后来老徒弟眼看要饿死了，老和尚无奈之下，只得半夜用铁砂掌把牢门劈开，背着老徒弟翻过三米高的围墙逃出来，顺着火车道走了一个月，又回到终南山继续修行。

Ven. Master spent his most life in the deep of the mountains. From 1901 to 1949, China was in extreme poverty and had endless cruel wars. During that period, Ven. Master never tried to bring inconvenience to common people. He lived in stone caves, thatched shacks at the top of the mountains, eating tree leaves, grass roots and wild herbs, practicing asceticism. In 1937, Japan intruded China. The country was ruined and people suffered severely. Ven. Master had done many things for the country. He had dismantled Japanese war ships in Qing Dao. Moreover, he struggled to protect Buddhist temples intact. In 1966, Ven. Master was not able to keep himself out of the trouble during the Cultural Revolution. The Red Guards chased them all over town. They escaped by jumping into the cesspools of the Production Teams for several times. Once, during their mountain search, the Red Guards caught Ven. Master’s disciple. Ven. Master was also caught for he wanted to do a rescue. They were paraded through the streets and sent back to their native Shan Dong province. Ven. Master and his disciple were kept in jail because he doesn’t have any relatives in Shan Dong anymore. At that time, his old disciple was about to starve to death. Ven. Master had to break the jail gate with his Iron Palm at midnight. With his disciple on his back, Ven. Master climbed up 3-meter-high jail wall and escaped. They walked along the railway for one month, and finally went back to Zhong Nan Mountain.

老和尚是在深山老林吃了数十年的树叶树皮，受尽各种苦难，老和尚下山也定是佛菩萨不舍众生，不忍众生在苦海中挣扎，派其弘扬正法、广度众生。老和尚的内心很单纯，就和八岁小孩子一样，直言直语，不造作，不攀缘，没有分别心。要去玩全部居士都去玩，吃饭大家就一起吃，走到哪里对待居士如同父母。

Living in the mountains, eating tree leaves and barks for years, Ven. Master has spent most of his life in hardship. However, Buddha and Bodhisattva want Ven. Master carry forward Buddhism and save the same suffering living beings. That is why they sent him to the outside world at last.

Ven. Master is as simple as a child. He is straight-forwarded, sincere, making no exception of people. All laymen there go outing at the same time with him while eating the same food with him. He treats all laymen as his own parents.

这几年上山的人多了，踩出了一条四寸宽的上山小道。老和尚就带领西安的大学生砸山石，用一块块石头铺了五千多个台阶，方便修行人上山，还把所有土殿、土房都改建成结实的砖瓦房。他说，不管我在不在了，只要这个道场还在，就还能有人在这里接着修行。世界上只要有一个老和尚每天24小时背楞严咒，这个地球就不会毁灭，老百姓不会遭遇枪炮之灾，国家就能太平。

In recent years, more people come inside the mountain to visit him. Gradually, a little road about 4 inches in width appeared beneath their feet. Together with the college students in Xi’an city, Ven. Master paved this little road with 5000 pounded mountain rocks. Then he rebuilt the clay hall and houses into solid brick one. This benefits a lot for the following practitioners. Ven. Master wants people continue practicing Buddhism at this place no matter if he is here or not. Anyway, the Earth would not be destroyed, the living beings would not suffer anymore, the country would maintain in peace as long as Ven. Master doesn’t stop reciting the Shurangama Mantra on any single day.

老和尚现但仍倾尽心力弘扬楞严咒。现在是末法时代,楞严咒关系到佛教的兴衰,正法常驻世间,关系到一切众生的利益。近几年来普光老和尚不顾自己高龄还奔波于全国各道场,只要有人请老和尚主持打楞严七,老和尚都不会拒绝。老和尚所到之处,都严格要求每天24小时持楞严咒不间断。2014年终南山观音古洞成功举行过142天全天24小时不间断的百日楞严大法会，自2015年1月1日凌晨3点开始，终南山观音古洞更是举行历时长达10年之久的楞严大法会，一直持续到2025年腊月三十，如此规模和持续性的楞严大法会在中国佛教史上，可以说前所未有过的，参加法会的所有弟子白天共同共修持咒，晚上则是轮组休息,没有轮到休息的弟子就继续持咒，目的就是不让楞严咒间断。普光老和尚对参加法会的佛子要求很严格,凡是参加打七的人员都必须出声持咒,不允许默念。老和尚白天忙着打理着山上的一切,晚上也不休息,合掌就持咒,困了就休息40分钟左右,保证每天不低于108遍大佛顶楞严神咒。可以说老和尚浑身都是宝，童子功、金刚体、铁砂掌、戒体真香，都是极少数人能修行得到的。尽管有一百多岁高领，但身体十分康健，全身肌肉紧实，连肚皮都是硬邦邦的戒体真香是纯正的檀香味，此香只应天上有，人间难得几回闻！有的人甚至就是闻到老和尚身上的香味才学佛的，也是善巧方便啊。老和尚驻世是众生的福田。

Ven. Master is trying his best to promote Buddhism though he is 115 years old. He often says it is hard to reciprocate Buddha for he has been Sakyamuni’s disciple for 115 years. It is Dharma-ending age; the Shurangama Mantra is crucial for Buddhism, the true Dharma. It is crucial for all living beings. Despite his senior age, Ven. Master never refuses a single invitation of the Shurangama Mantra Seven these years. He travels through many Way-places all over the country. He requires strictly a never ending 24 hours each day Shurangama Mantra ceremony. As we mentioned at the beginning of this article, a total 142 days 100-day-grand summons ceremony of the Shurangama Mantra has been completed successfully in Zhong Nan Mountain in 2014. And furthermore, started at 3 am, 1st of January 2015, a 10-year-long grand summons ceremony of the Shurangama Mantra is held at ancient Avalokitesvara Cave in Zhong Nan Mountain. This ceremony will be lasted until December 2025 in Chinese lunar year. This magnificent event is unprecedented in Chinese Buddhism history. The attendees chant the Mantra at daytime together. They make several shifts to rotate in the evening. Those awaking shifts continue to chant the Mantra. This arrangement guarantees the Shurangama Mantra incessant. Ven. Master has strict requirement towards the attendees. Mouthing silently is forbidden. Everyone should chant loudly. Ven. Master is busy with the management at daytime. He chants the Mantra at night with his two palms together. Chanting the Shurangama Mantra at least for 108 times daily is his limited self-demand.

Ven. Master himself is a treasure. Rare Buddhists are capable to get what he has, like The Boy Kung Fu, Iron Palm, and genuine incense from his precept substance. At the age of over 100 years old, he still has firm muscles, tough abdomen. His is in real good health. And his precept substance sprays truly pure sandalwood incense. The incense is ethereal. One can hardly find it in this physical world. Some of Ven. Master’s followers converted to him for they smelled this immortal incense. This is a sort of kausalya way to make ordinary people have Buddhism convictions. Ven. Master is a unique bliss of our world.

老和尚中气十足，念起咒语来声音洪亮，年轻小伙子都比不上，实属稀有难得。老和尚说持咒声音小，鬼都听不见，你度谁去。声音大，不仅虫虫、蚂蚁包括厕所那个蛆听到以后都能成佛，还能打消杂念、降服睡魔、开通经脉、补充阳气、增强体质。老和尚晚上看东西和白昼一样，听声音能听几里地，老和尚也从不做梦。,老和尚持诵楞严咒过程中每一遍都是出声念,而且对自己持咒质量要求极为严格,持咒过程中如果错一字或漏一字又或者发音不清楚等,都不算,需重头到尾再次持诵，所以大家一定要聆听老和尚教诲，依教奉行，不要在理上花太多时间，有时间就要多背咒。老和尚最大的愿望就是要在山下建一个能容纳上千人的楞严精舍，把全国会背诵楞严咒的弟子、把那些超过60岁想出家但各大寺庙都不收的师父都聚在一起诵大佛顶首楞严神咒。四众弟子都统一按照老和尚持诵的音调和方法去做，那时候成就的人就会很多，我们这个地球灾难也会少很多。能修楞严法门的人都是有善根的人，老和尚说能遇到他的人和释迦牟尼佛至少有七世的缘分。诸位同修若有缘得遇老和尚，请珍惜这宝贵的佛缘。

When chanting the Mantra, Ven. Master had unusual sonorous voice. Young men can’t beat him with this. Ven. Master’s idea about chanting the Mantra with loud voice is: 1 How to save people with too low voice even ghosts can scarcely hear? 2 Making your voice loud enough for every living being to hear, including insects, mosquitos and even maggots in the toilets. Thus, you give the chance for those tiny beings to become Buddha. 3 Meanwhile, chanting loudly also helps the chanter on the following respective aspects: stopping distracting thoughts, avoiding sleepiness, getting through his body channels, replenishing energy and improving health. The enlightenment state of Ven. Master has reached a very high level. It is pointless for us to spend much time on theories but just listening to Ven. Master’s talks and reciting the Mantra.

Ven. Master’s biggest hope is building a Shurangama vihara temple at the bottom of Zhong Nan Mountain. The vihara temple should accommodate one thousand people. This vihara temple is for those who can recite the Shurangama Mantra all over the country. And it’s also for believers over 60 of age, which are not eligible to become monks at common Buddhist temples. Ven. Master wants these people to be in the vihara temple and chant the Shurangama Mantra together. At that time, the chanting power would be tremendous when all disciples chants the Mantra following Ven. Master’s chanting tone, pace and instructions. With this mode, many people will meet great achievement. In relevant, the disasters happened in this world would get less. Those who practice the Shurangama Way undoubtedly have the root of kindness. They are Bodhisattvas presenting in the world. Ven. Master said people who meet him at this life must had at least 7 predestined lives with Sakyamuni Buddha in the past. Fellow practitioners, please cherish the opportunity to be with Venerable Master Pu Guang and practice diligently.

南无本师释迦牟尼佛

南无佛顶首楞严

南无观世音菩萨

南无金刚藏菩萨

Namo Sakyamuni Buddha

Namo the Shurangama

Namo Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva

Namo Vajra-garbha Bodhisattva

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