The Sutra of Longevity is widely circulated in Hong Kong and Taiwan, except that Buddhist practitioners there tend to think that it is mainly used to exempt women from the offenses of abortion if they have it before or to release the souls of died infants from hell. Even till today, the debate is on-going on what the Sutra is for.
My Master is different. Immediately when he reaches the Sutra of Longevity, he knows what it is for. There are 21 merits and virtues from upholding it. Almost all the problems and challenges that we human being faces can be solved by upholding and reading it. Isn’t it amazing?
Shakyamuni Buddha also had used the Sutra to protect himself. It is particularly efficacious in the following three areas:
1- To cure people of diseases. It is a cure-all. Be it serious diseases like cancer, paralysis, contagious disease, or minor problems like cold, headache, fever, or stomachache, you can get cured by reciting it. If a child of under 10 years old is sick, no matter how seriously, the disease can be cured of as long as his parents read the Sutra on Longevity for him. It is very miraculous.
Second, this is a Sutra that can be understood not only by all beings with their original consciousness: human beings, animals, insects, bacteria, but also those “non-beings”, such as mountains, water, earth, plants, metal, or even the furniture and electronic appliances in your home. It is just really this amazing. Don’t harbour any doubts!
Third, the Sutra can be our “scrubber”. By reading the Sutra on Longevity once a day, we can wife off the dust in our heart. This is what Buddha refers to as that “it is protective”. We wipe with it every day, and our heart gets purified, and our life gets better, with less challenges.
Master Zhen Lin once told us of an example. A layman practicing Buddhism in Dongyue Temple (his focus of learning is the Lotus Sutra) always met upsets of one kind of another in life. When he tried to change the light bulb hanging high up on the ceiling, the stool he stood on got broken and he then fell to the ground. It never happened after he started reading the Sutra on Longevity.
Below are the 21 merits and virtues from upholding the Sutra on Longevity:
1- If you read it on a regular basis, you can live a long life of up to 120 years.
2- The offenses committed over the past 1,000 eons shall be extinguished even you listen to even just once verse of the Sutra.
3- If you read it on a regular basis, with the merits and virtues thus accumulated, you be born in the Brahman Heaven to enjoy the heavenly blessing. You won’t end up in the hell.
4- With the merits and virtues of the Sutra, the offenses of a fetus and new-born baby shall be extinguished and diseases cured.
5- With the merits and virtues of the Sutra, you shall enjoy a decent and prosperous life.
6- People with rarely-seen diseases can be cured and recover thanks to the merits and virtues from upholding the Sutra.
7- People who have committed the five extreme offenses (patricide, matricide, abortion, slander against Buddha, creating disharmony among a Sangha assembly) and yet are able to repent and read the Sutra can be exempted from the offenses.
8- People who cultivate the Buddha Dharma cwill obtain The Buddha's Vajra, Permanent and Indestructible body for upholding the Sutra of Longevity.
9- If a lot of people uphold the Sutra in a nation, it shall be a land of peace and prosperity.
10- A corrupted official is able to sincerely repent and reform, and uphold this Sutra, he will be obtain to enjoy peace, and retain his position as a High officer and enjoy the wealth.
11- With the merits and virtues from upholding the Sutra, your home shall be kept safe from evil.
12- If you have a family or marriage problem, or as parents are worried about the family affairs of your children, just read the Sutra and with the merits and virtues from upholding it, the problem can be solved. The marriage will be a happy one.
13- Sterile people can get pregnant if they can make an effort to print and circulate the Sutra. They will get what they have vowed for, either a girl or a boy.
14- If you have problems with your business, reading the Sutra helps you solve your problems; people who have the bad habits of gambling, or are too obsessive with drinking or sex, can also be saved and quit the bad habits if they can read the Sutra.
15- Animals who have the chance to hear the Sutra, for even just one sentence, can be reborn a human or into heaven after they die.
16- People with intellectual or physical problems will not suffer from them again in their next life with the merits and virtues accumulated from the Sutra.
17- The Sutra can also be used to ferry over the souls of the dead. They can be reborn immediately a human or into heaven.
18- If an area is hit by a natural disaster such as draught, the disaster shall be relieved if people there uphold and read the Sutra of Longevity.
19- People with cancer can be cured by reading the Sutra.
20- It can keep a woman from difficult labour and ensure the safety of both the mom and the newborn.
21- If you read the Sutra on a regular basis, Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva and Mahasthamaprapta Bodhisattva will meet you and take you to the Kingdom of Buddha after you die.
The temperature is as high as 40 degrees here. I wish there were more people reading the Sutra on Longevity now. I am sure it will keep the land prosperous, cool, and without disasters.
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