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學佛因緣––介紹梁素霞居士
How She Came to Study Buddhism
— Introducing Upasika Liang Shuxia

 

梁素霞女士,她是在一個佛道混合信仰的家庭長大的。經其妹之介紹,閱讀了宣公上人事蹟一、二兩冊之後,即在自 家內設立了佛堂,每日拜佛,以後其妹又陸續介紹了種種佛教經典、咒語給她,在知道〈大悲神咒〉不可思議的妙用之後,立即決定背下。想不到一次在新加坡就經 驗了其不可思議的大威柛力。

那一次梁居士與家人因事到新加坡,頭晚在旅館時,小女兒腹痛如絞,痛得臉唇都白了。眼看就要氣絕,梁居士在驚 慌之際匆匆請出觀音像。倒了水,即在床邊跪下。虔誠誦〈大悲咒〉七遍,然後讓小女兒喝下那杯大悲水。想不到小女兒在喝下水之後就睡覺了。第二天醒來後說當 時一喝下水,痛感即消,所以就睡著了。自此以後梁居士對〈大悲咒〉及觀世音菩薩的信心更是加深。

一九八八年上人赴馬訪問時,梁女士第一次見到上人,隨即皈依三寶,並拜上人為師。自此以後梁女士更加精進修 行,每日功課包括:誦〈大悲咒〉、《阿彌陀經》、《地藏經》、〈淨土文〉、〈普賢菩薩十大願〉,並念佛名號。梁居士說自從學佛之後,心中深感平和,煩惱也 不知何時消失了。

一九九○年與其妹並攜一女赴萬佛城拜萬佛寶懺及參加浴佛節慶典,也在萬佛城小住親聆教誨。深深喜愛上了萬佛城 清幽的環境及修行的道風。認為是一個修行的好道場,同年將其兩個女兒送來萬佛城就讀法界佛教大學一年,回去後將其父影響了也成素食者。其妹至今仍住萬佛聖 城修行。


In 1995, Upasika Liang Shuxia came to the Sagely City of Ten Thousand Buddhas to participate in the Jewelled Repentance before Ten Thousand Buddhas. She was raised in a family that has mixed faith in Buddhism and Taoism. After hearing about the Venerable Master from her sister and reading the two volumes of his biography, she set up a Buddhahall in her home and began bowing to the Buddhas every day. Her sister also introduced her to various Sutras and mantras. When she found out about the inconceivable, wonderful functioning of the Great Compassion Mantra, she immediately decided to commit it to memory. Unexpectedly, during a trip to Singapore, she experienced the inconceivable, awesome spiritual power of that mantra.

That time, Mrs. Liang and her family had gone to Singapore to take care of some matters. The first night of their stay in a hotel, her younger daughter had a bellyache that was so severe that her face and lips turned white. Thinking her daughter was near death, Mrs. Liang was terrified and hurriedly took out Guanyin Bodhisattva’s image. She poured water in a cup, knelt beside her daughter’s bed, and sincerely recited the Great Compassion Mantra seven times. Then she told her daughter to drink the water. To her surprise, her daughter fell asleep right away. Upon waking the next day, her daughter told her that after drinking the water, her pain had vanished and she had fallen asleep. Since then, Mrs. Liang’s faith in the Great Compassion Mantra and in Guanyin Bodhisattva has deepened.

When Mrs. Liang met the Venerable Master for the first time during his visit to Malaysia in 1988, she took the opportunity to take refuge and become the Master’s disciple. Since then, she has increased her vigor in cultivation. Her daily schedule includes reciting the Great Compassion Mantra, the Amitabha Sutra, the Earth Store Sutra, the Verse for Rebirth in the Pure Land, the Ten Great Vows of Universal Worthy Bodhisattva, and the name of the Buddha. Mrs. Liang says that ever since she began studying the Buddhadharma, she has found peace of mind and her afflictions have disappeared without her realizing it.

In 1990, Mrs. Liang came with her sister and daughter to the Sagely City of Ten Thousand Buddhas to participate in the Jewelled Repentance before Ten Thousand Buddhas and the ceremony for Bathing the Buddha. She stayed in the Sagely City for a while and personally heard the Venerable Master’s teaching. She really liked the pure environment and the style of cultivation there. Considering the Sagely City to be an excellent place for cultivation, later that year she sent her two daughters there to study at Dharma Realm Buddhist University for a year. After returning to Malaysia, the two girls influenced their father to become a vegetarian. Mrs. Liang’s sister is still living and cultivating at the Sagely City.

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