“千朵红莲护住身”，有千朵的红莲来护持你的身，红莲华放出红光。你一念〈楞严咒〉最前面二十九句咒文，就会现出这个境界。“坐驹骑着墨麒麟”，一念这〈楞严咒〉，这持咒的人是坐在一个麒麟的身上。“万妖一见往远躲”，什么妖魔鬼怪一见都跑了，他不敢面对这种大威德的相。我们人人都知道佛教里有一位济公，当初济公就是专用这一段咒文来降伏天魔、制诸外道，很灵感的，所以说“济公法师有妙音”。这一段咒文是教我们“皈依尽虚空、遍法界，一切诸佛、一切菩萨、一切声闻缘觉、一切诸天。”这也是护持三宝的一段，所以念这一段咒的时候，一切的妖魔鬼怪都要退避三舍；不止退避三舍，要退到他所不能退的地方去，他们都不敢作怪，都老实了。

A thousand petaled red lotus supports one's body. When you recite the first twenty-nine lines of the Shurangama Mantra a state occurs wherein a red lotus with a thousand petals manifests and emits red light. As one sits firmly mounted on a black unicorn. Upon reciting the Mantra, the person chanting finds himself sitting astride a unicorn. Seeing this, the hordes of monsters go far away to hide. No matter what kind of weird creature or demon or ghost it might be, they all flee, not daring to face such a magnificent and awesome manifestation. The Venerable Ji is a well-known High Master in Buddhism. His expert use of this passage of the mantra to subdue heavenly demons and control externalists was extremely efficacious. And so the last line says: Dharma Master Ji, the Venerable, mastered these wonderful sounds. This passage of the mantra instructs us to "take refuge with all the Buddhas, all the Bodhisattvas, all the Hearers and Condition-Enlightened Ones, and all the gods throughout empty space and the Dharma Realm." It's a passage that protects the Triple Jewel, and so when you recite it the demons flee and the ghosts don't stop running until they're ten miles away. Not just ten miles, they back off until there's no more room to retreat. They don't dare make trouble; they are forced to behave themselves.

这是说这一段咒文大概的意思，至于若详细说，这〈楞严咒〉是妙不可言的，所以又说：

That's a general description of what this passage of mantra is about; the details are even more wonderful.

奥妙无穷实难猜

金刚密语本性来

楞严咒里有灵妙

五眼六通道凡开

Unendingly miraculous and mysterious,

it's extremely hard to fathom.

This vajra secret language wells forth from your own nature.

Inside the Shurangama Mantra is marvelous magic!

Then come five eyes and six penetrations and the Way opens up.

“奥妙无穷实难猜”，这个〈楞严咒〉非常奥妙，它的变化也不可思议，很不容易测度的。“金刚密语本性来”，〈楞严咒〉是密中之密，这是金刚来护持这个咒。本性来，它是从自己那个佛性中生出来的。“楞严咒里有灵妙”，〈楞严咒〉也叫做灵文，因为他特别灵，特别有力量，所以说〈楞严咒〉里有灵妙。“五眼六通道凡开”，你若能常持〈楞严咒〉，专心一致，心不旁骛，你可以得到五眼六通，可以有不可思议的那种境界来变化莫测，所以不是一般凡夫俗子可能知道的。因为这个，所以希望大家都能读诵《楞严经》，背诵〈楞严咒〉。你一诵〈楞严咒〉，为什么妖魔鬼怪不敢出来？因为力量太大了，尽虚空遍法界没有一个地方，不是有这种祥光瑞气弥漫着。所以有人诵〈楞严咒〉，就是补天地正气的不足。你一个人念〈楞严咒〉，就有一个人的力量；百人念〈楞严咒〉，就有百人的力量，这世界妖魔鬼怪都会老老实实的。所以多一点人念〈楞严咒〉是好的。

Unendingly miraculous and mysterious, it's extremely hard to fathom. The Shurangama Mantra is quite esoteric and its changes and transformations are inexplicable; it's not easy to figure out. This vajra secret language wells forth from your own nature. The Shurangama Mantra is the secret within the secret. That's the vajras who come to protect the mantra. Your own nature--it is born from your own Buddha nature. Inside the Shurangama Mantra is marvelous magic! The Shurangama Mantra is called an efficacious language because of its spell-binding power. That's what "marvelous magic" is referring to. Then come five eyes and six penetrations and the Way opens up. If you can continually uphold the Shurangama Mantra--single-mindedly without entertaining other thoughts--then you can attain the Five Eyes and Six Spiritual Penetrations. You will then experience the inconceivable, unfathomable changes and transformations that occur which ordinary people are totally unaware of. And that's the reason why I hope everyone will learn to read the Shurangama Mantra and memorize it. Why is it that the demons, ghosts, and goblins don't dare show themselves when you recite the Shurangama Mantra? It's so powerful that there isn't a place in all of space or the entirety of the Dharma Realm that isn't flooded with auspicious light. Recitation of the Shurangama Mantra patches up the imperfections in the heavens and the earth. One person reciting the Shurangama Mantra creates power equivalent to one person. A hundred people reciting create power equivalent to a hundred people. And the weird beings here in this world become very well-behaved. So it's better if more people recite.（待续 To be continued）