这个咒如果要说它的好处，那就是说几年也说不完的，太多了。所有十方一切诸佛都是从〈楞严咒〉里边生出来的，所以〈楞严咒〉可以说是佛的母亲。十方如来就是藉着〈楞严咒〉，得成无上正遍知觉。十方如来能应身到微尘数那么多国家，去转法轮教化众生，在十方给众生摩顶授记，拔济众生的群苦，令众生一切大小诸横同时得到解脱，都是凭着这个〈楞严咒〉心的力量。假设想得阿罗汉果，你一定要诵这个咒，才能没有魔事。末法的时候，如果有人能背诵〈楞严咒〉，或者叫他人诵读〈楞严咒〉，这样的人火也不能烧他，水也不能淹死他，无论大毒小毒，都害不了他。一切的毒入到诵持〈楞严咒〉这个人的口里，都会变成甘露味。受持〈楞严咒〉的人不会生到不好的地方，就是你想去也不行。为什么呢？这个〈楞严咒〉拉着你，叫你不要去！不要去！诵持〈楞严咒〉的众生纵然他自己不做什么福德，十方如来所有的功德都给这个人。你说这便宜不便宜！只念念〈楞严咒〉而已。你念〈楞严咒〉，就能常常生在佛出世的时候，和佛在一起熏修。

I could talk for several years and never finish describing the good points of this mantra. All Buddhas of the ten directions come forth from the Shurangama Mantra. The Shurangama Mantra is the mother of all Buddhas. It was by means of the Shurangama Mantra that all Buddhas perfected Unsurpassed Proper and Pervasive Enlightened Knowledge. The ability of the Buddhas of the ten directions to create response bodies and go throughout the ten directions turning the Dharma wheel to teach and transform living beings; to rub the crowns of those beings and bestow predictions upon them; to rescue beings from their complex sufferings; to enable beings to escape both large disasters and small calamities--their ability to do all that comes from the power of the Shurangama Mantra Heart. If you want to attain the fruition of Arhatship, you absolutely must recite this mantra to keep demonic things from happening. During the Dharma-ending Age if people can memorize the Shurangama Mantra or encourage others to memorize it, well, fire cannot burn such people and water cannot drown them. No matter how potent a poison, it cannot harm them. For those who recite the Shurangama Mantra, poison turns to sweet dew as soon as it enters their mouths. People who recite the Shurangama Mantra will never get born in bad places, even if they want to. Why is that so? It's because the Shurangama Mantra pulls you back and won't allow you to go. Someone who recites the Shurangama Mantra may never have amassed any blessings or virtue, but, simply because he recites the mantra, the Thus Come Ones of the ten directions will bestow their own merit and virtue upon that person. Wouldn't you call that a bargain? That happens based on the recitation of the Mantra alone. If you recite the Shurangama Mantra, you will continually get to be born at a time when a Buddha is in the world and will be able to immerse yourself in cultivation under that Buddha's guidance.

假设你心念非常散乱，没能专一，而且没有定力。可是你心里想佛所说的〈楞严咒〉，口里就诵持。金刚藏王菩萨就用很精真的这种心，跟着你这个散乱心持〈楞严咒〉的人，暗暗来催速，一点一点令你这个散乱心就没有了，一点一点就可以得到定力。就是在默默中帮助你，令你开智慧，心念专一，从前八万四千恒河沙劫这么长时间的事情，你就一切一切都明了了。

If your mind is terribly scattered so that you can't concentrate and don't have any samadhi-power, but you think about the Shurangama Mantra and recite it with your lips, the Vajra Treasury King Bodhisattvas will very attentively watch for ways to invisibly help you gradually until your confusion has disappeared and you develop samadhi. They will imperceptibly help you open your wisdom and concentrate your mind to the point that you become crystal clear about all the events spanning the previous eighty-four thousand Ganges' sands of eons.（待续 To be continued）