时间：12/27/2025 12/28/2025
地点：星湖禅修中心
主讲：龙示林
佛法修行
那罗居民修善除病
佛陀在王舍城迦兰陀竹林弘法时，有一聚落名为那罗，居民常为瘟疫、恶疾夺去性命。恐惧无助下，居民们祭拜天神，乞求庇佑，希望灾疫能够消除。然而，再丰盛的祭品，数不尽的祈求，灾疫仍然没有减少，身心饱受苦楚的人们，只能无奈地叹息！
当时，聚落中住着一位虔信佛法的优婆塞，他告诉大众：「慈悲的佛陀威德自在，能令众生远离灾厄，获得利益安乐。现在大众应当一心称念『南无佛陀』，乞求佛陀救济，让灾疫平息。」众人闻言，如溺水之人忽得浮木，纷纷至诚长跪，至心称念「南无佛陀」，唯愿佛陀大慈哀愍，救度众人远难疾疫病苦。
佛陀观察到那罗居民正饱受苦厄，于是率领弟子们来到聚落，教化大众，令其断恶修善，广积福德。由此善法、福德之力，灾疫退散，人们身心复得安泰。蒙佛恩泽的居民们，为了感激佛陀的帮助，不仅家家户户备妥肴，亦洒扫道路，竖立幢幡，悬挂宝铃，并以香花铺地，恭请佛陀及众比丘受其供养。佛陀慈悲受请，并为渴仰佛法的大众开示种种法要，令众人心开意解，证得初果、或二果、三果……乃至发无上菩提心。
当时在旁的弟子见此事已，甚感奇特，于是请示佛陀：「世尊！夙昔植何福德，能令灾疫消除并获大众设供养？恳请世尊慈悲开示个中因缘。」佛陀道：「久远前，有一佛出世，号日月光。一日，日月光佛率诸弟子弘化至梵摩王国，国王设宴供养佛陀。
斋毕，国王长跪启请佛陀慈悲济度国人灾疫之苦。佛陀即将身上所着袈裟，授予国王；国王令人将袈裟系于幢幡之上，虔诚供养。于时，灾疫消除，国人得以安居乐业。国王大喜，进发无上菩提心，护持佛法。
日月光佛为其授记，未来世当成佛道，号释迦牟尼，广度众生，不可限量。当时，梵摩王即我前身，大众比丘为梵摩王之群臣。因此供佛功德，令我无量世中不堕恶道，常生天上、人间受诸快乐，乃至这一世圆成佛道，受人天供养。」
大众比丘闻此殊胜因缘，心生欢喜，依佛所教，如法修行。
Date: 12/27/2025 12/28/2025
Location: Star Lake Meditation Center
Teacher: Shilin Long
Dharma Talk
The Residents of Nara Remove Illness by Practicing Good Deeds
When the Buddha was teaching the Dharma in the Bamboo Grove Monastery at Rājagṛha, there was a settlement named Nara, whose residents often lost their lives to plagues and severe illnesses.
In fear and helplessness, the residents worshipped heavenly gods and begged for protection, hoping the calamities and epidemics would disappear.
However, no matter how abundant the offerings or how countless the prayers, the disasters did not lessen. The people, tormented in body and mind, could only sigh helplessly!
At that time, in the settlement lived a lay disciple who faithfully believed in the Buddha’s teachings. He told the people:
“The compassionate Buddha possesses sovereign power and virtue. He can enable beings to be free from calamities and obtain benefit and peace.
Everyone should now wholeheartedly recite ‘Namo Buddha,’ and beg the Buddha to relieve us, so that the epidemic may subside.”
When the people heard this, it was like drowning persons suddenly grasping a floating log.
They all knelt sincerely and recited with utmost devotion, “Namo Buddha,” hoping that the Buddha’s great compassion would pity them and save them from danger and the suffering of illness.
The Buddha observed that the residents of Nara were suffering greatly from affliction, so he led his disciples to the settlement, taught the people, and guided them to abandon evil, practice good deeds, and accumulate great merit.
Because of these wholesome actions and the power of merit and virtue, the epidemic retreated, and the people’s bodies and minds returned to peace.
Grateful for the Buddha’s kindness, the residents not only prepared food in every household, but also swept the roads, erected banners, hung precious bells, and scattered incense flowers on the ground to respectfully invite the Buddha and the monks to receive their offerings.
The Buddha compassionately accepted the invitation and expounded various essential teachings for the people who longed for the Dharma, enabling them to gain clarity and understanding.
Some attained the first fruit, some the second fruit, some the third fruit… and some even generated the unsurpassed Bodhi mind.
A disciple nearby found all of this extraordinary and asked the Buddha:
“World-Honored One! What merit did you plant in the past that allows you now to eliminate epidemics and receive offerings from the masses?
We earnestly request the World-Honored One to compassionately explain the causes and conditions.”
The Buddha said:
“In the distant past, a Buddha appeared in the world named Sun-Moon-Light.
One day, the Buddha Sun-Moon-Light and his disciples traveled to the kingdom of Brahma-Ma to spread the Dharma.
The king held a feast to make offerings to the Buddha. After the meal, the king knelt and requested the Buddha to compassionately relieve his people from the suffering of epidemics.
The Buddha then gave the robe he was wearing to the king.
The king had the robe fastened atop a banner and sincerely made offerings.
At that time, the epidemic disappeared, and the people were able to live peacefully and work happily.
The king was overjoyed and generated the unsurpassed Bodhi mind, vowing to protect the Buddha’s teaching.”
“The Buddha Sun-Moon-Light bestowed a prediction, saying:
‘In future lifetimes, you shall attain Buddhahood and be named Śākyamuni, who will broadly liberate beings beyond measure.’
At that time, King Brahma-Ma was my previous life, and the monks in the assembly today were the king’s ministers.
Because of making offerings to the Buddha, I did not fall into evil destinies for immeasurable lifetimes, and continually enjoyed happiness in heavenly realms and human worlds, until in this lifetime I accomplished Buddhahood and received offerings from humans and devas.”
When the great bhikkhus heard this supreme causal story, joy arose in their hearts, and they practiced according to the Buddha’s teachings.
