时间：03/28/2026 03/29/2026
地点：星湖禅修中心
主讲：龙示林
佛法修行
最胜仙人舍身求法
一天，净威菩萨恭敬请问释迦牟尼佛过去修行的因缘，佛为其开示最胜仙人舍身求法之事。
久远劫以前，许多仙人在山林间精勤修习、广行慈心。一天，最胜仙人思惟：「具足慈悲心虽能利益众生，但唯有深入经藏、闻思法义，具足智慧，才能帮助众生除灭烦恼，建立正确知见。」最胜仙人希望以正法度化众生，便积极于大、小城镇间，寻找善说法要的明师。
最胜仙人为众生求法的心，震动了天魔。一天，空中传来天魔的音声：「最胜仙人，你希望求得佛所说的法偈吗？只要你愿意剥除自己的皮肤为纸，刺取身中的鲜血为墨，割截自身的骨头成笔，书写此偈，我将为你说法。」最胜仙人一听，心想：「过去无量劫以来，这血肉之身饱受轮回之苦，却未曾利益过众生，今日逢此殊胜因缘，应当不惜生命，舍此危脆之身，而得微妙之法。」于是，最胜仙人发起欢喜精进之心，立刻剥除皮肤为纸，刺取鲜血为墨，割截骨头成笔，双手合十仰望天际，祈请天魔为他说法。天魔原意为刁难仙人，阻碍其求法，没想到最胜仙人竟如此舍身为法，让天魔失望不已，随即离去。
仙人看着天魔离去，依然向天祈求：「我今日虔诚求法，不惜生命，剥除皮肤为纸，刺取鲜血作墨，割截骨头成笔，皆是心念众生。此愿真实不虚，恳请所有世界大慈大悲能说法者，闻此至诚之心，慈悲示现。」仙人祈愿之际，东方距此三十二剎的他方世界中，普无垢佛国的净名王佛即示现在仙人眼前，绽放清净耀眼的光明，剎那之间，慈照最胜仙人，剥皮刺骨之剧痛消逝无踪，泣血靡烂之肉身平复如故。
净名王佛即为仙人开演集一切福德三昧，最胜仙人听闻法义，成就无碍辩才，更以此智慧为众生广说妙法，令无量众生皆得入三乘圣道。仙人如此慈悲说法度众经一千载，命终生于净名王佛普无垢国。
释迦牟尼佛告诉净威菩萨：「过去的最胜仙人，就是现在的我。由此可知，如果有人能恭敬求法，十方诸佛将不舍此众生，无论何时何地，皆能亲见佛。
Date: 03/28/2026 03/29/2026
Location: Star Lake Meditation Center
Teacher: Shilin Long
Dharma Talk
The Supreme Sage Sacrifices His Body to Seek the Dharma
One day, Bodhisattva Jingwei respectfully asked Śākyamuni Buddha about the causes and conditions of his past cultivation. The Buddha then explained the story of the Supreme Sage who sacrificed his body in order to seek the Dharma.
In a distant kalpa long ago, many sages diligently practiced in the mountains and forests, widely cultivating loving-kindness. One day, the Supreme Sage reflected: “Although possessing great compassion can benefit sentient beings, only by deeply entering the scriptures, hearing and contemplating the Dharma, and fully cultivating wisdom can one truly help sentient beings eliminate afflictions and establish correct views.” Wishing to use the true Dharma to transform beings, the Supreme Sage actively traveled among large and small towns in search of a good teacher skilled in expounding the essential teachings.
The Supreme Sage’s resolve to seek the Dharma for the sake of sentient beings shook the heavenly demon. One day, a voice of the heavenly demon came from the sky: “Supreme Sage, do you wish to obtain the verses of Dharma spoken by the Buddha? If you are willing to strip off your own skin to use as paper, draw your blood to use as ink, cut your bones to make a pen, and write down this verse, I will then speak the Dharma for you.”
Upon hearing this, the Supreme Sage thought: “For countless kalpas in the past, this body of flesh and blood has endured the suffering of saṃsāra, yet has never truly benefited sentient beings. Today, encountering such a rare and supreme condition, I should not begrudge my life, but abandon this fragile body to obtain the wondrous Dharma.”
Thus, the Supreme Sage gave rise to a joyful and vigorous mind, immediately stripped off his skin to use as paper, drew his blood to use as ink, cut his bones to make a pen, joined his palms, looked up to the sky, and implored the heavenly demon to speak the Dharma. The demon had originally intended to harass the sage and obstruct his seeking of the Dharma, but upon seeing the Supreme Sage’s willingness to sacrifice his body for the Dharma, the demon was greatly disappointed and promptly departed.
Watching the demon leave, the sage still prayed to the heavens: “Today I sincerely seek the Dharma, sparing not my life, stripping my skin for paper, drawing my blood for ink, cutting my bones for a pen, all with the sole thought of sentient beings. This vow is true and not false. I earnestly ask that all beings of great compassion who can expound the Dharma in all worlds, upon hearing this sincere resolve, compassionately manifest themselves.”
As the sage made this prayer, in a Buddha land of another world thirty-two kṣetras away to the east, King Buddha Pure Name of the Universally Stainless Buddha Land immediately appeared before the sage, radiating pure and brilliant light. In an instant, his compassionate radiance shone upon the Supreme Sage, and the intense pain of flaying skin and cutting bone vanished without a trace; the flesh torn and bleeding was restored as before.
King Buddha Pure Name then expounded for the sage the samādhi that gathers all merits. Upon hearing the Dharma, the Supreme Sage attained unobstructed eloquence, and with this wisdom widely proclaimed the wondrous Dharma for sentient beings, enabling immeasurable beings to enter the noble paths of the Three Vehicles. The sage compassionately taught and liberated beings in this way for a thousand years, and at the end of his life was reborn in the Universally Stainless Buddha Land of King Buddha Pure Name.
Śākyamuni Buddha told Bodhisattva Jingwei: “The Supreme Sage of the past is none other than myself today. From this we know that if someone respectfully seeks the Dharma, the Buddhas of the ten directions will never abandon that being; at any time and in any place, one will be able to personally behold the Buddha.”
