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红似龙眼核
无患求安乐
优雅朴素中
何来忧患呢
— 18/06/22

Commentary: 无患子 (Western soapberry) is the first prayer beads documented in Buddhism and with its own sutra -《佛说木槵子经》, documenting the benefits of chanting with soapberry prayer beads. Soapberry is in the same genus as lychee and longan, and soapberry seeds feels like longan seeds but much tougher. I gotten myself several bags of seeds and made myself a 54-seed mala with seeds leaning towards red. I like the plain look and it is calm to chant with it.

《佛说木槵子经》

闻如是:

一时佛游罗阅祇耆阇崛山中,与大比丘众一千二百五十人俱,菩萨无数,名称远闻,天、人所敬。时难国王,名波流离,遣使来到佛所,顶礼佛足,白佛言:“世尊!我国边小,频岁寇贼,五谷勇贵,疾病流行,人民困苦,我恒不得安卧。如来法藏,多悉深广;我有忧务,不得修行。唯愿世尊特垂慈愍,赐我要法!使我日夜易得修行,未来世中远离众苦。”

佛告王言:“若欲灭烦恼障、报障者,当贯木槵子一百八,以常自随。若行、若坐、若卧,恒当至心,无分散意,称佛陀、达摩、僧伽名,乃过一木槵子,如是渐次度木槵子,若十、若二十、若百、若千,乃至百千万。若能满二十万遍,身心不乱,无诸谄曲者,舍命得生第三焰天,衣食自然,常安乐行。若复能满一百万遍者,当得断除百八结业,始名背生死流,趣向泥洹,永断烦恼根,获无上果。”

信还启王,王大欢喜,遥向世尊,头面礼佛云:“大善!我当奉行。”即敕吏民,营办木槵子,以为千具,六亲国戚,皆与一具。王常诵念,虽亲军旅,亦不废置。又作是念:“世尊大慈,普应一切。若我此善,得免长沦苦海,如来当现我身,为我说法。”愿乐迫心,三日不食。

佛即应形,与诸眷属,来其宫内,而告王曰:“莎斗比丘,诵三宝名,经历十岁,得成斯陀含果;渐次习行,今在普香世界,作辟支佛。”王闻是已,倍复修行。

佛告阿难:“何况能诵三宝名,经历万数;但能闻此人名,生一念随喜者,未来生处,常闻十善。”

说是法时,大众欢喜,皆愿奉行!

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