關於《楞嚴經》的問題，我告訴你們一個實實在在的話，《楞嚴經》這是佛的一個舍利，這是佛的真身。有人批評《楞嚴經》，無論是哪一個，他要是菩薩，批評《楞嚴經》是假的，這個菩薩即刻就墮地獄；他是阿羅漢，批評《楞嚴經》是假的，這個阿羅漢他也即刻會墮地獄。不要說是一些凡夫俗子，什麼scholar，什麼學者，這些個都是垃圾簍裡頭的東西，他根本就沒有資格明白這個《楞嚴經》，也沒有資格來批評《楞嚴經》。所以任何人批評《楞嚴經》的，我不管他是誰，他都是地獄的種子。

Let me tell you the honest truth about the Shurangama Sutra. The Shurangama Sutra is the Buddha's sharira, the Buddha's real body. It doesn't matter who criticizes the Shurangama Sutra. If it is a Bodhisattva criticizing the Shurangama Sutra as being false, this Bodhisattva will fall into the hells instantly; if it is an Arhat criticizing the Shurangama Sutra as being false, this Arhat will also fall into the hells right away. Needless to say, those ordinary people, those scholars, are nothing but trash; basically they are not qualified to understand the Shurangama Sutra at all, nor are they qualified to criticize the Shurangama Sutra. Therefore, anyone who criticizes the Shurangama Sutra--I don't care who he is--is planting a seed for the hells.

《楞嚴經》這一部經，是整個佛教一部代表的經，若沒有《楞嚴經》就沒有佛教。所以佛才預先就說，法滅的時候，《楞嚴經》先滅；《楞嚴經》滅完了以後，其他的經典才繼續地滅。所以我們佛教徒，要是想護持佛教，先要護持《楞嚴經》，到處來講《楞嚴經》，說《楞嚴經》，翻譯《楞嚴經》，念《楞嚴經》，並且主要地要誦〈楞嚴咒〉。這〈楞嚴咒〉就是佛的法身，有〈楞嚴咒〉的地方，就是有佛的舍利。

The Shurangama Sutra is a Sutra that represents the whole of Buddhism. If the Shurangama Sutra didn't exist, there wouldn't be any Buddhism. Therefore, the Buddha predicted that when the Dharma is in the process of becoming extinct, the Shurangama Sutra will be the first to disappear. After it disappears, the other Sutras will disappear in succession. As Buddhists, if we want to protect and support Buddhism, we first have to protect and support the Shurangama Sutra. We have to lecture on and explain the Shurangama Sutra in every place, translate the Shurangama Sutra, recite the Shurangama Sutra, and most of all, memorize the Shurangama Mantra. The Shurangama Mantra is the Buddha's Dharma-body. Wherever the Shurangama Mantra is found, that's where the Buddha's sharira is.

所以在前邊我才說，我們佛教徒，無論哪一個，你也不能批評《楞嚴經》是假的，你不能這樣說。你若這樣說，就是地獄的種子，就是想要下地獄去了，在這個人世間不願意做人了，想要去墮地獄、做餓鬼，將來做畜生去。你就動一個念，來說《楞嚴經》是假的，這都是將來入阿鼻地獄永無出期的一個因。知不知道怎麼那麼多的人下地獄？就因為他不相信《楞嚴經》。乃至於就現在的博士、學者，他們自己根本就無知識，沒有資格來批評哪一部經典是真的，哪一部經典是假的，因為他沒有擇法眼呢！他也不認識佛法是怎麼回事，就那麼人云亦云。

I mentioned previously that none of us who are Buddhists should criticize the Shurangama Sutra and say that it is false. You musn't say that! If you say that, you are planting a seed for the hells; you are just trying to fall into the hells. You don't want to be a human being in this world; instead you want to fall into the hells, to be a hungry ghost, and to be an animal in the future. Just by having that one thought of saying that the Shurangama Sutra is false, you are sowing the cause for falling into the Avici Hell forever and never coming out. Do you know why so many people fall into the hells? It's because they do not believe in the Shurangama Sutra. Those Ph.D.'s and scholars who disclaim the Sutra nowadays are completely ignorant. They are not qualified to judge which Sutra is true and which one is false because they do not have the Dharma-selecting Eye! They do not know what the Buddhadharma is all about; all they do is echo the words of others.