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上人開示於洛杉磯金輪聖寺一九九二年八月十六日
同性相戀 違陰陽之道
大悲神咒 蘊回生之機
【編按】上人繼八月十四日於萬佛聖城，開示有關一向令醫學界束手無策，人人聞之色變的絕症－愛死病，及新近發現比愛死病更可怕，絕症中的絕症－新肺炎。兩天後，八月十六日，上人又針對相同的題目，在洛杉磯金輪聖寺，再次大聲疾呼，欲令世間的人，及時警醒這全人類的大危機，共同發起大悲心，虔誦〈大悲神咒〉並〈楞嚴神咒〉，消弭災難，轉危為安，長保世界和平。
我們要「苟日新，日日新，又日新」。一天比一天要有進步，一天比一天要深入，不然的話，把光陰都空過了。我們持誦〈大悲咒〉〈楞嚴咒〉。〈大悲咒〉能治一切病，所謂：「大悲大咒通地天。」你念〈大悲咒〉，天堂那兒也有記錄，地獄那兒也有記錄，念得越多越有靈感，可是啊！要持之以恆，不要今日蓮花，明天牡丹，不能專一。你若專一，所謂「專一則靈，分馳則蔽。」
我記得我在東北的時候，有一個村子，叫呂家油坊，日本投降之後，有了瘟疫症。這一個瘟疫症，一天就死幾十口人，十天就死幾百口人。有一戶家庭裡邊有十一口人，在這三天之內死了十三個人。十一口人怎麼會死了十三個呢？因為他有一個親戚，又有一個朋友，因為他有病，來看他病來的，想不到到了這個地方，也就跟著死了，這是很嚴重的瘟疫症。當時我帶了四個小童子，都是十一、二歲的小童子，到這一條村子給他們誦持〈大悲咒〉。在這條村四周圍誦了一百零八遍〈大悲咒〉。當時這條村的瘟疫症也不知道跑到什麼地方去了，就斷了。由這個，我知道誦〈大悲咒〉的感應是不可思議的。
現在到這個末法時代，末法，什麼叫末法呢？就是法到了末梢上了，沒有什麼人真正信佛了。信佛的人也在那兒謗佛、謗法、謗僧。那麼這樣子怎麼還能叫信佛呢？這叫信魔了，信了魔來破壞佛法。那麼這樣子啊！這世界就出現種種壞現象：或者天災，或者人禍，或者瘟疫流行。天災：或者蝗蟲，或者旱澇，人禍啊：無緣無故就飛機失事，火車出軌啊，或者汽車撞車，就發生很多人間的橫禍。又有地震，地震到處也都是令人很恐怕的。可是人只知道這個災難來了，心生恐怖，就不知道追尋這個根是在什麼地方來的？天災，不是天有災，天並沒有災，是我們人類受的劫。人禍是我們自己自作自受。地震也就是因為人類好戰爭、脾氣大、殺人無數，那麼地震，你願意死嗎？願意殺人嗎？好，大家同歸於盡，所以就有地震。這是種種惡現象，我們人啊！都不來研究研究這個根本在什麼地方？我告訴你們，這些的天災人禍或地震，種種的意外：飛機失事、火車出軌、輪船沉海、汽車撞車，種種的問題都是在人心造成的。人心不古，道德淪亡，所以就有這些怪現象。現在在人間最可怕的是同性戀。同性戀這一種行為，叫違背天地的生理，違背陰陽的造化，違背了國家的制度。這種行為是亡國滅種的行為。國若亡了，國而不國。滅種，人種都會斷了。同性雖然這麼相戀，但不會生育，人種就斷了。
種穀有穀的種子，種瓜有瓜的種子，種豆有豆的種子。那麼豆的種子，穀的種子，這一切一切的都有種子。人也有人的種子，人的種子壞了，人都要死亡了，都要斷絕了。
一陰一陽之謂道，
偏陰偏陽之謂疾。
那麼同性戀現在遭了天譴，同性者還不知道。遭什麼天譴呢？同性戀，一戀就生出了問題，因為陽與陽互剋，陰與陰互剋，你看那個吸鐵石，它有陰陽面，它必須要一陰一陽吸到一起。兩面都是陽，它就吸不到一起；兩面都是陰，也不容易吸到一起，由這個物上，推到這個陰陽的道理是不可偏廢的。
《易經》上說：「一陰一陽之謂道，偏陰偏陽之謂疾。」陰陽和合，這就是個道；陰陽不和合，這就出了病了，所以由於同性戀就生出愛死病，愛死病的發源，有人說發源於 Africa（非洲）可是這不是發源於 Africa。愛死病的發源就是同性戀。同性戀一生了這種病，也是無藥可治，無法可醫的，醫生也束手無策。
這個愛死病是什麼病？這就是一個瘟疫病，無藥可治，現在還有人研究愛死病，要想法子來治。唉！這是知其不可而強為之。那麼樣勉強治，不但治不好愛死病，在這愛死病中，又生了一種愛死中的愛死，這是什麼呢？就是肺炎病。這種肺炎病一生出來，比愛死病還厲害。這種病，你兩個人互相握一握手，也會傳染到；對面講一句話，也會傳染到。不但一般人沒有辦法來救治這種的病，就是醫生、護士在去年一年之中，全美國來說死於這種新品種的肺炎病，將近有兩萬人。沒有法子避免，戴口罩也不行，甚至於身體一觸到，也會傳染這種病；不但身體會傳染，這空氣裡頭都會傳染。這一種的病，比原子彈還厲害，比氫氣彈還厲害，所以這就是一個瘟疫劫。瘟疫劫來了，現在不但男人有這個病，女人也多數被傳染到這個病。不但女人有這種病，生下的小孩子也有這種肺炎病，也有愛死病。你看！這多可怕啊！
現在全世界，計算起來，發覺有愛死病和肺炎病的，不在少數，還在胎裡頭就有這種因，就有這種病的菌在這裡頭傳染著，所以全世界的人類就要到末日了，所謂末日，就是同歸於盡，一起都沒有了。全世界現在有一半以上的人，都有這種病菌了，所以這種病一旦爆發的時候，就像洪水橫流似的，無可擋禦，沒有人可以擋得住。
所以人類遇到這種的災難，要怎麼辦呢？就要至誠懇切地誦持〈大悲咒〉，佛說〈大悲咒〉能治世間八萬四千種的病患，八萬四千種的病患都包括在內。現在這個愛死病和肺炎病，也是其中的一部份。
我們要拿出一種至誠懇切的心，像你吃飯那麼誠懇，像你穿衣服那麼誠懇，像你睡覺那麼不可少的，每一天日常、日用生活，要把這個〈大悲咒〉摻雜到生活裡邊，和我們的日常生活要合而為一。能這個樣子，愛死病也怕，肺炎病也怕，可是必須至誠懇切。
那麼世界的人類就要死去超過一半，剩下就是一些修道的，真正修行、念佛的人，誦經的人，吃齋的人，這是可以剩下的。我不是今天講這個話叫你們害怕，這是因為到現在這個時候，不能不再大聲疾呼。告訴你們各位，現在這個時代，不是一個太平的時代，很危險的，朝不保夕，危在頃刻之間。
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Venerable Master's Talk at Gold Wheel Sagely Monastery, Los Angeles, August 16,1992
Homosexuality Opposes the Way of
Yin and Yang
The Spiritual Mantra of Great Compassion Offers a Chance for
Life
(Editor's Note: On August 14, the Venerable Master lectured at the Sagely City of Ten Thousand Buddhas on the terminal disease which has tied doctors' hands and caused people to pale at its mention---AIDS, and an alarming new illness---the "new pneumonia." On August 16, the Venerable Master again addressed this topic at Gold Wheel Monastery in Los Angeles, crying out to wake up the people of the world to this great crisis which threatens all of humanity, and exhorting everyone to recite the Great Compassion Mantra and the Shurangama Mantra to avert the crisis and preserve world peace.)
We should follow the saying; "If you can renew yourself one day, then renew yourself every day." Each day we should go forward a step; every day we should advance some. Otherwise we will waste our life in vain. We should recite the Great Compassion Mantra and the Shurangama Mantra. The Great Compassion Mantra can cure all illnesses. It's said, "The Great Mantra of Great Compassion penetrates heaven and earth." When you recite the Great Compassion Mantra, the heavens and hells will all take note of it. The more you recite, the more efficacious the response will be. However, you have to recite with constancy; you should not choose "lotuses today, and peonies tomorrow," and be unable to concentrate on one. It's said, "Concentration results in efficacy; scatteredness results in nothing."
I remember when a village in northeastern China suffered an epidemic after the Japanese had surrendered. Several tens of people died every day, so several hundreds would be dead after ten days. In one household of eleven, there were thirteen deaths in three days. How could there be thirteen deaths in a household of eleven people? It was because there were also a relative and friend who had come to visit the sick family, not knowing that when they got there they would die along with the others. This was a really severe epidemic.
At that time, I took four eleven or twelve-year-old boys with me to this village to recite the Great Compassion Mantra for the sake of the villagers. After we had walked all around the village reciting the Great Compassion Mantra one hundred and eight times, the epidemic mysteriously disappeared. From this, I knew that the response from reciting the Great Compassion Mantra is inconceivable.
Now we have come to the Dharma Ending Age. What is "Dharma Ending"? It means the Dharma is about to fade away and trail off. Few people have real faith in Buddha, and the Buddhists are slandering the Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha. How can this be called believing in Buddha? This is called believing in demons. Believing in demons, they come to destroy the Buddhadharma. And so all kinds of evil henomena appear in this world, be they natural disasters, man-made calamities, or the spread of epidemics. Natural disasters include swarms of locusts, droughts, and floods. Man-made calamities include plane crashes, derailed trains, and car collisions, all happening without any apparent reason, and resulting in a multitude of human crises. Then there are the earthquakes which have been occuring everywhere, frightening people. But people only know to how to become scared when the catastrophes occur. They don't know to look for the root of it. Natural disasters do not belong to Nature. Nature has no disasters. It is the human species which suffers disasters. Man-made disasters are disasters which we bring upon ourselves. Earthquakes occur because people are fond of war, have big tempers, and kill countless people. "Do you want to die? Do you like to kill people? Fine, we can all die together!" and so the earth quakes. These are all various kinds of evil phenomena. We people! Why do we fail to investigate and find out where the root is at? Let me tell you all, that these natural disasters, man-made calamities, and earthquakes, all the various accidents of planes crashing, train derailing, ships sinking, and cars colliding, are all created by the minds of people. People's minds are not as they used to be, and virtue and morality have deteriorated, and so these unusual phenomena have appeared.
The most frightening thing in the human world now is homosexuality. Homosexuality is a practice which opposes the life principle of the universe, which goes against the creative energies of
Yin and Yang, and which violates the laws of the nation.
This kind of behavior will cause the country to perish and the human race to become extinct. If the country perishes, then it's no longer a country, and the human race is also cut off. Although homosexuals are so infatuated with one another, they cannot reproduce, so the seeds of the human race will be lost. To plant corn, seed-corns are required. To plant melons, melon seeds are needed. To plant beans, bean seeds are needed. Not only do corn and beans have seeds, everything has seeds. Humans also have human seeds. If the human seeds are destroyed, then humans will all perish, and humanity will come to an end.
One Yin and one Yang is caved the way; extreme Yin or extreme Yang is caved illness.
Now, homosexual conduct has already incurred punishment from the heavens, yet the homosexuals aren't even aware of it. What kind of heavenly punishment have they provoked? Well, as soon as they engage in homosexual behavior, there are problems. This is because
Yang (the male or positive principle) mutually overcomes
Yang, and Yin (the female or negative principle) mutually overcomes
Yin. Just take a look at a magnet, which has a negative (Yin) side and a positive (Yang) side. There has to be one negative and one positive for the two to be sucked together. If both sides are positive they cannot be drawn together. If both sides are negative, it's not easy for them to be attracted to each other. From the study of matter, we can deduce the principle of Yin and Yang, which cannot favor one and neglect the other.
The Book of Change says, "One Yin and one
Yang is called the Way; extreme Yin or extreme
Yang is called illness." When Yin and Yang harmonize together, this is the Way. When
Yin and Yang do not harmonize, illness results. The practice of homosexuality has produced AIDS. Some say AIDS originated in Africa, but Africa is not the source of AIDS. The origin of AIDS is homosexuality. When homosexuals catch this disease, they have no medicine to treat it, and no way to cure it. The doctors all have their hands tied, with no strategy for dealing with it.
What kind of disease is AIDS? It's an epidemic which cannot be cured by any medicine. There are still people studying AIDS right now, trying to find a way to cure it. Alas! This is called knowing something can not be done, yet insisting on doing it any way. Attempting to cure it by force, they not only fail to cure AIDS, but what happened is that from AIDS came another "AIDS", which is pneumonia. This pneumonia is even more vicious than AIDS, once you catch it. This illness can be transmitted through the mere shaking of hands. If the sick person merely opens his mouth to speak, he can pass the disease to you. Not only ordinary people have no way to treat this disease; even among the doctors and nurses, in the last year alone in the U.S., nearly twenty thousand have died from the new variety of pneumonia. There's no way to avoid it—even face masks don't work. When there is body contact, the infection is transmitted. It can even be passed through the air. This kind of illness is more devastating than the atomic bomb. It's more devastating than the hydrogen bomb. That's why this is a catastrophe of epidemic proportions. Now that this epidemic has struck, not only do men have this disease, a great number of women have also been infected. And not only do women have it, even babies are getting born with this kind of pneumonia and with AIDS. Just look! How terrifying this is!
Throughout the world now, if we count it up, we find that the number of people with AIDS and this pneumonia is not small, for some are infected with the germs of pneumonia while still in the womb. That's why all over the world, the final days of the human race have arrived. The so-called final days means that all will be annihilated, all will disappear. Among the human population in the entire world, more than half are infected with the germs of this disease, so when this disease breaks out, it will be like an overwhelming deluge which cannot be stopped by anyone.
So what should the human race do when it encounters this kind of calamity? We should recite the Great Compassion Mantra with the utmost sincerity and earnestness. The Buddha said that the Great Compassion Mantra can cure the eighty-four thousand illnesses of the world. All the eighty-four thousand kinds of diseases are covered, including AIDS and pneumonia. We should bring forth a mind of utmost sincerity, and be as earnest as when we are eating, as earnest as when we are dressing, and as dedicated as we are to sleeping, so much so that we cannot miss any sleep.
We have to merge the Great Compassion Mantra into our daily activities, so that it becomes an integral part of our everyday life. If we can do this, then AIDS will be afraid and pneumonia will also be afraid. But this requires our utmost sincerity.
Over half of the human population in the world is going to perish, and those who will be left will be people who cultivate the Way, who cultivate truly, those who recite the Buddha's name, those who recite Sutras, those who are vegetarian--these people will be able to remain. I'm not saying this to terrify you. It's just that the time has come when I can no longer refrain from shouting and crying out, to tell all of you that this current age is not a time of peace. It is very dangerous, and each morning we have no guarantee that we will see the evening; for the danger can come at any moment.
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