问：念佛有什么利益？
Question: What are the benefits of being mindful of Buddha?
答：念佛实有无量利益。以下是天如禅师在《净土或问》所列出的十大利益：
Answer: Among its truly immeasurable benefits, here are ten great benefits, as listed by Chán Master Tiānrú in ‘Doubts And Questions On Pure Land’:
十大念佛之今生利益
[9B] Top Ten Benefits From Mindfulness Of Buddha For This Life
【念佛】现世当获十种胜利
Ten Kinds Of Supreme Benefits That Will Be Obtained In This Present Life [With Mindfulness Of Buddha]
一者，昼夜常得一切诸天，大力神将，河沙眷属，隐形守护。
[1] First, in day and night constantly attaining invisible protection of all heavenly beings, godly generals with great power, and their Ganges’ sands’ [number of] family members.
二者，常得二十五大菩萨，如观世音等，及一切菩萨，常随守护。
[2] Second, constantly attaining twenty-five Great Bodhisattvas, such as Guānshìyīn [i.e. Avalokiteśvara] and all [other] Bodhisattvas’ constantly accompanying protection.
三者，常得诸佛昼夜护念，阿弥陀佛常放光明，摄受此人。
[3] Third, constantly attaining all Buddhas’ mindful protection in day and night, with Āmítuófó [i.e. Amitābha Buddha] constantly emitting bright light, to gather and receive [i.e. protect and guide] these persons.
四者，一切恶鬼，若夜叉，若罗刹，皆不能害。一切毒蛇毒龙毒药，悉不能中。
[4] Fourth, all evil ghosts, be they yakṣas, or rākṣasas, are all not able to harm. All poisonous snakes, dragons and poisons, are all not able to infect.
五者，火难水难，怨贼刀箭，牢狱枷锁，横死枉生，悉皆不受。
[5] Fifth, disasters from fires and floods, hateful robbers’ knives and arrows, imprisonment in stocks and chains, untimely and unjust death, will all not be received.
六者，先所作业，悉皆消灭。所杀怨命，彼蒙解脱，更无执对。
[6] Sixth, those earlier created [evil] karmas, will all be eliminated. Of those [karmic creditors] killed who bemoan their ‘fate’, they will receive liberation, to not again be attached to opposition.
七者，夜梦正直，或复梦见阿弥陀佛胜妙色像。
[7] Seventh, with night dreams upright, perhaps repeatedly seeing Āmítuófó’s supremely wonderful [gold]-coloured image.
八者，心常欢喜，颜色光泽，气力充盛，所作吉利。
[8] Eighth, the mind will be constantly joyful, countenance radiant, energy abundant, with that done auspicious.
九者，常为一切世间人民恭敬供养，欢喜礼拜，犹如敬佛。
[9] Ninth, constantly by all of the world’s people reverently given offerings, joyfully revered, similar to reverencing of the Buddha.
十者，命终之时，心无怖畏，正念现前。得见阿弥陀佛，及诸圣众，持金莲华，接引往生西方净土。尽未来际，受胜妙乐。
[10] Tenth, when approaching life’s end, the mind will be without fear, with right mindfulness manifesting in the present, to attain sight of Āmítuófó, and many in his noble assembly, holding a golden lotus flower, for receiving and guiding for rebirth in his Western Pure Land. Exhausting the future’s limit, receiving supreme wonderful bliss.
Namo Amituofo : Translation by Shen Shi’an
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