今天农历正月初一是弥勒菩萨的圣诞日。南无当来下生弥勒尊佛。
Today, the 1st day of the 1st lunar month, is Maitreya Bodhisattva’s sacred birthday. Homage to the honourable future descending and born Maitreya Buddha.
佛告弥勒【菩萨】：
「其有得闻，
彼【阿弥陀】佛名号，
欢喜踊跃，乃至一念，
当知此人，为得大利，
则是具足，无上功德。
是故，弥勒，
设有大火，充满三千
大千世界，要当过此，
闻是经法，欢喜信乐，
受持读诵，如说修行。」
释迦牟尼佛
《无量寿经》
[The] Buddha told Maitreya [Bodhisattva], ‘[If] there are [those who] attain hearing [of] that Buddha’s name [Āmítuófó], [with] joyful enthusiasm, and even [if for] one thought, [you] should know [that] these persons [will] because of [this] attain great benefits, [who] are then complete [with] unsurpassable meritorious virtues.
Therefore, Maitreya, if [there] is [a] great fire, [that] fully fills [the] three-thousandfold great-thousandfold world, [there] should [be] crossing [of] this, [to] hear this sūtra’s Dharma, [with] joyful faith, accepting, upholding, studying [and] reciting [it, with] as said cultivate practice.
Śākyamuni Buddha
(Immeasurable Life Sūtra)
