Translations

How To Handle Great Sicknesses? 如何处理大病?

凡属危险大病,多由宿世现生杀业而得。

[Of] all belonging [to those with] dangerous [and] great sicknesses, [they are] mostly due [to] past lives’ [and the] present life’s [negative] karma [from] killing then attained.

而有病之人,必须断绝房事,方可速愈。

And [these] people with sicknesses, must sever [from] sexual matters, [at least for the time being]. Then can [there be] swift healing, [if lifespan is not at its end].

欲灭宿现杀业,必须戒杀吃素。

Desiring [to] eradicate past [and] present [negative] karma [from] killing, [there] must [be] abstaining [from] killing, [and with] eating [as] veg[etari]an.

又复至诚念佛,及念观音,则必可速愈,且能培德而种善根。

Also, [with] utmost sincere mindfulness [of Amitā(bha)] Buddha[‘s name: Āmítuófó], and[/or] mindfulness [of] Guān[shì]yīn [Bodhisattva’s name], thus definitely [will they] able [to have] swift healing, further able [to] cultivate virtues and plant good roots.

倘怨业病,除此治法,断难痊愈。

If resenting karmic sicknesses, [and] eradicating these healing methods [above, it will be] definitely difficult [to have] full healing.

其人,与其家父,母,妻,子,望愈心急,未必不肯依从。

These people, and their families’ Fathers, Mothers, wives [and] children, hoping [for] healing [with] minds anxious, not necessarily [will] not [be] willing [to] rely [on this advice to] follow [accordingly, to create and dedicate meritorious virtues to the concerned].

倘肯依从,则便种出世善根。

If willing [to] rely [on this to] follow, thus then planting good roots [for] transcending [the] world.

从兹生正信心,后或由此了生脱死,超凡入圣,则于彼于汝,均有大益。

From now giving rise [to the] right mind [of] faith, [to] later perhaps due [to] this, liberating [from the cycle of] birth [and] death, transcending [the] ordinary [to] enter [the] sagely. Thus, for them [and] for you, all [will] have great benefits.

净土宗十三祖印光大师
Pure Land Tradition’s 13th Patriarch Great Master Yìnguāng
(与马星樵医士书)
(Letter to Doctor Mǎ Xīngqiáo)

Notes:

[1] Of course, proper medical advice should also be responsibly and reasonably (but not overly) sought for care when sick, to expedite healing, unless confirmed to be unnecessary or too late.

[2] For practice, mindfulness of Āmítuófó’s name will do for healing, as he already is the ‘Unsurpassable King Of Healers’ (无上大医王), although those who habitually associate Guānshìyīn Bodhisattva more with healing can practise with her name too.

[3] See too, the first Related Article below, on the need to shift priorities to aspire only for reaching Pure Land if severely sick, to the point of possibly already dying.

[4] See too, the second Related Article on when it is best to only practise mindfulness of Āmítuófó’s name, with the straight[forward] mind.

Namo Amituofo : Translation and notes by Shen Shi’an

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