时间：12/20/2025 12/21/2025
地点：星河禅修中心
主讲：黄云全
佛法修行
想成佛的喜见菩萨
从前有个喜见菩萨，他一心想成佛，为成佛而努力地修行着。他修行了两万年，经历无数的劫苦，终于得到神通。
有一天，喜见菩萨看见恒河沙世界的河流干枯，大地干裂，毫无生机，便运用神通下了场大雨。雨后河水涨满了，山峦也绿了，喜见菩萨还从天空中降下曼陀罗花与旃檀香。
人们看到这种景象，意识到是佛陀慈悲布施给众人的，便对着天空大喊：
「谢谢仁慈的佛陀，赏赐大家雨水、鲜花和檀香。」
「佛陀啊！您拯救了我们！」
「不用谢！这是我给大家的一点心意。」
人们朝答话的地方望去，只见喜见菩萨站在山腰上，对大家挥手致意。
经过这次布施，喜见菩萨感受到人们的欢喜，更想成佛了，于是他选在一个黄昏时分，浑身缠上天衣，往天衣上浇一桶香油，点火自焚了。
剎那间，整个天空被熊熊火光照得通红，还照亮八十亿恒河沙世界，人们都感到他的光明普照于大地人间。
修行两万年的喜见菩萨燃烧自己，身上的火竟然燃烧到一千二百年以后才熄灭，让无数人都领略到他的光和热。
后来喜见菩萨转生到净德王家，长大成人后便离开父王，来到前世供奉的日月净明德佛身旁。
日月净明德佛见到他，开心地说：「喜见啊！你来得正是时候，我正要嘱托你一件大事。」
「是什么大事？」喜见在日月净明德佛面前跪着，专心地聆听佛陀的开示。
「我在人世间的因缘已经尽了，准备今天晚上入涅槃。我希望你把我的舍利骨拿到人间去，广泛设置供养佛经的塔寺，越多越好，一定要让佛法遍布人间。」
「请放心，我一定会实现您的遗愿。」喜见合掌，一口答应。
当天夜里，日月净明德佛就入涅槃了。
第二天早晨，喜见菩萨用旃檀树枝堆积在日月净明德佛的遗体上，点火焚烧，火焰顿时吞没了遗体。
待遗体焚尽，喜见菩萨将佛的舍利骨收聚起，分别放进八万四千个宝瓶中，把它们带到各地用以供养。不仅如此，他还在日月净明德佛涅槃的地方修起八万四千座佛塔，以表示自己对日月净明德佛的忠诚。
八万四千座佛塔整齐地排列在恒河沙世界的土地上，天下人都来这里供养佛经。
看到眼前密密麻麻的人群来追求供养佛塔舍利，喜见菩萨万分激动，想再次燃烧自己来表达内心想成佛的决心。
于是喜见菩萨走到佛塔前，挥刀砍下自己的左臂，又让人把右臂也砍了下来，堆放在塔前，泼上香油燃烧起来。
这次的燃烧竟长达七万二千年，带给众人光和热，并使许多人大发菩提心肠。
但是这七万二千年来，喜见菩萨还没有成佛，仍然整天忧愁痛苦。他激动得对天大喊：
「佛陀！您至高无上，我为您舍弃自己的双臂已经七万二千年了。我应当成佛的，我一定能成佛的。如果我真的能成佛的话，请将双臂复原给我吧 ！」
一时间，大地出现震动，天空中飘下千万朵花。喜见菩萨一时眼花撩乱，突然觉得浑身温暖极了，一低头，便看见双臂完好的长在自己身上。
喜见菩萨顿时高举起双臂，欢喜地跳起来高喊：「我成佛了！我成佛了！我这就去佛陀那里。」
佛陀告诉宿王化菩萨：「喜见菩萨就是当今的药王佛，你们如果有心求无上菩提道，不管是烧自己的一根手指或脚趾来供养佛塔，功德都是无量大的啊！」
Date: 12/20/2025 12/21/2025
Location: Star River Meditation Center
Teacher: Yunquan Huang
Dharma Talk
The Bodhisattva Gladly-Seen Who Longed to Become a Buddha
Thus have I heard:
In ages long past, there was a Bodhisattva named Gladly-Seen. With a single-hearted resolve he sought Buddhahood, and for its sake he endured uncountable kalpas of hardship, cultivating practice for twenty thousand years, until he attained supernatural powers.
At one time, he beheld the worlds of the Ganges sands: rivers dried up, earth cracked, and no life remained. Moved with great compassion, he employed his power and caused a rain to fall. Waters filled the rivers, mountains grew green again, and from the sky descended mandārava blossoms and sandalwood fragrance.
The people, beholding this, cried out in joy:
“Compassionate Buddha, who grants rain, flowers, and incense to all beings!”
“O Buddha, you have saved us!”
Then Gladly-Seen Bodhisattva, standing upon a mountainside, raised his hand and said:
“Give no thanks. This is but a small offering of mine.”
Seeing their joy, his resolve for Buddhahood grew ever stronger. At dusk, he wrapped his body in celestial robes, poured fragrant oil upon them, and set himself aflame.
At that instant, the heavens blazed with fire, illuminating eighty billion Ganges-sand worlds. All beings felt his light and warmth. His body burned unceasingly for one thousand two hundred years, and countless beings were moved to arouse the Bodhi-mind.
In a later life, he was born into the house of King Pure-Virtue. Upon reaching maturity, he left the palace and came before the Buddha Sun-Moon-Pure-Bright-Virtue, to whom he had formerly made offerings.
The Buddha, seeing him, said joyfully:
“Gladly-Seen, you come at the right time. I have a great task for you.”
The Bodhisattva knelt and said:
“What is this task, O Blessed One?”
The Buddha said:
“My time among men is ended. Tonight I shall enter Nirvāṇa. I entrust to you my relics. Bear them to the human world and build stūpas and temples in countless places, that the Dharma may spread without measure.”
The Bodhisattva answered:
“Be at peace, World-honored One. I shall fulfill your charge.”
That night, the Buddha entered Nirvāṇa. At dawn, Gladly-Seen gathered sandalwood branches into a pyre and set it alight. The flames consumed the Buddha’s body. When all was burned, he collected the relics and placed them in eighty-four thousand jeweled vessels. With these, he journeyed throughout the worlds, building eighty-four thousand stūpas.
Thus in all the lands, people came to pay homage and make offerings. Beholding the vast throngs seeking merit, Gladly-Seen was moved with fervent resolve, and thought again to sacrifice himself.
Before the stūpas he took a blade, cut off his left arm, then his right, placed them together, poured fragrant oil upon them, and set them aflame as an offering.
This fire burned for seventy-two thousand years, bringing light and warmth to beings, and many awakened the resolve for Bodhi.
Yet in all these years, Gladly-Seen had not yet attained Buddhahood. In grief he cried aloud to the heavens:
“O Buddha! You are supreme. For seventy-two thousand years I have offered my arms. Surely I should become a Buddha! If it be true that I shall attain Buddhahood, let my arms be restored!”
Then the earth shook, and flowers rained down from the sky. His body grew warm, and looking down he beheld his arms whole once more.
Overjoyed, he lifted his arms high and cried:
“I have become a Buddha! I have become a Buddha! I go now to the Buddha’s presence.”
The Blessed One said to Bodhisattva King of Healing Powers:
“That Bodhisattva Gladly-Seen is none other than the present Buddha Bhaiṣajyarāja, the Medicine King. Know that if one, seeking the Supreme Path, should burn even a single finger or toe as an offering before the stūpa of the Buddha, the merit is measureless and boundless.”
