时间：01/17/2026 01/18/2026
地点：星河禅修中心
主讲：黄云全
佛法修行
一次施舍的福德
在舍卫国里有个名叫拘留的老人，他非常富有，却一点也不开心，因为他一直没有孩子。他日夜虔诚地祈祷，希望能求到一个儿子，最后终于感动了天神。
天神现身对拘留说：「拘留！过两天有个天王寿命会终止，他将降生到你家去，你就安心等着吧！」
果然，拘留老人的妻子自从那一天起便怀孕了，后来生下一个儿子，拘留将他取名为须菩提。
日子过得很快，不知不觉间，须菩提已经长大成人了，他不但相貌堂堂，而且头脑聪明、心地善良。他看到天下无数百姓都过着穷苦的日子，于是对自己家中过于富足的生活感到羞愧。
须菩提心中便立下誓言要请佛陀指明众生解脱之道。于是，须菩提对父母说：
「父亲、母亲，儿子在家多年，接受父母养育的恩典，永远都不敢忘记。但是我想帮助众生寻求解脱之道，希望你们允许我追随佛陀出家去。」
拘留夫妇听了大受感动，虽然内心舍不得，但因为知道须菩提是天王转世再来的，不是一般常人，所以也只好答应了。
于是，须菩提出家做了沙门，跟着佛陀认真地修行，不久就证得初果，后来又在佛陀的弟子中首先修成阿罗汉。
佛陀的弟子阿难，对须菩提得道快速惊讶不已，恭敬地问佛陀：
「世尊，请问须菩提前世有什么功德呢？今生可以如此快速成就阿罗汉道？」
佛陀说：「阿难！你问得好！须菩提他之所以得道很快，是因为他前世的因缘。
他曾经是个穷人家的小孩。那时，有个比丘到城里化缘，好几天都没有化到东西，走遍城里都没有人肯施舍。正好比丘遇到须菩提的前身，他人虽小，家里又穷，却有怜悯之心，便领着比丘回到家里，将自己的一份饭食施与他，自己却饿着肚子。比丘吃完便借着神通力飞升离去，小孩看了心中欢喜无比。
后来小孩转世到天界做天王，经过九十一劫后，他寿终降世在现在的拘留家里，不喜欢财富只喜欢佛法，所以出家便迅速得道。这是须菩提累世的因缘所致。」
这时，阿难叹口气说：「一次施舍就能有如此的福德，更何况多次施舍呢！」
Date: 01/17/2026 01/18/2026
Location: Star River Meditation Center
Teacher: Yunquan Huang
Dharma Talk
The Merit of a Single Act of Giving
In the city of Śrāvastī there lived an elderly man named Juliu. He was extremely wealthy, yet he felt no happiness at all, for he had never had a child. Day and night he prayed with sincere devotion, hoping to obtain a son, and in the end his earnest prayers moved the heavenly beings.
A deity appeared before Juliu and said,
“Juliu, in a few days a heavenly king whose lifespan has come to an end will descend and be reborn in your household. You may wait in peace.”
From that very day onward, Juliu’s wife became pregnant, and in due time she gave birth to a son. Juliu named the child Subhūti.
Time passed swiftly, and before long Subhūti had grown to adulthood. He was not only dignified in appearance, but also keen in intellect and kind in heart. Seeing that countless people throughout the world lived in poverty and hardship, he felt ashamed of the excessive wealth enjoyed by his own household.
Subhūti then formed a vow in his heart to request that the Buddha point out for sentient beings the path to liberation. He therefore spoke to his parents, saying,
“Father, Mother, your son has lived at home for many years and has received the grace of your nurture, which I shall never forget. Yet I wish to help sentient beings seek the path of liberation. I hope you will allow me to follow the Buddha and leave home.”
When Juliu and his wife heard these words, they were deeply moved. Although they were reluctant in their hearts, they knew that Subhūti was a heavenly king reborn and not an ordinary person, and thus they gave their consent.
Subhūti thereupon left home and became a śramaṇa, following the Buddha in diligent cultivation. Before long he attained the First Fruit, and later, among the Buddha’s disciples, he was the foremost to realize the fruition of an Arhat.
Ānanda, a disciple of the Buddha, was greatly astonished at the speed with which Subhūti attained the Path, and with reverence he asked the Buddha,
“World-Honored One, what merit did Subhūti cultivate in former lives that allows him in this life to so swiftly accomplish the Arhat Path?”
The Buddha replied,
“Ānanda, you have asked well. Subhūti attained the Path quickly because of causes and conditions from his past lives. In a former life, he was a child born into a poor household. At that time, a bhikṣu came into the city to beg for alms. For many days he obtained nothing, and throughout the city no one was willing to give. Just then he encountered Subhūti’s former self. Though the child was young and his family poor, he possessed a heart of compassion. He led the bhikṣu back to his home and offered him his own portion of food, while he himself remained hungry. After the bhikṣu finished eating, he departed by means of spiritual power, rising into the air, and the child, seeing this, was filled with great joy.
“Later, that child was reborn in the heavenly realm as a heavenly king. After ninety-one kalpas, when his lifespan ended, he descended into the world and was born into the household of Juliu. Disliking wealth and delighting only in the Buddha-Dharma, he left home, and thus swiftly attained the Path. This is the result of Subhūti’s accumulated causes and conditions over many lifetimes.”
At that moment, Ānanda sighed and said,
“If a single act of giving can bring forth such great merit, how much greater must the merit be of repeated acts of giving!”
