不靈 林鈺堂 至誠篤行方蒙應，豈是輕忽可使喚？ 跋 有些人讀到感應事蹟，就想求得私心順遂。求之不得，就判定不靈。不知佛陀感應，目的在教化、引導眾生尋求究竟解脫，因此需要與在佛道上長遠努力有關的機緣，才易感應。一般人誤將佛陀當成購買飲料的投幣機，以為只要略盡心意，便能滿願。佛陀大慈大悲，豈會以此類方便陷人於愚妄中呢？正由於佛陀太靈明，所以不是出乎真忱的都不應。
Only sincere and solid practices could inspire favors; Comment: Some people, after reading about inspirational events, would like to obtain such help for their own personal gains. When their wishes were not fulfilled they judged right away that Buddha or prayers were not working. They failed to understand that Buddha grants inspirational helps in order to teach and guide sentient beings toward the quest for ultimate liberation. Therefore, only matters that would eventually lead toward such long-term goals could readily gain such inspirational favors. Ordinary people mistook Buddha as a kind of coin-operated manikin; they thought that small tokens of faith and offering would readily prompt wish-fulfilling good fortunes. Buddha is full of great wisdom and deep compassion; how could he misled people into such delusion by granting favors readily? Precisely because Buddha is so omniscient that he does not respond to requests except those out of pure sincerity.
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