不灵 林钰堂 至诚笃行方蒙应，岂是轻忽可使唤？ 跋 有些人读到感应事迹，就想求得私心顺遂。求之不得，就判定不灵。不知佛陀感应，目的在教化、引导众生寻求究竟解脱，因此需要与在佛道上长远努力有关的机缘，才易感应。一般人误将佛陀当成购买饮料的投币机，以为只要略尽心意，便能满愿。佛陀大慈大悲，岂会以此类方便陷人于愚妄中呢？正由于佛陀太灵明，所以不是出乎真忱的都不应。
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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