施食功德 The advantages of food donation

一、施食有十種利益：

        The advantages of giving food to others(people, animals, and the hungry ghost)

1、作大布施，行檀波羅蜜。
      Can help the world, do what the buddhist should do, and get the opprtunity to arrive the perfect      world.

2、超薦有緣，普利幽冥。
      Help the ghost to become more comfortable as they are hungry all the time.

3、廣結善緣。
      Get good friends and helpers anywhere.

4、得諸佛菩薩及所超薦鬼神之護佑。
      Help from gods, ghost, and different kind of fairy.

5、消世間災厲之氣。
      Help to reduce the war and calamity in your surrounding.

6、消自業障。
      Help to reduce the bad luck cause by the wrong doing in the past.

7、增滿福德。
      Get a better fortune, be more virtue.

8、消災延壽。
      Have a longer life in this transmigration.

9、居處安樂。
      Have a safe place to live in.

10、道業增進。
      Be more clever and talent in the religion.

施食咒功德

一、若有善男子、女人、童男、童女受持讀誦《普召請真言》：「南無部部帝唎伽哩哆哩 

怛他耶哆耶」

If there is any kind man, woman, boy, or girl have and read the ''PuChiuQingZhenYan''(a passage which helps the hungry ghost to drink and eat,

誦念《開咽喉真言》「唵  步步底哩伽哆哩  怛哆(言我)哆耶」妙言七遍時，觀想契上有一水精摩尼、寶珠，放水精光照觸諸鬼，一切猛火皆悉不燃，此水精光明入諸鬼口，諸鬼咽喉皆得通息，離諸苦惱。」現身行十種福聚。
There is a method which can help to widen the the pharynx for the hungry ghost to eat, It is ''UM BO BO DEI LEI GA DOR LEI   DAN DOR DOR YEAH'',  read the above sentence for 7 times continuesly, and imagine the fire in the pharynx of the hungry ghost turn off temporarily and able to drink the water, you will able to get 10 advantages: 

1、毒藥不能中；   2、毒蛇不敢螫；
     Never poisioned by others. Snacks never dare to bite you.

3、刀仗不能害；   4、王官不敢嗔；
     Never cut or hurted by knife and stick. Governors never dare to cheat you, shout you or prison you.

5、眾人皆愛敬；   6、天龍常隨護；
     Everyone love you and respect you. The dragon protect you.

6、衣食悉豐足；   8、顏貌端正；
     Have many clothes and food, always enough.  Good looking and appearance.

9、永離毛豎畏；   10、不受三塗身。

     Never feel nervious and uncomfortable. Never transmigrate to the bad lower 3 level in the transmigration wheel( i.e. the evil level, the animal level, and the hungry ghost level)

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Translated by 佛緣人

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