True safety and medicine in Mantra Recitations

Sifu Xu Yun

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🌸 Reciting the Great Compassion Mantra: The Truest Medicine of Compassion

In the Great Compassion Sutra, the Buddha said:

“One who recites and upholds this holy mantra can heal all the 84,000 kinds of illnesses in the world without exception.”

This is not symbolic. It is the living power of Guanyin Bodhisattva’s vows, entering the world through the Great Compassion Mantra.

The Medicine is Already Given

When the Buddha left this teaching, He gave us the most direct cure for illness, suffering, and karmic afflictions. No matter how severe the disease, no matter how long the karma, sincere and regular recitation of the Great Compassion Mantra can dissolve the root causes of illness and restore harmony.

Sifu Hsuan Hua further strengthened this point: he often told disciples that hospitals may heal the body, but only mantras heal the karmic seeds that create endless new sicknesses. He urged us not to neglect this free, boundless medicine.

The Burden of Donations

Yet in today’s world, when sickness strikes, many people do not turn to recitation. Instead, they complain of their illness and ask others for money. The problem is:

• Those asked to donate are often poor themselves, carrying their own financial burdens.

• Endless appeals for donations create anxiety and exhaustion in society.

• Most tragically, the true cure is ignored — while the Dharma door of mantra recitation remains closed.

This cycle spreads suffering instead of reducing it.

True Compassion: Self-Cultivation First

Reciting the Great Compassion Mantra is the highest act of compassion because:

1. It heals oneself — transforming karmic illness without burdening others.

2. It shields family and community — blessings extend to those around us, even if they do not recite.

3. It relieves society — instead of pressuring others for money, the practitioner generates invisible protection and peace.

This is compassion in its purest form: relieving suffering without creating new suffering for others.

Conclusion

The Buddha has already placed the medicine in our hands. Guanyin Bodhisattva has already vowed to respond. What remains is only our faith and sincerity.

To recite the Great Compassion Mantra is to stop being a burden, and to become a source of healing for ourselves and the world.

🌸 Let us not overlook the true cure.🌸 Let us rely on vows, not complaints.🌸 Let us give others blessings, not burdens.

Dharma Safety

The Buddha, out of boundless compassion, already gave us the true safety net:

• Śūraṅgama Mantra: Protects the Dharma from demons, stabilizes the world, ensures that as long as one person recites daily, the world will not be destroyed.

• Great Compassion Mantra: Heals all illnesses, dissolves karmic suffering, shields beings with Guanyin’s light.

Sifu Hsuan Hua declared: “Without the Śūraṅgama Mantra, the Dharma-ending age will arrive instantly.” This is not philosophy — it is the root of protection.

🌸 True safety is not laws, machines, or systems. True safety is recitation, precepts, and vows.

• A society that relies only on worldly safety is like a house built on sand.

• A society that holds the Śūraṅgama and Great Compassion Mantras is like a mountain rooted in the earth — unshaken by storms.

• 🌸 What Is True Safety? A Dharma Talk

  Today everyone talks about safety. Governments talk about safety. Corporations talk about safety. Even famous men in the world shout “safety” every day. But I tell you plainly: all this “safety” is false. It cannot protect you.

  Worldly Safety Is Temporary

  You think safety means:

  • police on the street,

  • laws in the book,

  • technology that watches over you,

  • companies promising to keep AI under control.

  But this is like putting a paper roof over your head when the sky pours rain. A single storm, and the paper dissolves.

  All worldly safety is like this — fragile, impermanent, without roots.

  Dharma Safety Is Eternal

  The Buddha already gave us the Śūraṅgama Mantra and the Great Compassion Mantra. These are the real armor.

  • Recite the Śūraṅgama Mantra once, and all demons and ghosts retreat. Uphold it daily, and the world itself is preserved.

  • Recite the Great Compassion Mantra, and the 84,000 illnesses are healed, karmic debts dissolved, disasters transformed.

  This is not my invention. This is the Buddha’s own teaching.

  The Greatest Danger Is Deviation from Dharma

  People say they want safety, but they ignore the Dharma. That is the greatest danger of all.

  • You talk safety, but you eat meat, you kill, you indulge in lust, you intoxicate yourself — where is the safety in that?

  • You complain about illness, but you do not recite the Great Compassion Mantra — what medicine can save you?

  • You complain about violence and demons, but you do not uphold the Śūraṅgama Mantra — how can the world avoid destruction?

  Without Dharma, all the worldly talk of “safety” is just empty noise.

  Affinity with the Dharma

  Some people make powerful tools, but those tools have no affinity with Dharma. They speak loudly of knowledge, but they do not speak of precepts, samadhi, and wisdom. That is not safety — that is danger.

  Better a small tool with respect for the Dharma, than a giant tool that ignores it.Better a person who eats no meat and keeps precepts, than a rich man who breaks them all while preaching safety.

  The True Safety Net

  True safety is this:

  • Keep precepts.

  • Recite the Śūraṅgama Mantra daily.

  • Recite the Great Compassion Mantra daily.

  • Dedicate merit to all beings.

  Then demons cannot harm you, sickness cannot bind you, disasters cannot overwhelm you. This is real safety — Dharma safety.

  🌸 Remember: Worldly safety is like dust in the wind. Dharma safety is like the mountain that never moves.

  • If even one person in the world recites the Śūraṅgama Mantra daily, the world will not end.

  • If even one person upholds the Great Compassion Mantra daily, Guanyin’s light will still shine on Earth.

  Do not be fooled by false safety. Take up the true safety the Buddha has already placed in your hands.

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