第二条原则：劝进行者，念佛消灾
[2] The Second Principle: Encourage Progress Of Practitioners, With Mindfulness Of The Buddha To Eradicate Disasters
又须劝父母、兄弟姊妹、妻室儿女、乡党亲友同皆常念「南无阿弥陀佛」及「南无观世音菩萨」（每日若念一万佛，即念五千观音，多少照此加减）。
Also needed is to encourage your Father and Mother, brothers and sisters, wives and husbands, sons and daughters, fellow villagers, relatives and friends to all together constantly recite ‘Námó Āmítuófó’ [i.e. Homage To (And Refuge For Life In) Amitā(bha) Buddha] and ‘Námó Guānshìyīn Púsà’ [i.e. Homage To (And Refuge For Life In) Contemplator Of The World’s Sounds Bodhisattva] (with every day, if reciting ten thousand times of the Buddha’s name, then reciting five thousand times of Guānyīn Bodhisattva’s name, with more or less according to this increasing or decreasing).
[Note: This means that if reciting Guānyīn Bodhisattva’s (or any other Bodhisattva’s) name (or mantra [咒]), to recite the Buddha’s name twice as much, as it is the Main Cultivation (正修) or Main Practice (正行), for exerting the most efforts.]
以此事利益甚大，忍令生我之人，及我之眷属，并与亲友不蒙此益乎？
With this practice’s benefits extremely great, how can I bear to let the people who enabled birth to me, and family members of mine, also with relatives and friends, to not receive these benefits?
况且现在是一个大患难世道，灾祸之来，无法可设。
Moreover, now, the ways of the world are with great dangers and difficulties, with the coming of disasters, that are with no other method that can be establish against them.
若能常念佛及观音，决定蒙佛慈庇，逢凶化吉。即无灾难，亦得业消智朗，障尽福隆。
If able to constantly be mindful of the Buddha and[/or] Guānyīn, one will definitely receive the Buddha’s protection with loving-kindness, when encountering the inauspicious, transforming it to be the auspicious. Then without disasters and difficulties, also attaining negative karma’s elimination with wisdom clear, and obstacles’ exhaustion with blessings abundant.
况劝人念佛求生西方，即是成就凡夫作佛，功德最大。以此功德回向往生，必满所愿。
Moreover, as encouraging people to be mindful of the Buddha to seek birth in his Western Pure Land, is the same as accomplishing ordinary beings to become Buddhas, these meritorious virtues are most great. With these meritorious virtues dedicating to be reborn there, one will definitely fulfil that aspired.
净土宗十三祖印光大师
Pure Land Tradition’s 13th Patriarch Great Master Yìnguāng
《一函遍复》
One Letter As A Common Reply
