时间：05/01/2027 05/02/2027
地点：星海禅修中心
主讲：净诚
佛法修行
梵天劝请佛陀说法因缘
三千多年前的印度摩竭陀国，释迦牟尼佛于菩提树下善胜道场，圆满无上佛果。初成道时，佛陀思惟五浊恶世众生迷惑颠倒，难可教化，久住世间，实无益处，而欲入无余涅?。
当时，大梵天王知道佛陀的想法，即前往面见佛陀，恭敬礼拜、长跪合掌，劝请佛陀慈悲住世，大转法轮。佛陀告诉大梵天王：“一切众生皆为尘垢染污，贪着世间欲乐，蒙蔽了清明智慧。若住世说法，皆是徒劳无功，不如速入涅?。”大梵天王闻佛所说，再次礼拜恳请：
“佛陀！现今法海已满、法幢已立，化导众生的时节因缘已经成熟，能够蒙佛救度的众生亦非常多，世尊怎能选择入灭，令众生错失得度因缘呢？而且，您过去无数劫以来，发无上菩提心，为众生广集法药，乃至为求一偈，舍却自身、妻儿性命，如今为何不顾念众生而欲自入涅?？”
于是，大梵天王一一提起过去佛陀为众生求法之事：佛曾为妙色王，为寻求正法令诸众生得以解脱，自舍己妻，为毗沙门王所化现之夜叉鬼所食。又曾为虔阇尼婆梨王，欲求得微妙法宝，普利人民，以自身燃灯供养。亦为毗楞竭梨王，乐好正法，于身上斫千铁钉，忍苦求法。又或者，为昙摩钳太子，自身投入炽火燃烧之大火坑，以做供养，誓求大法。为爵多罗仙人，四方求法，愿剥皮作纸、析骨为笔、血用和墨，书写法偈，令一切众生皆能读诵修行。又为尸毗王，割舍自己的血肉，喂食饥饿的老鹰。
大梵天王赞叹佛陀过去舍身求法、利益众生的菩萨愿行，劝请佛陀因法海已满、法幢已立、法鼓已建、法炬已照，度化众生的时机已然成熟，请佛住世、大转法轮。由于大梵天王的劝请，佛陀便前往波罗奈国鹿野苑中说四谛法，化导众生。至此，佛陀、四谛法、五比丘一时俱有，佛法僧三宝终于出现于世。
Date: 05/01/2027 05/02/2027
Location: Star Ocean Meditation Center
Teacher: Jason
Dharma Talk
The Cause and Conditions for Brahmā’s Request for the Buddha to Teach
More than three thousand years ago, in the Indian kingdom of Magadha, Śākyamuni Buddha attained the unsurpassed enlightenment beneath the Bodhi tree at the supreme place of awakening. After first realizing the Way, the Buddha reflected that beings in the evil age of the five defilements were deluded and inverted, difficult to teach and transform. Remaining long in the world would bring no benefit, and he intended to enter final nirvāṇa.
At that time, the Great Brahmā King, knowing the Buddha’s thought, went to see him, paid homage with reverence, knelt with palms joined, and entreated the Buddha to remain in the world out of compassion and to turn the great Dharma wheel. The Buddha told the Great Brahmā King, “All beings are defiled by dust and impurities, attached to worldly desires, and obscured from clear wisdom. If I remain to teach, it will be in vain; it is better to quickly enter nirvāṇa.” Hearing this, the Great Brahmā King again bowed and earnestly entreated:
“Buddha! Now the ocean of Dharma is full, the banner of Dharma has been raised, and the time and conditions for transforming beings have matured. There are many who can receive the Buddha’s deliverance. How can the World-Honored One choose to enter extinction and cause beings to lose their opportunity for liberation? Moreover, throughout countless past kalpas, you have aroused the supreme bodhi mind, gathered the medicine of Dharma for beings, and even for the sake of a single verse relinquished your own body, wife, and children. Why now would you not care for beings and wish to enter nirvāṇa?”
Then the Great Brahmā King recounted in detail the Buddha’s past acts of seeking the Dharma for the sake of beings: as King Miaose, he gave up his own wife to a yakṣa manifested by Vaiśravaṇa in order to obtain the true Dharma; as King Qianzhanipo-li, he burned his own body as a lamp offering to seek the wondrous Dharma for the benefit of the people; as King Pilengjieli, he endured the piercing of a thousand iron nails in pursuit of the Dharma; as Prince Tanmoqian, he cast himself into a blazing fire pit as an offering to seek the great Dharma; as the sage Jueduoluo, he vowed to use his skin as paper, bones as a pen, and blood as ink to record the Dharma so all beings might read and practice; and as King Śibi, he cut his own flesh to feed a starving hawk.
The Great Brahmā King praised the Buddha’s past bodhisattva vows of self-sacrifice in seeking the Dharma and benefiting beings, and urged him that since the ocean of Dharma was full, the banner raised, the drum established, and the torch lit, the time for liberating beings had matured. He requested the Buddha to remain in the world and turn the great Dharma wheel. In response to this request, the Buddha went to the Deer Park in Vārāṇasī and taught the Four Noble Truths, thereby guiding beings. At that time, the Buddha, the Four Noble Truths, and the five bhikṣus all appeared together, and thus the Three Jewels of Buddha, Dharma, and Saṅgha came into the world.
