法苑珠林 60.40

60.40

The Buddha said: "If disciples of the four assemblies undergo various bitter afflictions, for from one day up to ten days, or from one month up to five months, with a pure mind focused in mindfulness they take refuge in the Three Jewels, invoke the name of Avalokiteśvara three times, and recite and uphold this dhāraṇī, there are no disasters or adversaries that they will not keep far away, becoming liberated from all afflictions; they will experience joy in this present life, and in a future life see the Buddha. This dhāraṇī was spoken by all the buddhas of the ten directions and the three periods of time, and is constantly protected and upheld by all the buddhas and all the great bodhisattvas. If there are those who hear it and practice as taught, their sinful defilements will be eliminated and extinguished, and in their present bodies they will behold eighty billion buddhas, who will all come and extend their hands to them; they will thereupon attain the unforgetting revolving dhāraṇī. If there are those with past sins and extremely grave karmas from evil committed in the present, in their dreams they will behold the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara, like a great fierce wind blowing away heavy clouds, and they will be freed from sinful karma and be born before all the buddhas."