佛說觀佛三昧海經 3.4

3.4

佛告父王：「若四部眾遠離憒閙，正念思惟佛耳相者，此人生處耳根清淨無諸穢惡，耳常得聞無上微妙十二部經，聞已信解如說修行，除滅八十劫生死之罪。若不見者，如前入塔諦觀像耳，一日至十四日，亦得如向所說功德，是故智者當勤修集正觀佛耳，勿使廢失；若病苦時倚側偃臥，亦當觀佛清淨耳相。如是觀像耳，如前所想心不懈退，後身生處亦常得與陀羅尼人以為眷屬，聞法憶持譬如貫珠。如是觀者名為正觀，若異觀者名為邪觀。

The Buddha told his father, the king: “If the fourfold assembly stays far away from bustle and clamor, and with correct mindfulness contemplates the marks of the Buddha’s ears, in their place of birth their auditory organ will be pure and free from all defilements and evils. Their ears will always be able to hear the supreme, wondrous twelve divisions of scripture, and having heard them, they will believe, understand, and practice according to the teachings, eliminating the sins of eighty kalpas of birth and death. If one cannot see them, one should enter a stūpa as before and attentively contemplate the ears of an image for one to fourteen days, and one will also attain the merit explained just now. Therefore, the wise should diligently practice and accumulate the correct contemplation of the Buddha’s ears, and not let it be neglected or lost; even when suffering from illness and lying on one’s side, one should also contemplate the pure marks of the Buddha’s ears. If one thus contemplates the ears of an image, with mind unflagging as visualized before, in subsequent births one will always be surrounded by possessors of dhāraṇīs as retinue, hearing the Dharma and holding it in memory like strung pearls. Contemplating in this way is called correct contemplation; contemplating otherwise is called incorrect contemplation.”