This document summarizes Tina Turner's spiritual journey practicing Nichiren Buddhism. It describes how chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo helped her gain strength and clarity to leave her abusive marriage and find freedom and community practicing Buddhism with others. Her daily chanting practice helped transform her life and bring her dreams to fruition.

1. 幸福就在你身邊//
幸福變成你：
永久改變你的生活的指南
• 善心今攝
• Jan. 30, 2024

2. 四無量心練習
慈心：願我身體健康。願我懂得照顧自己身體。
悲心：願我接受和懂得面對所有煩惱、痛苦、壓力。
願我對面對所有煩惱、痛苦、壓力不作出任何反應。
願我不作和說出任何傷害自己和他人的話。願我懂得愛惜自己。
o想起一位朋友，關注此人生活中的特定收穫或快樂來源。用以
下的短語來欣喜。
• 願你的幸福和好運不要離開你。願你的好運持續下去。
• 願我接受事物原本的樣子。願我讓人們成為他們本來的樣子。
• 願我不為一切事件的來去所驚動 。願我學會看透一切現象的
生起與滅去。願我開放、平衡、平和。

3. 幸福就在你身邊//
幸福變成你：
上星期：第二章：內心世界
• 開始誦念「南無妙法蓮花經」。
• 十界的概念：地獄、餓鬼、畜生、修羅、人、天、聲聞、
緣覺、菩薩和佛果。
• 像我們每日、時刻內心的狀態。

4. 第二章
我們內心的世界
• This awareness of our potential to elevate ourselves out of the lowest depths of
suffering to the highest state of human existence is life changing.
這種覺知到我們有潛力將自己從最低的痛苦中提升到人類存在的
最高境界，這正在改變我們的生活。
• When we wake up to this reality, we can find the light of hope no matter what our
circumstances are.
當我們醒悟到這個現實時，無論我們的處境如何，我們都可以找
到希望之光。
• This understanding is crucial, because without hope, anything can become a source
of despair.
這種理解至關重要，因為沒有希望，任何事情都可能成為絕
望的根源。

5. 第二章
我們內心的世界
• With hope, anything can become a source of joy. 有希望，任何事
情都可以成為快樂的來源。
• In the meantime, whenever you feel your life condition diving down
into the lower worlds, you can lift yourself up.
同時，每當你感覺自己的生活狀況陷入低潮時，你就可
以振作起來。
• Focusing your mind, doing yoga, running, swimming, working out,
practicing breathing exercises, taking a walk, “shaking it off,” or, as
many of us learned in kindergarten, stopping for a time-out or nap can
sometimes work wonders.
專注你的心、做瑜伽、跑步、游泳、鍛煉身體、練習呼
吸、散步、“擺脫困境”，或者正如我們許多人在幼兒
園學到的那樣，停下來暫停或小睡有時會產生奇蹟。

6. • If these methods aren’t effective at raising your state of mind, you can
explore other ways, such as prayer, chanting, meditation, or study.
如果這些方法無法有效提升你的心態，你可以探索其他
方法，例如祈禱、念誦、禪修或學習。
• Choose whatever path works best for you.
選擇最適合您的道//練習。
• 1973, I began to chant. Buddhism taught me how to access a direct
path upward in my life condition,
1973年， 我開始念誦。 佛教教我如何在人生境遇中走上
一條直接向上的路，
• a spiritual express lane by chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo.
可以說是一條心靈快車道，念「南無妙法蓮花經」。

7. 呼吸

8. 第三章
天使的讚歌
• The transformation in my life from where I was upon first hearing
these words to where I am today is extraordinary.
從我第一次聽到這些話到現在我的生活發生了非凡的轉
變。
• If I hadn’t made the journey myself, it might seem like a fairy tale.
如果我沒有親自踏上這段旅程，這可能看起來就像一個
童話故事。
• Yet that’s exactly what I did—I made my dreams, my own vision of a
fairy tale, come true.
這正是我所做的事——我作我的夢想、我自己對童話故
事的想像成真。

9. • Whatever your dreams may be, I know you can make them come true,
too.
無論您的夢想是什麼，我知道您也可以實現它們。
• My wish for you is to succeed and achieve your own definition of
happiness, however you paint that picture.
我對你的願望是成功並實現你自己對幸福的定義，無論
你如何描繪這幅畫。
• I hope that my story of self-actualization will inform and inspire your
dreams, now and in the future.
我希望我的自我實現故事能夠啟發並激發您現在和未來
的夢想。

10. • What shifted for me, what enabled me to attain all the conspicuous
benefits I enjoy, was infinitely more important—
是什麼對我來說發生了變化，是什麼使我能夠獲得我所
享受的所有顯著的好處，這要重要得多——
• the deep, inner changes that resulted from my spiritual practice of
chanting, studying, and helping others.
我的念誦、學習和幫助他人的靈性修行所帶來的深刻的
內在變化。

11. • When I first received the gift of Nam-myoho-renge-kyo,
當我第一次收到「南無妙法蓮華經」的禮物時，
• it marked the beginning of a new life for me in more ways than I could
have imagined.
它以比我想像的更多的方式標誌著我新生活的開始。
• Thanks to the spiritual awakenings I experienced by chanting,
感謝我透過念誦所經歷的心靈覺醒，
• I gained the clarity and strength to make countless important changes
in my life.
我獲得了清晰度和力量，可以在我的生活中做出無數重
要的改變。

12. 呼吸

13. • I began by chanting a little each day, sometimes just saying “Nam-
myoho-renge-kyo” a few times in a row.
我開始每天念誦一點，有時只是連續念幾次「南無妙法
蓮華經」。
• Then I started chanting five minutes a day, then fifteen, and noticed
small, yet definite, improvements and shifts in my life condition.
然後我開始每天念誦五分鐘，然後十五分鐘，並注意到
我的生活狀況出現了微小但明確的改善和變化。
• Bit by bit, my Buddhist practice was helping me to rearrange my place
in the universe.
一點一點地，我的佛教修行正在幫助我重新安排我在宇
宙中的位置。

14. • Soon, I increased my chanting to a half hour, sometimes an hour.
很快，我就把念誦時間增加到半小時，有時甚至一個小
時。
• Although I wanted to chant with my sangha, I was still married to Ike,
雖然我想和僧伽一起念誦，但我還是和 Ike 結婚了，
• and he was afraid of my chanting because he thought I might be able to
put a curse on him.
他害怕我的念誦，因為他認為我可能會對他施咒的。
• His hold on me was threatened because chanting strengthened me.
他對我的控制受到了威脅，因為念誦增強了我的力量。

15. • He almost never let me go out to meet people without him,
他幾乎不讓我出去見沒有他的朋友，
• so I found time whenever I could to chant secretly in the morning and
night.
所以我每天早上和晚上只要有時間就偷偷念誦。
• Sometimes, a few of my brave chanting friends would sneak into the
house to practice with me when my husband wasn’t around.
有時，當我丈夫不在的時候，我的幾個勇敢的唱誦朋友
會偷偷溜進屋內和我一起練習。

16. • Gradually, I felt I was getting in sync, in rhythm with life on the
deepest level.
漸漸地，我感覺自己在最深層與生活同步、合拍。
• The more I chanted, the more I felt my true self, my inherent Buddha
nature, awakening.
我念誦得越多，我就越感覺到我的真實自我，我固有的
佛性，覺醒了。
• My life condition kept rising, and I developed a newfound feeling of
detachment around my husband.
我的生活狀況不斷提高，我對丈夫產生了一種新的疏離
感。

17. • I became so strong inside that eventually our conflicts began to feel
like a game, like some sort of karmic test.
我的內心變得如此強大，最終我們的衝突開始感覺像一
場遊戲，就像某種業力測試。
• In the midst of chaos, I felt as if I had been reborn.
在混亂之中，我感覺自己彷彿獲得了重生。

18. 呼吸

19. • The brighter my inner light shined, the more my environment
improved,
我內心的光芒越亮，我的環境就越好，
• and dreams I hadn’t even expressed outside of my chanting began to
come true.
我甚至在念誦之外沒有表達過的夢想開始成真。
• Slowly but surely, I increased my Buddhist practice over the next
couple of years.
在接下來的幾年裡，我慢慢地但肯定地增加了我的佛教
修行。

20. • I became so strong that in the summer of 1976, I finally found the
courage to run away from Ike,
我變得如此堅強，在1976年的夏天，我終於找到了逃離
Ike 的勇氣，
• to escape from the unhealthy domestic situation I had been trapped in
for so long,
為了擺脫長期困在不健康的家庭環境中，
• and I filed for divorce. 我提出離婚。
• Once I gained my independence, I also gained the freedom to go to
chanting meetings whenever I pleased.
一旦我獲得了獨立，我也獲得了隨時參加念經聚會的自
由。

21. • I joined the meetings nearest me, in the Brentwood area of West Los
Angeles.
我參加了距離我最近的會議 (念誦)，在洛杉磯西部的地
區。
• Oh, how I enjoyed studying and practicing Buddhism with other
openminded people.
哦，我多麼喜歡和其他思想開放的人一起學習和修行佛
法。
• After years of oppression at home, having the freedom to express my
thoughts and beliefs was sheer joy.
在經歷了多年的家庭壓迫之後，能夠自由地表達我的想
法和信仰真是令人高興。

22. • Looking back on it now, it seems like such a simple thing.
現在回想起來，這 (表達我的想法和信仰) 似乎是一件很
簡單的事。
• But those of us who have survived abusive and codependent
relationships know the value of basic pleasures and rights that others
may take for granted.
但我們這些從虐待和相互依賴的關係中倖存下來的人知
道其他人可能認為理所當然的基本快樂和權利的價值。
• In West LA, I also discovered that a number of musicians, including
my friends Ana Maria and Wayne Shorter (the jazz genius), hosted
chanting meetings.
在西洛杉磯，我還發現了一些音樂家，兩位朋友主持誦
經會。

23. 呼吸

24. • I had found my sacred space, my beloved community of spirit.
我找到了我的神聖空間，我心愛的精神共同體。
• As I began my daily chanting practice,
當我開始每天的念誦練習時，
• I discovered that someone I’d always admired, Mahatma Gandhi,
我發現有人總是欽佩，聖雄甘地 Mahatma Gandhi ，
• opened the daily prayer meetings at his ashram by chanting “Nam-
myoho-renge-kyo” with his disciples.
他與弟子們一起念誦「南無妙法蓮花經」，開始了他在
道場的每日祈禱會。

25. • The Soka Gakkai tradition was found by Nichiren in thirteenth-century
Japan.
創價學會的傳統是由日蓮 (1222-1282) 在十三世紀的日本
創立的。
• At the age of 12, he devoted his life to study and began researching the
vast wealth of Buddhist scriptures.
12歲時，他全心投入學習，開始研究浩瀚的佛經。
• For two decades, Nichiren sought to clarify the essence of Buddhism
and to simplify its practice,
二十年來，日蓮致力於闡明佛教的本質並簡化其修行，
• leading the way to Buddhahood for anyone, 為任何人引導成佛之
路，
• regardless of life condition or circumstances.
無論生活狀況或環境如何。

26. • Nichiren taught that chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is the essence of
the Lotus Sutra.
日蓮教導說，念「南無妙法蓮華經」是《法華經》的精
髓。
• He dedicated his life to teaching people that this simple practice of
chanting “Nam-myoho-renge-kyo” contains the entirety of Buddhist
teachings and can open the door to enlightenment for all.
他畢生致力於教導人們，念「南無妙法蓮華經」這個簡
單的修行包含了全部的佛教教義，可以為所有人打開啟
蒙之門。
• Today, chanting “Nam-myoho-renge-kyo” is one of the best-known
and most widely embraced Buddhist practices around the globe.
如今，念「南無妙法蓮華經」已成為全球最著名、最廣
泛接受的佛教修行之一。

27. • Why do people chant? To become the embodiment of happiness.
人們為什麼要念誦？ 成為幸福的化身。
• In my travels, there is one thing I know that all people have in
common: the desire for lasting happiness.
在我的旅行中，我知道所有人都有一件事：對持久幸福
的渴望。
• The trick is how to make happiness last. 秘訣在於如何讓幸福持
續下去。
• Happiness is a feeling. 幸福是一種感受。
• And, like all feelings, it can disappear as quickly as it appears.
而且，就像所有的感覺一樣，它來得快去得也快。
• True and lasting happiness is elusive.
真正而持久的幸福是難以捉摸的。

28. 願以此功德
普及於一切
我等與眾生
皆共成佛道