淨空法師：凡是橫死的, 自殺的, 都需要找替身, 否則不能去投胎 Anyone who dies violently, commits suicide, must find a substitute.

題目：找替身的鬼，引導人到他曾出事的地方來發生災禍。The ghost, who is looking for a substitute, triggered the accident to happen to the potential substitute.

底下第十五題。弟子最近在路上，突然出現過去生中一個車禍的景象浮現。亡靈說這裡不久將發生同樣的車禍，遇難者的身份相同，請問這是怎麼回事？

Next, the 15th question: I am asking this as your disciple. Recently on the road I saw suddenly in my mind a scene from a fatal car accident from the past. The dead spirit said that the same car accident will happen here soon, and the identity of the victim will be similar. May I ask what this means?

這個是世俗裡頭講的找替身。真的。你看出車禍的地方，常常就在那個地方出車禍，車禍而死的人叫橫死。他要找不到替身，他離不開那個地方。他沒辦法投胎。

This is what Asian culture calls finding a substitute. It is real. Where you see a car accident, that is often where it happens. A person who dies in a car accident dies an unnatural sudden death. If he cannot find another person to replace him, he cannot leave that place and is unable to reincarnate.


凡是橫死的，自殺的，上吊的找替身，服毒死的找替身，自殺的人找替身。所以人不能自殺啊。自殺不能解決問題。自己問題解決不了，還得去找替身。你說多麻煩。那個替身當然他也有業報，他該是在那裡橫死。

Anyone who dies violently, commits suicide, or dies by hanging, must find a substitute. Those who die by self-poisoning need to find a substitute. Therefore, people should not suicide. It does not solve the problem. If you cannot solve your problem and must wait for a substitute without knowing how long this will take, how troublesome it is! Of course the people to be substituted also have negative karma to go through these accidents and be trapped.

但是這個找替身的鬼，是跟他做增上緣，他在那裡引導啊，引導他到出事的地方來發生車禍。

The ghost, who is looking for a substitute, triggered the accident to happen to the potential substitute by distracting others so as to have an accident at the very place where they themselves had the accident. If the spirit is enlightened, he will refrain from doing this out of kindness of heart and it will be his chance to increase his good karma.

那真正覺悟了，我們在古人筆記小說裡面讀過，這都是很小的時候，有這麼個印象。

I have read this in ancient peoples’ notes and novels when I was very young, and had such an impression.

水鬼，在水裡淹死的。這個水鬼知道，哪個人哪一天在這裡游泳，會在這邊淹死。他在那裡等，等替身。

There was a water ghost who drowned in the water. This water ghost knows that who ever swims here on a given day will drown here. He was waiting there for a substitute.

果然有一個人來了，他看這個人很年輕，家裡面還有父母年歲大，妻子，兒女很小，不忍心，把他救起來，從底下把他托起來，就沒死了。

Sure enough, someone came. The ghost saw that this man was a young man, having older parents at home, a wife, and his children were toddlers. The ghost could not bear it and rescued the young man. He lifted him up from below and rescued him.

結果另外一個鬼遇到他說，你有機會找替身，你怎麼把機會錯過了？他說不忍心。

Then anther ghost met him and asked “You had the opportunity to find a substitute to replace you, so why did you miss it?” He said he could not bear it.

過了幾天，天神來找他，因為他的心太好了，善心，請他去做神去了。做什麼神我也忘掉。

After a few days, the immortal supernatural beings came to him. Because his heart was so good and kind he was asked to be one of the deities. I have forgotten what kind of deity or supernatural being he became.

他走上神道。善心，不忍心，一念善心。

He took to the heavenly path. Kind heart, could not hurt another, one thought of kindness;

所以神正直，心地正直是謂神。我們都稱為說【福德正神】。像山神/土地這一類的福德正神。

so he became one of the deities who are upright and righteous. Asian people commonly call these deities“gods of righteousness and morality,” including mountain deities and earth deities.

學佛答問（答香港參學同修之九十四）　　（共一集）　　2008/4/25　　華嚴講堂　　檔名：21-447-0001
Questions and Answers on Buddhism: Answers to Hong Kong Fellow Practitioners No. 94. 04/25/2008　Huayan Lecture Hall