译者注：
Smokey Bear，常音译为“斯/苏莫基熊”，是现代美国文化中宣传防止森林野火的“形象代表”。
作者加里·斯奈德(Gary Snyder)(1930-) ：美国“垮掉的一代”及“旧金山文艺复新”代表人物之一，熟悉东方佛学和中文，在日本学习修习禅宗多年，在美国践行"Beat Zen", 创作了大量自然主义诗歌和散文，翻译和阐释了众多东方佛教文学作品，不仅“东学西践”，其作品亦真正达到了天人合一的境界。
“Smokey the Bear Sutra” 是Snyder为塞拉俱乐部于1969年2月举行的荒野会议临时创作的长诗。此诗在这次会议上首次面世。他在诗末注明：此诗“版权永久开放”。
苏莫基熊经
作者：加里•斯奈德
大约1亿5000万年前，侏罗纪时代，
一时，大日如来于无限虚空一角，
为一切元素及能量说经。
站立众生、行走众生、飞翔众生、静坐众生
——乃至草木，共130亿者，
各从种生，聚于佛前。
如来所说，关乎地球众生觉醒。
“未来某时，将有大洲，名美利坚。
洲上有大能量中心，其名曰：
金字塔湖、瓦尔登湖、雷尼尔山、大瑟尔、
大沼泽地，等等；亦有强大中枢与河渠，
如哥伦比亚河、密西西比河、大峡谷。
时洲上有人类，头脑糊涂，
虽有慧根佛性，终摧毁所有。”
“高山之下扭曲地层、火山脉搏，
皆吾大爱深埋地下。
吾之慈悲，固若片岩、若玄武岩、若花岗岩，
形成山，降下雨。
未来美利坚时代，吾以新化身，
治此无情知识世界：此世人役于无端饥饿，
无名暴戾，食而不饱。”
佛演说毕，显其真身
——苏莫基熊。
一外貌俊秀之烟熏色棕熊，后足直立于地，神态清醒警觉。
右掌握铲，可铲除幻象、显诸实相，可切断虚妄欲根，可以湿沙覆灭贪火及战火；
左掌结平等友爱手印——以此宣示：一切生灵完全有权享其天年，鹿、兔、花栗鼠、蛇、蒲公英、蜥蜴，同生于法界；
身着蓝色劳动服，标志奴隶及苦力，无数此辈受迫于此世文明——此文明以拯救之名行毁灭之实；
头戴西部宽边帽，标志荒野守卫之力：荒野乃我法自然境界、乃人类行走于地球之真实路径：
所有真理之路穿过山岭——
背后有火焰光晕：此末法时代森林之火，起于世人愚昧：以得失为实，不知实相无极无碍、一心中有青天绿地；
大腹便便，足见良善：若人热爱地球、信任地球，必定粮食充足；
足踏——浪费资源之高速公路、多此一举之都市；击碎——资本主义与极权主义寄生虫；
熊宣告其使命曰：熊之信徒，无受困于汽车、房子、罐头、大学、鞋子者，能参透身语意三密，能无畏无惧，砍断美利坚国中烂树、剪去病枝、烧毁残留垃圾。
愤怒而平静。朴素而有趣。助熊者，苏莫基熊明其心；阻熊谤熊者，苏莫基熊
毁灭之。
如是说大熊咒：
南麼三曼多伐 折羅赧禅达 摩诃罗霎那斯发塔亚 亨 特拉卡 悍 曼
“愿成宇宙金刚力，能断无边盛怒火”
苏莫基熊将保佑——
热爱森林与河流者、
神灵与动物、流浪汉与疯子、囚犯与病人、
音乐家、轻浮的女子、心怀希望的孩童：
若有人，受胁于广告、空气污染、电视、
或警察，即颂此苏莫基熊战争心咒：
熄灭他们的烟头
打烂他们的屁股
淹死他们的屁股
打倒他们的烟头
苏莫基熊闻咒即现身
持金刚铲灭敌
若复有人，读诵此经，如理受持，其福德无量无数，如亚利桑那及内华达州沙之多。
能拯救地球于石油污染。
能入天人合一之境界。
能获男子、女子、及野兽之爱戴与拥抱。
能有成熟黑莓为食、能在松树底下阳光之中禅坐。
终能得无上正等正觉。
如是我等闻
（本经版权永久开放）
译者：童燕芳 浙江外国语学院
译者注：感谢波士顿学院英语系教授艾伦•理查德森对原文的耐心讲解；并感谢中国历史上佛经翻译家贡献的经文语言。Countless thanks to Professor Alan Richardson for his teaching and patient explanation of “Smokey the Bear Sutra”, and to the sutra translators in Chinese history who created the Chinese sutra discourse.
原文
SMOKEY THE BEAR SUTRA
BY GARY SNYDER
Once in the Jurassic about 150 million years ago, the Great Sun Buddha in this corner of the Infinite Void gave a discourse to all the assembled elements and energies: to the standing beings, the walking beings, the flying beings, and the sitting beings--even the grasses, to the number of thirteen billion, each one born from a seed, assembled there: a Discourse concerning Enlightenment on the planet Earth.
"In some future time, there will be a continent called America. It will have great centers of power called such as Pyramid Lake, Walden Pond, Mt. Rainier, Big Sur, Everglades, and so forth; and powerful nerves and channels such as Columbia River, Mississippi River, and Grand Canyon. The human race in that era will get into troubles all over its head, and practically wreck everything in spite of its own strong intelligent Buddha-nature."
"The twisting strata of the great mountains and the pulsings of volcanoes are my love burning deep in the earth. My obstinate compassion is schist and basalt and granite, to be mountains, to bring down the rain. In that future American Era I shall enter a new form; to cure the world of loveless knowledge that seeks with blind hunger: and mindless rage eating food that will not fill it."
And he showed himself in his true form of
SMOKEY THE BEAR
A handsome smokey-colored brown bear standing on his hind legs, showing that he is aroused and watchful.
Bearing in his right paw the Shovel that digs to the truth beneath appearances; cuts the roots of useless attachments, and flings damp sand on the fires of greed and war;
His left paw in the mudra of Comradely Display--indicating that all creatures have the full right to live to their limits and that of deer, rabbits, chipmunks, snakes, dandelions, and lizards all grow in the realm of the Dharma;
Wearing the blue work overalls symbolic of slaves and laborers, the countless men oppressed by a civilization that claims to save but often destroys;
Wearing the broad-brimmed hat of the west, symbolic of the forces that guard the wilderness, which is the Natural State of the Dharma and the true path of man on Earth:
all true paths lead through mountains--
With a halo of smoke and flame behind, the forest fires of the kali-yuga, fires caused by the stupidity of those who think things can be gained and lost whereas in truth all is contained vast and free in the Blue Sky and Green Earth of One Mind;
Round-bellied to show his kind nature and that the great earth has food enough for everyone who loves her and trusts her;
Trampling underfoot wasteful freeways and needless suburbs, smashing the worms of capitalism and totalitarianism;
Indicating the task: his followers, becoming free of cars, houses, canned foods, universities, and shoes, master the Three Mysteries of their own Body, Speech, and Mind; and fearlessly chop down the rotten trees and prune out the sick limbs of this country America and then burn the leftover trash.
Wrathful but calm. Austere but Comic. Smokey the Bear will Illuminate those who would help him; but for those who would hinder or slander him...
HE WILL PUT THEM OUT.
Thus his great Mantra:
Namah samanta vajranam chanda maharoshana Sphataya hum traka ham mam
"I DEDICATE MYSELF TO THE UNIVERSAL DIAMOND BE THIS RAGING FURY BE DESTROYED"
And he will protect those who love the woods and rivers, Gods and animals, hobos and madmen, prisoners and sick people, musicians, playful women, and hopeful children:
And if anyone is threatened by advertising, air pollution, television, or the police, they should chant SMOKEY THE BEAR'S WAR SPELL:
DROWN THEIR BUTTS
CRUSH THEIR BUTTS
DROWN THEIR BUTTS
CRUSH THEIR BUTTS
And SMOKEY THE BEAR will surely appear to put the enemy out with his vajra-shovel.
Now those who recite this Sutra and then try to put it in practice will accumulate merit as countless as the sands of Arizona and Nevada.
Will help save the planet Earth from total oil slick.
Will enter the age of harmony of man and nature.
Will win the tender love and caresses of men, women, and beasts.
Will always have ripened blackberries to eat and a sunny spot under a pine tree to sit at.
AND IN THE END WILL WIN HIGHEST PERFECT ENLIGHTENMENT
...thus we have heard...
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