原文為泰文，作者未具名（經 Benja amulet ID 專頁轉載）。以下為中文與 English 兩種譯本。
站長按語 · Editor’s note
此外，也讓我引用一些禪修師父們代代相傳的教誨。
「以佛牌、以人們的信仰謀利，是極重的罪。這種錢是燙手的，不只焚燒自己，還會波及子孫後代。」
——龍普喬·塔納梭莫（Luang Pu Chop Thanasamo），帕帕勒寺（Wat Phu Pha Lek）
「這些人只能在世俗上騙得了人，但業力的法則是無法欺騙的。凡是心存欺詐、欺騙三寶的人，結局只有一個，就是深深墮落，被地獄之火焚燒，長達無數劫。」
——龍婆瑞·林丹（Luang Phor Ruesi Ling Dam），通賽寺（Wat Tha Sung）
Two teachings passed down among Thai meditation masters:
“To profit from amulets and from people’s faith is a very heavy sin. That money burns: it burns not only yourself, but reaches your children and grandchildren.”
— Luang Pu Chop Thanasamo, Wat Phu Pha Lek
“Such people can deceive others only in worldly terms, but the law of karma cannot be deceived. For those who cheat and deceive the Triple Gem there is only one ending: a deep fall, burned by the fires of hell for countless aeons.”
— Luang Phor Ruesi Ling Dam, Wat Tha Sung
中文
有人問：這裡有誰沒被假牌騙過？收藏聖物的人，或多或少都在真假之間吃過虧；作者自己也是。那麼——那些偽造佛牌、甚至把做舊手法當成手藝炫耀的人，最後會遇上什麼？
讓作者寫下這篇的，是一段影片：有人在影片裡細談如何用高錳酸鉀（ด่างทับทิม）把新牌做舊，語氣裡帶著自豪，說自己做的東西「還上過書」、騙過不少行家，彷彿這是值得說嘴的事。網路上的反應很直接：這是值得驕傲的事嗎？
為什麼這不只是買賣糾紛
佛像與聖物，是佛陀與聖者形象的代表，是佛教徒心靈的依止；伴隨而來的是儀式與佛德。人們請牌，希望得到護佑、平安，也希望自己更能堅守善念。
正因如此，信仰成了詐騙者最好的缺口：用偽造的聖物「借用」這份虔誠，換取他人出於信任而付出的金錢。這不只是世俗的詐欺，而是直接破壞人對佛教的信仰。
在佛法裡，這種行為至少落入兩類重業：一是妄語與商業上的欺詐——為取得他人財物而說謊；二是破壞三寶的價值——把不具清淨來源之物，冒充為某位師父的聖物。
經典怎麼說
若往經典裡追（如《餓鬼事》เปตวัตถุ、《相經》ลักขณสูตร），談到以信仰維生、侵占與佛教相關之物者的果報：以染污、強烈貪欲之心破壞他人信仰的人，身壞命終之後，心識將墮入惡趣、無間大地獄，難以避免。
佛陀在《增支部・八集》「一切婆羅門經」（สัพพลหุสสูตร，泰國大藏經第 23 冊，มหาจุฬาลงกรณราชวิทยาลัย 版）中開示妄語的果報，泰譯本作：「諸比丘，妄語若被習行、修習、多作，則導向地獄、導向畜生胎、導向餓鬼界；妄語最輕的餘報——於人中——即是被以不實之言毀謗。」作者的解讀很直接：說謊騙人，最少也會換來「被人騙、沒人再相信你」的處境。
錢的兩面
靠欺騙他人信仰得來的錢，能換到的只是今生短暫的安逸；要背負的苦，卻完全不成比例。文中引用一句泰國老話：「從眼淚與信仰的汙漬裡賺來的燙手錢，往往會在最後毀掉持有它的人。」
而且不祥不會只落在造假的人身上。家人也一同承受——因為吃穿用度都來自那份被騙走的信任；即使不知情，也難以避免。
結語
這篇文章是對想做假牌的人的一記提醒：業力真實存在，只是遲早而已。作者最後也提醒收藏者要審慎思量，才不會成為貪念的獵物——因為宇宙中最精準的機制，就是因果。
（原文註明：本文屬個人信仰觀點，請以理性判斷閱讀。）
English
Karma and the Counterfeit Amulet Trade — translated from the Thai original.
Someone asked: who here has never been fooled by a fake amulet? Anyone who collects sacred objects has, at some point, lost money on the question of real or fake — the author included. So what ultimately becomes of the people who forge amulets, or who even show off their ageing techniques as a craft?
What prompted this piece was a video: a man described in detail how he aged new amulets with potassium permanganate, speaking with pride — saying his work had even been featured in a book and had fooled many experienced dealers, as if this were something to boast about. The reaction online was blunt: is this something to be proud of?
Why this is not merely a trade dispute
Buddha images and sacred objects represent the Buddha and the noble ones; they are the anchor of a Buddhist’s spiritual life, and with them come ritual and sacred virtue. People acquire amulets hoping for protection and peace — and hoping to hold more firmly to what is good.
That is exactly why faith becomes the fraudster’s best opening: a counterfeit object “borrows” that devotion and converts it into money paid out of trust. This is not only worldly fraud; it directly damages people’s faith in Buddhism.
In Buddhist teaching, such conduct falls into at least two categories of heavy karma: false speech and commercial fraud — lying in order to obtain another’s property; and destroying the value of the Triple Gem — passing off something without a pure origin as a particular master’s sacred object.
What the scriptures say
Looking into the canonical texts (such as the Petavatthu and the Lakkhana Sutta), the results for those who live off faith and misappropriate what belongs to the religion are described thus: one who destroys others’ faith with a defiled mind and intense greed will, when the body breaks up, have that mind descend into the lower realms and the great hell, with little chance of escape.
In the Aṅguttara Nikāya, Book of Eights — the Sabbasava Sutta’s companion text known in Thai as สัพพลหุสสูตร (Thai Tipiṭaka vol. 23, Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya edition) — the Buddha explains the result of false speech. The MCU Thai translation reads: “Monks, false speech, when practised, cultivated and made much of, leads to hell, to the animal womb, to the realm of hungry ghosts; the lightest residue of false speech — for one reborn as a human — is to be slandered with words that are untrue.” The author’s reading is direct: lying to people will, at the very least, earn you a life of being cheated and no longer believed.
Two sides of the money
Money obtained by deceiving others’ faith buys only brief comfort in this life; the suffering to be carried afterwards is entirely out of proportion. The original quotes an old Thai saying: “Hot money earned from the stains of tears and faith tends to destroy the one who holds it in the end.”
And misfortune does not fall only on the forger. The family shares it — because the food on the table came from trust that was stolen; even without knowing, they cannot escape it.
Closing
This article is a warning to anyone thinking of making fake amulets: karma is real; it is only a question of sooner or later. The author also reminds collectors to reflect carefully, so as not to become prey to greed — because the most precise mechanism in the universe is the law of cause and effect.
(Note in the original: this article reflects personal religious belief; please read with your own judgement.)
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