主从易位　林钰堂

自我中心难移易，供佛香灯习勤役；
侍师敬谨若厮从，长年磨炼方得力。

跋

吾人以自我为中心之见解、习性及生活，不易察觉，极难突破。学佛要由我执之格局中解脱出来，故先由晨昏供佛香、灯、水、花等做起，学习勤劳服侍，以佛为主。至于专修之行人，若能随侍上师，犹如厮从之承事，则于生活中点点滴滴皆成为抉择我执或顺从师意之考验。有志者于此等活生生之历炼中善加利用，则能如抽丝剥茧一般，渐渐消磨我执，长年之后，可以渐渐契入本净。

至于何种上师可以如此追随，则当以菩提心为基准来观察、选择。行者并应当明确了解师徒关系不是世俗人际之交情，而是完全基于对菩提心之认同。

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　一九九九年二月廿二日
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　养和斋　　　　于加州

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Switching Master and Attendant

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----- Original Message -----
From: Yutang Lin
To: 'Detong'
Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2007 12:04 PM
Subject: RE: 求师墨宝

Good choices.
选得好。

Disciple Detong chose the two poems as guideline for her own practices, and ask me to write them in calligraphy. All related files attached.
弟子茶桶挑了两首诗作为她个人修行上的指南，并请我将之手书。所有相关档案附呈。

This email is Bcc to all on my list.
此电邮以密件传给我名单中所有的人。

May all beings attain Enlightenment soon!
愿一切众生早日成佛！

Yutang
钰堂

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From: Detong
Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2007 7:16 PM
To: Guru Buddha
Subject: 求师墨宝

佛,
主从易位(F0160)及受用悉供(F0161)均是值得行者好好奉行之作，故祈佛赐墨宝以为自励。

Regards!
法安!

Detong
茶桶

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Switching Master and Attendant　Yutang Lin

Self-centered outlook and ways are indeed difficult to change;
Offerings of incense and lamps become practice of diligent service.
Attending the Guru with devotion and care like a faithful servant,
Only after many years of such training could the efforts be effectual.

Comment:

Our self-centered outlook, habits and way of life are not easy to be aware of and very difficult to break through. To become enlightened, one needs to evolve from and transcend the self-imposed framework. Therefore, one begins with the daily offering of incense, lamps, water, flowers, etc., to learn and practice diligent service to Buddha as the master. As to full-time practitioners, if they can attend a Guru as servants would, then all the chores in daily life become occasions to test one on whether to follow one's inclinations or to obey the Guru's wishes. A devoted practitioner would make good use of such real-life trials so that the cocoon of one's grasping would be unwound thread by thread. After long years of such practice one may gradually attain original purity.

As to what kind of Guru may be followed in such a fashion, one should base on Bodhicitta to observe and choose. Practitioners should understand clearly that the Guru-disciple relationship is not a worldly association, but is solely based on a common identification with the Bodhicitta.

Written in Chinese: February 22, 1999
Translated: September 12, 1999
El Cerrito, California

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