融归本净 林钰堂 万法本净超思量，个业善恶陷计执； 跋 修习空性定时，当知万法本来离于善恶、美丑等对立之分辨，而是不可分之一体。一切事物随因缘聚散而生、住、异、灭，共生互现；没有绝对的主客之分，而不妨因观点及立场的歧异，而同时存在种种相对的主客安排。个业随因缘之发展而显现因果相当之理，但在还归空性之观中，则因无有自我之存在，以致无有所谓“个业”之迹象可寻。在法界整体观中，一般所谓之个业，如同大海中的浪花，似有波动，而实无来去，只是大海整体一时一景中无可分割之一小点。修习空性定时，重点在回到无限的一体，因此超越个业而不计矣！ 禅宗六祖惠能大师尝曰：“不思善、不思恶，什么是阇黎（尊称对方之出家人）本来面目？”此语可以与前段参看。 一九九九年十二月三日
Merging back into Original Purity Yutang Lin All things are originally pure beyond conceptualization; Comment: While practicing meditation on Blank Essence (Sunyata) one should understand that all things are originally without dualistic discriminations such as good or evil, beauty or ugly, etc., but are in inseparable oneness. As conditions meet or disintegrate all things come into the phases of emerging, abiding, evolving and decaying. All things are mutually dependent and conditionally related. There is no absolute distinction of subject and object. However, due to differences in view and standing, there could simultaneously be various sets of artificial distinction of subject and object. Following the evolution of conditions individual karmas exemplify the correspondence of causes and results. Nevertheless, in the meditation of merging back into Blank Essence there is no self to be found, and consequently no traces of the so-called "individual karma." In the view that encompasses the whole Dharmadhatu (the collection of all things) as one totality the so-called "individual karmas" are like waves in the ocean that seem to move away but in fact stay stationary. Each wave is an inseparable tiny bit of the whole ocean at a particular time and spot. When practicing meditation on Blank Essence, the key is to merge back into limitless-oneness; therefore, one should not be bothered by considerations related to individual karmas. Master Hui Neng, the sixth patriarch of Chan School in China, once said to a monk: "Without considering good, without considering evil, what is your original face?" This remark may be pondered in the light of the preceding paragraph. Written in Chinese and translated on December 3, 1999 [Home][Back to list][Merging back into Original Purity] |
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