施我法 林钰堂
当前烦恼莫再惹，转思应对利诸方；
难忍修抛缠渐轻，牵就常行心趋宽。
跋
妈几女祖师之施身法，将切断身执与供施有情，一举齐修，同时并进，而成为绝妙之智悲圆融修法。今仿效其法巧妙之义理，而应用于修习去除我执，以便圆融无我智与同体悲。我执难以掌握，故只能于日常生活中，针对当前之烦恼，一方面修习放舍不顾，同时转念思考当如何举止应对，以便利涉及之各方。如此，于我执抬头之一一烦恼中，皆努力修习施我利他，则难忍之烦恼因习于弃置而得以渐渐转轻，并且因行止惯于牵就他人之方便，而使心量趋于宽厚。
愿以此推广其教之日常方便修行之法，略答妈几祖师之教恩。
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Giving Self up
Giving Self up Yutang Lin
Go no further into the haunting sorrows that are present.
Consider instead how to respond to benefit all involved.
Discarding what is hard to endure will lighten the load.
Yielding to others?conveniences will open one's mind.
Comment:
Chod, the tantric practice of cutting through, as taught by the female patriarch Machig Labdron simultaneously combines cutting attachment to body and making offerings to all beings into a superb practice. Now in the light of such wondrous unification of wisdom and compassion, one may apply the teaching to the cutting out of self-grasping. Since grasping to self is hard to discern one can confront only the sorrows that spring up in daily life. When one becomes aware of some sorrow or worry, on the one hand, one should practice not paying attention to it any further so as to get out of its shadow, simultaneously on the other hand, one should consider instead how to behave and respond so as to benefit all involved. In this way, whenever sorrows arise, one endeavors to practice giving self up to benefit others. Then all sorrows that are hard to endure will gradually dissipate out of neglect, while one's mind will gradually open up with the habit of making things convenient for others.
May this indication of how to extend the teaching of Chod into daily life handling of sorrows and application of compassionate tolerance serve as a small token of my gratitude to the skillful teachings of Ma Machig.
Written in Chinese and translated on April 13, 2001
El Cerrito, California
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