生死线 林钰堂
惨象倅睹碎憧憬，警觉生死一线间；
心机用尽妄偏执，大悲普敬真随缘。
跋
平常提及“随缘”，似乎只是叫人看开、容受，以随顺局势的变迁。意外惨象的遭遇，可以震碎日常的如意盘算，令人警觉生死的贴近。在这种随时可能死的觉醒中，便能看清用尽心机的种种偏执是多么的虚妄。若能进而体悟所有有情皆同此处境，因而对一切有情皆平等地升起慈悲心与敬重心，才是契入随缘的深层意义。
二○○一年九月廿八日
养和斋 于加州
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Line of Life and Death Yutang Lin
Tragic scenes suddenly viewed shattered expectations,
Alerting awareness of thin line between life and death.
Exhaustive calculating is grasping in vain to prejudice.
Equal empathy and respect for all yields real harmony.
Comment:
Ordinarily when "going along with conditions" is mentioned, it seems only to recommend an open-minded and tolerant attitude that would help one to adjust to changes in situations. Encountering accidental tragic scenes could shatter wishful expectations of daily life and alert people of the closeness of life and death. In the awakening state of realizing that death could arrive at any second it would be easy to see clearly how delusive it is to be engrossed in calculating for and grasping to prejudices. If one could thereby further appreciate the fact that all sentient beings are under the same predicament, and therefore generate a sense of compassion and respect toward all sentient beings equally, then one would have grasped the inner essence of "going along with conditions."
Written in Chinese on September 28, 2001
Translated on September 29, 2001
El Cerrito, California
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