名实 林钰堂
名相似已成定局，实情无奈正演变；
生死关头纯真验，输赢终究不相干。
跋
名相空泛却易误导，使人产生已成定局之错觉。实际无从捕捉，而又不断迁异。生死之际，唯有纯真经历考验。平时斤斤计较的一时输赢，至此皆成毫不相干。
二○○一年十二月二十日
养和斋 于加州
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Yutang Lin"
To: "Dharma Friends"
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 1:46 PM
Subject: 5 Poems in Calligraphy_篇翰墨诗作：法语、名实、何必、好恶、汇归
As requested by you-know-who I had written you-know-what into calligraphy.
应您知是谁之提请，我已将您知是啥写成翰墨了。
10 files attached.
十个档案附呈。
May all beings attain Enlightenment soon!
愿一切众生早日成佛！
Yutang
钰堂
Name and Substance Yutang Lin
Formal names seem to have set the stage;
However, facts are evolving relentlessly.
Only purity tested through life and death;
Winning or losing is in the end irrelevant.
Comment:
Names and formality are intangible but misleading; they tend to instill a false sense of a settled situation. Reality is beyond grasping and, in addition, constantly changing. At the juncture of life and death only one's purity goes through the trials; what are haggling over in daily life for transient gain or loss all become irrelevant.
Written in Chinese on December 20, 2001
Translated on January 13, 2002
El Cerrito, California
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