日志　林钰堂

心得日志胜传记，忘我传法普益利；
真情直注养菩提，世相八风咸远离。

跋

每逢修行心得，辄以诗文志之，公诸于世。较之传记，诚为弘法无我之举。此中唯长养菩提之纯真用心，而得免种种无谓之世间计议。陈上师曾谓，可以彼之短笛诗集充当传记；盖亦此之谓欤？

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　二○○二年一月十六日
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　养和斋　　　　于加州

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Daily Recording　Yutang Lin

Daily recording of insights worth more than biography;
Self-forgotten in spreading Dharma benefits all equally.
Sincerity pouring directly into cultivation of Bodhicitta;
Worldly manners and consideration are all distant away.

Comment:

As insights gained through practices arise, they are readily recorded in poems or essays, and then released freely to the world. Compared with biographies, this is certainly a selfless approach to spreading the Dharma. Thus there is only the pure motive to cultivate Bodhicitta, and it is free from all sorts of meaningless worldly evaluations. Guru Chen used to say that the collection of his short poems, the Short Flute, could be read as his biography. Probably his intention was similar to this observation.

Written in Chinese on January 16, 2002
Translated on January 24, 2002
El Cerrito, California

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