师佛无二 陈宝媛
献法卅载无怨悔，慈佑众生同菩萨；
师佛无二护有情，蒙恩示现妙境中。
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昔于《沐恩录》中见林上师往年火供相片，被其专一之神情所感动，便兴起要画一张画呈送上师之念头。然而深知自己业障深重，恐无法胜任，便拟待将百字明忏圆满后再说。圆满当日，意外收到上师寄来之《药师七佛经》，犹如即时之奖励，于心里异常欢喜外，仍不能忘记素描之愿。过了一日，素描当天，画坏了无数次，原因是无法捕捉上师的神采。眼看日已暮，便顺其自然，不再修改，然后随意画了当时脑海里觉得相称的背景，装框，再将之前已经作过彩色影印之上师火供相片裁剪好，亦装上框，包好待寄。寄出数日后，又再邮寄另一包文件给上师，不料二件同日抵达。收到此包裹时，上师告诉我此素描像框之玻璃于寄送途中破裂，并以此画“破框而出”乃解脱之兆来安慰我。
当晚我即梦见，师母示我她所画之上师素描，其神采之逼真，功力之深厚，令我赞叹不已！随后我便来到上师的佛堂参礼，忽见佛堂左边有一凹进墙里去的佛龛，长宽约两公尺乘以一公尺，凹进墙里去的地方大概也有一公尺深。凹进去的地方，表面（一共有五面）都是深红色的。此佛龛里摆满了大大小小用铅笔素描的上师的像，有一张为上师的二公子所画，其余则是各地佛友画的。但是其中最中间那张也是最大的一张，我仔细一看，是上师与韦陀菩萨合而为一的像，我虽无法分出面容是菩萨抑或是上师，但梦中一见，立即感知其乃师佛一体，故不可分。甚至亦有某种力量教示我，此亦为护法关公。故而严格说来，实为三位一体。此像镶在像医生用来看透视片之灯箱上，故看起来明亮透光，使得那个红色的佛龛闪闪生辉。
醒后思索梦境，方知上师长年为佛法奉献，无怨无悔，其精神就如韦陀菩萨及护法关公一样。而其护念晚辈及众生无微不至之心，正是佛菩萨之表现，故有此显示。随即领悟自己开始修行后不就是时时为师佛所保佑着！上师先前之诗作“师佛”内容，竟蒙恩于梦中以此妙境示现，真是何其有幸！是为记。
二○○四年七月九日
纽泽西 寓所
林跋
宝媛供画像后，得教授之梦，电邮告知，即嘱记之以助长大众之正信。
惜昔从侍 陈师之初，即曾梦见韦陀菩萨提携五、六岁孩童状之我。而后多次蒙恩示现，其中特别昭著者即“施无畏相”与“六字大明符”之感应。详见相关拙着。护法关公亦曾多番示现护持。
此次殊恩，示现与二位护法菩萨无二之相于宝媛。一则善导初学，再则奖励余之为法奉献，而使普天之下学佛大众咸知献身法务，功不唐捐也。
仅献拙诗于后，以志此殊恩。
献画虔诚感佛恩，梦示师仪威武姿；
护法上师无二相，令知为法心一般！
二○○四年七月九日
养和斋 于加州
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Oneness of Guru and Buddha Pao-Yuan Chen
Devoting to Dharma for three decades without regret or complaints,
Compassionately blessing all worldly beings as does a Bodhisattva,
Protecting sentient beings through the oneness of Guru and Buddha,
Such essence was graciously revealed via a wondrous Dharma dream.
Comment:
Long ago when I read the Chinese book "Mu En Lu" I was very touched by a photo of Dr. Lin that was taken during his performance of a fire puja; it showed him in deep meditative concentration. So I thought about sketching his image based on this photo and presenting it to him one day. However, I doubted that my karma was good enough for me to carry out such a project well, so I told myself to postpone it until I have completed the basic one hundred thousand repetitions of the Hundred-Syllable Mantra of Vajrasattva.
On the day I finally finished the chanting up to 111,111 times, coincidentally and auspiciously I received Guru Lin's gift in the mail, a splendid copy of "the Seven Medicine Guru Buddhas Sutra." It arrived as if it was a timely encouraging present for me. I was extremely excited, yet I hadn't forgotten my wish of doing the sketch. So, one day later, I started the sketch. Many hours went by, and many times I ruined the sketch. The reason was that I just couldn't capture Guru's shining spirit. I looked outside and saw the sun setting over the top of the hill, and finally stopped amending and just let it be. Thus whatever ideas of suitable background came up to my mind were immediately put down on the sketch. I framed the sketch, then did the same to the copy of the fire puja photo, which I had previously sent to Staple's for an enlargement color copy and cut to the right size. The next day both frames got mailed out in one package, and, after a few days, out went another package of documents to Guru Lin also. However, both packages arrived at Guru Lin's house at the same time. He told me the glass of the framed sketch was broken during shipping. I felt very bad and sorry, but Guru Lin comforted me by saying that it's an auspicious sign of liberation because the sketch was "getting out of the frame."
That night I had a dream, in which Mrs. Lin showed me her version of Guru's sketch. It was so realistic and beautiful it's just unbelievable. Then I went to their altar room to pay worship to Buddhas. All of a sudden I noticed that on the left wall of this room there was a niche about 2 meters tall and 1 meter wide, and the depth was about 1 meter, too. The five surfaces of this niche were all crimson. I could see many small and big sketches of Guru Lin filling up this niche. One of them was done by his second son Frank, and the others were from Dharma friends all over the world. However, the biggest one that was put in the middle caught my eyes. I looked carefully and found that it's a sketch of Guru Lin combined with Wei Tuo Bodhisattva. I couldn't really tell if the face was that of Guru Lin or Wei Tuo Bodhisattva, but just by the first sight I realized it's actually a non-dualistic picture of Guru Lin and Wei Tuo Bodhisattva, thus inseparable and non-differentiable. There was even some kind of power telling me that this image is also Guan Gong the Dharma Protector. So, seriously speaking, it's an image of Trinity. This image was framed in the kind of light box that doctors use to examine X-ray films, so it seemed translucent, and was glowing and making the whole niche shining.
After I woke up I pondered again on the dream, and realized that my Guru, Dr. Lin, has dedicated his life to Dharma for almost 30 years without regret or complaints, whose spirit is just like that of Wei Tuo Bodhisattvas and Dharma Protector Guan Gong. Furthermore, his endless care and help over Buddhists in general, students and all sentient beings are manifestations of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. No wonder such a miraculous image appeared in my dream! Accordingly, I also realized that I have been constantly blessed by Guru Lin ever since I started my Buddhist practices. It's very fortunate that I was shown and taught such Dharma significance in the dream, which coincides with what's expressed in Guru Lin's previous poem "Guru Buddha."
July 9th, 2004
New Jersey
Epilog Yutang Lin
After Pao-Yuan offered the sketch she got an inspirational dream. She described it to me in an email, and I told her to write it into an essay to help the public build right faith in the Dharma.
Long years ago when I started to follow and attend Guru Chen once I saw in a dream Wei Tuo Bodhisattva was holding the hand of a five or six year old boy by his side and the boy was me. Since then I have had many blessed experiences of his presence. Among those the most outstanding ones were related to "the photo of Giving of Fearlessness" and the "Om Mani Padme Hong" mantra sheet that I wrote. Please read my related works on these for details. Dharma Protector Guan Gong also appeared many times to me to grant his supportive blessings.
This time a most extraordinary blessing was granted to us through the manifestation of a miraculous non-dual image of Trinity of Dharma Protectors and Practitioner to Pao Yuan, so that novices may be well guided on the path, and my dedication to the Dharma is thereby awarded with distinction to encourage more Buddhists to follow suit with the knowledge that such efforts would not be in vain eventually.
To commemorate this extraordinary blessing I offered a poem below:
Full devotion in offering the sketch won Buddha's blessings,
Let see an awe-inspiring Protector image of Guru in dream.
Non-dual and non-differentiable are Guru and Bodhisattvas,
Thus teaching that their Bodhi intentions for beings are one.
Epilog written in Chinese on July 9, 2004
Translated on July 10, 2004
El Cerrito, California
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