寿戒 林钰堂 寿戒出自王金仙，梦中戒子转指表； 跋 昨夜内子由台湾回来，带回岳母所赠，戒面浮雕“寿”字之金戒子，良以花甲贱辰将届，而蒙此慈赐祝福。感恩立即戴上，恰合左手中指。戒子内侧有造者之签名刻纹“王金仙”，而“金仙”亦佛之中文别称。 今晨八时十分醒前，梦中与内子及其二弟谈及此戒子。余欲展示戒面“寿”字于妻弟，但手上所戴此戒子转为椭圆面之指表，并且是以威猛之金刚手菩萨圣像为严饰，充满表面。余欲寻“寿”字，将表面翻转至背面，又见同样但较小之圣像在背面正中。又再将之翻转两次，又见有内层两面，但已不记得其上之严饰图案矣。梦中内子说此奇妙指表乃请某姑丈所造，而彼有姑丈出家为僧。 醒后私忖，此乃代表时轮（指表）金刚（金刚手）之四层（外、内、密、密密）加持。而造戒子者为佛（金仙）、为僧（姑丈），诚然是三宝栽培造就。谨此详志此隆恩瑞兆，愿见闻者咸蒙佛恩加被。 二○○六年二月廿一日 Ring of Longevity Yutang Lin Ring of Longevity as manufactured by King Golden Deity, Comment: Last night my wife returned from Taiwan and brought me a gold ring with the Chinese character Shou (longevity) in relief on its face. It was a token of the gracious blessing from my mother-in -law as my 60th birthday, as counted in the Chinese way that takes the 9 months in the womb as one year of one's age, is approaching. With gratitude I immediately put it on, and it fitted the middle finger of my left hand exactly. On the inner side of the ring there is a carved signature in Chinese of the manufacturer, Wang Jin Xian, King Golden Deity. In Chinese literature Buddha is at times referred to as "Jin Xian, golden deity." This morning right before I woke up at 8:10 a.m., in a dreamI was talking about this ring with my wife and her second brother. I tried to show the Shou character on the ring to my brother-in-law, but the ring on my hand had transformed into a ring watch with an oval surface, and in addition the surface is fulfilled with the holy image of an awesome Vajrapani. I continued to look for the Shou character, so I turned the watch over and saw the same image in smaller size at the center of the back of the watch. I continued to turn it over twice more, and saw two faces of an inner layer, but I could not remember the images on them now. In the dream my wife said that this wondrous ring watch was manufactured by an uncle-in-law of hers. In real life she had an uncle-in-law that renounced family life and became a monk. After I woke up I figured that, the dream indicated the four-layer (outer, inner, secret and most secret) blessings of Wheelof Time (as represented by the ring watch) Vajra (as represented by Vajrapani). And the fact that the ring was manufactured by Buddha (as represented by Jin Xian, Golden Deity) as well as, in dream, by a monk (the uncle-in-law) was a clear indication of the nurture till accomplishment through the blessings of the Triple Gem. Now I carefully recorded in details such auspicious and gracious omens with the wish that all who come to learn about this will share the same blessings. Written in Chinese and translated on February 21, 2006 [Home][Back to list][Ring of Longevity] |
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