终极考验　林钰堂

实修检验念终极，时机境遇无奈何；
思量造作全失灵，唯余功过定前程。

跋

落实修行，当念临终。死时亡法，不由自主。思议作为，全失效用。一生功过，牵引前行。踏实修行，莫顾表相。真心菩提，全心投入。为法几分，得果几分。忘计人我，唯存慈悲。

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　二○○七年元月廿六日　　
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　养和斋　　　　于加州

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Yutang Lin"
To: "Dharma Friends"
Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2007 1:03 PM
Subject: Four More Poems in Calligraphy_翰墨四首：F1355 终极考验、F1359 最后一刻、F1272 根本反省、F1276 学忘

Today 4 kinds of paper sent by Detong arrived here. 8 poems not written in Calligraphy yet were requested by a Dharma friend who is the number 4 daughter in their family. So I used one each of the 4 kinds of paper to write 4 of those poems.
今天由茶桶寄来的四种纸抵达于此。八首尚未写成手书的诗是由一位法友，她是家中排行老四的女儿，所提请。因此，我使用这四种纸各一张来写其中的四首诗。

She gave English version file names, so I asked Detong to find out the Chinese version file names.
她给的是英文版的档名，所以我请茶桶找出中文版的档名来。

All related files are attached.
所有相关档案均附呈。

Attain Enlightenment Soon!
祝早成佛！
Yutang
钰堂

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F1355 终极考验　 P1117 Ultimate Trial
F1359 最后一刻　 P1120 The Very Last Moment
F1272 根本反省　 P1065 Root Reflection
F1276 学忘　　　 P1067 Learning to Forget
F1099 祝早成佛　 P0940 Enlightenment Soon
F1259 报众生恩　 P1058 Gratitude Due to All Beings
F0883 融通   　　 P0747 Harmonious Unification　
F1338 大同 　　　P1110 Much in Common
F1210 不见自执 　P1019 Not Seeing One's Grasping
写过 F1311 爱在不扶 　P1093 Love in not Helping

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Ultimate Trial　Yutang Lin

To examine whether Dharma practices are solid, consider the ultimate trial.
Time, circumstances and manner of death are all beyond one’s ability to set.
Considerations and contrivances become completely useless and ineffectual.
Only the balance of life-long merits and karmic debts shapes one’s next life.

Comments:

To consolidate one’s Dharma practices, one should examine them in the light of the moment of death. Time, circumstances and manner of death are all beyond one’s control. Thoughts and intentions all become ineffectual. Only merits and karmic debts accumulated in life lead one to the next life. Seeing thus, to practice in a solid manner one should not care about appearances. Genuinely set one’s mind on Bodhi, and wholeheartedly devote one’s life to Dharma. Whatever extend you gave yourself to Dharma will yield the same extend of Dharma fruit for you. Forget about considerations of personal relations, sustain only compassion.

Written in Chinese and translated on January 26, 2007
El Cerrito, California

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