日誌　林鈺堂

心得日誌勝傳記，忘我傳法普益利；
真情直注養菩提，世相八風咸遠離。

跋

每逢修行心得，輒以詩文誌之，公諸於世。較之傳記，誠為弘法無我之舉。此中唯長養菩提之純真用心，而得免種種無謂之世間計議。陳上師曾謂，可以彼之短笛詩集充當傳記；蓋亦此之謂歟？

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　二○○二年一月十六日
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　養和齋　　　　於加州

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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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