自然無依 林鈺堂

佛號淨心非繫縛,接引慈航宜安乘;
波濤洶湧驅落海,何如到岸再下船?

或引「應無所住」而普勸連佛號亦不持。奈何一般念佛行者,少有出離專修,大多尚繫俗務,一旦停止念佛,並不可能在世間的瑣碎煩惱內參悟,只是平白失去依持佛號而漸漸體會自然無依之解脫的機會。念佛者宜明白此理,而不捨佛號。直至證入自然無依,而後方可任運行止。


                       二○○二年八月十七日  
                       養和齋    於加州


Naturally Free from Reliance Yutang Lin

Chanting "Amitabha" to purify the mind but not to tie it down;
One should stay settled in the compassionate ship of salvation.
While waves are turbulent goading people to jump into the sea;
Why not wait till the vessel has reached the shore to leave ship?

Comments:

Citing "One should not abide in anything," some would urge people in general that even the practice of chanting some Buddha's epithet should be given up. Nevertheless, ordinary practitioners of such chanting practices are mostly within the confines of worldly matters, and there are only very few practitioners of chanting who had renounced worldly activities and are cultivating it wholeheartedly. Consequently, once the practitioners stopped chanting, they could not gain comprehension amidst the cluster of worldly trivial sorrows, but will only lose the opportunity to gradually experience, through the chanting practice, the liberation of being naturally free from reliance. Practitioners of chanting Buddhas' epithets should understand this matter and not to renounce the practice. Only after one has attained the natural state of no reliance can one conduct activities according to situations.


Written in Chinese on August 17, 2002
Translated on August 18, 2002
El Cerrito, California


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