Vajra Guru Yogi Yutang Lin's Expositions on Dharma

Real Practice in Tastelessness


As I was taught by Guru Lin:
Whether we are practicing or doing Dharma services, when there is a feeling of "boring tastelessness" arising in our mind, that would be the best moment to practice selflessness.

No matter when we are practicing Dharma, doing Dharma activities, or engaging in whatever worldly business, our choosing, our preferring, our still being interested in it or having lost interests in it, or feeling disgusted by it, all these are displays of self-grasping. Taking repetition of Buddha's name as an example, just repeating one Buddha name for years, repeating until all feelings about it are lost—having entered a state of tastelessness, then do not stop just there, continue the recitation, and only then can subtle grasping be broken through, and then reach the state when each repetition is lively, at ease and fulfilled with Dharma bliss. When thoughts of preference to objects of interests or circumstances cease to arise, only then is there genuine experience of “selflessness.”


Revised by Guru Lin
Recorded in Chinese on December 18, 2009
And then translated on December 20, 2009, both by disciple Ji Hu
El Cerrito, California


----- Original Message -----
From: "Yutang Lin"
To: "Dharma Friends"
Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 11:34 AM
Subject: Recorded

Today I said a few words on Dharma, and disciple Ji Hu found it helpful, so she recorded it down in writing, and I had revised it.


May all beings attain Enlightenment soon!

Yutang

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Yutang Lin"
To: "Dharma Friends"
Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 4:17 AM
Subject: Translated

I had revised the English translation by disciple Ji Hu.
In the Chinese file, the English part had been added at the end.


May all beings attain Enlightenment soon!

Yutang


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