一位真摯讀者的迴響
Greetings from a disciple
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From: Yutang Lin
Date: 2009/2/12
Subject: RE: greetings from a disciple
To: "info@yogichenorg"
Richard,
Thanks for sharing the anecdote.
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May all beings attain Enlightenment soon!
Yutang
From: info@yogichenorg
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 8:08 AM
To: 'Yutang Lin'
Subject: FW: greetings from a disciple
From: Richard Katz
Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 12:02 AM
To: info@yogichen.org
Subject: greetings from a disciple
林博士，你好！
我剛發現專門提供佛教瑜珈士陳健民先生的教導的網站。
我發現這個網站就在我的一本名為：“The Three C of Each Yana and their Interconnections within The Whole System of Buddhism, Part II (陳氏小冊叢書第72號) 的小冊被蟲子蛀了一個小洞的當天。我對於我保有的這些小冊將如同陳瑜珈士曾坐破的七個蒲團之一，一樣的一無是處，感到很不悅。接著我很高興，並且覺得有趣，能在yogichen.org 上發現陳氏小冊叢書以不同的版面呈現。
在一九七一年與七五年間，我曾經為陳瑜珈士修理過他居住在夏塔客街上的公寓內的水喉。其實，我可以更正確地將日期決定出來，但這並不重要，這是在洛杉磯和紐約之間，這個旅行者肯定見到並做過的事情之一，因為他是徒步的。
我的1948製造“凱蒂萊克‧艦隊木”老車停在夏塔客街上，陳瑜珈士看到我在車後的行李箱找東西。因為當時我對瞭解東西的運作很有興趣，所以這部凱蒂萊克的行李箱內有許多工具，都分佈在適當的工具箱內。陳瑜珈士就趨前問我是否可以修理他公寓裏的水喉。我回答說：“我不曉得。”接著他說：“我覺得你可以勝任，請跟我來吧！”
我拿了一大一小的鉗具，修理完畢，我說我不要錢，因為在我遇到他之前已經在城裏做完為了得錢而該做的事。
陳瑜珈士就將水槽上的水龍頭打開，（因為我已修好水喉，可以安然放水），然後說：“將雙手合攏，然後承水。”
然後，陳瑜珈士將水龍頭關上，接著說：“好，握拳。現在，你知道什麼是水，在你拳中是非水。你知道什麼是存在；現在你知道什麼是非存在。”（理察不能確定最後這兩句的原文。）
我收拾起兩個鉗具，稍為鞠躬，就向外走。在我出門之際，他交給我幾本陳氏小冊。
從此以後，我再也沒有見過他。
這些年來，我讀過這些陳氏小冊子。
若你需要人作校對的工作，就算目前時機甚晚，也請讓我知道，就在此陳瑜珈士的教導完全數碼化之際。
最上的祝福！
理察
2009年2月
原文如下：
Greetings Doctor Lin!
I just found the website devoted to the teachings of the Buddhist Yogi C.M. Chen.
I found this website on the day that my copy of The Three C of Each Yana and Their Interconnections Within the Whole System of Buddhism, Part II (Chenian Booklet Series No. 72) got a small hole in it. I was very unhappy that my booklets were going to be nothing more than one of the seven worn out mats of the Yogi. Then I was very happy, and somewhat amused, to find that Chenian booklets are on yogichen.org, having arrived in a different format.
I fixed the plumbing in Yogi Chen's apartment on Shattuck Avenue sometime between 1971 and 1975; I could fix more exactly the date, but it is not important, it is one of those things between Los Angeles and New York that the traveler definitely saw and did because he was on foot. Yogi Chen had seen me peering into the trunk of my 1948 Cadillac Fleetwood, parked on Shattuck Avenue. This Cadillac had many tools in its trunk, all of them in appropriate toolboxes, because at that time I was very interested in understanding how things work. Yogi Chen approached and asked if I could fix the plumbing in his apartment. I said, "I don't know", and he said "I think you can, come with me." I took two pipe wrenches, a small one and a bigger one. I fixed the plumbing; and I said I did NOT want any money, that I had already done what I needed to do for money downtown before he came along.
Yogi Chen turned on the water in the sink (now that one could safely turn on the water, because I had fixed the plumbing) and said,
"Cup your hands, and fill them with water."
Then Yogi Chen turned off the water.
Then Yogi Chen said,
"Okay, make a fist. Now, you know what is the water. What is in your fists is non-water. You know what is being; now you know what is nonbeing. " *
I packed up my two pipewrenches and bowed slightly and walked out. On the way out, he handed me several of the Chenian Booklets.
Never saw him again.
I read through the Chenian booklets over the years.
Please let me know if, even at this late date, you ever need any proofreading done, concomitant with the complete digitization of Yogi Chen's teachings.
Best,
Richard
* Richard wrote that he could not be sure that these were Yogi Chen's exact words.
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