師佛無二 陳寶媛簡繁轉換 - 繁體
獻法卅載無怨悔，慈佑眾生同菩薩；
師佛無二護有情，蒙恩示現妙境中。
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昔於《沐恩錄》中見林上師往年火供相片，被其專一之神情所感動，便興起要畫一張畫呈送上師之念頭。然而深知自己業障深重，恐無法勝任，便擬待將百字明懺圓滿後再說。圓滿當日，意外收到上師寄來之《藥師七佛經》，猶如即時之獎勵，於心裡異常歡喜外，仍不能忘記素描之願。過了一日，素描當天，畫壞了無數次，原因是無法捕捉上師的神采。眼看日已暮，便順其自然，不再修改，然後隨意畫了當時腦海裡覺得相稱的背景，裝框，再將之前已經作過彩色影印之上師火供相片裁剪好，亦裝上框，包好待寄。寄出數日後，又再郵寄另一包文件給上師，不料二件同日抵達。收到此包裹時，上師告訴我此素描像框之玻璃於寄送途中破裂，並以此畫「破框而出」乃解脫之兆來安慰我。
當晚我即夢見，師母示我她所畫之上師素描，其神采之逼真，功力之深厚，令我讚嘆不已！隨後我便來到上師的佛堂參禮，忽見佛堂左邊有一凹進牆裡去的佛龕，長寬約兩公尺乘以一公尺，凹進牆裡去的地方大概也有一公尺深。凹進去的地方，表面（一共有五面）都是深紅色的。此佛龕裏擺滿了大大小小用鉛筆素描的上師的像，有一張為上師的二公子所畫，其餘則是各地佛友畫的。但是其中最中間那張也是最大的一張，我仔細一看，是上師與韋陀菩薩合而為一的像，我雖無法分出面容是菩薩抑或是上師，但夢中一見，立即感知其乃師佛一體，故不可分。甚至亦有某種力量教示我，此亦為護法關公。故而嚴格說來，實為三位一體。此像鑲在像醫生用來看透視片之燈箱上，故看起來明亮透光，使得那個紅色的佛龕閃閃生輝。
醒後思索夢境，方知上師長年為佛法奉獻，無怨無悔，其精神就如韋陀菩薩及護法關公一樣。而其護念晚輩及眾生無微不至之心，正是佛菩薩之表現，故有此顯示。隨即領悟自己開始修行後不就是時時為師佛所保佑著！上師先前之詩作「師佛」內容，竟蒙恩於夢中以此妙境示現，真是何其有幸！是為記。
二○○四年七月九日
紐澤西 寓所
林跋
寶媛供畫像後，得教授之夢，電郵告知，即囑記之以助長大眾之正信。
憶昔從侍 陳師之初，即曾夢見韋陀菩薩提攜五、六歲孩童狀之我。而後多次蒙恩示現，其中特別昭著者即「施無畏相」與「六字大明符」之感應。詳見相關拙著。護法關公亦曾多番示現護持。
此次殊恩，示現與二位護法菩薩無二之相於寶媛。一則善導初學，再則獎勵余之為法奉獻，而使普天之下學佛大眾咸知獻身法務，功不唐捐也。
僅獻拙詩於後，以誌此殊恩。
獻畫虔誠感佛恩，夢示師儀威武姿；
護法上師無二相，令知為法心一般！
二○○四年七月九日
養和齋 於加州
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A photo of Dr. Lin
Pao-Yuan offered the sketch she got an inspirational dream
Oneness of Guru and Buddha Pao-Yuan Chen
Devoting to Dharma for three decades without regret or complaints,
Compassionately blessing all worldly beings as does a Bodhisattva,
Protecting sentient beings through the oneness of Guru and Buddha,
Such essence was graciously revealed via a wondrous Dharma dream.
Comment:
Long ago when I read the Chinese book "Mu En Lu" I was very touched by a photo of Dr. Lin that was taken during his performance of a fire puja; it showed him in deep meditative concentration. So I thought about sketching his image based on this photo and presenting it to him one day. However, I doubted that my karma was good enough for me to carry out such a project well, so I told myself to postpone it until I have completed the basic one hundred thousand repetitions of the Hundred-Syllable Mantra of Vajrasattva.
On the day I finally finished the chanting up to 111,111 times, coincidentally and auspiciously I received Guru Lin's gift in the mail, a splendid copy of "the Seven Medicine Guru Buddhas Sutra." It arrived as if it was a timely encouraging present for me. I was extremely excited, yet I hadn't forgotten my wish of doing the sketch. So, one day later, I started the sketch. Many hours went by, and many times I ruined the sketch. The reason was that I just couldn't capture Guru's shining spirit. I looked outside and saw the sun setting over the top of the hill, and finally stopped amending and just let it be. Thus whatever ideas of suitable background came up to my mind were immediately put down on the sketch. I framed the sketch, then did the same to the copy of the fire puja photo, which I had previously sent to Staple's for an enlargement color copy and cut to the right size. The next day both frames got mailed out in one package, and, after a few days, out went another package of documents to Guru Lin also. However, both packages arrived at Guru Lin's house at the same time. He told me the glass of the framed sketch was broken during shipping. I felt very bad and sorry, but Guru Lin comforted me by saying that it's an auspicious sign of liberation because the sketch was "getting out of the frame."
That night I had a dream, in which Mrs. Lin showed me her version of Guru's sketch. It was so realistic and beautiful it's just unbelievable. Then I went to their altar room to pay worship to Buddhas. All of a sudden I noticed that on the left wall of this room there was a niche about 2 meters tall and 1 meter wide, and the depth was about 1 meter, too. The five surfaces of this niche were all crimson. I could see many small and big sketches of Guru Lin filling up this niche. One of them was done by his second son Frank, and the others were from Dharma friends all over the world. However, the biggest one that was put in the middle caught my eyes. I looked carefully and found that it's a sketch of Guru Lin combined with Wei Tuo Bodhisattva. I couldn't really tell if the face was that of Guru Lin or Wei Tuo Bodhisattva, but just by the first sight I realized it's actually a non-dualistic picture of Guru Lin and Wei Tuo Bodhisattva, thus inseparable and non-differentiable. There was even some kind of power telling me that this image is also Guan Gong the Dharma Protector. So, seriously speaking, it's an image of Trinity. This image was framed in the kind of light box that doctors use to examine X-ray films, so it seemed translucent, and was glowing and making the whole niche shining.
After I woke up I pondered again on the dream, and realized that my Guru, Dr. Lin, has dedicated his life to Dharma for almost 30 years without regret or complaints, whose spirit is just like that of Wei Tuo Bodhisattvas and Dharma Protector Guan Gong. Furthermore, his endless care and help over Buddhists in general, students and all sentient beings are manifestations of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. No wonder such a miraculous image appeared in my dream! Accordingly, I also realized that I have been constantly blessed by Guru Lin ever since I started my Buddhist practices. It's very fortunate that I was shown and taught such Dharma significance in the dream, which coincides with what's expressed in Guru Lin's previous poem "Guru Buddha."
July 9th, 2004
New Jersey
Epilog Yutang Lin
After Pao-Yuan offered the sketch she got an inspirational dream. She described it to me in an email, and I told her to write it into an essay to help the public build right faith in the Dharma.
Long years ago when I started to follow and attend Guru Chen once I saw in a dream Wei Tuo Bodhisattva was holding the hand of a five or six year old boy by his side and the boy was me. Since then I have had many blessed experiences of his presence. Among those the most outstanding ones were related to "the photo of Giving of Fearlessness" and the "Om Mani Padme Hong" mantra sheet that I wrote. Please read my related works on these for details. Dharma Protector Guan Gong also appeared many times to me to grant his supportive blessings.
This time a most extraordinary blessing was granted to us through the manifestation of a miraculous non-dual image of Trinity of Dharma Protectors and Practitioner to Pao Yuan, so that novices may be well guided on the path, and my dedication to the Dharma is thereby awarded with distinction to encourage more Buddhists to follow suit with the knowledge that such efforts would not be in vain eventually.
To commemorate this extraordinary blessing I offered a poem below:
Full devotion in offering the sketch won Buddha's blessings,
Let see an awe-inspiring Protector image of Guru in dream.
Non-dual and non-differentiable are Guru and Bodhisattvas,
Thus teaching that their Bodhi intentions for beings are one.
Epilog written in Chinese on July 9, 2004
Translated on July 10, 2004
El Cerrito, California
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