度母感應紀實二則陳健民祖師英文原著
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The couplet on Green Tara
From: jui khin yeo
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 8:00 PM
To: Guru Yutang Lin
Subject: 求墨
尊貴的上師,
我在《曲肱齋全集》第二十四冊《韻文雜藝賸稿》中,讀到陳健民祖師所寫之『綠度母聯』,弟子敬請上師手書此聯。謝謝。
綠度母聯
解頤一笑魔皆去
把手相牽誰肯來
法安
弟子 敬行頂禮
Even in the realm of worldly knowledge men know will is a power. Clarence Day who said, "Will and wisdom are both mighty leaders of our times," worships the will. Max Lerner said, "Man's will creates the things that paralyze his brain and brutalize his heart." The doctrine of three yanas all emphasize that practitioners should develop their Bodhi-citta of Will before any other practice is done. Where there is the will, there is the way. Even an ill will may get a chance to succeed. Two real stories may be mentioned here:
1. One was told by my friend Mr. Chang Shen Chen. He was born in a Buddhist family. His grandmother advised him that when he passed over the dangerous hills where robbers usually gave trouble to rich passengers, he should carefully repeat the incantation of Tara. Mr. Chang complied with her advice and had no trouble. But once he seemed doubtful of the incantation and purposely stopped. and with a feeling of ill-will said to himself, "If the incantation is really useful, this time I might meet the robbers!" Just a minute later after having the ill-will feeling, he met robbers and escaped just with his life.
2. The other story was told by Chang Yu-Nea-Tzih. She is now in the U.S.A. She is a graduate of Chin-Lin College which is a Christian school, but her husband Garma C. C. Chang is a Buddhist. When they met me in Kalimpong it was only a few months after their marriage. Certainly she had not yet followed the bent of Buddhism at that time
Her husband asked me to perform a Homa sacrifice to Tara. She saw that all those precious things would be put into the fire It seemed to her just like casting pearls before swine. Her doubt was continuously kept in her mind until sleep. She had a feeling of ill-will and said to herself, "If it can be really inspired by Tara, try to send me a bad dream to cudgel my brain." Thereupon she very easily fell into a dream. Many corpses and skulls were present. After she as awakened by such a terrible vision, she created ill-will again: "It is not enough proof unless I get a disease very soon. Immediately she suffered a high fever. She, however, never satisfied, was so bold as to vow a very dangerous thing by saying, "Please try to make me run a risk even between two fires on the next day!" which was the day before the date of Homa chosen by me.
The next evening she had a small quarrel with her husband. The latter came to me and said, "I heard that when you were invited by Mr. Lee Pai Hwa of Quen-Min, with your forefinger pointing on Mr. Lee's body his demon departed and he felt his body become very light. Was it true?" I replied "yes!" Then he asked me to do the same to him and said, "If I get such a light sensation, I would like to leave my wife and follow you to be a hermit." I refused. It was because the demon of Lee was a demon only of the bad habit of opium! At that time I did not know that they had had a quarrel. And a most dangerous thing happened to his wife when C, C. Chang left her and came to me. She had taken a large quantity of poison adding some brandy and then made two Wills; one Will was intended to be given to the police. It said that her suicide was by her own will and in no way concerned her husband. The other Will provided for giving ten thousand rupees to her servant Mr. Wong Qua Chong.
It was extremely fortunate that her servant came to call her to dinner just after the Will was written for him. After finding out such a dangerous thing, he immediately called the doctor and all poisons were ejected through the doctor's treatment. She was saved!
Actually the contention of their quarrel as it stood was a pretty, lovely, beautiful private secrecy, as she told me frankly the next morning when I went to her house to perform the Homa. But as the ill-will invoked proved to be very dangerous, it almost resulted in divorce of one half and in death of the other. How powerful is the Will!! It is written in Confucius' Analects: "The commander of a force of a large state may be carried off, but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him." No one can rob us of our free will. He who is firm in will molds the world to himself, With will one can do anything; ill-will does evil, good will does good, Bodhi-citta of will leads us to Buddha's full enlightenment.