Preface 序
Writings of Master Yuanyin | 2018-06-22 | Download | AI assisted translation
| 恒河大手印是佛教密宗中的一种高层次修法，不修而修，修即无修，言语道断，心行处灭，于一念不生而了了分明，虽了了分明而一念不生处，讨个消息，然后悟烦恼即是菩提，妄念即是妙用，空有不二，体用一如，一切法皆是佛法。 |
The Ganges Mahāmudrā is an advanced practice in Esoteric Buddhism. It is practice without practicing; to practice is itself no practice. Where the path of language is cut off and the sphere of mental activity ceases, one investigates the point at which not a single thought arises yet there is clear, lucid awareness, and at which, though there is clear, lucid awareness, not a single thought arises. Then one realizes that afflictions are bodhi, deluded thoughts are wondrous functioning, emptiness and existence are nondual, essence and function are one suchness, and all phenomena are Buddhadharma. |
| 元音老人（李钟鼎老先生）以九十四岁的高龄，讲经说法，著书立说，不遗余力。此书是继《佛法修证心要》的又一部巨著，反复叮咛，和盘托出，生动活泼，触类旁通，确是度生的宝筏，成佛的要诀。希望读此书的志士仁人，开智慧眼，入无相门，大机大用，悲愿无尽，庶不辜负老人的一番苦心！ |
At the advanced age of ninety-four, Master Yuanyin (the elder Mr. Li Zhongding) spared no effort in lecturing on the sūtras, expounding the Dharma, and writing books. Following Essentials of Buddhist Practice and Realization, this book is another monumental work. It repeatedly offers earnest instruction, sets everything forth without reserve, and is vivid, lively, and illuminating by analogy. It is indeed a precious raft for liberating sentient beings and an essential key to attaining Buddhahood. It is hoped that all people of aspiration and goodwill who read this book will open the eye of wisdom, enter the gate of formlessness, develop great capacity and wondrous functioning, and cultivate inexhaustible vows of compassion, so as not to disappoint the elder's painstaking efforts. |
| 一九九九年一月后学徐恒志拜序 |
January 1999. Respectfully prefaced by the junior student Xu Hengzhi. |
