【修持轨理 The Meditation Session】第六支请住世 The Sixth Branch of Worship, Supplication

【修持轨理】

第六支请住世

这个第六支：
【请住世支者，「诸佛若欲」等一颂。】
「诸佛若欲示涅槃，我悉至诚而劝请，惟愿久住剎尘劫，利乐一切诸众生。」就是那个，就是请佛住世。
【谓于十方剎土之中，诸欲示现般涅槃者，为令发起一切众生究竟利益，现前安乐，故变无量身，劝住佛剎微尘数劫，不般涅槃。】
这个也是缘想十方一切诸佛去劝。那么在正修七支的时候，平常我们怎么，很重要哦！我们任何一个行为，这个相应的就是劝佛住世。为什么？请问佛一个人住在世界上能唱独脚戏吗？唱不起来，唱不起来。

来源 SOURCE：

日常师父法语 23B 12’00”手抄稿第三册 P241L8

23B 12’00” Vol 3 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse, P241L8
English Lamrim Vol 1, P98

【The Meditation Session】

Preparation (5) - The sixth branch is supplication

【The next verse expresses the sixth branch of worship, supplication:
I supplicate with palms joined in prayer
Those wishing to demonstrate their final nirvana—
Please stay for eons equal in number to the particles of the universe In order to bring happiness and benefit to all beings.  】

"I supplicate with palms joined in prayer, those wishing to demonstrate their final nirvana-Please stay for eons equal in number to the particles of the universe in order to bring happiness and benefit to all beings." This is it, supplication for Buddhas to be in this world.

【Supplication involves imagining immeasurable duplicate images of your body. In front of you are the buddhas in the buddha-realms of the ten directions who are teaching how to pass into final nirvana. You then request that they stay for eons equal to the number of minute particles within each of the buddha-realms in order to bring temporary happiness and ultimate benefit to living beings. 】

This also asks you to imagine the Buddhas in all ten directions and supplicate to them.
When you actually practice the seven branches, how we are like on a day-to-day basis is very important!  With our every action, if it accords [with the teachings], then that is when we are supplicating for the Buddhas to stay in this world.  Why?  May I ask then, can the Buddha live in the world by himself and do a monologue