【修持轨理 The Meditation Session】正行 - 总共修法 Actual Session – How to sustain the meditation in general P18

【修持轨理】正行 - 总共修法

【次应发起猛利誓愿,谓如所定,不令修余。】

若干年以前,快二十年了,那时候我刚出家不久,有一个地方一个法师跟我说:「哎呀!现在出了家什么都放下啰,就是一样——嘴巴!」跟我说。当时候我听了心里面好像有点似是而非之感,不大同意。等到我过了二十年以后,啊!我觉得什么都出了家,形式出了家了,什么都没放下,这张嘴巴是尤其放不下!我不晓得你们有没有这种感受?为什么?目标没弄清楚,这第一个。第二个目标弄清楚了,内容没弄清楚,不晓得怎么去达到这个目标。所以从那个时候一直……后来, 我看见很多人很好的哦,哎哟!他说起来他生死心很切,这个内容呢?跟这句话是了不相干。所以我想起二十多年以前,我跟那个同修谈论的这句话,现在真是感觉得内心很惭愧、很痛苦。所以说把我的经验告诉大家,你真的想的话,这个毛病都指出来了,改过毛病,就对!

来源 SOURCE

日常师父法语 24B 01’34”手抄稿第三册 P272L3

24B 01’34” Vol. 3 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P272L3
English Lamrim Volume 1, P100

【Meditation Session】【Actual Session – How to sustain the meditation in general】

【Then, strengthen your will by repeatedly thinking, "I will not set up something that is different from what I have determined." 】

It was some years ago, almost twenty years ago, not long after I was ordained, a Venerable at one place told me, "Ah-ya! Now that I am ordained, I can let everything go except for one thing, my mouth!" He told me this. When I heard this, it seemed somewhat right but not quite so. I did not quite agree. When twenty years have passed, ah, I feel that even though I have become a renunciate and appeared as an ordained monk externally, I have not let anything go, in particular my mouth! I do not know if you share the same feeling? Why? We are not clear of our goal. This is the first thing. The second thing is that even if you are clear of your goal, you have not figured out the actual content and you do not know how to fulfill your goal. So from then on until…later, I have seen many people who had great potentials. Ah-yo! When he speaks, it would seem that his mind is quite definitive about life and death. How about his actions? What he does seems much unrelated to what he says. Therefore as I recollect what my fellow practitioner and I talked about some twenty years ago, now I really feel ashamed and miserable. This is why I want to share my experience with all of you. If you really want to change, the problems have all been pointed out. As long as you correct the problems, you will be right!