【修持轨理 The Meditation Session】正行 - 总共修法 Actual session-How to sustain the meditation in general P19

【修持轨理】正行 - 总共修法

【即应具足忆念正知，而正修习，如所决定，令无增减。】

那时候应该具足，一点都不能少，什么？ 「忆念正知」四个字，整个的修行就在这四个字当中，一个「念」、一个「知」，这个是正念跟正知。 所以你正式修行的时候非常清楚，如果说你念佛的话，当下这句佛号清清楚楚、明明白白，这个叫「正念」。 然后你也晓得自己在正念上面，那就让它去。 因为你有正知在，所以它如果说对的，你让它去，如果不对，你随时拉回来，这个就叫正念、正知。 但是这两个一样东西，它是个大学问，一直要到最后讲到奢摩他的时候详细讲。 我们现在是听见了照着去修，对不起，你有大善根很快上去，如果你没善根，听见了这个你去摸，怎么摸就怎么错。

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日常师父法语 24B 03’00”手抄稿第三册 P272LL2

24B 03’00”Vol 3 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P272LL2
English Lamrim Volume 1, P100

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

【Without exceeding or falling short of what you have determined, sustain your meditation with mindfulness and vigilance. 】

At that time, you need to sustain both, not missing any part of it.  What are we referring to?  "Mindfulness" and "vigilance," it is these two words.  All meditation is contained in these two words.  One is "mindfulness" and the other is "vigilance."  This is the reason that when you formally meditate you will be very clear as to what you are doing.  If you recite the Buddha's name, this one iteration at present is done with clarity and lucidity.  This is called "mindfulness."  You are also very much aware that you are mindful of the correct object.  So you will let it continue.  Because you have vigilance, so when you are mindful of the correct object, you will let this keep going on.  If you have strayed from this mindfulness, you will pull your mind back the moment you detect this.  This is called mindfulness and vigilance.  But these two things are essentially one.  There is a great deal to be learned for these two things. But you will have to wait all the way until the time we finally explain serenity to hear this in detail.  If you just hear this now and try to put it into practice, sorry, this means if you have great virtuous roots then you will advance quickly.  But if you do not have virtuous roots, then for you to try to figure this out just after hearing this, the more you try, the more you are wrong.