【修持轨理 The Meditation Session】后时如何行者 What to do at the conclusion P4

【修持轨理】后时如何行者

【有欲修心，即便截止，则于后次心欲趣入。若不尔者，见座位时，即觉发呕。】

如果修过行的人，认真过的，都有这个经验。或者你拜佛，平常的时侯胡思乱想，到那时侯你拜你那个心里非常宁静，哎呀，觉得那个时候，或者有一种不知不觉的感恩心，或者不知不觉的欢喜心。乃至于有的时候拜的时候，不知不觉得这个会痛哭流涕，虽然痛哭心里却是欢喜的，样样东西都是这样。

他结果，我们碰到这种情况之下，哎呀，那好了，继续下去，他不是! 等到你发现了这个欢喜，你会觉得：「哎呀，这下对了！这下要修了。」 这个叫「欲修心」。欸，妙咧! 我们碰到这种欢喜的情况继续下去，他告诉我们怎么？停下来。那我们想想看，这个碰对了为什么会停下来? 大善知识的大善巧，真美！你碰对了叫你停下来，停下来是什么状态啊？你下来了以后你心里想：「这么好啊！」你虽然下来了，你一心一意一直想再去做那件事情，你相信不相信？

来源 SOURCE：

日常师父法语 24B 28’24”手抄稿第三册 P286L4

24B 28’24”Vol. 3 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P286L4
English Lamrim Volume 1, P100

【Meditation Session】

【What to do at the conclusion】

【If you end your session while still wanting to meditate, you will be eager to reenter each future session. [61] Otherwise, it is said that you will feel nauseous when you see the cushion.】

For those who have practiced before, if you have seriously tried, you would have had that experience. Or something like this could occur during your prostrations to Buddha. Normally your thoughts run wild, but you get to a point where your mind becomes very peaceful when you are prostrating. Ah-ya, you would feel at that time, or perhaps unconsciously, a feeling of gratitude, or unconsciously a sense of joy. Even sometimes when you prostrate, without being aware of it, you would start to cry your heart out. Even though you may be crying hard, you feel joyful in your heart. This could happen with anything [you practice].

But then when we are in this situation, ah-ya, it is great and we want to continue. But that is not what he tells you to do here! When you discover this kind of joy, you will feel, "Ah-ya, I got it right! I am going to meditate now." That is the mindset of "still wanting to meditate." Eh, that is the marvelous part! We would ordinarily continue on when we have this joy. But what does he tell us? Stop. So let us think about this. Why would you stop when you get it right? That is the superbly skillful method of a great excellent teacher. That is beautiful! He tells you to stop when you get it right. What would it be like when you stop? Once you exit the session, you would think, "This was so great!" So even though you have ended the meditation, you wholeheartedly and continuously intend to get back to do it again. Do you believe it?