【修持轨理 The Meditation Session】防护为何 How to restrain the sensory faculties P2

【修持轨理 - 未修中间如何行者】- 密护根门- 防护为何

【此中所住无覆无记者，谓威仪等时，非是持心住善缘时。】

他特别说明这个无记是什么，无覆无记。哪些是无覆无记呢？就是威仪，就是你行走啊，坐在那地方、做一点什么事情啊，那个时候谈不到是善是恶。因为你那时候的的确确，你不是全心贯注在上面，譬如说我礼佛，当然礼拜佛，你要走路，那个时候是另外一件事情。无记有两种：一种有覆无记，一种无覆无记；这染污的，那是有覆，不染污的，无覆，简单地说一下。那么这个五条文字解释了，我现在离开了这文字来从头说一下。
首先我们要了解我们平常一般状态，我们这个心念做些什么，我们心念做些什么？ 我们的心念就是自然而然的，我们的六根，眼睛去看，耳朵去听，嘴巴不是讲话就是吃东西，这个，那一定是这样；身上的感触，这个欢喜的，软软舒服的，凉快一点、热的等等，就是这样。然后呢，当这个五根对了境以后的话，它一定順着紧跟着意识就来了，然后你在这个地方就做种种的邪妄分别，这样。这种邪妄分别都是什么？增长杂染、染污的，都是这个染污的。

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日常师父法语25B 05’33” 手抄稿第四册 P24LL4

25B 05’33” Vol. 4 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P24LL4
English Lamrim Vol 1 P102

【Meditation Session】【What to do in between meditation sessions】【Restraining the sensory faculties – How to restrain the sensory faculties】

【Here, the time for setting the mind on something that is "unobscured and ethically neutral" is not when the mind is apprehending a virtuous object of meditation, but at other times, such as during physical activities.】

So here he [Master Tsong-Kha-Pa] wanted to particularly explain what ethically neutral is, “unobscured and ethically neutral”. What are things which are [considered] unobscured and ethically neutral? That is physical activities, like when you are walking, sitting somewhere, doing something, etc. At that time, can’t talk about whether it is virtuous or non-virtuous. Because, at that time, certainly you are not whole-heartedly concentrating on doing it. For example, when you are paying obeisance to Buddha, and of course when you prostrate to the Buddha, you have to walk and that is considered a different thing. There are two kinds of ethically neutral states, one is obscured and ethically neutral, and the other is unobscured and ethically neutral. To put it simply, the contaminated one is the obscured one; the non-contaminated one is the unobscured. So now the five parts are explained with the texts. So now I will move away from the text and explain this from the beginning.First, we need to know in our normal state of being, what our thoughts are doing. What are our thoughts doing? Our thoughts are just naturally like this…our six sensory faculties, the eyes look, the ears listen, the mouth either talking or eating, and so it is always like that. Our body feels, with what we like, soft and comfortable, like it a bit cooler or warmer, etc., just like that. Then when the five sensory faculties come upon the sensory objects, then immediately the mental consciousness would follow. Then at this point, you will make all kinds of wrongful discernment. Like that. What do these wrongful discernments do? They will increase defilements, that are impure, which are all impure caused by these [wrongful discernments].