【RELYING ON THE TEACHER】-  Changing our lives

Hence, there is a good book, Liao-Fan’s Four Lessons. I believe that majority of you know it. In the first part of his life, he listened to a fortune teller who foretold a fixed destiny. However, after he met Yun-Gu-Fa-Hui Zen Master, V.1 Chapter 4-57 he began to understand Buddha’s Teachings. By applying the concepts of the Teaching, he completely changed his destiny. What does this mean? It means that the true characteristic of Buddha’s Teaching, is? It is karma and dependent arising. In worldly terms, it is cause and effect. Since there is cause and effect, for a particular type of cause, a resulting effect will correspondingly arise. Where does the cause come from? You created it yourself. What was done in past lives cannot be changed, so leave it as is. However, this life is similarly a cause. As long as you strive, then things will change. Isn’t this very clear?

SOURCE 来源 :

15A 23’14” Vol 2 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P229 LL1
English Lamrim Vol 1 P74

日常师父法语📡15A 23’14” 手抄稿第2册P229 LL1

依师 : 改命

所以有一本好书《了凡四训》，我想大家大部分同学都了解。他前半生听了算命先生的话，就是算得死死，结果遇见了云谷法会禅师以后，了解了佛法以后，把佛法来解释，整个命运改了。说明什么？说明佛法的真正的特质，什么？讲业感缘起，拿我们世俗通常的话——因果报应；既然有因果报应的话，你有这样的因，就感得这样的果报。因哪来的？你自己造的。宿生造的是无可奈何，也不必去管；可是同样的今生也是因，所以你只要努力下下去就改了，不是很明白吗？