【Listening 听闻】Is meditation very difficult or very easy ? 修行很难还是很容易？

【LISTENING】– Is meditation very difficult or very easy ?

So now everyone thinks that applying the teachings is really difficult! Alas, with my current understanding, nothing in this world is easier than applying the teachings. Well, once everyone hears this, you will think, how can it be? I will tell you the logic right now. If you want to learn how to drive, now it’s easy and available everywhere. But, sorry, if you don’t have a car, can you learn? If you have a car but no road, can you drive? With a road but no gasoline, can you drive? With gasoline but no one to teach you, can you drive? You are still relying on these conditions! This is even the case for riding a bike, right? [This applies] to everything we do! As for meditation, well, it’s your personal business and all you have to ... [unless you] have brain damage then [meditation] is not possible! With a damaged brain, it is difficult to accomplish anything. As long as your brain functions properly, every thought that arises would be this [i.e meditation], isn’t it right? What else is easier than that? [Applying the teachings] does not need any pre-requisite, just sitting here, the teachings can be applied. When you engage in other tasks, after busying yourself with those during the day, resting at night is of course necessary! Well, for practice of the teachings, you can do so even while you are sleeping. With other tasks, you will still need to take a break for meals! However, with the teachings, you can still apply it during meals. So once you truly understand, all twenty-four hours can be used to meditate on the teachings. Every moment of the twenty-four hours can be spent purifying obstacles and accumulating merits. Thus, meditating on the teachings is just this easy! 

Why is it that [we] are unable to have [the meditation as described above] ? It is due to the lack of correct view! The lack of joyous perseverance! So what should we do now? First, destroy the ego, rely on virtuous teachers, listen to the teachings, and contemplate accordingly. For these, it does not mean to divide into these four different steps! Whichever step you are at, you are mindfully meditating. 

SOURCE 来源 :

11A 08’48” Vol 2 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P81 L1
English Lamrim Vol 1 P59

日常师父法语📡11A 08’48” 手抄稿第2册P81 L1

听闻 : 修行很难还是很容易？

现在大家总是修行很难哪！哎，就我现在了解，天下没有比修行更容易的事情。嗯，大家听了话，觉得这个怎么会啊？那我马上理路告诉你。你要学开汽车，说现在很容易，到处有；对不起，没有汽车，你能吗？有了汽车，没马路行吗？有了马路，没汽油行吗？有了汽油，没人教你行吗？你还在这种条件哪！骑个脚踏车乃至于，对不对？做任何事情欸！可是修行啊，嘿，你自己的事情，你只要……脑筋坏了，不行！脑筋坏了做什么事情不行，你只要脑筋好的人，你起心动念，莫非是这个，对不对？哪一样事情比修行更容易的？它不要任何条件，就坐在这里也在修行。然后你做别的事情的话，白天你忙完了，晚上总要休息吧！欸，修行，睡觉你也在修行，做别的事，你吃饭时总要停下来吧！它吃饭也在修行，所以你真正懂得了，二十四小时无处不在修行，二十四小时无处不在净除罪障，积聚功德，修行这么容易喔！

为什么原因得不到？没有正知见哪！没有精进行啊！现在我们要怎么办呢？第一个摧我慢，亲近善知识，听闻正法，如理思惟，每一个，不是说四个步骤分段喔！你任何四个当中走到一个，你就在修行当中。