【Listening 听闻】Think of earnest practice as the way to cure your disease 于殷重修起疗病想
【LISTENING】– Think of earnest practice as the way to cure your disease
【Think of earnest practice as the way to cure your disease】
Now that we are aware of our illness, have found the doctor, and obtained the prescribed medication, the next thing is to take the medicine and cure the disease. This is the worldly way of taking medication for illness. Then, for the renunciates, our entire physical and mental attitudes should abide by the Dharma medication prescribed by the instructor; this is how to truly apply the teachings. If you have this understanding and practice accordingly, no matter what you engage in, the merits will increase and defilement will be eliminated. Regardless of whether you are prostrating, chanting Buddha’s name, doing Zen meditation, practicing during daily morning and evening sessions, listening to the scriptural teachings, and even when you are sleeping or eating, every act [will accumulate merits]. Maybe we will say, “Alas, the ancient sages said that putting clothes on and eating are all [part of the practice] on the path – that is the state after enlightenment!” This is true. However, for us now the effect of enlightenment – what should you do at causal stage to achieve this effect? If, at the causal stage you didn’t do anything, may I ask will the effect fall into your lap from the sky? Did Buddha Dharma ever talk about the effect falling from the sky? Of course not. So, at this causal stage of ours, what should be done? Apply the teachings. How should they be applied at the stage of study and at the stage of reflecting on the teachings? Take the stages of study and reflection as the cause, and then you will be able to achieve the corresponding effect!
SOURCE 来源 :
11A 22’47” Vol 2 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P88 L8
English Lamrim Vol 1 P59
日常师父法语📡11A 22’47” 手抄稿第2册P88 L8
听闻 ： 于殷重修起疗病想
【于殷重修起疗病想者。】
现在呢，我们知道有病，找到医生，得到医生开的药，紧跟着自己去吃药治病。那么在世间身体上的是吃药治病，然后呢，在出世，我们整个的身心上面，是照着这个法师所开的这个法药去修行，这个才真正修行。你懂得了这个去修行的话，不管你做什么，都在这儿增长功德，净除这个罪障。拜佛、念佛、参禅、早晚课、听经，乃至于你睡觉吃饭，没有一个地方不是。也许我们说：“欸，古人哪，他说穿衣、吃饭哪，无不是道，那是开悟了以后的事情啊！”这是没有错。但是开悟是对我们现在来说，这个结果，你因地当中，要怎么样做才能够感得这个果？假定你因地当中一点消息都没有，请问那个果能天上掉下来吗？佛法会是讲天上掉下来那个果吗？当然不会。
那么现在我们因地当中应该怎么办呢？这就是修行。闻、思两个阶段应该怎么修？拿这个闻思阶段的修作为因，你才能够感得到这个，说修相应的这个果呀！