【Listening 听闻】 Seeing others are good, I take no part in it 看别人好，没有我的份

【LISTENING】– Seeing others are good, I take no part in it 

【Also:
Like an actor before an audience watching a show
Or like describing the good qualities of someone else who is a hero,
You fall from earnest practice yourself – 
Such are the faults of delighting in just the words. 】

Like when we go to a show, what is there to watch in the theater? Well, watching those people fighting on the stage, “Wow, great!” We watch others, cheer, and applaud. For yourself, you take no part in it, none! No part of it! You have to apply it! This is the proper approach! So, again and again, this demonstrates that we are all at the superficial level of language and words. Alas, at this moment we are truly pathetic, very pitiful! I was like that. Later, I met many fellow practitioners and often thought: “Alas, this I know and I understand it all. Well, [I have] studied for years.” The effect of several years of study turns out to still be outside of the door [with respect to the teachings]. And even contrarily claiming that study is no use. Alas, it is truly pathetic and ridiculous! The issue is right here. Granted that the understanding is there, but [if the practitioner] does not practice accordingly, then the application is still not there, it is still of no use! To use our present state as an example, we often think that applying the teachings and the tenet instructions are two different things.

SOURCE 来源 :

12A 08’55” Vol 2 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P114 L4
English Lamrim Vol 1 P62

日常师父法语📡12A 08’55” 手抄稿第2册P114 L4

听闻 ：看别人好，没有我的份

【又云：“如有处居观戏场，谈说其余勇士德，自己失坏殷重修，此是爱着言说失。”】

就像我们去看戏一样，看戏的戏场里面看什么？啊，看那个台上那些人打斗，“哇！好啊！”在我们这样喝采、叫好，这看别人好；自己，没有你的份，没有！没有！要自己去做呀！这个才对呀！所以这个在在说明我们都在语言文字上面。啊，现在我们这是真可怜哪，真可怜哪。我以前也是这样，以后也遇见很多同修，常常觉得：“哎呀，这个我都懂，这个我都了解了。啊，念了几年书了。”结果念了几年书，修行居然还在门外，反而说这个念书没有用。唉，实在可怜哪！实在可笑也是啊！这问题都在这个上面，就算懂了吧，他也不照着去做，还是没有用啊，还是没有用啊！譬如说我们现在来说的话，往往有这种感觉，就好像讲修行跟这个教理是两件事情。