【Listening 听闻】Changing our mentality by listening to the teachings 意极起热恼，我当趣正法
【LISTENING】– Changing our mentality by listening to the teachings
【Similarly, when you listen to the teachings, your faults such as misconduct and attachment appear in the mirror of the teachings. At that time, you regret that your mind has become like this, and you then work to clear away those faults and establish good qualities. Hence, you must train in the teachings. 】
Right now, the same applies to our hearing of the teachings, because of our lack of understanding of personal problems, so [we] come to listen. Upon hearing the teachings, the mirror of Dharma identifies all those faults in us physically and mentally – the proper way is like this, the wrong way is like that. By then, regret will arise in our mind stream, alas, much to [our] chagrin! And [you] say, “Why is my mental stream this terrible, in such a terrible state!” And then, with this understanding, having this unbearable mentality toward personal affliction followed by proper practice, this is the right approach – you may prefer to have more of this type of “faulty affliction.” As of right now, we are not there yet. We have not discovered our own faults and are only finding others’ faults. In addition, there is indolence in [our] attitudes. What is more pathetic is that we are in the midst of affliction and are completely unaware of it. This is very pitiful. The most pathetic part of humanity is unknowingly being submerged in affliction, which is truly pitiful! Thus, the only purpose of our study of Buddha Dharma is to identify the afflictions and to learn how to purify them. With this identification, then that is the time to start worrying, “Alas, how come I am so terrible! I must combat it, have to vanquish it!” With this [mentality], then we will have part of the practice.
SOURCE 来源 :
12A 26’50” Vol 2 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P121 LL2
English Lamrim Vol 1 P62
日常师父法语📡12A 26’50” 手抄稿第2册P121 LL2
听闻 ： 意极起热恼，我当趣正法
【若自行为，有诸过失，由闻正法，现于法镜，尔时意中便生热恼，谓我相续何乃至此。次乃除过，修习功德，是故须应随法修学。】
现在我们听闻正法也是这个样，因为我们不了解自己的问题，所以去听闻。听闻了以后，我们自己身心上头种种错误的，都看出来了，在这个法镜当中照出来了！对的是这个样，不对的是这样。那个时候，我们心里面就生热恼，哎呀，懊恼啊！说：“怎么我这个身心这么个差呀，差到这种程度啊！”那么有了这个了解，有了自己对于自己的烦恼不能忍受的这种心情，进一步去修行哪，这个才对，这个“烦恼”，就怕你少。现在呢，我们不是，我们也没有发现自己的烦恼，只看人家的烦恼，还有呢，就是自己心里面懒懒散散哪，这样。乃至更可怜的，我们在烦恼当中，还不知道，这是最可怜的。人的真正最可怜的地方，就是我们在烦恼当中不知道，这是实在可怜哪！所以我们修学佛法的唯一的目标，就是要找到这个烦恼，然后要了解如何去净除，发现了这个的话，然后，那是真正要烦恼了：“啊！我怎么这么差啊！我一定要跟它斗，一定要把它战胜！”这样，这样我们就有份。