【Cultivation of Faith 修信 】endeavor to confess and restrain from ever conceiving a fault in your guru 励力悔除防护寻过心
【Cultivation of Faith】- endeavor to confess and restrain from ever conceiving a fault in your guru
[Even when the influence of factors such as an overabundance of afflictions or a lack of conscientiousness leads you to conceive a fault in your guru, take pains to confess this and restrain yourself from ever doing it again. ]
Even if we understand and are ready to act [according to the teachings], however, the weighty afflictive tendencies from beginningless time still remain. This is the first [reason]. The second is when you sincerely want to overcome it with great conscientiousness and no laxity. With any laxity, that [afflictive] tendency will return, it will arise again; that is laxity, and this is very forceful. If you are careless, you will begin to find the teacher’s faults. What should be done then? Make great effort – the only remedy is to endeavor to “confess this” and restrain from doing it again. This is why I often apply various approaches here, maybe by explaining very calmly and reasonably reminding you that you should not engage in senseless talk, or by setting various rules. What is the purpose for this? At that time, there are only two things: first fostering the enhancement of the afflictions – engaging in senseless speech increases afflictions. Not to mention gossip or the like – even if you are not involved in any gossip – it is senseless speech and meaningless. If a dispute is involved, then who knows how much non-virtuous karma will be created. Even without [dispute], it is laxity – all beginningless tendencies are involved! This is why a true practitioner focuses full attention on [this tendency].
SOURCE 来源 :
18B 05’03” Vol 3 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P60 L5
English Lamrim Vol 1 P81
日常师父法语📡18B 05’03” 手抄稿第3册P60 L5
修信 : 励力悔除防护寻过心
【设由放逸烦恼盛等之势力故，发起寻觅过失之时，亦应励力悔除防护。】
不过尽管我们了解了要去做，但是啊，由于自己无始以来的烦恼很重，第一个；第二呢，你要真正去对治的话，战战兢兢啊，一点都不放松。稍微放松一点哪，它等下又来了，又来了，那么那个就是放逸，这个力量很强。所以你不小心，你又会去找他的过失，那时候应该怎么办呀？要努力，唯一的办法要努力“悔除”，去防护。这是为什么我平常在这里的话，用种种方式，或者是很心平气和地、理智地告诉你们，不要说闲话多聊天，或者用种种的方式制定的规矩，原因为什么？那个时候啊，只有两件事情，第一个增长烦恼，说闲话是增长烦恼。不要说谈是非等等，就是你不谈是非，没有是非牵涉在里头的——绮语，没有意义的事情。如果是有是非在里头，那更是不晓得造多少的坏事情。就是没有这个，放逸，无始以来的习气都在这里啊！这是为什么真正修行的人的话，一定是全部精神摆在这里。