【Cultivation of Faith】- Overwhelms any perception of faults

【Likewise, you might notice many faults in yourself, yet, if the perception of your good qualities is very strong, it overwhelms any perception of your faults. 】

On the contrary, for us, even endowed with various faults, yet I just need to have one good quality – “self”. This “self” has the greatest merits, and you will not be able to see any [of your own] nonvirtues. Not to mention, with this self, toward our children and our significant others – the children are too innocent to know much. However, you feel that they are your loved ones, your ownchildren; with this good quality present, you will not see any [of their] faults. This is a veryobvious example.

So the author tells us: you should earnestly meditate on the benefits of a virtuous teacher. Once you recognize the great advantage, even though he has minor flaws, these will not stop you [from respecting him]. By then we are prepared, this will be the time it will be good for us. The more you progress, the stronger this power [of reliance] will be. Eventually, even for a terrible villain, you will not look at his flaws but only see his good qualities.

SOURCE 来源 :

18B 09’57” Vol 3 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P63 L4
English Lamrim Vol 1 P81

日常师父法语📡18B 09’57”手抄稿第3册P63 L4

修信 : 蔽见过之心

【又如于自虽见众过，若见自身一种功德，心势猛利，此亦能蔽见过之心。】

反过来呢，对于我们自己的话，就算有各式各样的过失在，但是我只要有一种功德——“我”，“我”这个东西最大的功德，什么其他的坏事情你都看不见。不要说我吧，就是对自己的子女，对自己的亲人，那个小孩子都是一无所知的，可是你觉得那是你的亲人，那是你的子女，就是这个功德现在前面的话，什么过失你也看不见了。这个很明白的例子。

所以他告诉我们：你要努力去修善知识对你的功德，当你见到那个对你的强大的好处以后，他虽然有一点点小小的过错，挡不住了。那时候我们就好了，那时候对我们好。你愈向上这个力量是愈强，到最后哪怕他是个十恶不赦之徒，你也看不见他的过失，你只看见他的功德。