【Cultivation of Faith 修信 】How can we not be grateful when he helps me 他帮助了我，怎能不感激？
【Cultivation of Faith】- How can we not be grateful when he helps me
【Reflect on your gurus' good qualities, and do not look for their faults. You must not discriminate among your gurus beginning with those from whom you have received one verse, even if they have such defects as faulty ethical discipline. 】
If you are really inspired to help others, the required condition is that you have to be able to support yourself. If you don’t even have the ability to purify and clear away your afflictions, how can you help others? This concept is very obvious. To clear away afflictions relies on applying Buddha Dharma. Even with one word or one verse, as long as it works for you, he has helped you. How can [we] not be grateful and not respect him? His transgression and so forth is his own issue. Let’s step away from Buddha Dharma now and take the worldly cases, where we can get accurate answers very quickly. May [I] ask: in our progression to this day, if it were not for the unconditional kind upbringing of our parents, would we have been able to become what we are today? There is no exception, it is not possible; no one is exempt, it is not possible. Even for more advanced animals, at a young age, they rely on the care of their parents. Only the lesser animals can survive without parents. May [I] ask, are these parents sages? No, most of our parents are not sages – they are all ordinary beings. In addition, many parents have made a lot of mistakes – would you blame them for their mistakes? Or would you appreciate their kindness? This concept is very clear, very obvious.
What caused his downfall to become the animal? It is because [some animals] do not know to appreciate the kindness [of parents], and regard [parents] from a negative angle.
SOURCE 来源 :
18B 19’54” Vol 3 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P67 LL4
English Lamrim Vol 1 P82
日常师父法语📡18B 19’54” 手抄稿第3册P67 LL4
修信 : 他帮助了我，怎能不感激？
【下至唯从闻一偈颂，虽犯戒等，亦应就其功德思惟，莫观过失，悉无差别。】
你要想真正能够帮助别人，必须要的条件：你要先帮助你自己。你自己都没有力量能够净除、净治你的烦恼的话，你怎么帮助别人？这个概念很清楚。而净治烦恼的都是要靠佛法，哪怕一个字，一四句偈，对于你有用的话，他帮助了你了，怎么不感激、不恭敬他？他犯戒等等，那是他的事情。我们现在不要说佛法，就拿世间来说，我们立刻可以得到一个最正确的答案。请问：我们今天能够生长得这么大，如果没有父母的无比的慈爱的抚养，我们可能有今天吗？没有一个人例外，不可能，没有一个人例外，不可能。乃至于高等的畜生，牠小的时候，都要牠的父母把牠带大的。只有下贱的畜生，那个不要父母的。请问，那些父母都是圣人吗？不是。我们大部分的父母都不是圣人，都是凡夫，乃至于很多父母犯了很多错误，你会责备他的错误吗？还是你感激他的恩呢？这个道理非常明白、非常清楚。他为什么堕落畜生呢？他就是不知道念恩，不知道感恩，从坏的地方去看。