【Cultivation of Faith 修信 】 Only appreciate him, never blame him 只有感激，绝不责备
【Cultivation of Faith】- Only appreciate him, never blame him
【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.】
So now parents devoted their effort on you – the child - for their entire lifetime and you respond by telling them, “You are an ordinary being, and you are not a sage.” This type of ludicrous attitude will lead you to fall to hell! Now this teacher has nurtured your Dharma-form-and-wisdom-life. He has given you his understanding of the teachings and you are inspired to achieve Dharma-form-and-wisdom-life, this is just the time to strive for self-purification. How can you not be grateful to him? This is a very simple concept. If you blame him and you apply Buddha Dharma to condemn him, then you are wrong from the very beginning, far from being right! If you have some understanding of Buddha Dharma, you will only appreciate him, never blame him. If you lack the understanding and you blame him, you are totally outside the scope of Buddha Dharma. That is the attitude of a worldly being; and you don’t even need to judge him from the perspective of Buddha Dharma. Isn’t this a very simple concept?
Theoretically, this is how it works. And how do we apply this in reality? Yes, we want to learn from Buddha, what about Buddha? At the causal stage, not only did Buddha serve and pay respect to his virtuous teachers in various ways, there were many times when the demon approached him just to deliver a verse. But the demon’s conditions were very cruel: “Alas! This Buddha Dharma is very precious and it can’t be handled carelessly!” What should be done? [The demons] requested various cruel conditions, one of which was: “On your body, light one thousand lamps.” How does one light lamps on the body? Dig a hole in the body and pour oil into the flesh, and then insert the lamp wick to light it up.
SOURCE 来源 :
18B 22’00” Vol 3 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P68 LL6
English Lamrim Vol 1 P82
日常师父法语📡18B 22’00” 手抄稿第3册P68 LL6
修信 : 只有感激，绝不责备
【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。】
所以现在这个父母把一生的心血，全部的精神贯注在你，儿子身上面，你跑得去跟他：“你是个凡夫，你不是圣人。”那这种人不是颠倒到下地狱！现在这个人增长你的法身慧命，他都把了解的佛法告诉你，你要求法身慧命，正应该从这个时候努力净化自己，你怎么能不感激他？这道理很简单。假定你责备他，你以佛法来责备他，你第一个自己就已经错到，不晓得错到那哪里去了！你如果懂得一点佛法的话，你只有感激他，绝不可能责备他。如果说你不了解，那你责备他，你根本谈不到佛法，那是世间的人，你不必用佛法的眼光来责备他。这不道理很简单吗？
这是理论如此，然后我们看实际呢？对，我们学佛，佛怎么样？在因地当中，不但是对他的善知识，用种种方法地承事恭敬，有好多次那个罗剎跑到去跟他讲，只是讲一四句偈，可是那个罗剎的条件很苛刻：“欸！这个佛法这个东西很珍贵哟，你这么马马虎虎求不可以啊！”要怎么办呀？用种种苛刻的条件，其中有一个，说：“要你身上面哪，点一千盏灯。”身上怎么点呢？身上挖了一个洞，把那油啊，刺在那个肉里边，然后呢，拿那个灯芯插在里面点灯。