【The Meditation Session – what to do in between sessions 修持轨理 - 未修中间】Restrain the sensory faculties - with which you restrain the sensory faculties 密护根门-以何防护者

【The Meditation Session – what to do in between sessions 】- Restrain the sensory faculties - with which you restrain the sensory faculties

For true meditation, the key points are contained in these four. If you can attain certainty on these four, success will definitely arise. Needless to say, the recitation of Buddha’s names can be achieved and so will practice Zen meditation, just like that! Now, let us go over them one by one.

【There are five parts to this section, 】

The first one is to restrain the sensory faculties.

【the first of which is that with which you restrain the sensory faculties.】

This is the first one. There is small words comment next to it. [Note: the small words referred here is in Chinese text.]

【You restrain them with a constant maintenance of your mindfulness and a continuous persistence at mindfulness.】

The smaller word [in Chinese text] was included in this edition. In many cases, this kind of explanation helps clarify our understanding. It says while we are restraining the faculties – the six sensory faculties – what do we use to restrain it? It says “with a constant maintenance of your mindfulness and a continuous persistence at mindfulness.”

SOURCE 来源 :

25A 21’01” Vol 4 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P13 LL2
English Lamrim Vol 1 P101

日常师父法语📡25A 21’01”手抄稿第4册P13 LL2

修持轨理 - 未修中间 : 密护根门-以何防护者

真正修行的话，主要的关键是全在这里头。如果你这个四点把握得住的话，绝对没有不成功的。不要说念佛是绝对成功，参禅也绝对成功，这样啊！现在我们不妨把那个内容，一个一个看一看。

【初中有五。】

第一个就是密护根门，

【一以何防护者，】

这是第一个。旁边注一个小字。

【谓遍护正念及于正念起常委行。】

那么，这个小字是这一次印的时候,旁边加进去的，有很多地方这个对我们很有帮助，说明。说我们在保护这个根门——六根门头，拿什么东西去防护呢？说“遍护正念，及于正念起常委行”。