【The Meditation Session – what to do in between sessions 】- Restraining the sensory faculties – Why do we need to restrain?

【(5) Restraining means 】

Thus, why do we need to restrain? Restrain what? It says:

【protecting the mind from being afflicted, and then setting it on something that is ethically neutral or virtuous. 】

This is the purpose of our restraint - the objective. Normally, when we indulge our mental faculties while facing a sensory object, they certainly become contaminated, definitely contaminated either by attachment, hostility, or ignorance, just like that. So, at this juncture, with the effort of your restraint, prevent it from being contaminated, restrain from contamination, and allow it to dwell in virtue. At least, remain ethically neutral, which is neither nonvirtuous nor virtuous. This is when we need to apply restraint.

SOURCE 来源 :

25B 04’48” Vol 4 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P24 L2
English Lamrim Vol 1 P102

日常师父法语📡25B 04’48”手抄稿第4册P24 L2

修持轨理 - 未修中间 : 密护根门-防护为何

第五，【五防护为何者，】

那么为什么要去防呢？防些什么呢？说：

【谓从杂染守护其意，令住善性，或无记性。】

那这个就是我们防的目标，这是宗旨。那平常我们这个意根一纵，对这个境的时候，一定是杂染的，一定是杂染的，不是贪、就是瞋、就是痴，就是这样。那么在这个时候，你经过了这个努力地防护的话，不让它杂染，不让它杂染，使它住在善性当中，最起码的善成无记性，无记性；无记性就是不是恶的，但是也不是善的。这个时候这是我们要防护的。