【The Meditation Session – what to do in between sessions 】- Acting with vigilance – mental activity is explicit and clear

And, at night, later the author will tell us how to sleep. This is very explicit and clear.

When engaging in this, be mindfully vigilant. Mindfully vigilant of what? Karma refers to the mental activity or mental karma. You clearly and plainly know that this is completely in accordance with the teachings. Then, because you have this vigilance, your physical and verbal activities will follow – your body and speech will conform. Once your physical, verbal, and mental three karmic deeds are all pure, may [I] ask, will you descend to hell? So there is a funny story, but it’s absolutely true. It says that once you abide by the above and end up in hell, Yama [Lord of death] looks through the ledger: “Sorry! You don’t belong here because you did not register!” Ah, that is how it works! Yama will respectfully send you to heaven. When it comes down to it, it is just this simple!

So here, we should be inspired to have this desire, we definitely have this ability. This is why I specifically mentioned: it is not that we lack intelligence and ability, but because we’ve misused it. This intelligence and ability becomes worldly intellect, and becomes concealed by one’s own faults.

SOURCE 来源 :

26A 06’26” Vol 4 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P46 L6
English Lamrim Vol 1 P104

日常师父法语📡26A 06’26” 手抄稿第4册P46 L6

修持轨理 - 未修中间 : 正知而行者-意业清清楚楚

晚上，他后面还告诉我们怎么睡觉，这是清清楚楚、明明白白。做这件事情啊，一定要忆念正知，忆念正知什么啊？业——意业，意业。你清清楚楚、明明白白，这个是完全如理如法的。然后呢因为有这个正知现前，你身口的行为照着这样去做，身口相应。现在你身、口、意三业清净，请问你能到地狱里面去吗？所以这个故事有一个笑话，但是千真万确。说你这样做了以后，跑到地狱里面，阎罗王翻翻那个帐啊：对不起！这里没你分，你没挂那个号嘛！啊，这样! 他又恭恭敬敬把你送到天堂去。就是这么简单，说起来是这么简单！所以在这个地方，我们要启发我们的好乐心，我们是的的确确有这个能力的。所以我昨天晚上特别说呀，我们不是没有聪明才智，可惜的我们用错了，这个聪明才智变成世智聪辩，然后呢被自己的罪过遮盖。