【Remembering the Teacher’s Kindness 念恩 】Merits of making offering to the Teacher 供师长的功德
【Remembering the Teacher’s Kindness】- Merits of making offering to the Teacher
The other perspective is to look at the causal stage. Let’s take a look: once you are able to appreciate the kindness of your parents and repay their kindness; you plant this cause. Later, the karmic effect that you will obtain will be incredibly huge! Doesn’t everyone want to make money now? And this earning here refers to Dharma wealth. So for your routine tasks, it is painstaking to accumulate merits. However, if you can repay the kindness of your parents and carry it out accordingly, wow, that effect will be incredible! Now, repaying the kindness of the parents of our Dharma body [i.e the un-manifested inconceivable aspect of Buddha] in this way, wow, the [karmic effect] is even more immeasurable! Who are these parents? They are [our] Teachers. Therefore, the sutras have explained this in many aspects by telling us that the blissful merits from offerings made to the Teachers are unexcelled. The effect produced from offerings made to the Buddha is even less than the offerings made to the Teachers. This is specifically explained in the Mahayana sutras.
We may not be able to comprehend this: "This Buddha is perfect, whereas the teacher is an ordinary being. How can the merits of offerings made to the Teacher be greater than offerings made to the Buddha?" This requires explanation. If you do not have the proper understanding and offer to the Teacher as though he is an ordinary being, then the effects will not arise. Of course, there will still be some benefits, but it will not be greater than offerings made to the Buddha. Once you have proper understanding and you regard him as the Buddha, since he is your teacher and you offer with this mentality, these merits will certainly be greater than offerings made to the Buddha.
SOURCE 来源 :
19A 27’30” Vol 3 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P87 L6
English Lamrim Vol 1 P83
日常师父法语📡19A 27’30”手抄稿第3册P87 L6
念恩 : 供师长的功德
另外一种从因地上面去看，我们看，当你能够对自己的父母感恩、报恩的时候，你种了这个因，将来得到那个果报，是不得了地大！现在我们人人不是要去赚钱吗？要赚这个地方赚的法财。所以你平常做一点事情，积累功德是千辛万苦，但是如果说你能够报父母的恩，然后这样去做的话，哇，那是不得了的果报呀！现在报法身父母的恩，那更是无量无边，这法身父母谁啊？师长。所以经上面太多地方告诉我们，你供养师长的这个福报，没有一个人能比的，供佛的这个果报不如供师长，尤其大乘经典里面。
我们都想它不懂：“这个佛是个圆满，那这个师长他是一个凡夫乃至于，怎么会供养那个师长功德比佛还要大呀？”比佛还要大！这个要说一下。假定你没有正确的认识，你拿凡夫的心情去供养的话，那个没有用。那个当然还是有好处的啦，不会比佛来得大，如果说你有了正确的认识，你把他看成佛，而这是个你的师长，你这样去供的话，的的确确这个功德比供佛还要大。