【Remembering the Teacher’s Kindness】- Purify our mental cognition

For instance, it is the same for us now. If you use gasoline, if it is used in “bumper cars”, that is one way to power it, if you put it in motorcycle and that is another way. Put it in regular cars but, because engines vary, the effects will be different. Now, our engine is a very old one, worn to a decrepit condition. So the first thing – the engine represents our mental cognition, our mind stream. You must purify it first, and then apply the teachings. Wow, the effect will be powerful and efficient! In our daily lives now, why do we need to simplify and focus? This is the reason.

SOURCE 来源 :

19B 16’05” Vol 3 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P97 L2
English Lamrim Vol 1 P83

日常师父法语📡19B 16’05” 手抄稿第3册P97 L2

念恩 : 净化心智

譬如我们现在眼前也是这样，你同样地用汽油，你把那个汽油摆在普通的那个“踫碰车”上面，这种开法；摆在你那个摩托车上面，也是一种；摆在那个汽车上面，因为引擎的不同，所以效果不一样。现在我们那个引擎是个老爷引擎，坏得不能再坏，所以第一件事情——我们所谓的引擎就是我们的心智、我们的相续，你先把这东西净化，净化了以后，然后把这个东西，法又加进去的话，哇，那效果就很大、很快！所以目前我们生活当中，为什么要尽量地简化，而精力集中摆在这个上头的原因在此。