【 Benefits of relying on the teacher 亲近胜利】 The method that reaps the most benefits 最占便宜的方法
【Benefits of relying on the teacher】- The method that reaps the most benefits
Many of your obscurations, by relying on and serving the virtuous teacher… under these conditions, you were originally destined for the miserable realms because of your negative karma. Alas, it is very dreadful! Very scary! As for this point, we must frequently study diligently and thus comprehend the dreadfulness of the three miserable realms. Otherwise, despite speaking of three miserable realms, we nevertheless will have irrelevant feelings about them. Thus, the mental force to encourage and motivate us will not arise, and, unknowingly, we will engage in misdeeds. Once you abide by the teaching, that will be the time you truly sense the horror of the three miserable realms, and then your practice becomes sincere. Due to your ability to seriously practice, the causes of downfall to lower realms can be removed. This is the greatest benefit at the present time. What about the past [causes]? You can also repent to purify them. This is the greatest advantage to us, the most important task. The primary application of Buddha Dharma is this [repentance].
So due to your ability to serve the virtuous teacher now, even though you were essentially destined to dreadful downfall, well, now you will only experience minor physical and mental illness. Harm to the body is physical, and harm to the mind is feeling afflicted and tormented. This is how it is. It is such a slight harm that even dreaming of these miserable conditions will enable the purification of karma in the three miserable realms. What an advantage!
SOURCE 来源 :
21A 07’05” Vol 3 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P148 LL4
English Lamrim Vol 1 P88
日常师父法语📡21A 07’05”手抄稿第3册P148 LL4
亲近胜利 : 最占便宜的方法
你的很多罪障，也由于亲近知识、承事善知识，那么在这种状态当中，本来你应该到恶趣当中，受三恶道的种种这种恶业。喔哟，这个是非常可怕！非常可怕！关于这一点，我们平常一定要好好地多修习，那个才能够体会得到三恶道的可怕。否则我们尽管嘴巴上面三恶道、三恶道，总觉得好像不关痛痒那样，所以心里面，它也不会有策励、推动我们的力量，我们就不知不觉之下去造罪去了。你如法地去修持，那个时候你才真正地感到三恶道的可怕，那个时候就认真修行。因为你能认真修行，所以把那些堕三恶道的因去掉了——眼前的；以往的呢？你也能够忏悔干净了。这是对我们是最大的收获，最重要的一件事情，修行佛法第一件重要的就是这个。
那么说因为你现在能够承事善知识，所以本来要堕落恶趣的这样可怕的，欸，你现在身心上面稍微起一点病、恼，病是身上的痛苦，心里面跟着烦烦恼恼的，就是这样。你稍微起一点，乃至于梦当中受一点这种恶劣的情况，都能够把这个在三恶道当中受的业清净。这个可便宜占大了！