【Faults of not relying on the Teacher】- Do true practitioners discuss right from wrong?

Is it so that true practitioners never discuss right from wrong? They do! However, under what circumstance? The practitioner is distinctly aware of how to remove nonvirtues and adopt virtues. That is right! Yet he is absolutely not applying the worldly gossiping approach, this we have to clearly recognize. The practitioner should definitely not be confused, for meditating on the teaching definitely requires great wisdom. The practitioner should clearly identify any given characteristic – distinguish right from wrong! But what are the differentiations that the practitioner makes? The practitioner should know how to transform contamination into purification. Well, this is nonvirtuous, how do you eliminate it? How to prevent yourself from being contaminated; to purify? And then, this is followed by how to help others. Under a given situation, if others have this shortcoming, how do you help [them]? Of course, you have to know the root cause of [their] problem, and [they] must also be aware of it. However, this kind of awareness is totally different from our ordinary afflictive signs. The latter awareness of yours [which is endowed with wisdom] will not influence you [with wrong view], thus you are able to distinguish other people’s right from wrong clearly. The other type is you are completely entangled in the situation, you don’t even know if you are contaminated and, in fact, [you are] totally in pitch darkness. So the former is proper discernment, we must have this requirement. The latter is erroneous discernment and this is what we need to do away with. Also, the reason that we are able to do away with erroneous discernment is totally relying on [our] proper discernment.

SOURCE 来源 :

22A 6’19” Vol 3 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P183 L1
English Lamrim Vol 1 P91

日常师父法语📡22A 6’19”手抄稿第3册P183 L1

未依过患 : 修行人谈论是非吗？

你说真正修行人是非都不谈吗？谈！什么情况下呢？要辨别清楚，怎么样去恶从善，他辨别得很清楚。是！但是他绝对不是像世间上面的这种谈论是非的方式，这个我们要差别弄得很清楚。修行绝对不是大糊涂蛋，修行是决定大智慧，他对任何一个行相判别得非常清楚—是啊、非啊！但是他的判别是什么？晓得怎么去去染转净。喔，这个坏的，你怎么样去净除它，怎么样防止自己不受染，净化，然后怎么样去帮助别人。在这种情况之下，他有这个毛病，你如何去帮助他，当然你还晓得他的病根何在，所以你一定对方也知道他，可是这种知道的，跟平常我们在烦恼当中这个行相绝大地不同。你后者的知道，你完全不动，所以你能够他的是非看得很清楚；另外一种的话，你自己完全缠在里面，你也不晓得自己染污不染污，实际上呢，一团黑。所以前者是正分别，这我们必须要的，后者是妄分别，这是我们要去掉的。而我们所以能够去掉妄分别，就是靠你那个正分别。