【 The Meditation Session - Preparation 修持轨理-加行】The branch of obeisance 礼敬支

【The Meditation Session - Preparation】- The branch of obeisance

Then, now we say, after much effort and we are not able to thoroughly understand, what can be done? Alas! The author tells you the cause is your lack of cooperative conditions. There are two types of cooperative conditions. If obstacles have not been cleared – confession is required. If collections and favorable conditions have not been accumulated, then put in the effort is needed. In this situation, the text tells us to apply the seven branches of worship to “purify our minds.” Purifying means to cleanse and tame, and this is the same as the Ten Great Aspirations. Now let us look at the text [page 94 line 33].

【With respect to the seven branches of worship, the first, the branch of obeisance, includes the combination of physical, verbal, and mental obeisance. It is expressed in the first verse of the Prayer of Samantabhadra: 】

The first branch is obeisance. Actually, this branch of obeisance comprises the first and second of the Ten Great Aspirations. Within the seven branches, obeisance is divided into general obeisance and specific obeisance of the three [karmic] doors. The general obeisance includes them all; the specific obeisance is physical, verbal, and mental, respectively. The passage is:

“I bow down with a clear mind, body, and speech

To all lions-among-humans, leaving none out—

Those who traverse the three times in the worlds

Of the ten directions, however many there may be.” This is the verse.

SOURCE 来源 :

23A 03’33” Vol 3 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P219 L1
English Lamrim Vol 1 P94

日常师父法语📡23A 03’33”手抄稿第3册P219 L1

修持轨理-加行 : 礼敬支

那么，现在我们说，弄了半天我们进不去，怎么办呢？欸，他告诉你，原因是你这个助缘不具足。助缘有两种：障碍没有清除，那么要忏悔；资粮、顺缘，没有积聚，那么要努力。在这种状态当中，就告诉我们，修行那个七支，“以治身心”，治就是净治、调治，这就是十大愿王。现在我们看文，四十二页第四行。

【其礼敬支中，三门总礼者，谓“所有”等一颂。】

这个礼敬支第一支，实际上这个礼敬支，包括了十大愿王的两支——第一、第二。那么这个七支当中的，这个礼敬分成功三门总礼跟三门别礼；总礼是一起的，别礼是身、口、意方面。那个颂子就是“所有十方世界中，三世一切人师子，我以清净身语意，一切遍礼尽无余。”就是这个颂。