【 The Meditation Session - Preparation 修持轨理-加行】At any given time, all you have to do is taking one step forward 任何一个时候，你只要跨一步
【The Meditation Session - Preparation】- At any given time, all you have to do is taking one step forward
It is like our education – any such worldly difficult tasks - well, prior to your learning, [you] stop right there and it feels so difficult! Well, there is a skillful method. First, go to kindergarten. Ah, what does one do in kindergarten? Extremely simple! The kitten jumps and the puppy barks; come come come and go go go. However, these can be learned without being taught in kindergarten! Well, there is a reason for it. Once you are there [in the kindergarten], you become used to it and very pleased. You begin to enjoy it. Then, step by step, you advance unknowingly. By the age of 20 or 30, you will successfully become a greatly learned person. You are proficient in all kinds of things! Along the actual process, you didn’t feel that it was that difficult!
So once you are at this level, you will have faith in my saying of, “Practicing the teachings is not hard! At any given time, all you have to do is taking one step forward, but you have to take that one step!” By then, you will notice, have you taken the step? This “step” and “marching in place” are two different matters. To stride is to move forward, marching in place is not permitted [on this path]. If this is not done correctly, we may very well be going backward and then withdraw. The essence is here; the same also applies in studying Buddha Dharma.
SOURCE 来源 :
23A 13’14” Vol 3 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P224 L4
English Lamrim Vol 1 P95
日常师父法语📡23A 13’14”手抄稿第3册P224 L4
修持轨理-加行 : 任何一个时候，你只要跨一步
就像我们平常念书一样，平常世间再难的东西，喔唷，你没学的时候，停在那里觉得难得不得了！欸，它有一个很善巧的方法，先到幼稚园里面去。啊，他跑到幼稚园做一些什么啊？简单极了！小猫跳、小狗叫，来来来，去去去。这个不用幼稚园也会呀！欸，但是它有它的道理在，你去了以后，弄弄很欢喜。刚去的时候，让你有欢喜，然后呢一步一步上去，你不知不觉当中，到了二十岁、三十岁，你就成功一个大学者了嘛，你样样可以行了嘛！在你真正过程当中，你并不觉得这么难得不得了欸！
所以你们到这个时候，你就信得过我一句话：[修行不难！任何一个时候，你只要跨一步，但是你必须跨一步！]这个时候你了解了：你跨了没有？这个[跨]跟[原地踏步]是两件事情。跨是要向前的，原地踏步已经不可以，弄得不好，我们往往，向后转，再向后退。真正重要的在这个地方，修学佛法，亦复如是。