【The Meditation Session - Preparation】- Confession of sins

【The next verse describes the third branch of worship, confession of sins:

Whatever sins I have done

With body, speech, or mind

Under the influence of attachment, hostility, or ignorance

I confess each and every one of them.】

That is, “Whatever sins I have done... under the influence of attachment, hostility, or ignorance...“ this is the verse.

【The nature of sin is that the three mental poisons cause you to use your body, speech, or mind to actually engage in an activity – that is, to do it yourself – or to enjoin someone else to do it, or to rejoice in someone else’s having done it. So as to broadly include all of this, the verse says, “Whatever.” To confess sin is to recall the faults of your earlier sins and then to regret them. Confess them from the depths of your heart with an attitude of restraint toward future sin. When you do this, you prevent the growth of the sins you did before and discontinue committing them in the future.】

So the previous branches are those of favorable conditions. This branch is to prevent unfavorable conditions and also prevents contamination. If this branch is not properly applied, then all the other branches will not be fulfilled - all will be contaminated and poisonous, they will not be pure.

SOURCE 来源 :

23A 25’45” Vol 3 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P231 LL5
English Lamrim Vol 1 P97

日常师父法语📡23A 25’45” 手抄稿第3册P231 LL5

修持轨理-加行 : 悔罪支

【悔罪支者，[我昔所作]等一颂。】

就是[我昔所造诸恶业，皆由无始贪瞋痴……]就是这一颂。

【依三毒因，身等三事，其罪自性谓我所作，此复具有亲自所作，】

【及教他作，或于他作而发随喜。总摄一切说[诸恶业。]应念此等所有过患，悔先防后，至心忏除，则昔已作，断其增长，诸未来者堵其相续。】

前面这个几支，都是在顺缘方面的，这个是防治这个逆缘一支，还有防治杂染。这一支如果做不好的话，其他的都做不好，都杂的毒的，都杂的毒的。所以这个特别重要！