【 The Meditation Session - Preparation 修持轨理-加行】What is confession? 什么叫忏悔？

【The Meditation Session - Preparation】- What is confession?

The author teaches us that when confessing, first we must know – what is it? It is to feel remorseful about one’s past deeds – alas, how can I be so awful to engage in such wrong acts! Because you feel that it was wrong, then you can speak of confession. Now, we often say, “Well, I am embarrassed, and I confess!” What are you embarrassed about and what are you confessing? One might even feel proud of oneself – hey, that means I know how to be embarrassed and I am able to confess. That has nothing to do with confession and embarrassment, just the lip service of embarrassment and confession, yet it is quite the opposite in the mind.

The sign of embarrassment is realizing that one has engaged in a wrong act and trying to be restrained and humble. However, we often have the habit of speaking about being embarrassed to show off our ability to do so. That is nothing but pride and arrogance, quite the opposite [of being humble].

SOURCE 来源 :

23B 01’48” Vol 3 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P236 L3
English Lamrim Vol 1 P97

日常师父法语📡23B 01’48”手抄稿第3册P236 L3

修持轨理-加行 : 什么叫忏悔？

他要我们忏悔的时候，首先我们应该了解什么叫忏悔？就对自己以前所做的事情懊悔，唉，说我怎么这样子糟糕，做这样不对的事情啊！因为你觉得以前不对了，那个时候才谈得到忏悔。现在我们常常说：[哎呀，我惭愧，我忏悔啊！]你什么惭愧，忏些什么啊？他自己心里还觉得很得意咧，嘿，表示我能惭愧，我能忏悔。那个是跟忏悔、跟惭愧是了不相干，嘴巴里面讲惭愧忏悔，心里面恰恰相反。

惭愧的行相是自己觉得做得不对，抑低自己；但我们通常有这种毛病，自己讲惭愧的时候，表示我自己懂得惭愧，那个完全是高慢之心，是南辕北辙。