【 The Meditation Session - Preparation 修持轨理-加行】The cooperative conditions for the production of the path in your mind are the accumulation of the collections... 自相续中，若无能生道之顺缘积集资粮
【The Meditation Session - Preparation】- The cooperative conditions for the production of the path in your mind are the accumulation of the collections, which are favorable conditions
What if it did not work? Well, the text tells us below, actually, most of us are not there yet, the author says:
【(5) The cooperative conditions for the production of the path in your mind are (1) the accumulation of the collections, which are favorable conditions, and (2) the purification of your mind from obscurations, which are unfavorable conditions. If you lack these cooperative conditions, it is extremely difficult to produce the path, even if you take pains to sustain the meditations that are the substantial causes of the path. 】
If, this is the state of our mental continuum, we lack these virtuous roots, what is required to have virtuous roots? It requires purification of obscurations and accumulation of the collections. The collections are the cooperative conditions for the path. So what gives rise to these favorable conditions? It is the accumulation of the collections. What else? Elimination of obstacles – adversity is an obstacle. If obstacles are not cleared and the collections not accumulated, both conditions are insufficient. What are these two conditions? They are the cooperative conditions for the path. If these are lacking, even if you strive hard to visualize the substantial cause, it is of no use! So, if you do not have these two cooperative conditions, strive hard on the causes of the arising signs – the so-called “substantial cause” is your visualization at the causal stage that you have to strive at. After much effort, the accumulated effect will arise.
SOURCE 来源 :
22B 22’53” Vol 3 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P210 L8
English Lamrim Vol 1 P94
日常师父法语📡22B 22’53” 手抄稿第3册P210 L8
修持轨理-加行 : 自相续中，若无能生道之顺缘积集资粮
万一不行怎么办呢？欸，他下面告诉我们了，实际上我们大部分人都还不够，说：
【又自相续中，若无能生道之顺缘积集资粮，及除逆缘净治业障二助缘者，唯励力修所缘行相之正因，亦难生起。】
假定我们自己的身心上头，这样子的话，我们没有这个善根，这个善根需要什么？要罪障净除、资粮集聚。这个资粮是生道的那个顺缘，所以能生起的这个顺缘是什么？积聚资粮。还有呢？障碍要除掉，所谓逆缘就是障碍。如果说，障碍没有净除，资粮没有积聚，这个两个不具足。这两个什么？修道的助缘，如果是没有这个，你拼命地虽然去跑到那里要想观想什么，没有用！所以，如果说你没有两个助缘，努力去修这个行相的正因——所谓“正因”，就是现在你因地当中努力观，观了半天嘛积得那个果，就观起来了。