【The Meditation Session - Preparation】- Purify your mind with the seven branches of worship

Without these two cooperative conditions; no matter how hard you try, it won’t work. Then what should be done at this point?

【Now you must purify your mind with the seven branches of worship, which comprise the crucial points for accumulating the collections and purifying the mind of obscurations.】

By that time, we need to study the following seven teachings to adjust our mental stream. How do we adjust it? It is through purifying obscurations and accumulating the collections. All these seven teachings include the complete essence of purifying obscurations and accumulating the collections. Actually, these seven teachings are equivalent to our Ten Great Aspirations of Samantabhadra (十大願王). Now, when we look at the Ten Great Aspirations, it seems that Youthful Sudhana was led to ultimate bliss in the final stages. Now I understand, yes: in the end, he leveraged on this [the Ten Great Aspirations] and was led to ultimate bliss, This is absolutely true. May [I] ask, where do you take your first step now? We definitely should not rely on something out of thin air. If your first step at the causal stage is proper, you will continue to advance on the path. In the case when you leverage on this at the causal stage, you do it correctly now, you will walk this direct path. In the end, you leverage on this to reach the encompassing effect, that is Buddhahood. Why? Achieving Buddhahood is none other than thoroughly clearing away obstacles and accumulating perfect good qualities. Now, these two things – whether it is seven or ten teachings – they comprise all [practices of] clearing away obscurations and accumulating the collections. That is for sure!

SOURCE 来源 :

22B 24’02” Vol 3 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P211 L2
English Lamrim Vol 1 P94

日常师父法语📡22B 24’02”手抄稿第3册P211 L2

修持轨理-加行 : 修习七支以治身心

如果没有这两个助缘，你怎么弄也弄不起来。那么这个时候应该怎么办呢？

【是故次应修习七支以治身心，摄尽集净诸扼要处。】

那个时候，我们就要学下面这个七样东西，来调治自己的身心。这个怎么调治呢？就是净除罪障、集聚资粮；这个七样东西，包含了所有的净除罪障跟集聚资粮的宗要。实际上，这个七样东西就是我们的十大愿王。所以，我们现在看这个十大愿王，好像是善财童子到最后导归极乐，现在我了解，是的，最后是拿这个导归极乐，千真万确。请问现在你下脚第一步，我们绝对不是凭空，你下脚第一步因地当中走对了，始终走这个走上去。假定你因地当中把这个拿下去，现在做对了，你就走这条直路，最后你拿这个功德圆满的时候－－成佛。为什么？成佛没有别的嘛！把那个障碍彻底净除，把那个功德圆满地集聚。现在这两样东西——这个七样东西也好，这个十样东西，包含了所有的净除罪障、积聚资粮。当然嘛!